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All,

First, "Thank You!" to everyone who attended and participated in the conference and made our third annual conference a success! Can you believe we've been doing this for three years now?

Now that the conference is over and life has returned to (somewhat) normal, I've attached an archive of the presentations from the OTM SIG User Conference 2009.

Should you find the information helpful or use it in any way, please give credit to those who originally created/presented them.

To kick things off - here's the final, full agenda for the OTM SIG User Conference 2009:

Download: Full Agenda _FINAL_.pdf

Thanks!
--Chris

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Title: OTM Development Update

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 include:

• Background of OTM and Scalability / Failover
• Capabilities of OTM in a Scalable Environment
• Examples of common scenarios
• Client Examples of OTM SCA in action

Download: Mooney, Jim - OTM SIG 2009 Development Update.pdf

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Title: 6.0 Update

Speaker: Derek Gittoes, VP Logistics Product Strategy – Oracle

This presentation will describe the major themes and specific focus
areas for OTM’s 6.0 solution.

Product areas covered include:

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

Download: Gittoes, Derek - OTM 6 0 Overview.pdf

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Title: Fellowes Use of 3D Load Configurator and Rainbow Pallet Functionality

Type: Business Value

Speaker: Pam Vivio, Consulting Technical Manager – Oracle Consulting & Patricia Naughton, Manager, Transportation and Fulfillment - Fellowes

This presentation will provide an overview on the OTM Load Configurator and Rainbow Pallet solution that was implemented at Fellowes. This presentation will include:

• Background information about Fellowes
• Why did Fellowes select OTM?
• Details on the business issue (i.e. pallet stackability requirements)
• Overview on the OTM solution
• Benefits achieved by implementing the OTM solution (i.e. increased container optimization)

Download: Naughton & Vivio - FellowesLoadConfigRainbowPallet (AM) (2).pdf

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Title: Integrating OTM into an E-Business Suite Environment using Oracle Fusion

Type: Functional

Speaker: Jeff Leidy, Manager & Ravi Kutty – ACCO

Come hear how we successfully integrated Oracle Transportation Management into an existing E-Business Suite environment using Oracle Fusion BPEL flows. Session will provide a broad overview of integration points, project challenges and "lessons learned" along the way.

If you are contemplating integration challenges in this space, you're not alone. Transportation Management (G-Log) is a stand-alone application and must appear to integrate seamlessly to your users. From business requirements to interface mapping, there is so much to consider! [Hear how we did this and learn from our experience.]

Download: Leidy & Kutty - OTM in EBS Environment.pdf

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Title: Guerrilla Branding or, XSL in OTM: Customizing Transmissions and Screens

Type: Technical

Speaker: Clay Combs, Sr. Consultant - Tsol

So, you’ve configured OTM for planning, optimization, and settlement—what about look-and-feel? You want to give your customers—internal as well as external—a system that extends your brand, with your logos and colors. In addition, you’d like to help users grasp OTM more quickly and easily by streamlining a few screens. The catch? Much of what you need to do can’t be done from the user interface. You will have to become an XSL developer: a branding guerrilla.

During this presentation, we will explore the role of XSL stylesheets in formatting XML for outbound transmissions and screens. We will begin with modifications to the email tender, via a discussion of the Stylesheet Profile object. Then we will progress to screen modifications with an exploration of the Stylesheet Location User Preference, the system construct that makes it possible to assign specific screen stylesheets (read: custom screens) to a portion of your users.

We will conclude with a discussion of best practices for implementing such changes.

Download: Combs, Clay - Guerilla Branding 2009.pdf

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Invited Speaker

Title: Transportation Trends: What a Difference a Year Makes

Speaker: Dwight Klappich, VP of Research, Gartner

Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich will examine rapidly changing trends in transportation and logistics. Just a year ago, the primary driver for using TMS was to mitigate the affects of high and increasingly volatile fuel costs. Now, the key motivators are more diverse and include reducing total freight costs, maximizing asset productivity for fleet operators, increasing visibility across the virtual supply chain and exploiting transportation as part of a comprehensive supply chain management strategy. Hear what new trends are on the horizon.

Note: This presentation is not available.

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Title: Fleet Update

Type: Functional

Speaker: Srini Rajagopal, Director, Logistics Product Strategy - Oracle

In this session you will learn about Oracle’s broader strategy for Fleet Management and highlights of the functionality being introduced in this area. With Oracle Fleet Management, Oracle will deliver the first single-platform solution for both shipment logistics and asset logistics. Built on enterprise-ready, web-native, SOA-enabled architecture leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware, the solution provides support
for all aspects of managing resources associated with a fleet (such as drivers, power-units and equipment) including:

• Asset lifecycle management
• Fleet resource usage and management
• Dispatch
• Real-time monitoring and tracking
• Settlement of fleet associated costs
• Driver HR

Download: Rajagopal, Srini - Oracle Fleet Management.pdf

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Title: Implementing OTM Outside the US – Similarities, Differences, Issues and Lessons Learned

Type: Functional

Speaker: Erik Markeset, Principal – 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? This topic is likely of interest to multinational companies that have implemented OTM in the US and are exploring the possibility of implementing it in non-US operations.

Download: Markeset, Erik - Implementing OTM Outside the US_v13.pdf

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Title: The Right Collaboration: Leveraging Outsourcing Services to Focus on Core Competencies

Type: Business

Speaker: Terrell Brown, Director of Solution Delivery – Exel, Inc.

As a company using the OTM product, it is often difficult to find the right approach to implement, provide on-going support to your users, as well as continuous improvement of your solution while focusing on your core competency as a Logistics Provider.

Resources with in depth OTM knowledge both functionally and technically are not easy to find. When a company decides to employ these resources full time, there is always the risk of turnover. When you decide to outsource to consultants, there is the risk of the resources not truly having the knowledge and experience needed to meet the requirements, and there is typically a higher cost to pay. Finding the balance between these two options is where we have found the best value for our program.

There are pros and cons to each approach and we have experienced most of them. The first challenge is finding the right resource with the needed knowledge and experience. OTM being a complex application with many optional components to configure, resources often only have limited knowledge based on past experiences. We’ve found that developing resources internally while leveraging external resources for some functions has allowed us to provide quality solutions to our customers, improve support of our users and provides the opportunity to flex staffing levels to meet peaks and valleys of demand.

Over the past 8 years Exel has tried multiple approaches to implement and support our OTM Transportation Management program. In this presentation we will show the pros and cons to each method and talk further on the methods that allowed us to work most efficiently. The various options include

1. An implementation team and support team with internal resources and external consultants
2. An implementation team and support team with all internal resources
3. An implementation team with all internal resources and a support team with all external offshore resources
4. An implementation team with all internal resources and a support team with combined internal and external resources (MavenWire)

In conclusion this presentation will provide the audience with an overview of methods for implementing and supporting the OTM application while looking at how outsourcing services can assist with reducing risk, providing flexible staffing options while maintaining base support cost level while allowing businesses to focus on core competencies.

Download: Brown & Levin - Right Collaboration.pdf