Mr. Jim Mooney, Vice President of Logistics Development for Oracle, will share updates on OTM/GTM Product Development at Oracle.

As we continue to navigate a market that has been impacted by trade negotiations, a pandemic, and a war we will explore strategies used to negotiate rates as well as tools and capabilities in and out of OTM which allowed WestRock to find ROI. Using OTM as the technology enabler we will discuss the various options used to secure capacity. We will show you how OTM can be configured to tap into 3rd party tools to provide further insight into the market and how to make the best decision. We will also discuss strategies used to procure the best rate in the spot market and how our current solution meets our needs. 

This presentation will give new and perspective OTM users an overview of key functions and terminology that OTM has to offer. We will focus on topics that allow users the ability to navigate the through the system. Topics will include Order Management, Shipment Planning & Optimization, Shipment Tracking, Shipment Visibility, and Freight Settlement. The entire OTM end to end process will be covered at a high level. 

Learn how Monrovia is utilizing OTM 3D load configuration to perform Rack (THU) optimization to ship plants in a dynamic environment where dims for SKUs can change weekly. 

Srini Rajagopal, Senior Director of Logistics Product Strategy at Oracle will share updates on OTM/GTM product strategy at Oracle.

In this session you will hear from and interact with a panel of supply chain leaders and OTM ecosystem partners as they discuss Leveraging Visibility Within Your Supply Chain Through OTM and Real-Time Data .

Panelists: 

Bart De Muynck, Chief Industry Officer - project44

Chirag Patel, VP, Fleet Technologies - Penske Logistics 

Eric Rempel, Chief Innovation Officer - Redwood Logistics

Dan Merkle, Transportation Systems Manager, Process Owner – Ravago Americas, LLP 

Mauricio Ramirez, Managing Director – Propero consulting LLC.

Thomas Deakins, SVP Global Partnerships & Alliance – project44

 

A North America-based multinational food and beverage company wanted to improve their EU operational efficiencies by 20%.  They chose OTM load planning algorithm and acquired savings via better load planning, fulfilling carrier commitments, honoring warehouse location commitments, and bundling orders by date. We’ll discuss how OTM helped the client improve vehicle fill capacity, mode selection, heavy spot market usage, congested warehouses, container optimization, vendor & copacker collaboration and invoice reconciliation.  

XPO manages international orders for its customers optimized and executed as a multi-leg or single shipment depending on the sourcing strategy. Some shipment legs are executed with multiple equipment (containers). When a single door to door shipment is associated with multiple equipment, recording status events associated to an equipment becomes challenging.  XPO solved this using a tiered event handling workflow. If an event is received for the Shipment the event is associated as a header level.  If an event is recorded for specific equipment, the tracking event is tied to reflect against that equipment. The workflow tracks to ensure all equipment / shipment events are recorded based on customer milestones to mark a shipment complete. 

Starbucks, in collaboration with QAD Precision, has implemented a parcel rating and execution system for a high volume of rate calls with low latency (rating and label generation). The parcel rating and execution system is integrated with OTM, multiple WMS systems and custom web applications. Learn how Starbucks has streamlined parcel optimization for US and CAN geographies with multiple service levels in a parcel vendor-agnostic system. Hear about this critical aspect of the Starbucks network which utilizes multiple layers of system health monitoring & proactive notification tools setups (in OTM, WMS(s) as well as QAD Precision) considering the high impact of downtime of the rating service.  Starbucks will also highlight plans to leverage this platform to add new business segments for parcel rating and labels generations using OTM and bolt-on web applications. 

Using workflow in OTM and some concepts borrowed from the LTL world a process can be created where multiple parties with similar orders and/or customers can plan and ship cooperatively from a single OTM domain. For example, cooperation is possible to drive utilization between multiple brands under the same parent company or non-competing brands in the same market vertical. The main enabler of this cooperative/dynamic routing is logic built into workflow to match locations, create master locations, and correctly associate those master locations any time a new location is received via integration. After locations "match" OTM's bulk planning/optimization tools handle the heavy lifting to bundle orders and build value-added multi-stops. The allocation tools within OTM allow for each involved entity to accurately understand their portion of the costs and pay carriers via a shared management component. 

Trade compliance has never been more challenging and riskier than it is today. With various parties involved in supply chain being added/removed from different denied party lists, there is a need to make sure parties are screened on regular basis to ensure they are not a risk of penalties. This presentation describes how National Oilwell Varco, partnering with Birlasoft, has achieved significant benefits by integrating GTM Cloud with Visual Compliance for party screening.  Hear about the benefits achieved including: improved productivity through automation, mitigating various risks through timely screening, improved user experience through workbenches, better performance, and improved Audit capabilities through Document Manager and Reporting. NOV's OTM/GTM Cloud landscape is multi-national, complex, enterprise-wide, and is used for Product Classification, RPLS, Transaction Screening, Shipment Planning (Parcel, Road, Air and Sea) and Freight Settlement (Planned and Unplanned).

Starbucks will share how they elevated appointment constraints at various spoke locations to implement a solution that provided consistent output.  Hear how this led to better carrier compliance without any disruptions in the supplies to be delivered in that region. Starbucks leveraged multiple domain structure to automate the release of supplies in the hub & spoke network while leveraging order priority, capacity-based planning, ground schedules and appointments to drive optimal order creation and execution.  The solution showcases automation steps but also fine tuning as the supply demand picture changes. 

Transport planning scenarios involving multiple delivery channels, particularly in urban areas, can be particularly challenging to model and optimize, regardless of the TMS platform.  From private and dedicated fleets to large varieties of scarce equipment types to complex driver schedule configurations, the number of variables at play can be significant.  In this session, we will present the findings and lessons learned from several successful and ongoing OTM Cloud implementations having these characteristics. 

PFS Web and Redwood Logistics will present details on a phased implementation that includes inbound, outbound, parcel, TL, and LTL operations. Part of this implementation included configuring large parcel manifest invoicing in OTM. This implementation utilized Redwood’s connectivity platform, Redwood Connect™, for integrations. Redwood Connect™ receives a large manifest invoice and sends each line into OTM as a standard invoice.  This presentation will explain how after matching, OTM utilizes a recurring process to consolidate all standard invoices with the same manifest in one parent invoice.  It will highlight the use of workbenches to manage three phases of approval so users can review out of tolerance amounts, matching status, GL code assignment, shipment costs, and invoice costs while maintaining the flexibility to manage exceptions requiring rejection or editing.  

The OTM Service Provider Manager can be configured to capture multiple types of information to solve business problems. This talk addresses two of those. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is strictly regulating air pollutants in the state. If you do business in California, a systematic solution is required to ensure you aren’t securing loads to carriers that aren’t certified. In a multi-customer environment, the same Service Provider may be used across different customers, but the insurance requirements of those customers may differ. This talk discusses how to configure service providers insurance information, customer’s insurance requirements, and the steps needed to ensure Shipments are not tendered to carriers that don’t meet the insurance requirements.

Work assignment is a feature of the fleet module of OTM but work assignment can also be utilized to manage non fleet carrier capacity. OTM capacity limit functionality counts each shipment against the available capacity of trucks for each LSP. Many times, the LSP uses a single truck to execute more than one shipment in a day, but OTM capacity limit functionality does not support that. This is where work assignment can help.  Multiple shipments can be executed using a single truck but still count as one. It can also measure the total driving time across multiple shipments. This was extremely useful for the client in managing their carrier capacity and honoring the drive time for the driver as per the regulation in the country. 

Planning for and executing the multi-leg journeys of orders using OTM can be a daunting and confusing topic. OTM’s Network Routing Functionality can be used as a tool to help a shipper plan and manage the movement of freight through a complex multi-leg transportation network. In this presentation, I will highlight the lessons learned from a recent OTM Cloud implementation that utilized the Network Routing functionality to a large extent. Through this presentation the audience will learn: 1. What to consider when Modeling your Network 2. How to improve the performance and decrease the duration of your Network Routing Bulk Plans 3. Ways to influence the path an Order takes through the Network 4. That the Network Routing functionality continues to evolve and improve 

This session will provide a demo of GTM’s Trade Agreement capability including Campaign Management, Supplier Solicitation, and Qualification.

Covid-19 drastically impacted the transportation industry and shipments all around the world were getting delayed. At that moment, we at Western Digital realized that having a metric to predict future outcomes would help us give a proper response to these unforeseen circumstances. This is what Predictive Modeling does. It analyzes historical and current data and generates a model to help predict future outcomes. We developed the following prediction models that follow the key phases in the life cycle of a transaction: 1) Prediction Capacity 2) Prediction Lead-time TRO 3) Prediction Arrival 4) Prediction Delay: Late Checkpoint’s arrival.  We will show how this is possible in an efficient, effortless, and low-cost manner. Special thanks to the Oracle team and their Logistics Machine Learning (LML) Module, which leverages OTM historical shipment data with optimized algorithms and machine learning techniques to deliver highly accurate ETA prediction.

Attendees will be given a product demonstration highlighting the latest features and capabilities of the new JET-based OTM-GTM Workbench 

Implementation of OTM Dock Scheduling at Trane Technologies allows the Trane facilities the ability to have carriers schedule their own dock times via OTM Scheduling Workbench.  Previously appointments were assigned based on a Google Doc and a spreadsheet appointment chart. In this presentation, we will discuss the benefits of OTM Dock Scheduling including user productivity for logistics planning and streamlined appointment process standards. Defining appointments in OTM met the Dock manager, Carrier and Customer needs and centralized the process in one system.  The session will also address the challenges of maintaining dock doors and calendars based on dock appointment survey data for around 300+ locations. Learn how Trane navigated the difference between warehouse requirements to balance volume based on dock location vs how actual appointment assignment is done and see how the dock appointment create/update process flows for multiple user roles including carrier, dock manager and planner. 

With the ever-changing work landscape, (supply chain issues, driver and labor shortages, and remote & hybrid work environments) Penske had to reimagine how to ensure our operations and customers were receiving the shipment notifications required to fuel their business. Thus, we reengineered our entire OTM notification process to be more dynamic, flexible, and real-time.  This session will illustrate how we expanded the number of notifications available from only a few to 11 standard notifications that range from Pickup, Delivery, ETA, Detention and Delay.  We enhanced the modes of communication from not just email but SMS text options as well. To generate real time ETA’s, we pull driver’s current position from Cloud and calculate when the driver is potentially arriving at a stop. We also integrated with the 3rd party vendor HERE, to account for real-time traffic or weather conditions so that ETA’s were as accurate as possible. Come join us for this session to delve into the world of OTM driven notifications as we share the impact these changes have had for us! 

Learn the secret second language that's been reserved for communication experts and law enforcement.

Using techniques developed as an undercover police officer and federal prosecuting attorney, Pamela will teach you and your organization how to use and interpret body language to negotiate better deals, improve important relationships, and build trust quickly and effectively.  This intriguing session encourages audience participation, provides strategic action steps, and is a lot of fun for everyone in attendance!  You will receive practical tools that can be used immediately to: 

Display trustworthiness and demonstrate that you're acting in good faith, to improve and regulate how you are perceived by others.

Decode nonverbal cues that provide reliable feedback on how the other person is really feeling - regardless of what they are saying.

Forced Labor regulations have been around since the 1930s. Over the last three to four years, forced labor legislation has been updated to include specific language predominantly targeting East-Asia. These new laws and regulations will impact companies across all industries and regions given the intricacies linked to global supply chains. In our session we will give an overview of forced labor regulations and address how forced labor can be integrated into a broader program encompassing ESG and Supply Chain.  We will discuss the types of processes that companies need to be considering and how to leverage core feature functions within Oracle OTM and GTM to drive Forced Labor Compliance. 

This facilitated discussion allows attendees to bring questions, challenges, best practices, and ideas related to Oracle Upgrade/Support to share with other conference attendees. 

Learn how companies are using OTM combined with the FourKites RTTV platform to improve emissions and ESG initiatives and ultimately lowering supply chain costs. Topics will include transportation optimization, an ESG dashboard, detention & demurrage, and other top priorities for shippers for the remainder of 2022 and into 2023.

Oracle Product Development will educate attendees on how to analyze and troubleshoot performance issues leveraging new functionality including diagnostic screens, historical metrics, and more.  Guidance pertaining to data capture for efficient SR resolution will also be offered.

Dow will discuss and illustrate how they take advantage of OTM's SPOT BIDDING and rating capabilities to orchestrate the use of open tenders for gathering spot bids from carriers, making awards to spot carriers, and automating the electronic communication between Dow and the carrier community. By implementing this SPOT BIDDING functionality for North America bulk liquid truck, Dow continues to digitalize its key work processes through the elimination of phone calls/emails/spreadsheets as well as to improve the employee/carrier experience. 

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) is an unbiased and fuel agnostic organization that works to drive the development and adoption of efficiency enhancing, environmentally beneficial, and cost-effective technologies, services and methodologies in the North American freight industry.  Fleets will be seeing a lot of changes moving forward as their trucks become powered by batteries, hydrogen fuel cells or other alternative fuels/combinations. The changes go up by an order of magnitude as they start adopting autonomous trucks and hours of service are no longer a limiting factor in productivity. There will be a significant amount of new software to manage charging, routing, autonomy hubs and more. NACFE conducted a demonstration of 13 different models of battery electric trucks in late 2021 under the brand, Run on Less - Electric. We also conducted a truck autonomy workshop in late October 2022 in conjunction with the Indianapolis Autonomous Race Car Challenge. 

Join us at SPIN, where we can come together to socialize and celebrate play and networking. At SPIN’s core is the drive to connect through ping pong—a game that transcends age, gender and boundaries. SPIN is the original ping pong social club, your offline social network, a place to call home. They welcome diversity and embrace the unconventional. #unitedbypingpong 

This discussion facilitated by KSAP allows attendees to bring questions, challenges, best practices and ideas related to Oracle Cloud Migration to share with other conference attendees. 

Review the difficulties and challenges that an automotive supplier faces when managing logistics. Dakkota Integrated Systems went through a competitive product software selection cycle and chose Oracle to turn its logistics from a manual process to a cloud/SaaS based solution utilizing the latest industry best practices. We will also discuss how Dakkota was able to implement in 10 weeks as well as continued innovation through carrier EDI connectivity, rating API integration and real-time visibility. 

Ocean transportation has a 2-step planning mechanism, one for doing a pre-booking and another for booking. The payment mechanism is also highly dependent on the INCO Terms. Along with these process complexities there are forwarders who need to be aligned and be in sync with the planners and finance teams. Reckitt has implemented the Ocean freight solution in OTM with an end-to-end mapping of all the processes in a multi-ERP environment. The paper talks about the high-level solution in OTM and how it has been modularized so that each process can be implemented separately. It will also talk about how source users, destination users, forwarders and data from multiple ERPs were brought together to give a One Transport experience. 

Recent global issues have highlighted the need for more resilience in supply chains.  This session will offer a product demonstration of OTM’s native Logistics Network Modeling solution, highlighting how customers can leverage the tool’s capabilities to run simulations and perform what-if analyses on their network. 

The pandemic has had huge disruption on businesses and on supply chains and demonstrated the value of having the right technology at the right time. Last year, Henkel teamed up with Uber Freight to bring innovations into their freight operations, leveraging real time quotes and automating load tendering.

Today, Henkel has access to over 1 million truck drivers in NA through Uber Freight's reliable capacity network. The company has visibility into real-time prices for their freight lanes that accurately reflects the market based on both Uber Freight’s carrier network data and its expertise in measuring supply and demand. 

By connecting with the Uber Freight API via Oracle Transportation Management Cloud, Henkel can manage spot loads and lock in rates up to 21 days in advance, resulting in reduced overhead costs and more flexible operations. 

The company is now seeking to expand these connectors to more carriers and simplify API ingestions to scale globally in its core markets.

The landscape of BI and Analytics is changing rapidly.  Attendees of this session will be given an overview of recent improvements to the OTM-GTM solution in the areas of Data Visualization and Business Intelligence, as well as a sneak preview of the product roadmap for Analytics.

In this presentation, we would like to explain the difficulties and challenges we faced when integrating OTM with multiple 3PL Non-Oracle systems. We would also like to present our thoughts and experiences in working with multiple systems. In this presentation, we plan to show how businesses can benefit even by not using the full OTM functionality. Our presentation will take a use case where a customer doesn't want to replace 3PL due to prior commitments and engagement contract with them, but still wants to use OTM to fulfill their business needs.