ORACLE DISCRETE MANUFACTURING 11i OVERVIEW

DISCRETE MANUFACTURING:
BUILD TO PERSONAL DEMAND

KEY FEATURES

Oracle Discrete Manufacturing 11i allows you to make products

to meet the unique needs of all your customers. Whatever your
manufacturing methodology, Oracle ensures that you manufacture
at the highest possible quality and at the lowest possible cost.
Fully integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Discrete
Oracle Discrete
Manufacturing Helps You:
Manufacturing offers customers high-performance manufacturing
Adapt to Changing Market solutions that enable businesses to adopt mass customization as
Demands
Deploy the Most Efficient the key strategy to differentiate and deliver personalized goods
Method of Manufacturing
and services.
Streamline Collaboration
with Subcontractors Adapt to Changing Market Demands
Drive Continuous Process
Improving customer responsiveness while competing in a volatile marketplace are among
Improvement
the most serious challenges facing companies today. Oracle Discrete Manufacturing allows
you to manufacture customized versions of products, reduce production cycle times,
measure quality, and monitor costs. Successful companies manufacture personalized
products, at any volume, and ship them from anywhere in the world. Integration with Oracle
Advanced Planning, Oracle Configurator, and iSupplier Portal, changes in demand are
immediately visible throughout your supply chain allowing you to accurately fulfill orders.
Oracle Discrete Manufacturing provides Mass Customization and Configure-to-Order
production capabilities, so you can respond to changing market demands for personalized
products.

Deploy the Most Efficient Method of Manufacturing

The choice is yours. Oracle Discrete Manufacturing supports all methods of manufacturing.
Oracle allows manufacturers to maximize operating efficiency and flexibility by deploying
the best manufacturing method for each productdiscrete, assemble-to-order, engineer-to-
order, repetitive, process, lot-based or flowat the right time. All methods can be supported
by a single plan, in a single instance, referencing a single inventory database, all fully
integrated within Oracle E-Business Suite.

Consider the benefits of transforming to flow manufacturing. Oracle Flow Manufacturing,

awarded the most innovative flow solution by Plantwide Research, dramatically reduces
manufacturing cycle times and inventory investment, while increasing product quality and
throughput. As a direct result, customer service levels increase, production efficiencies
improve, and working capital can be freed up to invest elsewhere in the company.

Oracle Flow Manufacturing features:

Line design and balancing to fully optimize flow manufacturing implementation

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Kanban management techniques to minimize inventory costs

Benefiting both high and low volume manufacturers, Oracle Flow Manufacturing supports
make-to-stock, discrete-repetitive, assemble-to-order, and engineer-to-order environments.

Streamline Collaboration with Suppliers and Subcontractors

The trend today is toward outsourcing manufacturing, but the top concern is the visibility of
your outsourced component or product or the customer drop shipment delivery of your
product. Internet-based self-service applications allow tighter supplier and subcontractor
efficiencies through timely notification and access to information. The Oracle iSupplier
Portal allows your suppliers, subcontractors, and trading partners to enter and receive
important information to enable real-time collaboration. By sharing delivery and quality
metrics, invoice and payment information, and forecast and planning schedules over the
internet, self-service strengthens subcontractor relationships, increases quality, and
lowers costs.

Drive Continuous Process Improvement

The ability to control costs and build in quality drives profitability. Pinpointing non-value-
added activities improves resource allocation and utilization, so companies can deliver high
quality products at the lowest possible cost. Oracle Cost Management allows you to utilize
multiple costing methods, identify variances, and monitor spending to truly understand your
manufacturing costs.

Oracle Quality is a flexible enterprise-wide quality system that lets you collect, distribute,
and analyze critical quality data throughout your supply chain. Oracle Quality's tight
integration with Oracle Discrete Manufacturing, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle iSupplier Portal,
and Oracle Service enables you to collect quality data at the source to enhance
responsiveness to specific customer requirements and ensure compliance with industry stan-
dards via continuous improvement programs, such as resource lot traceability.

Summary
Oracle Discrete Manufacturing is fully integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. It
allows you to adapt to changing market demands, deploy the most efficient method of
manufacturing, make the right manufacturing decisions, streamline collaboration with
subcontractors, and drive continuous process improvement. Customers in high-technology,
industrial products, automotive, aerospace and defense, and electronics are gaining a
competitive advantage with Oracle Discrete Manufacturing.