Oracle Transportation Management for Retail

Oracle Transportation Management delivers special

value for the retail industry by combining broad

logistics capabilities with the deep transportation

management functionality necessary for today’s

single- and multimode, multibusiness networks.

Control Your Supply Chain

Oracle transportation and logistics experts are helping retailers gain and keep a competitive advantage with logistics excellence. Oracle Transportation Management combines end-to-end transportation management, track and trace, and supply chain event management within a single application, creating an entirely new supply chain execution approach to transportation and logistics for retailers—a solution that supports the way you do business today and gives you a foundation for the future.

Add Value with Streamlined Operations

Use Oracle Transportation Management to streamline operations, reduce total transpor-tation costs, and enhance service levels to

stores, distribution centers, and consumers. You can manage all inbound and outbound transportation processes using a single, integrated system. End-to-end, dynamic visibility across the supply chain reduces stock-outs, and the results encourage a collaborative environment for sharing information with your trading partners.

Integrate and Collaborate

Oracle Transportation Management combines advanced internet technology with a unique global data model that unifies business processes. You can manage the complex, diverse activities involved in shipping goods across multiple geographies, modes, business units, and enterprises as an integrated, collaborative business process.

Oracle Transportation

Management

• Reduces transportation costs

• Increases asset utilization

• Increases supply chain reliability

• Improves carrier relations

• Enhances customer service levels

• Provides flexible global-

fulfillment options

• Improves process efficiency

• Drives continuous improvement

• Lowers the total cost of

ownership

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Oracle Transportation Management for Retail

Plan, Optimize, and Execute with a Single Application

Oracle Transportation Management links the power of Web technology to a compre-hensive set of integrated components that address all the logistics processes involved in fulfilling customer demand. Designed as the ultimate execution system, it offers comprehensive functionality for

• Order management

• Simple and complex shipment planning and optimization

• All-inclusive execution, including booking and tendering, status updates, and en-route planning

• Specialized financial freight payment, including match pay and auto pay

• Operational reporting and advanced analytics capabilities

Turn Critical Information into Action

Oracle Transportation Management goes beyond track and trace to make critical information visible—and then turns it into actionable knowledge. Not only can you see every shipment and order at every point in the process, Oracle Transportation Management also provides you with the supply chain event management capabilities that let you manage by exception so you can avoid, circumvent, and mitigate any problems.

Develop a New Competitive Edge

Excellent logistics execution is a powerful competitive differentiator. You will be able to deliver goods at a lower cost than your competition, allowing you to reduce your prices on key products. This makes you more competitive and helps you gain market share against your competition. And it can help you keep costs down as you grow your business.

Across all modes and geographies, both domestic and international, from order management through financial settlement of freight costs, and including intelligent proactive management of in-transit processes and tasks, Oracle Transportation Management provides a complete, integrated logistics management solution. With Oracle Transportation Management your enterprise can add logistics to its list of competitive advantages.

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Stay competitive and keep your margins growing while you improve efficiencies in every aspect of your business. Whatever your retail vertical or geographic location, logistics execution is a critical factor in creating an insight-driven enterprise.

Oracle Transportation Management offers a superior use of technology combined with comprehensive business applications

that help you drive better planning and execution, faster inventory turns, and lower supply chain costs. Plus, you can create appealing assortments, collaborate with suppliers to ensure the right merchandise is in stock, and integrate data across multiple sales channels.

Grow Profitably with Oracle Transportation Management

Oracle Transportation Management delivers robust transportation planning and execu-tion capabilities to shippers and third-party logistics providers. It integrates and stream-lines transportation planning, execution, freight payment, and business process automation in a single application across all modes of transportation—from full truckload to complex, multileg air, ocean, and rail shipments. Oracle Transportation Management lowers transportation costs, improves customer service and asset utilization, and provides flexible global-fulfillment options.

Fact: Of the 13 Fortune 100

companies that are retailers,

12 run Oracle Applications.

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