Reporting Overview

Reports provide useful information for effective decision-making in the logistics process. They can help you manage and measure logistics suppliers performance. Analytical reports (Projected Late Shipments, Carrier Capacity Commitment, and so on) allow you to view detailed analysis of business processes by various categories to help identify problems, patterns, and areas for improvement. You can also use the system to generate standard shipping forms such as bills of lading and packing lists.

Reporting functionality spans all of Oracle Transportation Management, complementing Shipment Management and Financials. Reporting consists of a series of pre-defined documents available to generate, view, and print. You can also schedule reports to run in batch mode and receive them via email messages. The system includes both standard shipping forms as well as performance, capacity, and miscellaneous reports among others.

Many pre-defined forms and reports are available for use in the Report Manager and other Managers (for example, Shipment Manager and Payment Invoice Manager). However, you will probably want to create user-defined reports to retrieve and present additional information.

A user-defined report is any new report, or modified pre-defined report, that is created with an outside reporting tool and then integrated into the database.

Reporting Managers

These managers provide management reporting capabilities:

• Report Manager provides a comprehensive menu of forms and reports including the pre-defined forms and reports delivered with the system, as well as reports that you created.
• Report Set Manager enables you to create, find, and change report sets, which are reports grouped for notification purposes.
• Report Email List shows you the reports that have been scheduled to run during a specified time, and the list of recipients for those reports.
• View Scheduled Jobs allows system administrators to view and change certain details of scheduled report jobs.