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It’s the middle of the summer, and yet your inventory numbers look like you’re gearing up for the holiday rush. Upper management is demanding answers for this, but you don’t have any. You have looked over the numbers so many times that you have memorized them. Yet you still don’t have any answers for them. How is it that you have got the wrong mix of products in your warehouse? Where’s the breakdown in the supply chain that caused this? If you had a more complete understanding of your supply chain, and how it integrates into your overall business strategy, you’d have some answers–and your warehouse wouldn't be stocking so much inventory. Learn more about Oracle SCM Cloud Services In today’s global economy, your products are often just as global. Parts are shipped in from around the world, assembled in one locale, shipped to another, and sold all over the world. Understanding your supply chain’s characteristics ensures that you’ll be able to maximize the work done at e...

Globalization is on the rise and so are mergers and acquisitions. In the current business scenario the major problem faced by business giants is on consolidated financial reporting of the enterprise as a whole. Each growing enterprise would have some or all of the following kinds of subsidiary companies whose financial information needs to be consolidated into the parent: Subsidiaries which are accounted in the same instance but with different accounting structures to suit operational needs. Subsidiaries following a different calendar Subsidiaries operating in different countries with the local currency as their functional currency different from the parent enterprise. Subsidiaries being accounted for in different instances of Oracle. Subsidiaries being accounted for in ERP system other than Oracle. Well, Oracle E-Business Suite release 12 would help consolidate such accounting information by the use of its  Global Consolidation System or GCS  feature in Oracle Gene...

Today across the modern enterprise, whether it’s IT, Facilities, HR, Field Service, or Customer Service of any other department, there is a constant challenge to deliver the highest level of service and be efficient and innovative at the same time. ServiceNow provides a scalable platform to enable each department to create services, provide an intuitive service experience and deliver them efficiently. The company believes that nearly everything can be delivered ‘as a service’ in ServiceNow. Essentially, ServiceNow IT Service Management is emerging as the third estate between ERP and CRM systems. As they strive to get a competitive advantage, enterprises are embracing a best-of-breed enterprise application strategy. For example, companies use ServiceNow for Service Management, Oracle or SAP or NetSuite for ERP and Salesforce.com, or Dynamics for CRM. However, these applications probably don’t work very well with each other. The biggest challenge of a multi-app strategy is th...

Many of the simple ERP functions can be performed by smart phone applications. Did you know Oracle EBS comes with smart phone apps for most of the critical modules? Did you know that these can be enabled in no time? Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) mobile apps on iOS and Android smartphones enable users to perform needed tasks or take action on Oracle EBS transactions from mobile devices. To use the apps, users must be licensed for the base products, with mobile services configured on the Oracle E-Business Suite server. Read more about Oracle EBS Implementations . To find Oracle E-Business Suite mobile apps, search for the keywords "Oracle America EBS" in the Apple App Store and Google Play. This white paper describes how to set up an Oracle E-Business Suite instance to support connections from these mobile apps and common administration tasks. Following are the mobile device requirements: On an iPhone the app can be installed on iOS 6 and above On Android the app can be ...

As more and more customers are approaching Oracle Cloud implementations , some of them have been asking some good questions and thought, I would bring most of these questions in one common forum for benefit for everyone. This blog is not to answer all the questions but to encourage you to ask questions. I’ve addressed some of the critical high level questions. 1.No question is bad question, feel free to go wild? First and foremost – Why Oracle Cloud?  How does business benefit from Cloud? What kind of business transformation you want to achieve? It is absolutely critical to align business objectives, business processes and IT roadmap for successful implementations. What are the choices? No other cloud platforms has such a comprehensive set of business applications in Cloud like Oracle. All the core applications HCM, finance, procurement, sales, project and supply chain are fully integrated into one platform. With Oracle Cloud platform there are now bunch of integration t...

Gartner’s magic quadrant analysis for Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms have mainly three criteria to assess platforms which I think are spot-on. They focus on enable (data with minimal technical know-how), produce (efficiency of data analytics and reports building) and consume (from various platforms, etc.). The theme is clear as businesses do not have the patience to wait for large implementation projects or development cycles. They want to know key drivers, critical insights, hidden opportunities and decision-making data points on various devices right away. Learn more about Oracle Cloud Services . With the emergence and popularity of Big Data platforms, businesses are able to gain insights from data that was useless and too large to process in past. Platforms like Hadoop and Spark enable organizations to process structured and unstructured data at amazing speed and scale to gain quick insights. But major drawback of Big Data platforms is that organizations need t...

Unlike past decades, present business scenario has multi- generation workforce. What is the main reason behind increasing  multi-generation employees ? Well, the answer is quite simple, which is ‘Baby Boomers.’ Basically, better health condition due to improved medical facilities, rising cost of living, shortage of qualified professionals and ever-growing complex nature of business leading to rising demand for expertise have increased the number of Baby Boomers at the workplace. Learn more about Jade Global Business Solutions . Even younger generation has become smart and highly adaptive to swiftly understand the new business process and make quick decisions. Hence, multi generation in the workplace has led to a deadly combination of fresh talents with high motivation and older generation with deep-dive expertise and wide experience. There is also generation Z that will be graduating in few years’ time now and join different organization. Hence, the workplace will ...

As an HR leader, what keeps you up at night? Is it ensuring your talent strategy aligns with company goals and drives bottom line success? Is it streamlining core processes to eliminate waste and increase staff productivity? Or is it investing in the right technology? Most likely it’s the daunting combination of the aforementioned three factors. Every organization is clockwork of various departments operated and maintained by the human resource of the company. In his book “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t,” Jim Collins says that the best companies "Get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus." Collins says great companies have a corporate culture that finds and promotes disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Collins states "If you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great company. Great vi...