Oracle Renders Its PLM Outline
Part Two: Challenges and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic & Jim Brown - January 6, 2004

Challenges

Recently, Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), claims to have experienced a rebirth of interest in its supply chain management (SCM) capabilities as the enterprise market sentiment have lately turned against mainly struggling so called best-of-breed or pure-play SCM providers. To that end, Oracle has broadened its supply chain software footprint. First, although belatedly embracing internal development of a comprehensive suite of Supply Chain Planning (SCP) applications as part of its e-business suite, Oracle has made up any lost ground with its internal development of a comprehensive suite of Supply Chain Planning (SCP) applications as part of its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Oracle has also been steadily building supply chain capabilities with its Oracle Advanced Planning product suite. Also, with the release of Oracle E-Enterprise Suite 11i.8 in late 2002, it added warehouse management system (WMS) and transportation management system (TMS) capabilities to round out the execution side of its budding integrated SCM system...