Supply Chain Management & ERP

Whether providing medical supplies to area hospitals or shipping frozen foods to local grocery stores, a business can crumble without a supply chain that supports its needs and the needs of its customers. Supply chains are just that indispensable. Yet as the pandemic laid bare, supply chains are inherently vulnerable. It is only a matter of time before something compromises supply chain performance. From microchip shortages caused by elevated demand to meager crop yields triggered by historic drought, any number of scenarios can cause the links that create a supply chain to crack, break, or fall apart.

The unknown and the unexpected make supply chain planning a top priority. Supply chain planning involves utilizing best practices, analytics, technology, and historical data to better anticipate demand and minimize disruption. But if you do not have the right solutions in place to solve your business’s significant challenges – whether they involve poor visibility, labor shortages, equipment availability, demand planning, or global bottlenecks at shipping ports – your supply chain planning infrastructure can be set up to fail.

Inspirage Delivers

Inspirage is your supply chain management and enterprise resource planning partner for robust, forward-looking, and effective supply chain planning solutions. As a one-stop shop for Oracle Cloud SCM and ERP expertise, Inspirage is here to help regardless of your industry or specialty. With over 15 years of system integration experience, the Inspirage team has a long and accomplished track record of succeeding with business transformation across various industries and sectors. Because of this, we understand the unique industry-specific challenges that exist for your business and the integrated supply chain management and ERP strategies you need to solve them.

Inspirage sets itself apart as the premier SCM and ERP consulting firm because we offer a higher standard of excellence. In addition to reaching your goals, Inspirage provides resources to help you surpass the competition by integrating new technology and optimizing your organization. With our digital optimization capabilities, our clients can re-energize their enterprises to drive greater agility, responsiveness, and innovation.

You’re in Good Company

The supply chain represents the cornerstone of every product-based business and industry. To see real-world examples of transformative supply chain planning solutions Inspirage has implemented for companies in a wide range of industries, check out our Customer Spotlights. These case studies offer a bird’s eye view into some of the organizations with which we have worked, the challenges they encountered, the solutions we recommended, and the results they are now seeing thanks to a more balanced state of supply and demand.

Customer Spotlight: Biomedical Testing Company
Innovative Life Sciences Leader Expands Cloud Capabilities with Supply Chain and ERP Solutions
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Customer Spotlight: Mobile Computing Company
Mobile Computing Company Reaches its Digitization Destination with Oracle Planning Cloud
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Customer Spotlight: Online Car Retailer
Pioneer in the online automotive retail industry achieves lofty goals with Oracle SCM Cloud
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When you’re ready to revolutionize your business
by digitally transforming your Supply Chain operations,
Inspirage is your trusted partner for an efficient
and effortless transition to the Oracle Cloud.

We’ve Got You Covered

Supply chain planning is a constant game of What if: What if one of your suppliers does not deliver? What if your backup supplier experiences bottlenecks of its own? Every supply chain what-if problem has a solution. The key is identifying where the links in the chain are broken. Oracle’s Supply Chain Management and ERP application suites are custom-designed to address your business’s challenges by optimizing your supply chain strategy. Utilizing Oracle applications from Supply Chain Collaboration all the way to Global Order Promising, Inspirage can set you up with solutions that play a key role in ensuring an efficient supply chain strategy by enhancing visibility to improve demand forecasting, information flow, production planning, and more.

Supply Chain Management in Action
Online Used Car Retailer Streamlines Vehicle Operations and Increases Enterprise-wide Visibility with Oracle SCM Cloud
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Supply Planning and Order Promising in Action
Electrical Components Manufacturer Realizes a Comprehensive Cloud Supply Planning and Order Promising Platform
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Supply Chain Management Excellence
Inspirage Wins Oracle’s Game Changer Award for SCM Service Delivery Partner of the Year
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Additionally, Inspirage’s integrated supply chain management solutions arm you with the correct information and risk management tools to manage your supply chain’s issues. Unlike other providers, we do not specialize in just one area of the supply chain, such as procurement or inventory. We have an in-depth knowledge of all product-based industries and can recommend the appropriate solutions to increase the visibility of your supply chain. Because we have worked with so many organizations, we offer expert informed insight into how other businesses have successfully embarked on their supply chain planning transformations and how supply chain solutions can be customized to the needs, goals, and demands of your business.

Finally, we specialize in Change Management. We help build stakeholder consensus, so everyone is on board with the transformation. Inspirage is with you every step of the way by educating you on how the system works, what the new roles will look like once they are in place, and why they are more suited for your evolving business. In short, we do not just advocate change for change’s sake; we show you why change is necessary.

Learn More About Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Management Applications

Demand Management
Supply Planning
Sales & Operations Planning
Supply Chain Collaboration
Inventory Management
Manufacturing
Maintenance
Order Management
Global Order Promising
Demand Management
Combines proven forecasting algorithms with flexible analytics to anticipate customer demand

• Demand sensing and shaping
• Advanced forecast modeling
• Collaborative forecasting
• Forecasting for configured products

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Supply Planning
Offers simpler, faster, and better tools to bridge the gap between strategic optimization and tactical improvisation

• Global supply chain planning
• Plan simulations
• Detailed plan analysis
• Configurable UX and analytics
• Planning for configured products

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Sales & Operations Planning
Enables organizations to implement a continuous and forward-looking process that profitably aligns product, demand, and supply plans with their strategic and financial objectives

• Sales and operations planning review dashboards
• Best-practice S&OP process
• Aggregate planning and simulations
• Enterprise-wide alignment
• Consensus planning
• Configurable UX and analytics

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Supply Chain Collaboration
Enables organizations to plan supply with partners, manage contract manufacturing activities, and monitor business-to-business messaging

• Supply planning collaboration
• Contract manufacturing collaboration
• Trading relationship definition
• Support order-to-cash and source-to-settle data interchange

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Inventory Management
Offers a complete materials management solution to help companies successfully manage inbound and outbound flow of goods

• Proactive management of inbound, on-hand, and outbound operations
• End-to-end supplier consigned inventory support
• Internal and external manufacturing support
• Standard and configured product support
• Business intelligence dashboard for cost analysis

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Manufacturing
Helps firms compete in today’s global market by providing new, better tools to run their shop floor.

• Optimized end-to-end supply chain business flows
• Discrete manufacturing on the cloud, including contract manufacturing, configure to order, and drop shipment

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Maintenance
Efficiently plan and execute work with an integrated solution that connects maintenance, supply chain, and financial applications

• Asset maintenance
• Inventory, shipping, and receiving
• Cost management
• Supply chain orchestration
• Supply chain financial orchestration

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Order Management
Gain visibility and improve coordination across channels and fulfillment sources, facilitate rapid order execution, and integrate the customer experience for excellent service and improved margins

• Unify customer experience
• Capture complex orders
• Fulfill with flexibility
• Manage exceptions

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Global Order Promising
Meet customer expectations by promising delivery based on actual supply across all sources including inventory, production capacity, and purchases from suppliers

• Real-time availability checking and order scheduling
• Profitable-to-promise selection among potential fulfillment locations
• Capable-to-promise sourcing to make, transfer, or buy supply to fill demand
• Assemble-to-order, configure-to-order, and pick-to-order item promising

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Learn More About Oracle ERP Applications

Purchasing
Sourcing
Supplier Qualification Management
Self Service Procurement
Supplier Portal
Procurement Contracts
Purchasing
Enables organizations to drive operational excellence, streamline and automate the procure-to-pay process, and provide visibility into full transaction history

• Buyer work area and robust change management
• Center-driven procurement
• Support for centralized, decentralized, and hybrid procurement organizations
• Foreign currencies and global agreements
• Control approvals by amount, business unit, account segment, item, category, and location 

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Sourcing
Oracle Sourcing Cloud is an integral part of Oracle's Procurement Cloud Solution and provides the next-generation application for smarter negotiation

• Guided negotiation creation
• Online supplier negotiations
• Question library for requirements
• Two-stage RFQ
• Abstracts to publish to external website
• Negotiation landing page with key activities and metrics 

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Supplier Qualification Management
A comprehensive qualification management system designed to improve supplier compliance, data accuracy, and visibility 

• Manage important supplier qualification information
• Organize supplier data into meaningful qualifications
• Survey suppliers with easy-to-use online questionnaires
• Evaluate qualification areas and assess suppliers
• Receive early notifications on expiring qualifications 

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Self Service Procurement
Provides a user-friendly approach to managing employee requests for goods and services. Offers the best capabilities of consumer shopping websites with the tools to control spending 

• Catalog superstore and embedded learning
• Catalog manager work area
• Best-in-class catalog management
• Flexible accounting rules
• Notes for approvers, buyers, and suppliers
• Shopping lists and punchout catalogs 

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Supplier Portal
Improves the way organizations interact and collaborate with suppliers. This dynamic, secure solution provides superior supplier management and performance tools to lower costs

• Web-based supplier self-service
• Consolidated supplier work area 
• Supplier agreement collaboration
• Supplier change order management
• Electronic invoice presentment
• Information-driven user experience 

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Procurement Contracts
A modern application for superior contract lifecycle management that helps organizations gain complete visibility into agreements, shorten cycle-times, and manage compliance 

• Enterprise contract management
• Guided procurement contract creation
• Deliverable tracking
• Contract deviations management

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