ORACLE Purchasing Intelligence on Enterprise Data Warehouse 3.1（基于企业数据仓库的采购智能）

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ORACLE Purchasing

Intelligence on Enterprise Data

Warehouse 3.1

Oracle® Purchasing Intelligence is an analysis and reporting tool for procurement and supply

professionals to enable world class spend analysis, supplier management, and productivity

enhancements for their organization. Purchasing Intelligence is one of the analytical applications

included in the Oracle© Business Intelligence Systems (BIS). BIS is part of the Oracle EBusiness

Suite, an integrated set of applications, which is designed to transform your business

into an e-business.

Maximize the Profitability of Your Organization

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence is a powerful analysis tool for procurement and supply professionals.

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence can assist sourcing new items, analyzing supplier performance, developing

a commodity strategy, and analyzing spend. The system is designed for multiple levels of users, Oracle

Purchasing Intelligence will help you to gain unparalleled knowledge of your purchasing and supply

operations. With this knowledge, you can quickly identify savings opportunities, improve supplier

relationships, improve supplier service, optimize operational efficiencies, and make strategic decisions

that maximize profits.

Analyze Spend for Timely Insight

In order to negotiate with your suppliers from a position of strength, buyers need to be able to

analyze the organization’s spend quickly and efficiently. They need to understand how much the

entire organization spent with a particular supplier, how much of your organization’s spend was

under contract, what target costs should be, and whether suppliers are in compliance with

negotiated contracts.

Improve Supplier Relationships

You need accurate supplier performance information to help determine which suppliers can help

to realize and sustain reduced procurement spending while meeting the quality and delivery

demands of your organization. Oracle Purchasing Intelligence provides the infrastructure and

performance measurement capabilities to identify strong suppliers while helping you build supplier

development programs to improve the performance of all of your suppliers. You can also use

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence to optimize your supply base and obtaining the best prices for key

commodities.

Maximize Efficiencies and Savings in Your Purchasing Organization

Purchasing Intelligence provides advanced analyses of productivity measures to enable you to

monitor your procurement function, and identify and resolve processing bottlenecks and maverick

buying. Your organization benefits from improved processing cycle times and better utilization of

existing contracts.

Personalized Views of Purchasing Activity

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence was created to serve the needs of all members of the sourcing and

procurement process. With broad personalization options and configurable reporting and

analytical tools, each user can assess the organization’s spending activities in a view tailored to

their needs.

Analyze Spend for Timely Insight

Many traditional organizations find it difficult to obtain detailed enterprise-wide procurement information.

During negotiations, access to a global view of purchases will greatly enhance your ability to leverage your

spend with a particular supplier. Obtaining a global view of purchases is difficult for many companies

because this information is scattered across organizations and applications systems.

With the analysis functionality provided by Oracle Purchasing Intelligence, you can aggregate and analyze

purchasing data to deliver timely insight into your corporate purchasing information, which helps you to

negotiate better volume discounts and delivery terms.

Negotiators require key information about the organization’s spend with a particular supplier to effectively

achieve the best terms. Your purchasing analysis system must provide comprehensive and accurate

details to support the negotiation process.

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence analyzes both purchasing and payables data to give you a complete view

of your spend. Analysis of purchasing data will help you track and enforce contract usage, measure the

performance of your suppliers, and assess the efficiency of your procurement organization. Analysis of

payables data will allow you to verify that your suppliers are in compliance with their contracts, measure

how much spend is being processed through the purchasing department, and track your organization’s

effectiveness at negotiating and taking discounts.

Use Dun & Bradstreet Integration for Comprehensive Analysis

Many purchasing organizations struggle to maintain extensive supplier and item reference files

which are duplicated across multiple transactional systems. Maintaining multiple versions of

these records usually results in duplicate entries or incorrect classifications. This situation can

reduce your negotiating power because it makes it more difficult to accurately assess your total

spend with a single supplier.

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence provides an option to integrate directly with Dun & Bradstreet’s

(D&B) data services to resolve this issue. This unique integration point enables you to identify any

duplicate records from your transactional data and load improved information directly into the

intelligence solution.

Your negotiating power is strengthened in multiple ways when you use D&B information to analyze

your spend trends. The D&B data service:

 Allows you to consolidate spend by DUNS number, so that duplicate names for a supplier

in your transactional systems can be appropriately aggregated to a single supplier in

Purchasing Intelligence.

 Identifies “hidden” corporate relationships between suppliers, helping you to understand

your total spend with a supplier, its parents, and its subsidiaries.

 Classifies goods and services into the UN/SPSC commodity structure, helping you to

assess whether and how to consolidate your purchases into fewer suppliers.

 Provides financial and credit information about your suppliers that will aid you in selecting

the suppliers that will best meet your needs and assessing the risk of relying on selected

suppliers for your purchases.

Improve Supplier Relationships

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence provides critical information that enables you to effectively manage

suppliers and gain leverage during negotiations. Ultimately, improving your ability to manage supplier

relationships will result in better prices, higher quality, improved delivery performance, and greater

customer satisfaction.

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence helps you to better manage your suppliers and increases your negotiating

power by providing real-time visibility into key information about your suppliers and purchases. With

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence you can:

 Monitor and improve supplier performance using key cost measures

 Analyze and optimize your supply base for selected commodities

 Identify opportunities for new contracts to obtain better prices

Monitor and Improve Supplier Performance

To achieve your cost savings goals, it is critical to manage your supplier relationships to ensure

that high quality goods and services are purchased at the best prices and are delivered on time.

Therefore, you require a system which enables you to track supplier performance against key

performance targets and which identifies areas for improvement.

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence provides an advanced performance measurement functionality to

enable you to evaluate the performance of your suppliers based upon a weighted score for price,

quality, delivery and service. You can measure supplier performance against the business or

industry targets you select. Purchasing Intelligence will automatically alert you when key suppliers

are not meeting your expectations.

Analyze and Optimize Your Supply Base

When purchasing organizations use too many suppliers for a particular item, it can reduce their

ability to reduce costs. Optimizing the supply base enables you to achieve cost reductions and to

obtain better prices.

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence helps procurement professionals to optimize the supply base by

providing multiple what-if scenarios to help you identify supplier consolidation opportunities. You

can identify the best supplier for a particular item by considering multiple factors, such as price,

and the costs associated with quality problems and delivery errors.

Maximize Efficiencies and Cost Savings in your Purchasing Organization

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence allows you to monitor and improve the effectiveness of the procurement

organization. Improving your purchasing operations ensures that transaction costs are driven down while

procurement policies are enforced.

The efficiency of your purchasing organization impacts the daily operations of your company and thus the

bottom line. To improve purchasing processes and gain cost savings through increased efficiency, you

need to be able to:

 Monitor and optimize buyer productivity and cycle times

 Evaluate and improve contract utilization

 Identify opportunities for new contracts

Monitor and Optimize Buyer Productivity

You can use Oracle Purchasing Intelligence to increase your buying organization’s efficiency by

monitoring transaction volumes and tracking cycle times for processing orders.

You can identify which purchases are taking too long to complete and determine necessary

corrective action. Cycle time trends can be analyzed to ensure that your organization’s efficiency

continues to improve. You can also monitor and compare buyer performance, allowing you to

assess how much spend they are processing, the degree of contract leakage, and their efficiency

at completing purchases.

Evaluate and Improve Contract Utilization

Oracle Purchasing Intelligence improves contract utilization by reporting on the actual rates at

which existing contracts are being used and monitoring buyer compliance with existing contracts.

Analyzing contract usage enables you to assess how well your contracts are addressing your

organization’s needs. If your buyers are purchasing volumes which exceed those specified by the

contract, negotiators may be able to obtain a better price when negotiating a new contract. If the

contract is not being used, your organization may be losing money if buyers are paying the market

price, or, the contract may no longer be necessary. If pre-negotiated contracts are not being

used, Oracle Purchasing Intelligence alerts you so that you can proactively correct a situation

before it negatively impacts the balance sheet.

Managers can view off-contract purchases over a period of time and compare it to business goals

or industry benchmarks. You can also view potential savings opportunities if the off-contract

purchases are eliminated. You can identify where resources are required to eliminate the issue by

drilling into the details of leakage amounts and savings opportunities by organization, commodity,

or supplier.

Identify Opportunities for New Contracts

Contracts help to reduce costs by enabling negotiators to obtain better prices for items which your

organization purchases in high volumes. Oracle Purchasing Intelligence helps to analyze your

organization’s spend and identifies the commodities which were purchased without a contract.

This analysis allows negotiators to select which commodities and suppliers to target for contracts.

Personalized Views of Purchasing Activity

The Procure to Pay portal allows procurement professionals to configure their views of purchasing to meet

their information requirements and to enhance their productivity. You can configure the portal to present

the information and analyses relevant to your decision-making process, enabling you to spend minutes –

not days – to gather important information about the business.

The portal can be configured by role and by individual user. It provides access to all intelligence and

applications functions, including tabular and graphical representations of your purchasing data, real-time

notifications, links to menus, and access to reports and workbooks. The graphs and tables with

purchasing data provide direct links to more detailed reports and analyses about your purchasing

activities. Notifications may request an action from you (such as approving a purchase order) or alert you

about supplier performance issues.

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Oracle Purchasing Intelligence: Transforming the Procurement Organization

Key Features

Analyze Spend for Timely Insight

 Analyze total spend with a particular supplier or a particular industry to gain leverage during negotiations

 Compare Purchasing data against Accounts Payable activity

 Identify maverick buying and leakage issues

 Analyze Accounts Payable data to measure contract compliance, total spend, discounts lost, accounts payable leakage and

more

 Ensure compliance with minority-owned business spend regulations

Improve Supplier Relationships

 Compare supplier performance against internal performance targets

 Determine which supplier provides the best prices for the items you purchase

 Analyze and improve your suppliers’ on-time delivery performance

 Identify quality issues and the rate of supplier returns

 Optimize your supply base to simplify supplier management

 Understand the financial and business risks of reliance on a particular supplier

Maximize Internal Efficiencies

 Analyze procure-to-pay cycle time trends to identify and remove process bottlenecks

 Maximize discount savings opportunities

 Evaluate and improve utilization of existing contracts

 Assess off-contract purchases and identify where to strengthen policy enforcement

 Understand potential savings by identifying new contract opportunities

 Monitor and optimize buyer productivity

Personalized Views of Purchasing Activity

 Access notifications

 View performance measures

 Observe trends

 Leverage “Ask Oracle” help

D&B Supplier and UN/SPSC Integration Option

 Resolve duplications and errors in your transactional data

 Use D&B supplier information to understand corporate relationships and analyze aggregate spend

 Use D&B UN/SPSC commodity codes to classify and consolidate spend

 Use D&B financial and credit information to assist in selecting suppliers and monitoring their business

Flexibility to Support Your Business

 Utilize predefined Key Performance Measure targets for tracking management goals

 Receive notifications generated by Oracle Workflow for out-of-tolerance performance values

 Employ “Ask Oracle” natural language search engine for referencing related reports

 Leverage security for business views used in Discoverer, and a view generator capturing the customer flex fields

Powerful Data Warehouse Architecture

 Collect data from multiple sources for a single view of purchasing information across the organization

 Analyze data from multiple business perspectives using common dimensions

Purchasing Intelligence Key Performance Measures

Measures enable you to set targets for key objectives and compare actual performance against those objectives.

 Supplier Price Performance Score – Track supplier

prices against the best price you paid for an item.

 Supplier Quality Performance Score – Track the quality

of the items provided by your suppliers.

 Supplier Delivery Performance Score – Track suppliers

on-on-time delivery performance.

 Supplier Service Performance Score – Assess your

company’s view of supplier service.

 Total Supplier Performance Score – Track the overall

performance of suppliers.

 Contract Leakage Percent – Determine the rate of offcontract

purchases.

 Accounts Payable Leakage Percent – Determine the rate

of purchases made without purchase orders.

 Purchase Order Price – Track the price trends for an item

you frequently purchase.

 Purchases – Assess the total amount of purchases made

through the purchasing application.

 Accounts Payable Spend – Assess the total amount of

purchases made through the accounts payable application.

 Percent Discount Lost – Determine the rate of lost

discounts during a selected period.

 Purchase Order Approval Cycle Time – Identify how long

purchases order take to approve and identify bottlenecks.

 Minority Spend Percent – Assess how much your

company spends through minority-owned suppliers.

 Women Owned Percent – Assess how much your

company spends through woman-owned suppliers.

 Small Business Percent – Assess how much your

company spends through small business suppliers.

 Total Minority Spend Percent – Determine the rate of

spending through minority owned, women owned and

small business suppliers.

 Number of Suppliers per Item – Determine how many

suppliers provide your company with a particular item to

identify if you manage too many suppliers.

Purchasing Intelligence Reports and Workbooks

Reports and workbooks enable you to assess spend, analyze trends, and perform what-if analysis.

Reports

 Supplier Scorecard – View how well suppliers are

performing against internal performance targets.

 Purchases – View the total amount of spend made

through the purchasing application.

 Accounts Payable Spend – View the total amount of

spend made through the accounts payable application.

 Accounts Payable Leakage – View the amount of

purchases made without a corresponding purchase order.

 Contract Leakage – View off-contract buying trends.

 Contract Savings Summary – View potential savings

opportunities

Workbooks

 Spend Analyses – Analyze total spend, compare

purchases against accounts payable activity and identify

leakage issues. Analyses include:

 Purchases Trend

 Accounts Payable Spend Trend

 Accounts Payable Leakage Analysis

 Industry Spend

 Socio-Economic Indicators

Workbooks (continued)

 Contract Analyses – Analyze contract utilization, identify

maverick buying and potential savings opportunities.

Analyses include:

 Leakage Trend

 Potential Contract Savings

 Non-Contract Purchases Trend

 New Contract Opportunity

 Contract Utilization

 Invoice Price Variance

 Supplier Performance Analyses – Analyze supplier

performance against internal targets. Analyses include:

 Supplier Summary Scorecard

 Supplier Price Performance

 Supplier Quality Performance

 Supplier Delivery Performance

 Supplier Service Performance

 Overall Supplier Performance

 Supply Base Optimization – Analyze the efficiency of the

supply base, identify supplier consolidation opportunities.

Analyses include:

 Risk Assessment

 Financial Assessment

 Supplier Dependency

 Supplier Consolidation Savings

Workbooks (continued)

 Discount Analyses – Analyze how well the organization is

leveraging discounts, identify discount savings

opportunities. Analyses include:

 Discounts Lost/Taken

 Late Payment

 Early Payment

 Discounts at Risk

 Invoices Without Discounts

 Productivity Analyses – Analyze procure-to-pay

productivity, identify and remove process bottlenecks.

Analyses include:

 Purchase Order Transaction Volume Trend

 Receipt Volume Trend

 Order to Pay Cycle

 Receive to Pay Cycle

 Purchase Order Approval Cycle

 Receive to Deliver Cycle

Workbooks (continued)

 Buyer Analyses – Monitor and analyze buyer

performance, identify and remove process bottlenecks.

 Leakage Trend

 Potential Contract Savings

 Purchases Trend

 Transaction Volume

 Purchase Order Approval Cycle

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