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Oracle Accelerate for High Technology:
Computers, Peripherals and Consumer Electronics
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
Computers, Peripherals and Consumer electronics (often referred to as consumer
electronics) companies face constant pressure to deliver superior customer
experience, optimize channel performance, and design agile supply networks.
As enterprise software vendors have strengthened industry-specific capabilities,
these companies have increasingly embraced commercially available enterprise
solutions ' often replacing patchworks of home-grown and point solutions systems
' to gain a competitive edge within their industry.
Growing consumer electronics companies face the same issues as their larger
counterparts, but also have special concerns about affordability and speed of
deployment. These concerns have slowed the adoption of enterprise solutions by
smaller manufacturers, despite the demonstrated benefits.
Oracle Accelerate for consumer electronics represents a new class of solutions that
puts enterprise software, with industry-specific capabilities, within reach of fastgrowing
companies. This paper first discusses the benefits of Oracle"s solution in
meeting consumer electronics manufacturers" key business challenges. It then
explains how these enterprise-strength capabilities have been designed and
packaged into an affordable, flexible and scaleable Oracle Accelerate solution for
midsize organizations.
AN INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
Rising consumer demands, rapid price erosion, complex supply chains, managing
trade promotions, increasing globalization, and pressure to reduce warranty and
return costs. With increasing pressure on profitable growth companies face
tremendous challenges in justifying Return on Investment (ROI) on marketing and
trade promotion spends. These leading business issues have made the management
of consumer electronics companies more strenuous than ever.
To take timely and well informed decisions executives need to get answers to
questions like:
- "How can I make my products easier to use?"
- "How can I measure and increase the ROI of my trade promotions?"
- "How can I provide an industry-leading, out of box experience, to minimize
returns?"
- "How do I ensure my products meet compliance guidelines to avoid any impact
on my supply chain?"
- "How do I set up my supply chain to support high volumes given the many,
geographically dispersed, suppliers?"
Fast-growing companies or midsize organizations face issues similar to their larger
counterparts. In addition they need to continue to be nimble and find new ways to
differentiate themselves through their products, services and delivery capabilities.
Midsize consumer electronics companies also face challenges of having silos of
information systems which limits their overall ability to address their business
challenges to outperform and differentiate against the competition.
To successfully compete companies need to implement business applications that
enhance the ability to:
- Deliver an Industry Leading Consumer Experience - To succeed, consumer
electronics companies must deliver consistent, personalized, and superior
customer experience of products, across all channels. Oracle"s powerful
tracking and analytics capabilities help gain critical insights to deliver better
customer service and quickly resolve issues. Oracle Customer Data Hub is
a fully integrated customer data management solution that centralizes, deduplicates,
and enriches customer data, continuously synchronizing with
all data sources, to give you a single view of your customers. As new data
is gathered, reporting accuracy grows, analytics become more valuable,
employee productivity increases, and day-to-day customer relationships
improve. By harnessing the power of the Internet and delivering worldclass
customer service, Oracle helps you increase sales, reduce service
costs, and improve customer satisfaction.
- Optimize Channel Performance ' To stay competitive, consumer electronics
companies have to be agile enough to sense and respond to market
demands and fluctuations. This is critical to avoid supply shortages,
inventory write-offs, and customer dissatisfaction. Oracle"s solutions
enable you to extend demand-driven, adaptive planning, across the
enterprise, to sensing demand signals in realtime and streamline the
consensus forecasting process. With Oracle, consumer electronics
companies can implement a comprehensive planning process that balances
demand and supply around a one-number forecast. They can hence,
achieve profitability goals and attain operational excellence.
Oracle offers a complete solution for planning, budgeting, executing, and
measuring the impact of marketing and trade promotion campaigns. This
leads to more-effective programs, enhanced brand loyalty, quicker
resolution of claims, and a better return on spends.
- &8226; Enable a High Performance Supply Chain ' Successfully managing complex
global operations while meeting shifting consumer demands requires an
agile supply network that"s resilient to changing business requirements.
With Oracle, consumer electronics firms can move from static demand
planning and perform more-frequent supply network analysis to mitigate
supply chain risk. It"s the only enterprise solution that helps you
continuously evaluate supply chain risk and creates alternative sourcing
alternatives. And with its cross-functional collaboration, Oracle offers
more frequent and better sourcing capabilities,that help realize significant
savings, reduced cycle times, and improved overall profitability.
There is a critical need for consumer electronics companies to implement complete,
easy to own, and industry focused packaged applications, to support the business.
THE ORACLE ACCELERATE DIFFERENCE
Oracle has created Oracle Accelerate especially for midsize businesses and
government entities.
- Oracle Accelerate delivers simply priced bundles of applications relevant
to your industry segment from across the Oracle Applications product
family (e.g. Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne,
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle Siebel);
- Oracle Accelerate delivers rapid implementation tools called Oracle
Business Accelerators to help implement solutions faster;
- Oracle Accelerate provides implementation services delivered through
Oracle Consulting Services or partners who specialize in your industry
segment, to minimize startup time and risk.
Using a fixed-scope approach, Oracle Accelerate substantially reduces the
complexity of more traditional, large-scale implementations.
Now you can have the right applications to manage your operations and data, at the
right cost"so you can achieve real business value quickly while avoiding the
expensive rip-and-replace costs of other inflexible, non-scalable solutions.
WHY ORACLE ACCELERATE FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONICS?
For growing consumer electronics organizations, Oracle Accelerate offers a
comprehensive software solution that drives demand driven supply chains, product
innovation, and the overall distribution process through automated operations and
informed decision making. Oracle Accelerate for consumer electronics companies
incorporates best practices while maintaining the flexibility to support your
evolving needs.
Oracle Accelerate provides a comprehensive and flexible solution ' giving you the
capabilities that meet your needs today and tomorrow.
- Complete ' The simplest to the most complex business processes can be
managed with one business applications footprint.
- Integrated ' Take advantage of the leading industry capabilities without
having to your increase IT resources.
- Scalable ' Start small, add and change as you need, without fear or
uncertainty that you will outgrow your business applications.
Oracle Accelerate is designed and built for midsize consumer electronics
companies.
- Rapid Deployment ' Applications, Business Accelerators, documentation,
test scripts ' all pre- bundled to meet your needs today and tomorrow
- Best Practices ' Leverage best in class industry best practices developed by
Oracle and our partners having worked with thousands of customers
- Custom Fit ' Bundle solutions"you decide what you need and when you
need it and incorporate your business practices during the implementation
process.
Oracle Accelerate provides an affordable solution that is easy to own with
predictable value.
- Easy to Buy ' Simple and affordable packaged pricing
- Easy to Use ' Applications and business flows easily configured to do
business the way you do business.
- Easy to Maintain ' Minimal IT overhead required for support. Stay on the
upgrade path.
- Easy to Adapt ' Solutions that allow you decide what you need and when
you need it.
BENEFITING FROM INDUSTRY-LEADING BEST PRACTICE BUSINESS
PROCESSES AND DATA
Oracle Accelerate for consumer electronics solution provides a baseline of standard
processes, user-friendly setup utilities, master file records, end-user task views,
roles, and security profiles. This baseline allows you to save time and money by
providing a foundation upon which you can build your solution. The Oracle
Accelerate for consumer electronics solution includes the following business
processes:
INFORMATION ACCELERATES
Oracle has created Oracle Accelerate especially for fast-growing businesses with
limited resources. Oracle Accelerate delivers simply priced bundles of applications;
rapid implementation tools; and implentation services delivered by Oracle
Consulting Services or partners who specialize in your industry to minimize startup
time and risk. It utilizes a fixed-scope approach, substantially reducing the
complexity of more traditional, large-scale implementations. For customers
interested in a rapid, low risk approach, Oracle Accelerate provides the opportunity
to leverage world-class functionality at unprecedented entry-level value.
For fast-growing consumer electronics companies, Oracle Accelerate offers a
comprehensive software solution that delivers industry leading consumer
experience, optimizes channel performance and enables a high performance supply
chain through automated operations and informed decision making. Oracle
Accelerate incorporates best practices while maintaining the flexibility to support
your evolving needs. Now midsize consumer electronics companies can have the
right applications to manage their operations and data, at the right cost"thus
achieve real business value quickly.
For customers interested in a rapid, low risk approach, Oracle Accelerate provides
the opportunity to leverage world-class functionality at unprecedented entry-level
value. Learn more at:
For information about Oracle Accelerate for consumer electronics industry, please
visit: www.oracle.com/accelerate