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Don"t Get Eaten by the Competition: Business Solutions for Non-durable Consumer Goods Companies
Consumer Goods Industry is also known as:
Consumer Goods Industry,
Services Industry Trends,
Consumer Goods Rental Industry,
Consumer Goods Market,
Business Consumer Goods Services,
Non-Durable Goods Industry,
Technology Solutions Consumer Goods,
Solutions Consumer Goods Non-Durable Industry,
Consumer Goods Manufacturing,
Non-Durable Consumer Goods,
Supply Chain Manager Consumer Good Industry,
Consumer Goods CG,
CG Industry,
Non-Durable CG Company,
Oracle,
Oracle Accelerate,
Accelerate Non Durable Consumers Good Industry,
Durable CG Markets ,
Business Solutions Consumer Goods,
Consumer Goods Services Industry Business .
Oracle Accelerate for Consumer Goods:
Non-Durables
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
The non-durable goods segment in the Consumer Goods (CG) industry faces the
challenges of the current market landscape ' changing customer preferences,
growth in distribution networks, higher trade costs, availability of lower cost
alternatives and increasing supply chain complexities.
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 non-durable goods 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 Non-Durable segment represents a new class of solutions
that puts enterprise software, with industry-specific capabilities, within reach of
fast-growing companies. This paper first discusses the benefits of Oracle"s solution
in meeting Non-Durable goods 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
Expanding product portfolio. Complex distribution channels. Strict compliance
requirements. Business issues, as these, have made the management of non-durable
goods companies more strenuous than ever.
To take timely and well informed decisions executives need to get answers to
questions like:
- "How can I remain competitive and increase market share while maintaining
margins?"
- "How can I take advantage of the growth in new markets and manage the
increasing complex global supply chain?"
- "How can we eliminate waste and drive efficiency in our enterprise
manufacturing processes?"
- "How can we mitigate risks associated with compliance requirements and safety
concerns?"
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 or delivery capabilities.
Midsize non-durable goods companies also face challenges of having silos of
information systems which limits their overall ability to address their daily business
battles around outperforming and differentiating against the competition and
managing cost, time and risk.
To successfully compete companies need to implement business applications that
enhance the ability to:
- Optimize Sales and Marketing - Manufacturers & distributors are constantly
exploring ways to increase profitability by offering new products, ensuring
high shelf availability, and proactively react to changing customer demands.
Oracle offers trade promotion optimization capabilities to optimize trade
spend and enhance ROI on trade spends. Oracle supports best in class demand
management analytics to achieve visibility and insights into consumer and
market demand. Oracle"s capabilities for closed-loop brand analysis, strategy,
and planning help in the delivery of targeted products, offers, and marketing
across multiple channels, thus enabling users to identify cost saving and
revenue-increasing opportunities.
- Enable Demand-driven Supply Chains ' on-Durable goods producers are striving
hard to enhance their visibility into demand to fulfill the service requirements
of retailers. Distribution channels require unique products & packaging
combinations. Companies are implementing strategies to have an adaptive and
collaborative supply chain. With Oracle"s solution, producers are able to
implement demand management and real-time sales and operations planning
strategies. This allows you to accurately sense, shape, and responds to
consumer demand. Oracle Supply Chain Planning provides faster planning
cycles and optimal inventory levels through improved supplier visibility,
accurate promise dates, marketing forecasting, and process automation. Oracle
applications let you focus less on administrative tasks and more on strategy
with tools to source for best value, automate the procure-to-pay cycle, speed
collaboration with suppliers, and identify savings and improvement
opportunities. And it also provides a global logistics solution that integrates
warehouse and transportation management.
- Achieve Manufacturing Excellence ' Implementing concepts around lean
manufacturing is an achievable goal that may companies are targeting. In
addition there is the all pervasive need to continuously focus on product
quality and consistency. All this while ensuring that their processes and systems
are geared to support regulatory compliance. Oracle provides you with market
' leading applications for mixed-mode manufacturing and superior cost
accounting which provide the much needed insight and control for
manufacturing efficiencies. With Oracle"s integrated suite, you can build and
enforce quality systems directly into your manufacturing processes. Oracle
enables you to be compliant with requirements like FDA CFSAN and 21 CFR
Part 11. Oracle is the only enterprise software vendor with integrated GS/1
data synchronization support. Oracle solution for non-durable segment
integrates all aspects of the production cycle that helps you manufacture at the
lowest possible cost while ensuring quality and safety of your products.
There is a critical need for non-durable goods companies to implement complete,
easy to own, and industry focused packaged applications, to support their 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 NON-DURABLES?
For growing non-durables goods organizations, Oracle Accelerate offers a
comprehensive software solution that drives innovation, improves product quality
& safety, supports compliance pressures, and enables customer centricity through
automated operations and informed decision making. Oracle Accelerate for nondurable
goods 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 non-durable goods
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 Non-Durable Goods 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 non-durables 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 implementation 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 non-durable goods companies, Oracle Accelerate offers a
comprehensive software solution that drives innovation, improves product quality
& safety, supports compliance pressures, and enables customer centricity through
automated operations and informed decision making. Oracle Accelerate
incorporates best practices while maintaining the flexibility to support your
evolving needs. Now midsize non-durables 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:
&8226; For information about Oracle Accelerate for Non-Durables industry, please
visit: www.oracle.com/accelerate