How Oracle AI Agents are Boosting Supply Chain Efficiency

In a world of constantly shifting supply chains and ever-increasing demand, the capability to act fast without sacrificing performance is the key to building resilience.

Oracle has introduced a new suite of AI agents which will help leaders respond to market shifts better and make more confident decisions. 

Through this, supply chains will see stronger business performance and unlock productivity gains.

Improving supply chain efficiency

Supply chains around the world are turning to AI more than ever, as the volatility over recent years has made it difficult to operate on traditional systems. Now, business leaders are working to adopt technologies that help them anticipate risk and create mitigation strategies in order to avoid disruption. Through adopting technology such as AI, digital twins, SaaS applications and more, organisations are seeing more unified data points and much more streamlined supply chain operations.

Oracle is a cloud technology company providing organisations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them unlock operational efficiency and welcome innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure helps clients with cost savings, higher security and higher performance. 

It has helped businesses and organisations around the world, including governments, nonprofits and medical research. Its tools help streamline supply chains, seamlessly switch financial plans and connect people and data around the world. 

Oracle's cloud applications have embedded AI to bring consistency and unity across business functions, from resource planning, supply chain management and human capital management, to customer experience. Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications can automate business processes in order to help leaders make faster and better decisions, anticipating change before it becomes too disruptive.

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Streamlining operations

Oracle has introduced a new suite of AI agents within its Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, which will help supply chain leaders undergo operational transformation. The new agents will improve decision-making capabilities and increase efficiency across planning, procurement, manufacturing, maintenance and logistics.

By imbedding the agents within supply chain processes, leaders will see new productivity gains with enhanced business performance. The automation of end-to-end workflows will ensure businesses are being as efficient as possible, with faster insight delivery to encourage more confident decisions.

The agents are prebuilt with integrated security features and are natively integrated within Oracle Fusion Applications. They can seamlessly embed into existing supply chain workflows to improve processes.

“As supply chains grow more complex and disruptions become more frequent, organisations need faster, more automated ways to keep operations moving,” says Chris Leone, Executive Vice President of Applications Development, Oracle.

“With the new AI agents embedded in Oracle Fusion Applications, supply chain leaders can meet customer demands and improve operational resilience by automating critical tasks, reducing manual errors, optimising resources, and proactively resolving issues.”

Agent functions

The 13 new agents have been designed specifically to target specific supply chain functions.

Planning, Product Lifecycle Management, and Procurement
There are four agents to undertake roles in these functions, with the main aim to streamline upstream operations. In these areas, agents automate task coordination across planning, analyses disruption and explores alternatives for risk mitigation, translate business goals and requirements into actionable plans and undertake helps procurement teams with autonomous negotiation. This will ensure that supply chains are cohesive across operations and are working cost-effectively to ensure competitiveness and efficiency.

Maintenance, Manufacturing, and Inventory Management
Four agents are dedicated to these functions, with the goal to optimise operations and reduce costs. These agents estimate future costs, as well as streamline compliance and supplier shipping. They also explore workforce skills and operational priorities to intelligently assign warehouse tasks. Moreover, they can identify slow-moving inventory to alert leaders of issues or low demand, in order to reduce carrying costs.

Logistics, Order Management, and Service
These final five agents are in place to accelerate fulfilment and reduce delays. They can examine warehouse issues and performance to identify at-risk orders to see whether leaders need to step in and make changes. Moreover, the agents can automatically covert purchase orders to sales orders, arrange products based on customer requirements and offer recommendations for best solutions.

The 13 new agents are intended to significantly streamline supply chain operations through the reduction of manual effort, automation of workflows and support in decision-making.