Everything Clicked at the OTM User Conference

Posted on by Victoria Kaufman

It was great to see so many members of the extended Oracle community in Philadelphia recently during the 2022 OTM SIG User Conference. In addition to the conference itself, Inspirage’s annual reception at the Continental Mid-town was an excellent opportunity for attendees to meet with the Inspirage team, gain new insights, and reconnect with peers in person.

For the first time in a few years, we were able to mingle and chat about new ways to enhance the use of the OTM/GTM product. We would love to thank those who joined us at our Inspirage party! Speaking of parties, hats off to the 2022 OTM SIG Diamond Sponsor, Four Kites, for bringing together all conference attendees at their sponsor event at SPIN and reminding us all how awesome this conference really is.

Our theme this year was Legos. As Bob Hart, Inspirage Senior Vice President, Logistics Management Practice, noted during his sponsor presentation, “OTM is built out of many components, just like Legos. Legos inspire creativeness, teamwork, and customization – just as Inspirage does every day through our work with companies embracing new functionalities in the OTM/GTM product.”

Keep on trucking

To illustrate that point, we engaged with a Lego-savvy college student (Will McCrossan, son of Ty McCrossan, Inspirage Senior Solution Director, Logistics Management) to create a customized Lego truck that was a huge hit at our booth. Will truly embraced the Inspirage way of thinking when building that awesome truck!

 

 

It was also amazing to see so many new and familiar faces at the conference, which underscored the ever-growing interest in Oracle OTM and GTM. We particularly enjoyed attendees’ enthusiasm for learning how OTM/GTM is currently benefiting their business and their thoughts on how new functionalities will benefit them in the future.

According to Carrie Kaup, Conference Chair (and Land o’ Lakes Supply Chain Systems Analyst), “The conference brought more new customers than in previous years, and we can’t wait to see what next year’s conference will look like.”

An optimistic outlook

Here are some other insights we brought home from the event as well as a few thoughts about what they mean for Inspirage, Oracle, and our clients:

  • Spot market providers continue to invest heavily in the OTM space, and Oracle is continuing its 22-year tradition of investing heavily in OTM/GTM. This is intensifying interest and curiosity among our current and future customers about what is yet to come. It also underscores Oracle’s openness to addressing your ongoing business needs.
  • Inspirage Senior Consultant Victoria Kaufman’s presentation, “OTM 101 – Introduction to Core Functionality,” covered the entire end-to-end OTM process from a high-level perspective. Her well-received overview of OTM’s key functions and terminology gave us another fantastic opportunity to gauge attendees’ interest in implementing Oracle Cloud OTM. (Short version: They are extremely interested!)
  • This was the first time the conference featured a woman as the keynote speaker. Pamela Barnum, JD, MPA, went from being an undercover police officer to becoming a federal prosecuting attorney. She gave us a superb rundown on how to negotiate with ease, influence with trust, and communicate with confidence. She taught us how to efficiently use our body skills to portray confidence as well as openness to communicating and negotiating — and also shared other fascinating insights on nonverbal communication. Her “3D Negotiation Techniques for Success: Display, Decode, and Detect” will come in handy in the future!
  • We discovered plenty of networking opportunities and plan to continue offering bi-monthly meetings of our OTM/GTM User Group. Please send a note to pam.vivio@inspirage.com if you are not already a member so we can get you connected and provide access to this collaborative community site ASAP.

We hope we do not have to wait another year to see or hear from you. Please reach out to us if you have any questions or thoughts about working with Inspirage to move to, or continue growing in, the Oracle Cloud. In the meantime, please download our new infographic detailing the enhanced functionality of OTM and GTM resulting from Oracle’s Quarterly Update 22C to customer environments.

Victoria Kaufman | Key Contributor

Victoria Kaufman is a Senior Consultant at Inspirage. She has worked on Oracle Transportation Management software (OTM) and Warehouse Management Software Implementations (WMS) in numerous client environments including manufacturing and consumer packaged goods industries. She has demonstrated many successes in planning and implementing supply chain solutions across multiple software applications. Victoria has a Bachelors in Business Administration with a concentration in Supply Chain from Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.