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Oracle Network Logistics
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August 17, 2001
Atlanta OAUG
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Objective: To Better understand Oracle’s
Network Logistics Solution!
Agenda
Solution Overview
Key Messages
11i Features
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Roadmap
Questions
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Solution Overview
Network Logistics Integration Pack
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Uses Messages and Workflow to integrate and
synchronize Oracle Inventory, CRL Financials, Assets,
Projects, Purchasing and Payables
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Messaging to Network Inventory
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Messages from Work Force Management Systems
Asset Life Cycle Tracking
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Uniquely define which items will be NL trackable items
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Network Asset Tracking System – tracks all physical
movements in NL repository from “cradle to grave”
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NL Inquiry – 360 degree view of inventory, assets and
projects
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Solution Overview
NL enhances Inventory Management, Asset
Management, and integration to Financial
Systems
• Capital Intensive Industries Need to Optimize
utilization of their assets
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• Industries Need a 360 Degree View of their
Assets
• NL Provides Life-cycle History and Automation
Between Physical and Financial Records
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Network Logistics
What is Inventory? New Equipment, Assets?
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Warehouses
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Deployed assets
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Project Sites
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Returned Assets
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Network Logistics
Linking Supply Chain Information to
Financial Systems!
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Purchasing to Inventory
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Inventory to Projects
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Projects to Assets
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and Network Inventory
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Process Flow- Network Logistics Financial Integration
Network Logistics
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Purchasing
3rd Party Work
Order System
1. Receipt to Inventory
A. Receipt to Project
6. Item
Installed
7. Item
In Service
2. Receipt
to Inventory
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Oracle
Inventory
G. Depreciable Item
Inventory Transfers
3rd Party
Network Inventory
Oracle NL
Integration Pack
6. & 7.
NI updated
C. Invoice
Adjustments
Oracle
Payables
3. Inventory Issue to Projects
Update to PA
4. Expenditures Created
for Inventory Issues
B. Expenditures Created
for Project Receipts
D. Invoice Adjustments
for Normal Items
8. CIP Assets Created
Flows 1-10 release 3i
Flows A-H release 11i
Oracle
Projects
5. Expenditure
to NL
10. Fixed Asset
ID Passed to NL
9. Asset
Created in FA
E. Asset Creation - Depreciable Item
F. Invoice Adjustments
H. Asset Location for Depreciable
Item Update to FA
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CRL
Fixed Assets Financials
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Business Scenario
Need for
Network Part
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Do we have
available?
Inventory
Move Order
Query ALL
Inventory
using NL!
Yes
Perform Move Order
Warehouse Inventory
Mobile Inventory
Project Inventory
Network Inventory
No
Procurement
Process
Request Needed
Material (Core Apps)
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Key Sales Messages for Network
Logistics
“Wins” for the Customer
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Reduce Inventory without Sacrificing Service Levels with 360
Degree View of Assets/Inventory
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Automate Synchronization of Physical and Financial Records
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Optimize Purchasing Decisions
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Reduce Operational Costs
Competitive Advantages - why Oracle’s Solution?
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Oracle Offers the Premiere e-business Suite - The Total
Solution
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Other ERP and CRM Vendors Cannot Match this Breadth of
Integration. Requires Stitching Together Different Vendors
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Features in R11i - R1
Depreciating Inventory
• Manage equipment in warehouse using Oracle
Inventory, financially accounted for in Oracle Assets
• Uniquely define depreciable inventory items
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• Automatic creation of depreciable items in assets upon
receipt
Receipt Direct to Projects
• Tracking of material received directly to projects
• Bypass of receiving into inventory
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Features in R11i - R1
Issue Inventory to Items
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• Allows for issues to projects without project
manufacturing
• Defaults project clearing account
• NL Bill of Lading of Documents
Manufacturer Equipment
Information
• Vendor Serial Numbers
• Predefined lot selection for vendor equipment
codes
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Features in R11i - R1
Physical Inventory/Cycle Count Adjustments
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Automatic updates to NL for inventory PI & CC adjustments
including retirement notification and asset unit
adjustment for depreciable items
Streamlined Asset Creation and Adjustments
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Defaults asset category and location
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Automatic asset creation upon receipt of depreciable items
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Invoice adjustments from accounts payable automatically
applied to assets
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Reduces user input and errors
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Future Product Direction...
Installed Base Integration
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The complete customer product and asset tracking repository
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Enables future Service for Comms Integration
• Linking customers, services, and network elements to
trouble tickets
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Enables future Sales for Comms and Provisioning Integration
• Verify capacity availability/constraints and automatically
provision order
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Future Product Direction...
Financial Integration Re-architecture
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Enable NL to update financials by scheduling concurrent process
Network Logistics Platform
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The NL Platform will enable customers to re-configure and
enhance the NL integration pack more easily.
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Customers will be able to define their own messages and
workflows to enhance existing NL business logic or to build
completely new interfaces to other applications.
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Questions
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