EBS High Volume 2009

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High Speed Order Fulfillment

Kannan TarakadDirector, Product Strategy, Oracle USA


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Analysts ValidationAnalyst Reports, Quotes etc…

“In the second update to the industry’s only process-focused order management assessment of its kind, Forrester evaluated eight leading order management solutions in a 152-criteria evaluation. We found that Oracle E-Business Suite R12 led the pack among the Leaders who delivered technologies that support the perfect order.”-- R “Ray” Wang, Research Analyst, November, 2008

‘We rate Oracle EBS Configurator Strong Positive because of its sales momentum; rules maintenance environment; ability to support STO, ATO and ETO configurations; use in a large number of vertical industries; and automatic completion of partial configurations.’

-- Gene Alvarez, MarketScope for Sales Configuration, October 2007


Agenda

• High Volume Order Processing• Batch Capabilities– High Volume Usage– High Volume Order Import - Key Uses– High Volume Shipping– High Performance Pricing

• Online Capabilities– Quick Sales Order– Quick Ship

• High Volume Order Processing - Key Takeaways• Q&A


High Volume Order Processing

• Out of the box High Volume Performance Capabilities

• Leverages the same Order Management interface tables & your preprocessor

• Imports Orders faster than Order Import

• Fulfill orders quickly

• High Speed

• Memory based

High Volume High Volume ShippingShipping

RepricingRepricingOrdersOrders

Quick SalesQuick SalesOrdersOrders

Quick ShipQuick Ship

Pattern Pattern AlgorithmAlgorithm

For PricingFor Pricing

High High Volume Volume Order Order ImportImport

HighVolumeOrder

Processing


High Volume Usage

Book Distributor – 80K lines per hour

Computer Manufacturer – 2M lines per day

Coffee Purveyor – 100K lines per hour








HighVolumeOrder

Processing



High Volume Order Import


HVOP is designed for …

• Larger order volumes

– E.g. 30,000 to 1,000,000 lines per day, or more

• Limited time to process and fulfill orders

– E.g. Fulfill 50,000 lines in a 3 hour window

• Limited hardware -- CPU processing power and memory.

High Volume Order Import (HVOP)Key Uses


• Bulk processing features of RDBMS• Batch processing multiple orders• Supporting targeted set of high volume

business processes

• Compared to standard Order Import, users may observe 2-fold to 4-fold improvement.

High Volume Order Import (HVOP)How is performance improved?

0%50%

100%

150%200%

250%

300%350%

400%

Order Throughput

Order Import HVOP


High Volume Order Import (HVOP)Similarities & Differences to Order Import

• Similarities– Uses the Order Import Interface Tables– Creates and Books Orders– Runs as a concurrent Request– Leverages your preprocessor investment– Use the Corrections Form to correct data

• Differences

• HVOP– In memory bulk processing– Assumes all data in interface

tables are populated– Greener – Uses less CPU– Faster

• Order Import– Uses the Process Order API– Defaults data based on

defaulting rules


High Volume Order Processing (HVOP)Features

• Supports– Importing Standard Items– Importing Kits– Importing Configurations*– Pricing– Calculating Tax*– Credit Checking– Booking

• Does Not Support– Drop Shipments – Sales Credits– Ship, Arrival, Fulfillment

sets– Gapless Order Numbering

* New in 12.1


High Volume Order Import (HVOP)Deciding on an Implementation Approach

Analyze:

1. Use HVOP Questionnaire in Metalink (Note: 225753.1)

2. Refer to R12 User Guides, Implementation Guides

3. Ask questions in forums, mix

4. Create a pilot project and try out

Analyze HVOP Fit?

HVOP

HVOP &

Order Import

Order Import

Partial

None

Full








HighVolumeOrder

Processing


High Volume High Volume ShippingShippingHigh Volume Shipping


High Volume Shipping

• Available since 11.5.10– No separate action to take to use high

volume shipping

• Interface Trip Stop/Ship Confirm– Multi Threading since R11.5.10– Full Ship Quantities uses high volume

architecture

• Pick Release– Multi Threading, since Release 12










HighVolumeOrder

Processing

High Performance Pricing – Repricing Orders


High Performance Pricing

• “Hook” to ignore lines not pertinent for pricing

– Improves price calculation times in ATO/PTO models, with increasing number of options

• Incremental Pricing

– Speeds up opening the configurator window

• Batch Pricing*

– New Concurrent Request

– Provides ability to price orders/lines in batch.

– Ability to Preview lines that will be repriced

Patch Numbers

8203943 for 11.5.10

8266809 for R12

* New in 12.1








HighVolumeOrder

Processing



Quick Sales Orders


Quick Sales Order

• Enter & Manage Orders quickly

– Fewer keystrokes to enter orders

– Control auto refresh to speed entry

• Improve Efficiency

– Create buttons for your top actions

– Defer price calculation, scheduling until save*

– Hide Tabs you do not use

• View more information in a screen

– Headers, Lines, Discounts, pricing, availability

Full parity with regular sales order, in Release 12.1

* New in 12.1








HighVolumeOrder

Processing



Quick Ship


Quick Ship

• Review & Process Shipments quickly

– Fewer key strokes to view and process shipments

• Improve efficiency

– Create buttons for your top actions

– Delivery Confirm View

– Trip Confirm View

• View more information

– Access Trip, Deliveries, Containers and Delivery Detail information in a Single View

Available since 11.5.10







HighVolumeOrder

Processing




Pattern Algorithm for Pricing


Pattern Algorithm for Pricing

• Performance Tuned Pricing– Transforming pricing setups to leverage

express search algorithms– Combining multiple selection routines

using combinational hash key pattern algorithms

• Predictive pricing response– Irrespective of pricing setup variation

• Superior Performance– Laboratory results are 2-10 fold

improvements in pricing performance

We are looking for Beta customers!


High Volume Order ProcessingKey Takeaways








HighVolumeOrder

Processing

• Leverage high volume online and batch capabilities to enter, process and fulfill high volume of orders

• Enable high volume by keeping your existing business processes

• Improve throughput by leveraging efficiency enablers in the Quick sales order and the quick ship user interfaces

Attain High Volume processing capabilities with Order Management


Resources

• R12 Order Management Implementation Guide (Chapter 19)– Search for the word “HVOP”, “High Volume”, “QSO”

• R12 Order Management User Guide (Chapter 2-128)– Search for the word “HVOP”, “High Volume”, “QSO”

• Metalink– Search for the word “HVOP”

• Pose Questions in Oracle Forums (forums.oracle.com)– Community Discussion Forums >> E-Business Suite >> SCM –

Order Management– Community Discussion Forums » E-Business Suite »

SCM - Order Management – Join forums, if you haven’t already

• Pose questions at (mix.oracle.com)


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