Recent Posts by John Klinke

ArcelorMittal is a leading steel manufacturer based in Luxembourg that ships over 84 million tons of steel annually to customers in the automotive, construction, household appliances, and packaging industries. It employs over 190,000 people around the world while generating annual revenues of $70 billion.  ArcelorMittal was interested in improving its recruiting, people management, and other human resources systems. They had a patchwork of outdated recruiting, training, and...

Guest Author: Enrique Lopez-Tello, VP, Industry Strategy Group, Oracle. Given the current business environment, it’s easy to see that you need to be diligent in watching out for unexpected events that can impact your company’s performance. The time it takes to analyze and decide on the best course of action after one of these events is what we call business decision latency. As time goes by after a critical event has happened, your ability to optimize the results of your...

Guest Author: C Prasanna Venkatesan, Director, Advanced Technology Industry Solutions, Oracle. Cloud computing is being adopted at an unprecedented pace as more and more companies move to the cloud to benefit from more frequent product releases, subscription pricing cost savings, built-in backup and recovery, and automatic software integration, among other advantages.  Yet in this journey to the cloud, some companies deliberate on adopting off-the-shelf cloud...

Guest Author: Pat Mariles, Senior Director, Industry Strategy Group, Oracle. Automotive suppliers are facing unprecedented challenges in today’s evolving automotive industry.  Their lines of business are being blurred as they realize they need to find new innovative approaches, embrace new business models and become more agile as they fight for survival in this changing marketplace.  Suppliers realize they need to work more closely with automotive OEMs and collaborate on...

Guest Author: Swapan Ghosh, Director, Industry Strategy Group, Oracle. Today’s supply chain networks are complex. They span across multiple ecosystem partners, spread across multiple geographies, and are managed by multiple stakeholders. Supply chain managers often do not have full visibility into their extended supply chain as most of them lack real-time information about their supply chain events across the entire network. This information latency makes the supply network...

Guest Author: Vijay Natarajan, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Manufacturing organizations often struggle with item and parts proliferation, product data quality, and data completeness. This leads to myriad business and operation pain points around limited visibility into spend data, ineffective supplier negotiations, subpar sourcing strategy and the inability to use enterprise data to make real-time product decisions. Organizations often end up inheriting data...

Due to rising costs, the speed of technology turnover, global supply chain disruptions and a more demanding and diverse customer base, traditional organic growth in the semiconductor industry is lagging. Semiconductor companies must look at ways to improve operational efficiencies and shorten design cycles as well as innovatively expand their product portfolios. Oracle has been a leader in enterprise software solutions supporting the semiconductor industry for over 20 years. ...

Guest Author: Aniello Pepe, Director, Industry Solutions Group, Oracle. We all know the impact of quality in manufacturing and how a defective product can jeopardize the reputation of even the most established brands. Highly visible cases in the automotive industry include the huge vehicle recall tied to Takata airbags and the Toyota vehicle recall due to accelerator pedal issues. These and other product defects cause heavy financial impacts on manufacturers and – in the...

Optimizing sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an important business process for manufacturing companies. It allows organizations to more quickly adapt to unexpected supply and demand events, and thanks to advanced technologies like AI-assisted analytics and IoT sensor data, manufacturing companies now have all the components needed to better integrate their end-to-end planning with operations execution. Oracle is a leader in enterprise performance management and supply...