Infosys OTM Fixed Price Offerings: An Oracle Accelerate Solution
In the past couple of years, the world has been facing challenges of increasing business complexities, volatile transportation costs and severe resource constraints. For midsize Logistics Service Providers and Industrial Manufacturing Enterprises this has created a need for an integrated logistics solution that leads to reduced freight spend, improved customer service and hence increased profits.
Keeping this in mind, Infosys has developed an affordable, Ready-to-Deploy OTM fixed price solution within the Oracle® Accelerate framework, targeting midsize organizations across the continents for various industries. The Oracle® Business Accelerators are pre-packaged bundles that pair Oracle® Applications with Partner knowledge to help deliver rapid fixed cost implementations. Oracle® Business Accelerators bring proven, best-in-class business solutions that reduce implementation process and thereby reduce time and cost of implementation.
Visualizing great demand for OTM, a TMS solution by Oracle®, Infosys has launched four Accelerate Solutions across India and Australia, focusing on Industrial Manufacturing and Transportation Industries.
Oracle® Accelerator Provider of Industrial Manufacturing Solutions – India
Oracle® Accelerator Provider of LSP (Logistics Service Providers) Solutions – India
Oracle® Accelerator Provider of Industrial Manufacturing Solutions – Australia
Oracle® Accelerator Provider of LSP (Logistics Service Providers) Solutions – Australia
The above solutions harness industry best practices and support business flows for Industrial Manufacturing and LSP Industries and come in three fixed price/scope offerings:
• OTM In-a-Box
• OTM In-a-Box Plus
• OTM In-a-Box Advanced
The OTM In-a-Box solution combines transportation planning and execution with inbound and outbound freight logistics, freight rating and routing and financial payment. The solution covers point-to-point, multi-stop and multileg shipments across different modes of transport namely Truckload (TL), Less than TL, Ocean and Air. The solution also includes design and development of specific number of reports of medium complexity and implementation of out-of-box workflow features.
The OTM In-a-Box Plus in addition provides superior shipment optimization - features comprising of Cross-Docking, Consolidation and Deconsolidation Pools and Continuous Move. It also offers design and development of specific number of high complexity reports and implementation of basic workflow features.
The OTM In-a-Box Advanced in addition provides Fusion Transportation Intelligence for decision making and better visibility. It also enables the Carrier to generate freight invoice through a portal. It also offers design and development of a specific number of high complexity reports and implementation of advanced workflow features.
All these solutions will help organizations to manage their entire transportation network on one single platform to increase asset utilization, to lower transportation costs and to reduce environmental impact. The industry focused prepackaged units enable Infosys to deliver scalable business solutions to companies in an accelerated time frame.
As the first Oracle® Accelerate solution for OTM, the solution attempts to equip organizations with enterprise technology for optimizing the logistics function and is scalable to meet their future growth demands.
For customers interested in a rapid, low-risk approach, Oracle® Accelerate provides the opportunity to leverage world-class functionality at an unprecedented entry-level value.
Press release of the solution launch is available at http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/021903
Acknowledgements: Lakshmana Murthy Kodukula
