Building on Oracle’s ‘Applications Unlimited’ program, Oracle previewed the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 at Oracle OpenWorld. The Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is expanding upon the global foundation established with Release 12 by delivering 9 new products and significant functional improvements across human resources, financials, supply chain management, procurement, projects, master data management and customer relationship management applications.
Customers who rely on the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 will be equipped to conduct business globally with the ability to respond to global customer demands and competition, streamline operations across geographic regions and source and retain talent on a global scale. Oracle’s strategy is to deliver complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle’s approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
The Oracle E-Business Suite provides a single, global view of customers, employees, suppliers, partners and operations, equipping organizations to make the smartest, most timely decisions. With the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1, customers can expect to benefit from the following:
- Oracle Deal Management should enable sales executives to maximize profits, optimize the deal process and control price erosion with key decision support tools embedded within the deal negotiation process.
- Pre-built dashboards and robust scenario modeling in Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center are designed to provide supply chain executives with the real-time business insight needed to make better supply chain decisions.
- Oracle Service Parts Planning enables customers to accurately forecast service parts to help increase customer service and boost profits.
- Oracle Demand Signal Repository captures, cleanses and harmonizes large volumes of external demand data to give users insight to consumer and supply chain behavior.
- Enhanced talent management capabilities specifically in the areas of recruiting and performance management help organizations improve operational efficiencies and turn employees into knowledge workers and competitive assets.
- Oracle Price Protection orchestrates business processes involving price protection agreements, helping to reduce errors and save money for distributors.
- Oracle Landed Cost Management estimates and then tracks the total landed cost of an item/shipment – a critical factor in making global sourcing decisions given the increase in indirect costs such as logistics and duty.
- The migration of standard reports to Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher offers increased efficiency to our customers’ compliance with local reporting obligations.
