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Scan Based Trading An Oracle Consignment Inventory Solution
NCOAUG, August 15th, 2008
Karen S. Janssen, Director of IT Infrastructure
Anand Dharwadkar, Manager of IT Development
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Agenda
• Understanding Scan Based Trading
• RPG’s Challenge
• High Level Solution Design
• Setup Considerations
• Maintenance and Conversion Considerations
• Other Considerations
• Epilogue: RPG’s results
• Questions and Answers
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Understanding Scan Based Trading
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Understanding Scan Based Trading
• What is Scan Based Trading?– Scan Based Trading (SBT) is defined as the process where suppliers
maintain ownership of inventory within retailers' warehouses or stores until items are scanned at the point of sale.
– Typically, Scan Based Trading programs use EDI solutions as the key component to synchronize information between a retailer and its Scan Based Trading suppliers.
• 816 Organizational Structure
• 832 Catalogs
• 852 Product Activity Data (POS)
• 861 Receiving Advice
• 810 Invoice
• 820 Payment Advice
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Understanding Scan Based Trading
• What are some benefits?
Increased Sales Improved Retailer Relationships
Improved visibility of product sales Reduced Order Processing Costs
Reduced cost of stock overages Lowered Cost of Inventory
Improved Time to Market Improved Financial Metrics
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Understanding SBT
Selling Organization
Inventory View
Inventory Organization
Sub Inventories
Product ships from warehouse to customer store
Inventory Transfers
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Understanding SBT
Point Of Sale View
POS Data
Invoice
Master Inventory
Scrapped
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RPG’s Challenge
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RPG’s Challenge
Business Perspective
• Increasing pressure from larger retailer customers to move to a Scan Based Trading model of doing business
• Each SBT retailer had unique, customer-specific requirements– Store Conversion along side new store openings
– Data requirements
– Rollout schedules
– EDI exchange frequency and schedules
• RPG needed to maintain the standard order processing, shipping and inventory management for non-SBT customers
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RPG’s Challenge
Technology Perspective
• RPG had made a significant investment in Oracle Technology Stack and therefore needed to leverage existing functionality in core Oracle Application modules to meet SBT Process requirements – Mission critical systems included Financials, Order Management, Inventory, WIP, BOM,
Workflow, Incentive Compensation
– Recently Invested heavily in a 11i/9i/10g upgrade
– Oracle 9i Application Database
– 10g Application Server
– Oracle Developer
– Discoverer
– 10g Oracle Warehouse Builder
– 10g Data Warehouse
– 11.5.10.2 Oracle Applications
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RPG’s Challenge
Solution Approach
– Engaged a consulting team to conduct a feasibility assessment on SBT programs
– During the study, a collaborative, cross-functional team gathered requirements and mapped and gapped to various programs
– Feasibility study indicated that the Oracle Core Consignment Inventory Solution would meet RPG’s requirements. (Through the study, it was determined that Oracle’s Collaborative Planning was not needed to meet RPG’s need.)
– Developed a proof of concept pilot
– Demonstrated solution through the pilot and made adjustments
– Built Solution
– Implementation Solution
– Scheduled and slow customer store conversion rollout
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RPG’s High Level Solution Design
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Solution Design - Overview
Merchandise Order System
University ParkWarehouse
SBT Sub inventory Customer Rooftop 1
SBT InventoryOrganization
SBT Sub inventory Customer Rooftop 2
Customer Ship To
Customer Ship To
Retailer Customer
Ship OnlyOrders
Ship Only Orders
Field Hand Held ScannerOrders
Manual Orders
Customer Order of what was sold
Bill Only Invoice
POS Data / SBT OrderMiscellaneous
Receipt
MiscellaneousReceipts
Bill only Invoice
POS Data / SBT Order
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Solution Design – Orders
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Orders
Manual Orders
Orders
Order ImportOracle Order Management
Book & Validate
Pick ReleaseShip
Confirmation
Miscellaneous Receipt
Transaction Error?
Exception Handling
Close / End
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COGS Clearing acct
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Demand/Replenishment Order Fulfillment
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Solution Design – Point of Sale Invoicing
POS Data
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Solution Design - POS EDI Transactions
POS signifies data on product as it is scanned at the cash register. SBT means customer will only pay for what they sell.
Depending on the trading partner, POS data is received inbound using one of two methods:
852 – The 852 document contains date of sale, UPC, price, quantity sold and store id.
POS Data Gentran Oracle Billing
Customer sends 852
Third-Party VAN
sends 810Oracle Billing
• 810 – The 810 document contains the same data as on the 852, plus an invoice number for each rooftop.
Gentran
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Setup Considerations
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Setup Considerations
SBT Customer
Address Site(Rooftop 1)
InventoryOrganization
Address Site(Rooftop 2)
Address Site(Rooftop 3)
Address Site(Rooftop n)
Sub Inventory Location(Rooftop 1)
Sub Inventory Location (Rooftop 2)
Sub Inventory Location(Rooftop 3)
Sub Inventory Location(Rooftop n)
Item 1Item 2
Item 1Item 2
Item 1Item 2
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Setup Considerations
Description AppInitial Setup
Ongoing Maintenance
Method
Define Customer AR Y N Oracle FormEstablish Customer Sites (Single Ship To & Bill To) AR Y N Oracle Form
Define Inventory Location INV Y N Oracle FormDefine Master Customer Organization, (Inventory Organization Classification, INV Y N Oracle Form
Create Subinventory for Rooftop INV Y N Custom ScriptLink Subinventory to Rooftop at Customer Ship To (DFF) AR Y N Oracle Form
Item Creation INV NA NA Oracle Data LoaderAssign Inventory Items to Customer Organization INV Y Y Oracle Form
Define Costs Sub Element INV Y N Oracle ProgramDefine Item Cost & Update Concurrent Manager Program INV Y Y Oracle Form
Item Update Stock (misc receipt / issue) INV Y Y Oracle FormDefine Order Transaction Types - SBT Consumption OM Y N Oracle Form
Define Documents OM Y N Oracle Form
Assign Sequences OM Y N Oracle Form
Define Receivables Transaction Types AR Y N Oracle Form
Load Initial Demand Orders OM Y N Custom Script
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Conversion and Maintenance Considerations
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Conversion and Maintenance Considerations
Sl No Element Module Method
1 Add / Expire Inventory Items INV Oracle Forms/Script
2 Load Cost Information (both UP and Consigned Inv.Orgs) INV Oracle Program
3 Stock Adjustments INV Oracle Forms
4 Inventory Reconciliations at Sub-inventory level (rooftops) INV Oracle Forms
5 Period Closures for each Customer Organizations INV Oracle Forms
6 POS Order Processing OM Oracle HVOP
7 Demand Orders (though Ncamp) OM Oracle HVOP
8 Cycle Counts Inv Custom Script
9 Physical Inventory Inv Custom Script
10 Credits OM Script
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Conversion and Maintenance Considerations
A word about Oracle’s High Volume Order Processor
Oracle’s HVOP provides a streamlined and simple process
– Tuned
– ideal if 90% of orders are common or standard
• Some features are not integrated
– Constraint checking
– iPayment Integration
• Some functionality is not optimized with HVOP
– Basic and Advanced Pricing
– Shipping Integration
– More detail on HVOP is available in an Oracle white paper on CD
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Conversion and Maintenance Considerations
Customer Store Conversion
Make a conscientious and informed decision on what stores are candidates for conversion.
• Carefully consider:
• Time needed to complete store conversion activity and plan accordingly
•Plan activity to the minutest of detail
•Determine what to do with replenishment orders during the store conversion activity
• Do you want to stock the store in preparation for the conversion
• Do you want to black out ordering during the conversion cycle
• Very early in the cycle, determine to do with the product that already exists in the store that is converting.
• Identify what the customer’s EDI capabilities and required lead times
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Conversion and Maintenance Considerations
Daily Inventory Transactions and Credit Memos Management
Inventory Transactions will be generating daily as either a materials transfer to a sub inventory, a decrement to inventory due to a sale, or an inventory return (credit memo or scrap). Orders will be generated for shipment to the customers store and a Bill-only invoice will be generated at the point of sale.
• Carefully consider:
• Processing Impact to Production Schedules
• Impact to closing period activity
• Adjustments for COGS
• Automated process could possibly take Inventory levels below tolerance
• Impact of setting up a new items for release
• Impacts to cycle counts and physical inventory activity
• DATA VOLUME
• Data retention requirements and Purging frequencies
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Other Considerations
– Consignment Inventory and Collaborative Planning requires R11.5..x.x upgrade
– Increased disk space requirements for miscellaneous receipts, SBT POS data, Inventory Organizations, sub inventory transactions, and invoices
– Impact to financial forecasting analysis and reporting. For example, carry COGS of inventory at a rooftop versus a order from the warehouse that is invoiced upon shipment.
– Challenges with servicing existing non-SBT customers while implementing new scan based trading partners
– What to do with existing inventory in rooftops that has already been shipped and invoiced.
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Epilogue
A word about Oracle’s Collaborative Planning – RPG’s Perspective
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Epilogue
A word about Oracle’s Collaborative Planning – RPG’s Perspective
ADVANTAGES
• User friendly GUI to interact with customers and suppliers
• Easy manual execution for replenishment and inventory visibility
DISADVANTAGES
• Extremely data and memory intensive
• Min/Max plans only at Organization level
• Untested Customer VMI Solution
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Epilogue
– Since May 2007, RPG has converted to a Scan Based Trading business model with over 2000 customer stores
– Recent metrics have indicated that, for at least one of our major customer, sales have been up +13%
– Process is solid enough that RPG can now handle converting customer stores at a rate of 150 stores per week.
– Collecting POS data has allowed RPG react quickly to market trends
– Hot topics can be quickly identified, and within in days the merchandise can be moved into other customer stores
– Slow movers can be identified, analyzed for trends and management decisions on what to do with the merchandise can be made proactively.
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Questions?
• Q&A
• Contact Information
– Karen Janssen
– Office: 773-868-8457
– Email; [email protected]
– Anand Dharwadkar
– Office: 773-868-8379
– Email: [email protected]