Warehouse Management

Yesterday I blogged about the Oracle announcement for distributed WMS and advanced wave planning. This story received wide coverage in the press.

Nicholas Kolakowski’s piece appeared on eWeek yesterday morning:

Oracle announced the release of a new version of Oracle Warehouse Management June 1. The scalable application allows users to manage complex warehouse operations, including multiple supply chain processes and materials management functionality. A version of the application had previously only been available to customers using the Oracle E-Business Suite. In its new and more modular iteration, the Warehouse Management application can be run outside of the E-Business Suite, allowing businesses to utilize a logistics and transportation solution without necessarily needing to upgrade other parts of their operations’ IT.

However, the new version does support earlier versions of the Oracle E-Business Suite. It also features support for multiple order capture systems under one independent fulfillment engine, multiple inventory solutions, and a variety of warehouse execution systems operating against a single global ERP system.

Jeff Moad from Managing Automation also covered this story yesterday.

Oracle Corp. today rolled out a new, stand-alone version of its Oracle Warehouse Management application, decoupling the tool from the E-Business Suite (EBS) ERP platform. Oracle Warehouse Management, previously available only as a module within EBS, can now be deployed independently, with links to Oracle and non-Oracle ERP systems. The move is part of an ongoing strategy to offer best-of-breed applications to customers outside Oracle’s customer base. The company has taken similar steps with its transportation and demand planning applications.

The announcement also signals a plan to more closely bundle Oracle Warehouse Management with the company’s transportation management application, offering them together as a best-of-breed logistics management suite. Recently, with its introduction of EBS 12.1, Oracle announced new integration points between Oracle Warehouse Management and Oracle Transportation Management, including the ability of the warehouse management system to collaborate with Oracle Transportation Management on load sequencing and cross docking.

Shayana Garlick from TechTarget covered it on their blog:

A new version of Oracle Warehouse Management, released June 1, allows users to deploy the warehouse management application as a distributed product. Users no longer have to be an E-Business Suite customer to use the application, as was required in earlier versions.

Meanwhile the documentation is available on Metalink (Note: 821294.1)

Distributed Warehouse Management System (Architecture and Solution)
The Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System paper (April, 2009, 1.1 Mb)

The Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Setup Document) paper (May, 2009, 1.9 Mb)

The Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Technical Implementation) paper (May, 2009, .5 Mb)

The Oracle Distributed Warehouse Management System (Integration) paper (April, 2009, 1.0 Mb)