Pre-requisites

• Participants must have prior experience of implementing any Supply Chain Applications (Oracle or non-Oracle).

Course Offering

This is a use-case driven implementation focused 4-Day workshop highlighting the business process flows, best practices, implementation considerations, and typical cut-over activities while covering the various topics in a flow based approach.

• Offering: Product Management (Or) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Innovation Management
  • Product Development
  • Product Hub / Product Information Management (PIM)

The flows and use cases covered include

• Building an Innovation Pipeline Using Innovation Management: Translate a steady stream of innovative ideas into a predictive product portfolio and go-to-market strategy.
  • Idea Capture to Business Case
    • Capture, enhance, analyze, prioritize Ideas and building a business case
    • Selecting viable Ideas through Voting and reporting
  • Requirement Definitions to Optimization
    • Maintain Traceability, determine Product Scope and optimize Requirements
  • Create Product Proposal to Go-to-Market Candidate
    • Initiate Proposal and model Cash flows with Cost, Revenue, Resource Information and Metric data. Analyze and select go-to market candidates.
    • Select best Proposals that are in line with business Objectives
  • Concept Formation to Design
    • Develop Concepts, estimate the Costs and Create Concept Alternatives
    • Arrive at Best Fit Designs and advance the Designs to Product Development

• Design and Engineer to Product Prototype using Product Development: Track early development phases of Products that require a process design
  • Focus on product design and refinement of a design from Innovation Management
  • Build development structures that describe the assembly / product
  • Managing Change Orders to Change Requests execution
  • Quality Issues to Actions – Automatic generation of a change order which includes a relationship linkage to a quality issue or a quality action

• Product Hub / PIM business Flow: Product Release to Supply Chain Readiness and to Commercialization:
  • Onboard New Products to Item Master
    • From In-House Product Development
    • From Suppliers: By Supplier Product uploads from Supplier Portal.
  • Enrich Product Information to enforce Approvals via New Item Requests (NIR)
    • Collaborate with stakeholders to set item classification and parameters governing production, purchasing, and fulfillment.
    • Route approvals to relevant stakeholders.

• Ensure Product readiness to Product correctness  
  • Communicate Product Information process
  • Product Release flow through Commercialization Change Orders

Product Features Covered

Approval in PLM

• Basic Innovation Management Approvals
• Approval configurations in Business Process Management (BPM)

Innovation Management

• Working with Ideas, Proposals and Requirements specifications
• Building Concepts, Concept Components, Solution Alternatives
• Communicate and Collaborate using Oracle Social Network (OSN)

Product Development

• Working with Items and Documents
• Approved Manufacturer Lists (AML), Manufacturers and Manufacturer Parts
• Lifecycle Phases, Item Grading and Item Structures
• Change Management : Engineering Change Orders  (ECO) , Maufacturing Change Orders, Engineering Change requests and Deviation Change Request.
• Affected Objects and Redlines
• Quality Issues and Actions

Product Hub / PIM (Product Information Management)

• Product Hub Configurations
• Create and maintain Items, Item Relationships and Item Mass Updates
• Item Catalogs and Categories
• Enable Auditing and generate Audit Reports
• Item Rule Sets and Rules
• Managing Supplier Products from Supplier Portal
• Publish Item Objects via Publication
• PIM Objects Deletion using Deletion Groups

Workshop Format

• Approximately 4 hours per day of live use-case discussions, presentations & demos followed by off-line hands-on labs.
• Participants will be provided with access to environment (on request basis) and supporting content including student guides, activity guides, etc.
• Live Q&A chat with the presenters during the presentations and off-line forum support.

Expected Outcome

• Participants will learn how to implement Supply Chain Management: Innovation Management, Product Development and Product Information Management (PIM)

Instructors

These hands-on Implementation workshops are being delivered by experienced consultants from Oracle Product Development:

  Vijay Kumar Korupolu

  Venkateshwaran Subramanian