Rapid Planning, an addition to Value Chain Planning products suite

In May 2009, during Collaborate 2009 event Oracle provided a preview of it's new product "Rapid Planning" and they made a timely release of the product by announcing it's availability on 16th Nov 2009. Rapid planning will benefit customers with it's quicker, real-time, event driven planning and simulation abilities.

Extending the Information-Driven Value Chain

Leveraging its unique web services and open, standards-based architecture, Oracle Rapid Planning customers can enable reduced supply chain decision-making time with the following capabilities:

Fast, event-driven simultaneous material and capacity planning for rapid scenario analysis and real-time evaluation of supply chain events.

Fast sales and operations planning scenario simulation, integrated with Oracle’s Demantra.

Compatible and complementary capabilities to Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning.

Mass edit of supply chain data, enabling customers to conduct ad-hoc, rapid scenario modeling without the need to make changes to the ERP data or transactions.

Predictive and actionable insight via embedded analytics, a spreadsheet-style flexible user-interface, and embedded exceptions and scenario comparisons.

Comprehensive constraint modeling to mimic real-life planner decision making such as alternate bills of material, routings, sources and shipping methods, substitution and lead times.

Multi-enterprise visibility and planning, spanning internal facilities and contract manufacturers.

Multi-planner collaboration and simulation to help speed up the analysis and decision-making process.

Integration with ERP to help quickly translate decisions into actions and release planning recommendations directly to execution without latency.

For complete details about product read the complete release article on Oracle's site @ http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/040402