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Hello everyone!

We've almost made it to the OTM SIG User Conference '07 and I'm getting excited!

Once the conference is over, this thread will be used to share the presentations from the various partners, clients and consultancies in attendance. I need a bit of time to gather the presentations and convert them to PDF format, so expect them to be uploaded and visible here by Monday, August 13th. Of course, if I can get it done sooner - I definitely will.

Thanks!
--Chris

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All,

As promised, I've attached an archive of the presentations from the OTM SIG User Conference 2007. I've broken them up by day, in order to keep the file sizes down (19MB and 17MB, respectively).

In addition, I'll post individual presentations by next Monday (8/20/2007), along with a description of each below. This way, you can either download the big shebang, or just the ones you have interest in.

Finally, thanks again to everyone who attended and participated in the conference and made it a fantastic success! Without all of you, I wouldn't have these presentations to post

Thanks!
--Chris

Download links:

OTMSIG_UserConference2007_Presentations_Day1.zip
OTMSIG_UserConference2007_Presentations_Day2.zip

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OTM SIG Meeting Update

Jim Mooney, Oracle

This session will update the OTM SIG members on the current status of OTM development.

JimMooney_Oracle_OTMSIGMeetingUpdate.pdf


Recap 2006 Customer Enhancement Requests

Dan Filetti, Oracle

• This session will review the status of last year's Enhancement Request (ER) project, including a summary of ERs that went into the 5.5 cumulative updates, and ERs planned for 6.0.
• How to submit enhancements for this year – future. How clients influence the product going forward.
  

DanFiletti_Oracle_CustomerEnhancementReview.pdf

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OTM Cooperative Routing - Forecasting, Assigning and Managing Carrier Resources and Lanes

Brenda Sorensen, Kraft Foods; Srini Rajagopal, Oracle

This session will focus on the Cooperative Routing area of OTM. A newer area within the OTM solution, Cooperative Routing is used to determine the right mix of fleet and contract carriage within a defined area. It also identifies ‘closed-loops’ or tours, so that multiple shipments can be linked together to create efficient transportation routes for fleet and contract carrier drivers.

BrendaSorensen_Kraft-Oracle_CooperativeRouting.pdf

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Tune your database and your tiers for optimal OTM performance

Steve Hughes, Family Dollar

This session focuses on some of the tuning exercises Family Dollar has This session focuses on some of the tuning exercises Family Dollar has undergone over the past several years to keep our system running as efficiently as possible. This session covers the entire spectrum including your database, application and web servers. It is skewed towards database tuning, since it’s the most dynamic component of your system.

SteveHughes_FamilyDollar_TuneYourDatabaseAndYourTiersForOptimalPerformance.pdf

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Continuous Moves in OTM: Integrating Inbound and Outbound Transportation

Chris Starks, Deloitte

Large corporations often lack synchronization in transportation planning across their business units. A company’s transportation procurement decisions, the way it is vertically integrated and its overall transportation strategy can all result in a poorly integrated transportation plan. Difficulties coordinating inbound shipments with outbound shipments are especially prevalent. Inbound and outbound shipping is often planned at varying times from alternate locations, making synchronization and planning decisions very difficult.

Oracle Transportation Management (“OTM”) provides Continuous Move (“CM”) functionality to help integrate inbound and outbound shipments. CM’s create a link between two shipments, and can modify the price of each shipment based on contracted rates. This presentation explains the configuration and business process changes needed to implement Continuous Moves, as well as possible enhancements that can make Continuous Moves more dynamic.

ChrisStarks_Deloitte_ContinuousMoves.pdf

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OTM / EBS Integration – Avoiding Pitfalls

Chris Plough, MavenWire

The presentation will include an overview of how the two systems integrate at a high level. We will then delve deeper and describe and diagram the flows between EBS and OTM, for the following processes: Sales Orders, Purchasing, Payables, Rates and Ship Methods. With that complete, we will discuss lessons learned from the projects, including the relative maturity of this integration offering, data mapping issues (particularly around units of measure and delivery dates), synchronization of shared data (including locations, carriers and service levels) and understanding several key terminology differences between the two products. Finally, we will end with a Q and A session, so that attendees can get answers to related questions or delve deeper into particular segments for greater detail.


ChrisPlough_MavenWire_IntegratingEBSAndOTM-ProcessFlowsAndAvoidingPitfalls.pdf

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Lunch Sponsored by Deloitte

Keynote Address: Getting more out of OTM

Deloitte will lead a discussion focusing on some of the more complex issues facing logistics departments today, and how OTM can be leveraged to solve these issues and increase value to the business.

Deloitte_TransportationManagementMiningTheOpportunities.pdf

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Settlement

Kathy Moore, EGI

Transportation is often called the last frontier – that last area that companies address to gain efficiencies and reduce costs. Within transportation, settlement proves to be one area companies can deploy industry best practices and experience cost savings. EGI has helped companies reduce their freight spend 30-60% by automating settlement, standardizing contracts, and providing business intelligence around costs.

KathyMoore_Eminent_FreightSettlement101.pdf

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Integration Best Practices for OTM

Erik Markeset, Tsol and CP Consulting

The purpose of this presentation is to help the attendee understand the principal mechanisms for integrating OTM with other parties and systems. The presentation addresses three major approaches for system-to-system integration and identifies the principal advantages and disadvantages of each. These approaches are: 1: Python script (out of the box option) 2: Custom point-to-point integration 3: Middleware

ErikMarkeset_TSOL_IntegrationBestPractices.pdf