Oracle Unveils Cloud Solution to Fortify Retail Supply Chains
NEW YORK — At NRF 2026, Oracle is launching Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration, a new cloud-based platform designed to bolster retailer resilience and operational efficiency. In an era marked by escalating unpredictability and complexity in supplier networks, this solution aims to provide enhanced oversight, streamline operations, and ensure greater compliance, ultimately protecting profit margins and customer satisfaction.
The platform addresses critical supply chain risks by delivering AI-powered insights that refine forecast accuracy and proactively alert retailers to potential disruptions. These can range from sudden shifts in consumer demand to evolving regulatory landscapes that could impede inventory flow. The system facilitates rapid communication, allowing retailers to issue urgent notifications to internal teams and suppliers, clearly outlining necessary actions and expediting acknowledgments.
Integrated with the Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS), the new solution empowers direct collaboration with suppliers. Retailers can conduct thorough assessments of supplier sites and production facilities, facilitating a robust pre-selection and continuous review process. This unified approach, accessible via a central portal, simplifies merchandising operations by consolidating valuable supplier data, thereby fostering more effective merchandising strategies.
“In today’s environment, retailers are engaged in a perpetual effort to balance their supply chains, from navigating natural disasters to adapting to dynamic global trade conditions,” stated Paul Woodward, global vice president of Oracle Retail Products. “This new solution equips retailers with the AI-driven visibility and intelligence essential for managing intricate supply chain and vendor relationships, effectively mitigating financial, operational, and reputational risks.”
**Enhanced Supplier Coordination and Compliance**
Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration enables retailers to manage global merchandising operations with increased confidence. It aligns operational practices with strategic business objectives, compliance standards, and sustainability goals, spanning from initial supplier vetting to order fulfillment. The platform features categorized activity lists that help both retailers and suppliers organize and filter tasks by status and responsibility. Assignment views allow for quick updates to process, activity, site, and document statuses, streamlining workflows and boosting productivity.
Customizable audit notifications ensure targeted and manageable communications. Future AI digital assistant capabilities are in development to further reduce administrative burdens, allowing retailers to leverage simple prompts for quickly retrieving and summarizing crucial supplier information.
The direct integration between supplier sites in Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service and Supply Chain Collaboration automates the creation of product records at the style or SKU level. This one-way integration utilizes MFCS APIs to retrieve item data, using common supplier and item codes to create or update product records, thereby ensuring seamless synchronization of product data.
**Key Benefits of the Solution:**
* **Data Sharing and Collaboration:** Facilitates transparent sharing of practices, policies, and critical information with suppliers, fostering stronger coordination.
* **Sustainability and Compliance:** Enables the collection of sustainability certifications, quality assurances, and audit results, supporting informed decision-making and adherence to high standards.
* **Evaluation and Pre-selection:** Provides tools to evaluate, score, and grade suppliers, supporting ongoing compliance and rigorous pre-selection processes.
* **Streamlined Merchandising:** Allows for the delegation of specific responsibilities to suppliers and data sharing through a centralized portal, enhancing merchandising efficiency.
* **Contextual Workflows:** Offers a structured process for creating, reviewing, and approving essential merchandising data via contextual workflows.
Retailers can explore Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration at NRF, booth #5739, or find more information at Oracle.com/retail.
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