Blue Yonder Luminate Planning vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM)

This is a great logistics tool. The data analytics portion of the SaaS solution is somewhat light and the out of box reporting is at times not relevant to the report. This requires heavy customization as an enhancement and can get very pricey if the reporting module is not vetted prior to implementation.

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Oracle SCM Cloud is a flexible product that offers many solutions for users. It can work for large and small companies across many industries. The beauty is that you don't have to own the entire cloud suite to take advantage of these cloud products. The products are developing and evolving rapidly.

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• Attributes
• Inventory searches
• Building product information

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• In Order promising options, we have lead time based, available to promise, capable to promise and profitable to promise. So the promising rules will select best available options amongst them to benefit the customer and the enterprise.
• Allocation by demand ensures that the scarce supply of products are reserved for the most important customers which is a value proposition for any organization.
• The entire procurement process can be automated, which will be executed without manual interventions. This will in-turn improve productivity and ensure compliance is followed in each step.

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• JDA WMS is a pricy solution compared to other WMS vendors. Perhaps they should offer "lighter" versions for smaller customers.
• JDA acquired RedPrairie a few years ago, and in doing so, has lost some of their "small company" support and customer care.
• Although integration and label printing are strong features of JDA WMS, they require expertise to set up. It would be nice if those aspects of the system were easier to manage.

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• UI - Needs a definite update. Tool can do wonders if UI is intuitive.
• Excel based data doesn't upload easily.
• No open APIs, integration is not possible with other tools.
• Extra charges for a module for integration.
• Implementation is not easy.

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The support team is overseas and the time zone differences can delay reactivity. The development team appears to overturn annually causing gaps in understanding of pending deliverables. There is also a learning curve that impedes expedited delivery of requested enhancements.

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JDA WMS was a large step up from our legacy Infor solution. It filled many gaps that we couldn't fill with Infor's system. Rather than continuing to build solutions in-house to account for customer requirements, we decided to implement JDA WMS and use all of that system's capabilities to handled what we needed in our warehouses. Granted, Infor's solutions have probably improved since 2007 when we changed, but those were my experiences back when we changed WMS providers.

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I have never used anything other than Oracle SCM Cloud, so I am not sure about similar products in the market. Having said that, I still feel that it is definitely a value-added product for any manufacturing organization. It is cloud-based so it can be integrated with any modern other cloud-based systems if we have the middleware.

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• Backend Job failures- Some times failure of backend jobs cause some disruptions to business, affecting profit targets.
• Data Mart- JDA offers a special DB which captures data for data mart.
• Support - Support team needs to improve.

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• There is a large reduction in man hours spent attempting to manually create the traceability matrix
• There is a strong involvement of different BUs and collaboration on the requirements creation process
• The time to develop and approve requirements has been shortened

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