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Sales

Oracle CX Sales is a comprehensive Cloud-based CRM offering a full range of classic CRM features, further enhanced with additional capability through Artificial Intelligence, Performance Management, Planning, and extensive data management power.

Sitting on Oracle’s Fusion platform, Oracle CX Sales natively integrates with a whole host of other Oracle tools, while also being simple to integrate with systems from other vendors. CX Sales is often deployed with it’s direct counterpart, Oracle B2B Service, to offer support for your customers from a single platform within your CRM.

Sales

CPQ

Oracle CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) allows you to give your clients a superior customer experience in three crucial ways; self-served or salesperson-led configuration for complex products and orders; global pricing catalogues and discount levels which are centrally managed; and a streamlined quoting system that can speed quoting times up from days or weeks to hours or minutes.

By offering a solution that optimises your selling process, you can give customers what they are asking for; faster quoting, simpler transactions and configurable products, self-service, and a better customer experience.

CPQ

E-Commerce

Oracle Commerce is a cloud-native eCommerce platform with a full scope of capability for B2B commerce experiences. With extensive out-of-the-box features and multisite functionality, Oracle Commerce offers everything you need in a modern eCommerce SaaS platform.

Sitting on the Oracle Fusion platform, Oracle Commerce easily integrates with Oracle’s extensive Supply Chain Management applications. This allows crucial data points to be easily accessible within the platform, supporting visibility across Order Management, Inventory Management, Product Hub/PIM, and more.

E-Commerce

Subscription Management

Oracle Subscription Management allows you to connect your CRM and back-office, allowing you to manage subscriptions, contracts, renewals, and upgrades through a single platform which can integrate directly into your wider system architecture.

Develop new revenue streams by creating recurring orders for spare parts and consumable products, or simplify the management of contracts, billing, and revenue across all of your existing subscriptions.

Subscription Management

Field Service

Oracle Field Service is a service management solution that supports you to coordinate all of your in-field service teams, maximising the efficiency of your mobile workforce.

Field Service allows you to accurately predict staffing needs, with improved forecasting and workload management goals, optimise your resource utilisation, and intelligently automate scheduling and routing. Ensure your teams are scheduled, routed, and equipped correctly for every job.

Field Service

Service

Oracle B2C Service is a powerful service desk solution providing innovate and immediate ways to service customers through whichever channel they prefer. Unifying customer data across all platforms they choose to interact with your business in, customers will always receive a more personalised service through Oracle B2C Service.

Features like Digital Assistant, Live Chat, Video Chat, Messaging and more ensures that customers are supported in the way they want to be supported, and allows your agents to maximise their ability to support them. Functionality like Oracle Intelligent Advisor offer intuitive ways to route minor issues away from the service desk, allowing your service team to spend more time on key issues.

Service

Marketing

Oracle Eloqua is a top-of-the-range Marketing Automation platform, offering all of the classic Marketing Automation features such as advanced scheduling, campaign management, and a configurable email development dashboard, while revealing more about your customers through in-depth BI.

Connect your marketing automation platform across eCommerce, CRM, Service and more to offer the most personalised experience possible. Deliver campaigns at the right time, in the right way, to maximise lead-building opportunities while keeping the customer happy with what they receive from you.

Marketing
Order Managment
Product Hub/PIM
Product Development
Inventory Management
Manufacturing
Service Logistics
Maintenance
Procurement

Order Managment

Oracle’s omnichannel order-to-cash solution, Oracle Order Management, is a dynamic tool which supports organisations to increase profit margins, improve customer service, and move faster on order execution.

Being part of Oracle’s Fusion platform allows Order Management to natively integrate with a whole host of other enterprise applications, creating the most well-connected and streamlined lead-to-cash system in the market.

Order Managment

Product Hub/PIM

Product Hub serves as the Enterprise-wide single source of truth for products and their relevant data. Integrating seamlessly with your eCommerce portal, as well as key enterprise systems such as PLM. With Product Hub, you get faster product launches, efficient omni- channel commerce, and superior customer experience.

Oracle Product Hub is natively integrated with other Oracle SCM Cloud products and offers rich capabilities around data consolidation, data cleansing, data governance, and data sharing.

Product Hub/PIM

Product Development

Oracle Product Development Cloud (PD) provides faster, more efficient, and collaborative product development and launch processes. It provides a robust change management system to control the modifications in a product and it’s structure by enabling the approval of change orders before the changes are published.

Product Development gives complete visibility of the evolution of your products by tracking their iterations, allowing you to have full visibility of your product’s development history and supporting changes for faster launch and change periods.

Product Development

Inventory Management

Oracle Inventory Management gives complete visibility of the material movement in your company and across your global supply networks. It provides faster order fulfilment by automating, streamlining, and controlling inventory operations.

Oracle Inventory Management’s dashboards provides substantial visibility into all material movements across your internal and external locations. It provides easy and flexible inventory counting processes which hypercharge your ability to have more robust supply chain visibility systems – benefitting you, and your customers.

Inventory Management

Manufacturing

Oracle Manufacturing Cloud offers a robust solution which streamlines and improves the efficiency of Discrete, Process, or Mixed-Mode manufacturing. It provides a quick and user-friendly UI for defining the manufacturing processes of all the products in your supply lines.

Crucially, Oracle Manufacturing Cloud reduces the time taken in fulfilling your Sales Orders by leveraging its native integration with Oracle Order Management and other Oracle SCM applications. This allows you to effectively monitor the manufacturing costs and variances by plant, and determine root causes for cost variations.

Manufacturing

Service Logistics

Oracle Service Logistics connects Oracle Service and Oracle Field Service with Oracle Supply Chain modules to provide an end-to-end solution to support your Field Service teams.

Oracle Service Logistics connects the gap between engineer and depot, enabling your field service technicians to easily order, receive, transfer, and reserve parts for their trunk stock, ensuring they always have the right parts. Oracle Service Logistics also provides complete visibility of Service requests raised across all sources, ensuring your in-field engineers and agents are always connected and in communication with your desk-based service teams.

Service Logistics

Maintenance

Oracle Maintenance Cloud streamlines the corrective and preventive maintenance operations of your organisation. It provides a 360-degree view of your assets, including full visibility of its maintenance, meters, and hierarchy.

Powered by advance technologies like IoT cloud and Machine learning to provide Predictive Maintenance and Prescriptive Maintenance capabilities, Oracle Maintenance Cloud helps you to avoid unplanned down-time.

Maintenance

Procurement

Oracle Procurement Cloud is an integrated end-to-end solution for managing your Source-to-Settle operations. It simplifies the buying process for your employees, and maximises user adoption with a consumer-like, guided experience.

Oracle Procurement Cloud automates business processes, enables strategic sourcing, improves supplier relationship management and simplifies buying resulting in lower risk, improved savings, and greater profitability.

Procurement
Receivables
Payables
General Ledger
Cash Management
Fixed Assets

Receivables

Oracle Receivables supports the day-to-day running and maintaining of accounts receivable operations, including a host of services to support customer billing and payment actions; revenue recognition and changes; accounts receivable balances, and reconciliation to your General Ledger.

Receivables

Payables

Oracle Payables ensures you can view and report on your accounts payable transactions across foreign-currency, global tax regimes, and future-dated payments. A comprehensive payables system, Oracle Payables can improve margins, instil corporate fiscal discipline, and optimise business relationships with a streamlined payables system.

Payables

General Ledger

Oracle General Ledger is a fast and scalable general ledger application, providing tools for real-time visibility into your financial results. It automates financial processing; importing and posting up to 42 million journal lines per hour.

A comprehensive financial management solution, Oracle General Ledger supports you to meet financial compliance and improve your bottom line.

General Ledger

Cash Management

Oracle Cash Management ensures you can efficiently and effectively manage and control your cash cycle. Part of the Oracle Cloud Fusion platform, it provides flexible and comprehensive cash forecasting at an enterprise level.

Oracle Cash Management comprehensively supports the managing of bank account activity and controlling of cash positions, enabling you to simply analyse cash positions and forecast cash requirements through configurable dashboards, reports, and work areas.

Cash Management

Fixed Assets

Oracle Fixed Assets supports across 4 central business processes; retirements, adjustments, additions, and depreciation. Simplifying asset management and accounting complexities, it reduces the cost of asset ownership with a full view of all assets across the organisation.

Oracle Fixed Assets simplifies the management of your largest capital investments, integrating into major financial systems, automating business flows and centralising accounting rules, maximising the return on your global assets.

Fixed Assets
Integration

Integration

Oracle Integration Cloud is an incredibly effective platform from which to manage all non-native (i.e. 3rd party) integrations across applications, allowing you to connect both cloud and on-premises applications from a wide range of vendors.

Oracle Integration Cloud utilises a range of pre-built application adapters and process flows, in conjunction with a point-and-click visual designer, to simplify the creation of integrations between both on-premises and cloud applications.

This extensive library of dedicated pre-built adapters provides a time-efficient, secure and scalable method of connecting everything from Enterprise level technologies, such as Oracle HCM, Oracle CX, SalesForce & SAP, down to bespoke tools and utilities.

Integration
NEWS

Top 5 Challenges in Your B2B Online Sales Transition: #4 Complex in Behavior, Simple in Use

Contributor: Ozan Yavasoglulari, Managing Consultant – eCommerce & Portals.

#4 COMPLEX IN BEHAVIOUR, SIMPLE IN USE

In this post, we’ll look at number four in the list of the top five common challenges faced when transitioning B2B sales online. You may recall in the previous post (#5 B2B Buyer Specific and Relevant Content) I gave away a spoiler alert that complex purchasing journeys didn’t make it into the top 5 list. Although the title of this post may indicate otherwise, the statement still stands. As a matter of fact, if you do have complex purchasing journeys in your online B2B experience (or B2C for that matter), then it is almost certain that your solution is at best being underutilized, at worse losing sales.

What exactly do we mean by “complex in behaviour, simple in use”? Consider the following simple real life shopping experience; You walk into your local corner shop for a pack of eggs. You just need a pack of 12 eggs to see you through till your next major shopping in a couple of days. You notice that there’s a single pack of 6 that will expire in a day. You think to yourself, maybe I can buy this one to see me through for one day and do my shopping earlier – or maybe I’ll buy this half a dozen and one that expires latter. Since it’s also your ‘local’ you don’t mind asking for a little discount on the half a dozen that is about to expire (in larger stores, the discount may already have been applied).

This is a common enough experience, or at least one that’s relatable. But if we think about how:

  • the soon-to-expire pack of eggs was on display at the front of the shelf;
  • you the customer, were able to ask for a discount;
  • you were able to buy both the discounted ‘soon-to-expire’ pack along with the non-discounted longer life pack…

We realise that what is a simple and common in-store user experience, in fact, is not that simple when trying to apply the same experience to your online sales, leading to some complex behaviours. Even more so when amplified into the B2B landscape:

  • With large scale ordering;
  • Inventory management for products with expiration dates (batches);
  • Pack sizes and batch ordering
  • Promotion rules applied to products due to expire;
  • Search and listings AI to rank results based on expiration or batches, and probably the most prevalent of all;
  • To be able to request a discount.

For the B2B customer these are standard, everyday operations. If your online experience for your B2B customer is not as simple as what they historically are used to (offline); picking up the phone and putting in an order (in the knowledge that you’ll be doing the legwork in the background), then it’s not ‘simple in use’.

So, here’s the brief: “To provide an online experience no more complex than buying from your local corner shop, with all the large scale B2B operational complexity, but automated!”

In the virtual world, a product that is about to expire, belonging to a specific inventory batch, has the same identifier as one in another batch that has a different expiration. Therefore, this would require a solution that can keep track of inventory at a batch level, not SKU (or product ID) or store, or warehouse… It would also require a solution that can monitor the expiration dates and dynamically apply discount rules. Furthermore, there’s the user experience to be able to mix and match batches and order in packs, and the order fulfilment based on stock allocations.

Of course, you could simply take one look at your existing platform (and/or technology partner) and conclude – “we’d better keep our phone lines open!”. But, if you dare to venture and drive forward (just think, an online experience that serves the needs of the majority of you B2B customers but also reduces your operational overhead) you need to consider the following: firstly, ask your technology team or solution partner, “have you done anything like this before?”. This is crucial, as the pitfalls are vast. If you embark on such a project with a team or solution partner that has no previous experience in layering the simplest of customer user experiences on top of your most complex business logic, you could be in for a very, very long journey! Secondly, the overarching principle, no matter what, should always be – ‘simple in use’…

– Oz


Continue the conversation & participate in discussion by visiting Oz’s original blog post on LinkedIn here.

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