The business trends today are bringing about high degrees of uncertainty, increased global competition, less money to invest in IT services etc which is compelling companies to figure new ways to deal with getting visibility to all demand, postpone inventory, focus on core competence , increase outsourcing and overall bring down the cost of ownership of applications.

Oracle Advanced Planning and Scheduling enables companies to optimize resources across the extended supply chain, collaborate with trading partners, and align daily operations with strategic goals. This unique e-business model for advanced planning and scheduling will allow the customers to achieve increased customer service, lower costs, and real-time visibility across the extended supply chain. Oracle APS is an internally developed advanced planning and scheduling solution that is fully integrated with the Oracle 11i E-business suite but can also operate stand-alone, integrating with other ERP systems

The following graphic illustrates the Oracle Advanced Planning Solution:



Our Oracle E-Business Suite Capabilities in the APS Space

Intelligroup has the capability to implement, support and roll-out the following business processes involving the APS framework:

	Strategic Network Design (Optimize Supply Chain network/Optimize sourcing/simulate changing conditions etc)
	Sales and Operations Planning (Balance demand, supply& budgets/create a demand hub/adapt to changing business conditions etc)
	Inventory postponement optimization (Complete view of supply chain/account for all uncertainty/isolate right postponement strategy etc)
	Holistic planning & optimization (Single solution for supply chain & planning/ segmentation of problem/scalable as needed)
	Multi-tier collaborative planning (Reduction of inventory costs/improve fulfillment/make alternate sourcing decisions etc)
	Zero down-time global order processing (Global statement on availability/zero downtime/manage commitments given to customers etc)
	Real-time production scheduling

To implement the above business processes Intelligroup offers the implementation and support services for the entire Oracle 11i E-Business suite APS footprint:

	Implementation & Support of Advanced Supply Chain Planning
	Implementation & Support of Demand Planning
	Implementation & Support of Global Order Promising
	Implementation & Support of Collaborative Planning
	Implementation & Support of Manufacturing Scheduling
	Implementation & Support Transportation Planning
	Implementation & Support SC exception Management
	Implementation & Support of Inventory Optimization

The implementation of the above modules can be done on an incremental basis and Intelligroup has the expertise to carry out the implementation in a modular fashion as depicted by the following graphic: