Oracle Offers New Capabilities in Supply Chain and Manufacturing

MUMBAI, India, — Oracle announced new capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to help organizations manage the unique requirements of process manufacturing.

Oracle said the latest innovations help organizations that produce goods by mixing or blending ingredients improve real-time production visibility and meet regulatory requirements by connecting formulas, recipes, materials, and batch execution in a unified cloud solution.

"Process manufacturers in complex, regulated industries, such as life sciences, chemical, and food and beverage, must deliver consistent quality at scale despite high variability in materials, yields, and production conditions," said Derek Gittoes, group vice president, SCM product management, Oracle. "The latest innovations in Oracle Cloud SCM help customers adapt production in real time, improve batch outcomes, and maintain traceability as materials, formulas, and conditions change across operations."

The new process manufacturing capabilities are available in Oracle Fusion Cloud Manufacturing, which is part of Oracle Cloud SCM. Oracle Manufacturing connects the digital supply chain to the physical factory and supports mixed-mode manufacturing strategies across make-to-stock, make-to-order, configure-to-order, make-to-project, contract manufacturing and outside processing environments, the company said. With built-in coordination across inventory, quality, costing and execution, Oracle Manufacturing helps manufacturers run high-performing operations while adapting to changing production demands.

The latest capabilities within Oracle Manufacturing include:

Streamlined Recipe and Yield Management

• Formula-recipe-batch synchronization
• Operation yield modeling

Flexible Batch Manufacturing Execution

• Batch size range definition
• Intermediate input and output tracking

Connected Process Execution

• Material sequencing in an operation
• Multi-operation co-product and by-product recovery
• Electronic batch record approval
• Smart Operations integration

Advanced Materials Traceability and Control

• Lot-specific unit-of-measure conversions
• Lot grade capture
• Expired lot prevention
• Automated product lot expiration calculation

Oracle said part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle Cloud SCM provides a unified AI-powered platform that integrates supply chain and operations processes to help organizations enhance resilience and quickly adapt to market changes. Embedded AI can act as an advisor and analyze supply chain data, generate content, and augment or automate processes to help improve business operations and build a resilient supply network to outpace change.