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Oracle FastForward Flows for Supply Chain Management Speed and Rapid ROI

FastForward Flows for SCM Help Companies Reduce Cost and Risk, Deliver Rapid Time to Benefit

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 27 / -- ( http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?1117623 ) Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - news) the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced the availability of FastForward Flows for Supply Chain Management (SCM), integrated products and services that allow companies to address planning, procurement, manufacturing, and order fulfillment business flows in as little as 90 days. FastForward Flows for SCM let companies take an incremental approach to implementing modules of the Oracle E-Business Suite according to specific business objectives and realize a rapid time-to-benefit.

FastForward Flows for SCM employ leading e-business practices, allowing companies to reduce costs by simplifying and standardizing core business processes and to reduce risk with fixed-price rapid implementations. By leveraging the business flows inherent in the Oracle E-Business Suite, the most comprehensive suite of internet- enabled integrated business applications available on the market, FastForward Flows for SCM deliver business processes that cross organizational boundaries and enable real-time visibility across the supply chain. Additionally, these new FastForward Flows are designed to allow companies to implement modules of the Oracle E-Business Suite and connect them to existing Oracle applications, third party applications or legacy systems. For greater flexibility, customers have the choice to run the FastForward Flows as an Oracle.com online service or through their own in-house systems.

Based on Oracle Consulting's proven rapid implementation methodology, FastForward Flows help companies lower costs, increase velocity and drive revenue by reducing the complexity, time, and cost associated with large-scale software implementations. These services provide companies with a rapid return on investment opportunity.


   -- FastForward Flow Order to Cash:  Designed to deliver an operational
      distribution system in as little as 30 business days, this FastForward
      Flow automates the order fulfillment business processes from order to
      cash and the procure to pay business processes for direct materials.
      Order to Cash allows companies to reduce inventory, shipping costs, and
      cycle times, as well as increase inventory turns and improve customer
      service.
   -- FastForward Flow Demand to Build:  Designed to deliver an operational
      discrete or process manufacturing system in as little as 50 business
      days, this FastForward Flow automates the manufacturing business
      processes from demand to build. Demand to Build helps companies
      accelerate new product time-to-market, increase quality, reduce costs,
      and reallocate cash resources formerly tied up in inventory, equipment,
      and operations.
   -- FastForward Flow Forecast to Plan:  Designed to deliver an operational
      advanced planning system in as little as 40 business days, this
      FastForward Flow automates the supply chain planning business processes
      from demand forecasting to advanced supply planning. Forecast to Plan
      provides a closed-loop planning and performance management system that
      lets companies optimize the flow of materials, cash, and information
      across an extended supply chain.
   -- FastForward Flow Procure to Pay (Available January 2002):  Designed to
      deliver an operational procurement system in as little as 45 business
      days, this FastForward Flow automates the indirect purchasing business
      processes from procurement to payment. Procure to Pay allows companies
      to provide catalog items to support non-production MRO (maintenance,
      repair and operations), service, and administrative purchases and
      enables employees to initiate purchasing requests on their desktops.


``By addressing business processes though closed-loop, integrated business flows, rather than point solutions, companies can reduce the complexity of implementing supply chain management applications, while increasing the efficiency of their business,'' said Don Klaiss, senior vice president, Supply Chain Management Applications. ``FastForward Flows for Supply Chain Management allow companies to quickly and cost effectively implement Oracle's integrated business flows, giving them what they need to run their core business operations and realize a rapid time-to-benefit.''

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