A few weeks ago, Oracle hosted the 3rd Annual Oracle Value Chain Summit in San Jose, during which more than 2,500 value chain experts from 425 companies in 31 countries attended, networked, and took advantage of amazing learning opportunities. It was an energetic and inspiring three days and a great opportunity for Oracle to honor the six winners of the 2015 Oracle Excellence Award in Value Chain Management (VCM).

Did you miss it? The Oracle Excellence Awards recognize customers and partners who have excelled in driving business value together with Oracle. Here are some of the inspiring stories about how... 

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The 2015 Oracle Value Chain Summit in San Jose, CA was an enormous success. This event highlights video showcases the renowned speakers, enthusiastic customers and great entertainment throughout the three day event.  

In case you missed it or want to relive the experience, view the video here. Be sure to share this video with colleagues and prospects and entice them to come to next year's Summit which will be even bigger and better.

To learn more about Oracle Supply Chain Management applications, visit www.oracle.com/scm

Recent Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015 keynote speaker, Andrew Winston, author of The Big Pivot, sat down with Oracle Voice to discuss the new challenges that are facing supply chain executives and what they need to do to help prepare their companies to last in the future.

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To learn more about Oracle Supply Chain Management applications, visit www.oracle.com/scm 

76% of companies view product innovation as a key strategic business priority, but 90% of them admitted they are slow to market and often over-budget.

Join us on March 6, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET for an exclusive live webcast to see how Oracle Innovation Management Cloud can help you optimize your portfolio, drive top-line revenue growth, and innovate at lightning speed. 

For more details on upcoming Oracle Innovation Management Cloud webcasts click here

To learn more about Oracle Supply Chain Management applications visit www.oracle.com/scm

Check out these new short videos for every supply chain solution area and find out how you can use Oracle’s platforms to transform your supply chain into an integrated value chain.

Oracle Product Value Chain - Overview Video

See how you can turn innovation into a structured, consistent and effective process, simplify product development and commercialize the right ideas faster, better and at a lower cost.

Oracle Value Chain Execution Solutions - Overview Video

What if you could see and respond to your entire logistics network from...

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Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Time: 2:00 PM EST

Efficiently and effectively managing complex cross-border shipments and constantly changing regulations can be overwhelming. On the other hand, you want to protect product margins, keep your customers happy and assess new market opportunities. Global trade management systems can help to facilitate success.

Attend this webcast to hear experts from CSC, American Shipper and Oracle and as they review current research data on the trends in Supply Chain and Cloud-Based Global Trade Management Systems. You’ll also hear Beckman Coulter discuss their experience and lessons learned in the exploration of implementing a Cloud-Based Global Trade Management System.

Register for the webcast here

To learn more about Oracle Supply Chain Management applications, visit www.oracle.com/scm

Today's leading companies are continuously looking to improve efficiency, gain better visibility and rapidly respond to business changes in the marketplace - and many on a global scale. Tamer, a leading consumer goods company in the healthcare, beauty care and luxury goods sectors, utilized Oracle's Warehouse Management Solution to update shipment data in real-time and cut costs by moving off of legacy 3PL tools.

Check out this story to read more about the overall scope of their project and the challenges they were able to overcome using Oracle solutions. 

Discover how you can transform your supply chain into a modern value chain.   Check out this short YouTube video to get a quick overview!

Learn more at cloud.oracle.com/scm

As the Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act changes the landscape healthcare providers are being driven to transform how they deliver services. Providers are searching for ways to make healthcare more affordable, by reducing operational costs and creating efficiencies across their supply chains.

Demand and inventory management provide one of the most direct and compelling opportunities for improvement in the healthcare supply chain. On average, one-half of inventory holdings in a hospital are inactive, and ten percent are obsolete. Inventory in the supply chain represents forty percent of a hospital system’s operating expense. A five percent improvement in forecast accuracy can drive a four day reduction in inventory while improving service by insuring that the right items are on hand when they are needed.
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Clearly, we are living in a mobile world. At the 2015 Oracle Value Chain Summit last week, if you looked in any session room or in the hallways, you could see people on their mobile devices doing things like checking email, tweeting, taking pictures and arranging their schedules. During the sessions, there were some fascinating presentations and demos across all Value Chain solution areas on using mobile technology to perform critical business tasks such as managing and maintaining remote assets, reporting equipment issues and providing status reports on inventory.

During one of the Manufacturing solution area keynotes, Mobility in Manufacturing, LNS Research President and Principal Analyst Matthew Littlefield presented on industry trends. He closed out the session with a few recommendations that companies might want to consider as they develop their mobile strategies:

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Wow, it’s hard to believe another Oracle Value Chain Summit has come and gone. What a whirlwind of a week! From Oracle’s Glenn Seninger’s Welcome on Monday afternoon to yesterday’s final track sessions, the San Jose Convention Center was thrumming with everything product and supply chain.  And it doesn't have to end here...

The entire Oracle team is thrilled and humbled by the outpouring of customer, sponsor, analyst, staff, and speaker support. We were delighted to see so many attendees this year, especially given the harsh weather conditions elsewhere making travel difficult. This community is clearly dedicated to forging new connections, sharing best practices, and exploring the future of value chain excellence.

Oracle’s CEO Mark Hurd perhaps said it best in his keynote on Tuesday morning: “I have incredible respect for people who actually run supply chains.” And for good reason. Supply chain leaders are at the forefront of...

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Want to learn everything about what is possibly today’s biggest business trend? From board rooms to meeting rooms to business lunches, everyone is talking about the Cloud. Cloud computing has grown from a $77 billion market in 2010 to an estimated $210 billion in 2016. Oracle’s CEO Mark Hurd wrote last week about How Cloud Computing Is Revolutionizing Business and noted “Cloud computing is triggering a stunning shift in how businesses operate. I believe that the companies that will thrive in this new world will be those that embrace cloud computing”

So when it comes to PLM, what could a modernized product development function do for you, what does one look like, and how do you make it happen?...

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This interactive E-Book highlights how Oracle Value Chain Execution solutions can help you manage today’s logistics and compliance challenges. Flip through it and discover a new Yard Management solution, as well as Oracle Cloud offerings for Transportation and Global Trade Management.

Click here for the E-Book

To learn more about Oracle Supply Chain Management solutions, visit www.oracle.com/scm

When most people think of a supply chain they think of a manufacturing supply chain where a product is designed an launched and built thousands or millions of times. But there is also a section of industry where the products are one-off, very complex, and are only built one time. These are project supply chains.  Traditional manufacturing supply chains are well understood and well supported by supply chain software. Project supply chains are understood, but have not been well supported by software tools.

Project managers have traditionally used PERT and GANTT chart software (like Oracle Primavera) to manage their projects, but they haven't had access to modern supply planning tools like Oracle ASCP or inventory optimization tools.  This is no longer a problem, as Oracle has introduced the Oracle solution for Project-Driven Supply Chain. The new solution integrates Oracle Value Chain Planning and Oracle's Primavera project portfolio management solutions to help organizations better align material planning, decision-making, and execution throughout the project lifecycle.

By integrating Oracle Value Chain Planning and Oracle's Primavera project portfolio management solutions to deliver complete visibility into projects, the new initiative helps organizations balance and adjust material and manufacturing capacity decisions to better adhere to project milestones and avoid unexpected delays and costs. In addition, integration with Oracle E-Business Suite allows team members to make preemptive and accurate project decisions regarding schedule delays, cost overruns, or wastage by providing a real-time view into business information, including interactive charts and metrics.

For more information on this new solution, check out the whitepaper, and the solution overview.

With the new year, it is interesting to reflect and see how new concepts like The Internet of Things and Big Data are now maturing and being applied in exciting and innovative new ways. At the upcoming Oracle Value Chain Summit, particularly for the Manufacturing and Maintenance communities, there will be several sessions dedicated to The Internet of Things, Big Data, Mobility, and of course, Cloud. One of the keynote speakers in the Manufacturing general session, Mobility for Manufacturing, is LNS Research President and Principal Analyst, Matthew Littlefield. To get a preview on what he might discuss during his presentation, check out his latest blog, 3 Industrial Internet of Things Predictions for 2015, where Matthew writes about the emergence of the industrial IoT platform, smart connected assets and smart connected operations--all concepts that are defining the future of manufacturing.