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Wow! Can you believe that we've now completed the 4th annual OTM SIG User Conference?

I had a great time and it was an incredible mixture of business, learning and catching up with old friends -- all with very little sleep.

I'd like to give a lot of credit to Tara (from Meeting Expectations), who helps us pull off this conferene every year, and to the OTM SIG Board, who dedicates a lot of time (nearly half of our yearly work) preparing for it.

Lastly - thanks to everyone who came, making it the largest conference we're ever had!

I'm going to start posting all of the presentations now, so expect them to all get up over the next couple of hours.

To start off - here's the agenda for the OTM SIG User Conference 2009:

Download: OTM SIG User Conference 2010 - Full Agenda - FINAL.pdf

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

--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 OTM Support and OTM v6.x.

Topics to be covered include:

• Version Support
  
• OTM v6.1 and development strategy
• OTM Curriculum
  

Download: Mooney, Jim - SIG 2010 Development Update -.pdf

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Title: 2010 OTM SIG Conference - Oracle Consulting

Type: Platinum Sponsor Presentation

Speakers: Bob Hart, OTM Practice Director – Oracle Consulting

Bob's Photo Album

Consulting | Consultant Services | Oracle

Download: Sponsor Presentation - Oracle Consulting.pdf

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Title: Regain Control of Your Transportation: Switching from 3PL to OTM

Type: Basic Functional

Speaker: Amy Donovan, PQ Corporation

• PQ's environment pre OTM. 3PL, third party payment service and how the business relationship was setup between parties. Integration points, etc.
• Reasons the move from 3PL was done from a business perspective.
• PQ's environment with OTM. OTM functionality implemented. Third payment service business relationship, SAP changes, integration points, PQ resource/responsibility changes, benefits.

Download: Donovan, Amy - Regain Control of your Transportation - Switching from 3PL to OTM.pdf

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Title: Best Practices in OTM Customizations and Extensions

Type: Advanced Functional

Speaker: Rajasekhar Chennapragada - Mahindra Satyam

OTM customers tend to use disparate solutions to address gaps. Sometimes it's a stored procedure or a custom screen with tables or even changing the XSLs or java code.

Based on the experience of working with several customers in OTM customizations and OTM extensions, this paper will describe the best practices, design approach, considerations during development, impact during OTM migration.

Download: Chennapragada, Rajasekhar - Best Practices in OTM.pdf

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Title: Integration of OTM with Legacy Systems using Oracle SOA BPEL

Type: Technical

Speaker: Venkat Kanakam - Office Depot, Inc.

This paper discusses the integration solution of using Oracle SOA BPEL integration platform for integrating a Legacy (Mainframe) Shipping Execution system with OTM, especially in a high transaction volume environment such as at OFFICEDEPOT. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a BPEL engine that is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. The Mainframe Shipping Execution system is responsible for planning the delivery of the customer order which includes estimating the packaging requirements, identifying a feasible/optimal Carrier to deliver the Order and then releasing the orders to downstream systems for further planning and subsequently releasing to warehouse for batching. For the purpose of Carrier selection, the Legacy system is integrated with OTM using SOA BPEL as integration layer. Design of Integration processes in a high transaction, large scale environments with OTM running in SCA mode calls for a robust approach so that performance is optimal and end-to-end message tracking is assured. This paper describes the over all integration process, high level technical design of BPEL processes, configuration of OTM Web Service and OTM Database message queue (AQ) configurations. Experiences in Day-to-Day production support of such integration system is explained with reference to the issues faced, debugging in case of questionable message data, message recovery in case of system failures and performance tuning.

Download: Kanakam, Venkat - Integration of OTM with Legacy Systems.pdf

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Title: Maximize Your Investment in OTM!

Type: Basic Functional

Speaker: Bob Hart - Oracle Consulting & Kathy Moore - Eminent Group

What are some the best practices for rolling out OTM to new divisions or lines of business? What are the common challenges (and solutions) encountered with an OTM rollout. Let us share with you are experiences and lessons learned.

Download: Moore & Hart - Maximize Your Investment in OTM - Roll-Out Strategies.pdf

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Title: Business Challenges of Implementing EDI

Type: Technical

Speaker: Susan Beaver and Mark Warren - Smurfit-Stone

Smurfit-Stone has implemented 204 (Tender) and 214 (EDI Event) with its Line Haul and Intermodal Carriers for both inbound and outbound shipments. The data is captured in multiple applications (including OTM) for shipment tracking and the history is used in mode selection decisions and performance management.
Implementation:

• How to deal with carrier system constraints
• How to manage carrier resource constraints and dispatcher training
• Determining Go / No-go for production deployment and implementation timeline
• Impact of changing business requirements on EDI implementations

Operations:

• Challenges we faced with incorrect sizing (technical) and dollar impact when EDI goes down
• How to make the carriers comply to sending complete and accurate data
• OTM configuration changes made to Shipment Event Tracker agent to prevent shipment time changes and its impact
• How Transportation Planners use EDI data in their day to day activities
• Challenges of tender and tender accept timing within OTM

Performance Management:

• How different business functions within Smurfit-Stone use EDI 204 and 214 data to manage the business. Inbound and Outbound customer service, Transportation Procurement, Operations.

Download: Beaver & Warren - Business Challenges of Implementing EDI.pdf

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Title: Leveraging External Links Within the OTM Application

Type: Functional

Speaker: Karin McFall - Kraft Foods

Kraft understands the importance of building strong relationships with business partners. For Transportation, we were challenged with developing a way to enable our business partners to easily access pertinent and important information regarding Kraft. In addition, we wanted to leverage a way to communicate effectively with our business partners.

We achieved this goal by creating a Business Partner Portal through OTM. We created menu options within OTM which link to external facing Sharepoint sites and various applications. The portal gives users access 24/7 to a Sharepoint site that contains Kraft contact information, policy, site information, and other information pertinent to our business partner's needs. Through the portal, business partners can also access tariff, payment status information, and mileage calculations which aid in billing processes. Each function within Kraft Transportation is responsible for updating and maintaining the information in the Sharepoint site. Prior to this access, most of this information was accessible via another application; however, it was not user maintained and required system support to update information.

The presentation will show the different types of information that is accessible and how it benefits and enables collaboration with Kraft's business partners.

Download: McFall & Singh - Leveraging External Links within the OTM Application.pdf

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Title: Advanced Planning Capabilities in Multi-Stop Shipments to Optimize Cost and Service

Type: Advanced Functional

Speaker: Archana Bhardwaj - 7Hills Global Consulting

One of the key challenges that most organizations face is to continuously improve their transportation performance, with ever increasing pressures on managing costs and service levels. One lever which can be used to significantly improve the performance by 5-10% is Transportation Planning. OTM's planning engine has evolved over a period of time and is capable of addressing a variety of business scenarios. Some of the advanced planning features introduced in version 5.5 & 6.0 can be leveraged by old as well as new users of OTM to further improve the planning output and reduce transportation cost, especially for Multi-Stop shipments.

OTM planning engine considers various planning constraints (eg. Equipments, Delivery windows, Routing Sequences etc) and builds multi-stop shipments with required stop sequences and accurate equipment selection.

OTM advanced planning capabilities includes:

• Multiple Stop Sequencing Algorithms
• Multiple Cost Saving Algorithms
• Multi-stop Consolidation Parameters
• Container Optimization Parameters
• Performance Improvement Parameters
• Load Configuration Parameters

These features help building optimized multi-stop shipments with

• Properly Sequenced Stops based on Routing Sequence constraints
• Accurate Shipment pairing
• Optimize Cost
• Optimized Order Splitting
• Properly loaded ship units based on LIFO logic

This presentation provides insights into some of the advanced Multi-Stop Shipments Planning capabilities of OTM mentioned above along with examples (business scenarios demonstrated on live OTM instance with different types of planning configurations) from real life business operations where they have been implemented and are delivering results for customers.

Download: Bhardwaj, Archana - Advanced Planning Capabilities in Multi-Stop Shipments.pdf