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Understanding and Using Oracle’s Reporting and Business Intelligence Capabilities

Vijay Aggarwal, Oracle

A lead developer on the Oracle OTM team, Vijay will present the differences between reporting and business intelligence as well as demonstrate how to use them.


VijayAggarwal_Oracle_ReportingAndFTI.pdf

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Event Management (Workflow and Agents)

Rishi Raina , Oracle

This session will focus on how to model the business workflow requirements in OTM. Some of the topics covered will be:

• Agents and how to configure them,
• Introduction to some new agents types used for monitoring the transmissions and transactions,
• Milestone templates and their role
• Overview of creating Timers in OTM
• When to use milestones vs. agents
• What to avoid doing in OTM with respect to workflow setup, especially creating multiple agents listening to the same event

RishiRaina_Oracle_OTMEventManagement.pdf

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Keynote Address

Christopher D. Norek, Ph.D.

Christopher D. Norek, Ph.D. is a founding Senior Partner with Chain Connectors, Inc., an Atlanta-based supply chain consulting firm specializing in strategy, transportation operations, technology, returns management and training. He has been in the logistics field for almost 20 years both in industry with Accenture, Kimberly-Clark, Apple Computer, and CSC Consulting as well as in academia as a professor at both Auburn University and the University of Tennessee. Dr. Norek has consulted for firms including Lowe’s, SAP, amazon.com, Accenture, Office Depot, Cingular Wireless, The Sports Authority, Party City, Chatsworth Products, and Aramark Uniform Services.

He has significant experience in many areas of supply chain management including overall supply chain strategy, supply chain organizational development, supply chain technology/software, distribution network design, inventory strategy, and returns management.

Dr. Norek has been active in publishing for journals in the field including Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management Review, Logistics Quarterly (LQ), DC Velocity, and ASCET. He is on the editorial advisory board of Logistics Quarterly (LQ) and DC Velocity and is an outside reviewer for the Journal of Business Logistics.
In addition, he is a frequent speaker for many organizations and university executive development programs including the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP—formerly the Council of Logistics Management), National Strategic Shipper Transportation Council (NASSTRAC), Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Tennessee, University of North Florida, and University of Louisville. Dr. Norek holds a B.S. in Business Logistics from Penn State, an M.B.A. with a concentration in logistics and transportation from the University of Tennessee, and M.A.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University in Logistics and Transportation.

ChrisNorek_ChainConnectors_Keynote-ChallengesInUSTransportation.pdf

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OTM Implementation Reference Model Accelerator

Danielle Manning, Enterprise Integration Inc. (Eii)

Enterprise Integration Inc. (Eii) has developed an Implementation Reference Model Accelerator that provides visibility into your end-to-end business processes while successfully implementing OTM. The Implementation Reference Model Accelerator provides a single repository for all information relevant to OTM including Business Process Configuration, Organizational Governance, System Landscape, and Master Data management. EII would like to share a customer success story where the project leveraged the Implementation Reference Model Accelerator to successfully and rapidly implement OTM.

DanielleManning_EII_OTMReferenceModelAccelerator.pdf

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Common Rating Scenarios

Paul Hamill, Oracle

The intention of this session is to share information about common rating scenarios and how they are modeled within OTM. Some of the scenarios
that will be discussed include LTL rating (Linear foot/volume rating in-particular), Parcel rating, and Customer Specific rates. We will also discuss the topic of loading large volumes of rates for LTL Carriers.


PaulHamill_Oracle_Rating.pdf

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Rail Customer Advisory Board Update / Best Practices

Bill Broberg, Hitachi; Al Drummond, Oracle

Early in 2007, Oracle created a Rail CAB. This group was formed in response to the need to better manage shipments by rail. Stakeholders include shippers, service providers and Oracle. After an initial meeting of the stakeholders, we defined a number of areas of interest. The ultimate goal is to make this information available in OTM. The areas of interest include:

• Pipeline management provides shippers with information on car location, status, ship dates and delivery dates.
• Demurrage management provides shippers with accurate and current information on demurrage costs.
• Problem notification would alert shippers to delayed cars.
• Electronic delivery of rail rates
• Rail rate/shipment cost lookup
• Fuel surcharge management
• Integration of rail shipment data into ERPs
• Rail car fleet management
• Freight bill payment
• Mode optimization
• Management reports and metrics

BillBrogerg_Hitachi-Oracle_RailCAB.pdf

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Under the Hood of the OTM Database Security Layer

Eric Rosenbloom, Oracle

This technically focused session will examine how the Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD) feature is utilized to allow multiple Domains to coexist on the same OTM instance. You will learn about how VPD works under the hood, and the underlying mechanisms for managing domains, domain grants, external predicates, vpd contexts, users, and user roles. There will also be discussion of what makes a good domain design, as well as a discussion of how VPD impacts database performance.

EricRosenbloom_Oracle_VPDInternals.pdf

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Lunch Sponsored by Capgemini

Keynote Address: Achieving the Benefits of OTM: Meeting the Challenge of Driving Value into Business Processes and Operational Decisions

Shaun Tang and Steve Ostendorf, Capgemini

Corporations implement Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) to realize improved planning & execution, greater supply chain visibility, enhanced reporting and a host of other benefits such as carrier sourcing and freight settlement. There are a number of challenges associated with achieving and quantifying these benefits. These challenges include business process design, organizational design, robust integration development, reports development, and maintaining a company’s commitment to the success of OTM as an enabling technology.

Capgemini_AchievingTheBenefitsOfOTM.pdf

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OTM Optimization - Configuration and Capabilities

Sundar Arunapuram, Oracle; Srini Rajagopal, Oracle; Tom Tsukada, Oracle

Oracle development leads will talk about the current capabilities within the OTM optimization engines. After a review of architecture and capabilities, the team will focus on newer features within the optimization area as well as areas of future development.

SundarArunapuram_Oracle_OTMOptimization-Planning.pdf

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