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All,

As promised, I've attached an archive of the presentations from the OTM SIG User Conference 2008. If you find the information in them helpful - please make sure you give full credit to those who originally created/presented them.

Of course - thanks again to everyone who attended and participated in the conference and made our second annual conference a success!

Thanks!
--Chris

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Title: OTM Development Update

Speaker: Jim Mooney VP, Logistics Development – Oracle
This presentation will provide updates on topics related to the OTM product team, including:

• Review of OTM Releases and Support Timelines
• Changes to OTM Release Processes
• New Additions to the OTM Family
• Survey Results and Development Actions
• Development Q & A

Mooney, Jim - OTM SIG 2008 Development Update 2 (Symphony-Mon).pdf

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Title: OTM Product Strategy & Roadmap Update

Speaker: Derek Gittoes VP, Logistics Product Strategy– Oracle
This presentation will describe the major themes and specific focus areas for OTM’s product strategy and roadmap. Product areas covered include:

• Fleet Management
• Global Trade Management
• Shipment Planning & Execution
• Business Intelligence
• Transportation Sourcing
• Financial Settlement
• Integrations
• User Experience
• Product Strategy Q & A

Gittoes, Derek - SIG - OTM Product Roadmap 2008-08-04 (Symphony-Mon).pdf

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Title: Transitioning Inbound Retail Logistics from 3PL Management
Speaker: Hunter Meadows - Circuit City and Scott Grizzard- Hitachi Consulting
Background and Challenges Transitioning Inbound Retail Logistics from 3PL Management

• Migration
• Lessons Learned
• Transportation Solutions
• Inbound Collect
• Warehouse Transfers
• Cross Dock

Grizzard & Hunter - TRACS_OTM SIG Conference_vFinal.pdf

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Title : OTM Performance Tuning and Health Check - a Ground Up Approach
Speaker: Chris Plough – Cofounder of MavenWire
More and more clients are looking to understand the capabilities of the OTM/G-Log architecture and configuration in order better tune OTM. Usually, this is required because of poor OTM performance or as preparation for significant changes to OTM configuration, volume, or platform. The client may be experience poor performance throughout the entire system or for a very specific use cases. The primary objective of a Performance Tuning Exercise is to understand how OTM is being utilized and to recommend solution to improve the performance of OTM.

We recommend and will take the audience through a “ground-up” performance tuning exercise, starting with hardware and infrastructure, moving to Java and App server tuning, then to OTM technical tuning and finally to the OTM functional tuning (data, agents, etc).

These audits may identify hardware constraints at each tier, networking, or other infrastructure constraints causing sub-optimal system performance. Simply stated, the performance audit will identify all bottlenecks in the system if they exist.

In many cases the largest performance is impacts are not hardware, but rather how the data is configured within the application. So as part of the exercise we will analyze database performance, individual SQL queries, OTM Queues, bulk planning parameters, agents, rates and the settlement process.

Understanding the methods which will best identify these bottlenecks will help you avoid performance issues early in your project and save considerable time and expense as you near go-live. This presentation will guide you through the steps necessary to better understand what is impacting performance and how to best handle it. It will provide lessons learned and tools that are available to you better manage and maintain a healthy OTM environment.

Plough, Chris - MavenWire-OTMSIG-PerformanceReview.pdf

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Title : Discussion of the challenges associated with Multi-Facility and Multi-National Rollouts of OTM
Speakers: Steve Ostendorf, Gaurav Malhotra
& Brad Silvers
Capgemini Lunch Presentation

Capgemini - Discussion of the Challenges Associated with Rollouts of OTM.pdf

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Title: Implementing OTM Outside the US: What's Similar, What's Different
Speaker: Norman Fontes - Tsol
No TMS application on the market today is as adaptable as OTM for international scenarios. However that does not mean that implementing OTM outside the US (where it was originally designed) is easy. Today, OTM is being implemented successfully in countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The purpose of this panel discussion is to highlight some of the similarities, differences, issues, and lessons learned form those implementations. Some of those revolve around topics such as:

• Language – How good are the translations? What adjustments need to be made to screens? How does the same language vary across countries?
• Support – How are users outside the US obtaining application support?
• Settlements / taxes – How well does OTM manage different tax scenarios
• Distances – What are options for obtaining, calculating, loading distances?
• Rates – Probably the most complex issue. How different are they and can they be represented in OTM? Are there rate modeling tools? How do we define rate distance outside the US? What rateware exists outside the US?

Fontes, Norman - Implementing OTM Outside the US_v10.pdf

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Title : OTM Scalability
Speaker: Jim Mooney - VP, Logistics Development – Oracle
This presentation will provide a high level overview of the use and capabilities of OTM in a high availability and scalable environment. Topics to be covered are:
• Background of OTM and Scalability / Failover
• Capabilities of OTM in a Scalable Environment
• Examples of common scenarios
• Client Examples of OTM SCA in action

Mooney, Jim - OTM SIG 2008 Scalability Overview 2 (Symphony-Mon).pdf

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Title : Overview of Documentation Resources (including Help, TOIs and UPK)
Speaker: Julie Poindexter and Tim Esposito - Sr Curriculum Developer, Oracle
An overview of OTM's Online Help & Supporting Documentation with a special emphasis on Oracle's User Productivity Kit (UPK) used to create Show Me simulations.
It would include a brief overview of Help and Custom Help. It would cover Show Me simulations and How To procedures with special emphasis on UPK Show Me simulations. The track would include a PowerPoint presentation plus demonstrations. Topics for this track include:

• Finding OTM documentation and curriculum resources via MetaLink notes
• Accessing TOIs
• Accessing new features of online help
• Using Custom Help
• What are How To procedures
• What are the OTM UPK Show Me simulations
• Review what topics are covered by the OTM Show Me simulations
• What if you purchase Oracle UPK and want to create your own training based on the OTM UPK source files

Poindexter & Esposito - Overview of Documentation Resources (Concerto-Mon).pdf

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Title : Electronic Settlement: How Total Logistics Control automated its processes
Speaker: Brian Folan – Total Logistics Control
A business case presentation on how TLC used OTM's flexibility capabilities to support a new business process to create a more automated settlement process. Specific examples are electronic transmissions of carrier invoices and carrier web settlement process and logic.

Folan, Brian - OTM TLC SIG Presentation 2008 (Aria-Mon).pdf