Recent Posts by Jeff Stiles

Previously posted on Toolbox Great customer experience depends on providing customers with what they want when they want it — and that’s only possible by building and maintaining a high-performance supply chain. Jeff Stiles, GVP of Oracle Cloud Solutions Marketing, examines four ways to help boost your organization’s supply chain performance. Your customers don’t care how you provide a great customer experience, but they’ll reward you when you do – and switch to your...

The acronym SCM stands for supply chain management. It refers to the systems, processes, and software packages used by organizations to manage day-to-day operating activities such as product lifecycle management, supply chain planning, procurement , logistics, order management and fulfillment, manufacturing, and maintenance management. SCM systems provide a strategic advantage and business insight to companies and their operations. SCM systems tie together and define a...

By Jeff Stiles, VP of Product Marketing for Supply Chain, Oracle The business world moves incredibly fast and companies need to be able to quickly shape-shift to meet new demands and grab new opportunities. Supply chains that run on systems hard-wired to support business processes a decade ago—or even last year’s supply and demand environment—are at a huge disadvantage. Updating systems every few years is simply not enough to keep up. But businesses that run on Oracle Fusion...

Working as a Business Intelligence (BI) practitioner during the 90s and early 2000s drove home how decisions are made across areas of businesses and what information is required to make them. It also brought into stark contrast the various siloes of data in organizations and the difficulty of bringing it all together in a way that speeds and improves decision-making quality. Fast forward 20 years… most organizations still have disconnected systems that lead to a lack of timely...

Working as a Business Intelligence (BI) practitioner during the 90s and early 2000s drove home how decisions are made across areas of businesses and what information is required to make them. It also brought into stark contrast the various siloes of data in organizations and the difficulty of bringing it all together in a way that speeds and improves decision-making quality. Fast forward 20 years… most organizations still have disconnected systems that lead to a lack of timely...

Where are supply chains going today? I had a chance to hear some interesting perspectives on this question at a recent Oracle Live event, where I attended a session that looked at pivoting your SCM operations to growth. In light of recent events, this was a timely discussion, to say the least. At the risk of stating the obvious, the last six months have been a trying and challenging time for everybody, and especially product companies – those organizations that run supply...

It’s more important than ever for supply chain managers and leaders to have full visibility across the supply network to make decisions quickly.  This is especially vital in supply, demand, and sales and operations planning as organizations move toward a continuous planning cycle.  And, the ability to track and trace assets and inventory with real-time production and transportation condition monitoring is essential to improve collaboration and trust between trading partners. Th...

It’s more important than ever for supply chain managers and leaders to have full visibility across the supply network to make decisions quickly.  This is especially vital in supply, demand, and sales and operations planning as organizations move toward a continuous planning cycle.  And, the ability to track and trace assets and inventory with real-time production and transportation condition monitoring is essential to improve collaboration and trust between trading partners. Th...

It’s more important than ever for supply chain managers and leaders to have full visibility across the supply network to make decisions quickly.  This is especially vital in supply, demand, and sales and operations planning as organizations move toward a continuous planning cycle.  And, the ability to track and trace assets and inventory with real-time production and transportation condition monitoring is essential to improve collaboration and trust between trading partners. Th...