Recent Posts by John Klinke

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...

Guest Author: Surya Kommareddy, Director, Industry Strategy Group, Oracle. Innovation is the lifeblood of any corporation. With fast-changing technology, growing global competition, and ever-increasing customer demands, manufacturers today must adapt and innovate faster or they will eventually perish. The digital transformation trend is further accelerating this pace of change, and you need to ensure you have the tools and processes in place to foster continuous innovation. Inno...

Guest Author: Barb Darrow, Oracle This is a syndicated post, view the original post here   It’s no exaggeration to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended the way people everywhere work, eat, and socialize. Stay-at-home mandates and suspension of large public gatherings have changed everything. But Zoom, with Oracle as a new cloud partner, has made it much easier for people to continue taking part in common daily activities—from attending business meetings and...

Is your business a leader or laggard when it comes to the adoption of intelligent automation?  The Harvard Business Review Analytics Service recently surveyed hundreds of business executives on the topic of intelligent automaton technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). HBR asked them how much they are investing in intelligent automation, where it’s having the most impact, and what benefits they are seeing from their investments.   What they...

We are excited to announce that we have been recognized as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Manufacturing Execution Systems for Oracle Manufacturing Cloud. Oracle takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape the cloud solutions that we provide to manufacturers around the world. In its announcement, Gartner explains, “The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is a recognition of vendors in this market by verified end-user...

Guest Author: Enrique Lopez-Tello, VP, Industry Strategy Group, Oracle. A recent study from consulting firm McKinsey found that “only 20 percent of respondents say their organizations excel at decision making. Further, a majority say much of the time they devote to decision making is used ineffectively”. Latency in your decision making processes is one cause of this ineffectiveness. Excessive delays hurt your ability to react quickly to changing business and operational...

Oracle is proud to support manufacturing companies around the world with our agile and integrated cloud solutions. One of these companies is Titan International - an American manufacturer based in Illinois with a presence in over 15 countries. They manufacturer wheels and tires for agriculture, construction, and other off-road needs. Titan was struggling with having legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) systems that were expensive to...

Guest Author: Scott Renner, Director, Industrial Manufacturing, Oracle. Lean manufacturing environments are poised to gain the most with advanced industry 4.0 technologies like industrial internet of things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data analytics. After decades of the Lean vs Material Requirements Planning (MRP) wars and differing opinions on technology’s role in shop floor control, the new era of manufacturing intelligence is changing the game for both. Pro...

Guest Author: Oracle Partner RF-SMART When it comes to managing inventory, there are key indicators you can use to determine the efficiency of your supply chain. Whether you’re a manufacturer or retailer, a large multinational or growing start-up, it’s in your best interest to achieve high inventory accuracy - and as quickly as possible. In doing so, you’ll improve your customer satisfaction rate, and ultimately, your bottom line. WHY INVENTORY ACCURACY MATTERS Accurate...