Supply Chain

Oracle E-Business – Supply Chain – How to use Oracle BI Publisher based reporting to analyze and reduce your Inventory levels

Author: Bob Bullman Date: December 4th, 2012
Categories: Oracle Business Intelligence

Having spent more than a decade focusing on improving Supply Chain, and a high percentage my energy was spent using quantitative information. KPI’s, Cubes, Dashboards, Briefing, Portals, Data Marts and the list go on.  

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Under-utilized features of Email Communication for Purchase Orders

Author: Jonathan LeBlanc Date: September 12th, 2011
Categories: E-Business Suite

Communicating Purchase Orders to suppliers as PDF documents via email has been around for quite some time but there are some features that I find are under-utilized and are often not presented to customers.  For example, did you know that you can have every PO copied to a generic email address?  What about attaching documents to the email such as Terms and Conditions or any other files?

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Tips for troubleshooting Purchase Order Import errors with Projects

Author: Jonathan LeBlanc Date: August 15th, 2011
Categories: E-Business Suite

Recently, I received a call from a customer requesting my assistance with troubleshooting Purchase Order Import errors in R12.  The customer was trying to import 1000 purchase orders that were related to projects.  They were encountering the following error and were having difficulty finding the root cause as the message was vague:

Project information on the distribution is not valid. &PJM_ERROR_MSG

Here are some tips on places to look to resolve such issues:

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Welcome to The Oracle Supply Chain Management Blog!

Author: Andy Avery Date: March 22nd, 2011
Categories: E-Business Suite

Over the last 10 years as a supply chain practitioner and implementer of Oracle applications, I have worked in many different industries, successfully implemented many Oracle modules, and deployed elaborate footprints and customizations throughout multiple versions of Oracle’s e-Business Suite. 

As an overarching goal of this blog, I intend to share implementation expertise, tricks, customizations, integration techniques, known Oracle pitfalls, viable work-a-rounds, Oracle presentations, white papers, and a glimpse into why BizTech’s supply chain management practice is in the upper echelon of what we do.