Oracle to deliver Integrated Business Planning

NEW DELHI, INDIA: To improve operational alignment and financial performance, Oracle has announced the integration of Oracle(r) Hyperion Planning and Oracle's Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning. Linking both would give CFOs and supply chain executives a direct path to evolve from a disconnected enterprise and operational planning environment to integrated business planning.

As a result, CFOs get a reliable revenue forecast that has been validated against the current operating plan. On the operations side, supply chain and manufacturing managers can reconcile current operating plans against updated financial targets and budgets.

With its top rated Enterprise Performance Management applications now linked to its best-in-class Real-time Sales and Operations Planning application, Oracle is first to provide customers with true integrated business planning capabilities. “CFOs are continually looking to improve the accuracy of their financial forecasts,” said John O'Rourke, VP, Oracle.

“This unique combination of Hyperion Planning and Demantra Sales and Operations Planning helps ensure that the financial plan is feasible, and will provide more accurate financial results,” he added.

Leveraging Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA), enables Oracle Hyperion Planning to publish the financial targets for revenue, profits and other metrics to Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning.

This improves decision-making through increased visibility into financial goals and helps improve the quality and profitability of the supply chain operations and demand shaping activities.

Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning provides the current operating forecast and cost of goods sold data to Oracle Hyperion Planning. This operating forecast is delivered in monetary units and enables financial analysts to identify any gaps between the financial plan and current operating plan.

Customers gain additional benefits from adopting Demantra Demand Management that enables a global demand planning process that senses local demand changes, generates an accurate forecast and supports a cross-functional consensus planning process. With this integration, data can be moved seamlessly, preserving the user interfaces from Hyperion Planning and Demantra so that new training or re-implementation is not required.

“One of Oracle's core principles is to improve alignment across the enterprise,” said Jon Chorley, VP - Applications Strategy, Oracle. “Oracle Demantra Sales and Operations Planning is a proven, best-in-class solution to achieve cross-line-of-business alignment at the operational level. Hyperion Planning does this from a financial perspective. This integration combines these two powerful capabilities to deliver alignment across the entire enterprise,” he concluded.