Bob Smith, Oracle Corporation, and Kevin Creel will provide a presentation to OAUG’s members on August 2, 2007. This session will explain the new Oracle Advanced Planning Suite features introduced in Release 12 with a special emphasis on the enhancements for Distribution Planning.

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle’s Demantra 7.1.1 yesterday, expanding on its industry leading demand management functionality Oracle obtained through its acquisition of Demantra. With Release 7.1.1, Demantra also becomes part of the Advanced Planning solution within the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, giving companies the ability to accurately predict demand, shape profitability for their products and proactively manage complex global supply chains.

The best practitioners of lean concepts exhibit three common characteristics, according to an The Aberdeen Group study “The Lean Benchmark Report: Closing the Reality Gap”…

Mr. Martin does an excellent job of pulling together a broad set of information to explain these quality improvement methodolgies and how these can be applied to supply chain processes. He has created a great reference. This is the type of book that you want to read while your working on a process improvement project. The concepts are directly applicable.

Oracle APS Support has created a great Metalink document to aide your understanding of Release 12 features This site provides access to recorded “Transfer of Information” educational materials. If your interested in Oracle APS release 12, you really should start here…