Oracle Helps Healthcare Organizations Streamline Supply Chain Operations
Rhea-AI Summary
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) has unveiled new AI-powered capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to enhance healthcare organizations' supply chain operations. The announcement includes two major components: Advanced Inventory Management for Healthcare and enhanced Procurement for Healthcare features.
The Advanced Inventory Management solution introduces AI-driven inventory automation, robotic material handling integration, streamlined task management, and improved logistics coordination. Key features include automated stock level optimization, integration with autonomous mobile robots, and real-time cross-docking alerts.
The Procurement enhancements focus on simplifying procurement processes through improved requisition processes, streamlined purchase orders, automated lead times, and seamless integration with Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems.
Positive
- Integration of AI-powered automation to optimize stock levels and prevent critical supply stockouts
- Partnership with ST Engineering Aethon for autonomous mobile robots integration
- Native integration capabilities with Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems
- Enhanced operational efficiency through automated workflow processes
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- None.
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New AI-powered capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications help healthcare organizations improve visibility, boost efficiency, reduce costs, and support patient care
"Healthcare organizations face increasing pressure to maintain high-quality patient care while controlling costs and supporting their staff," said Kristen Miles, vice president, Healthcare Product Strategy, Oracle. "The latest capabilities within Oracle Fusion Applications will help our customers leverage AI to streamline processes, improve operational efficiency, and gain real-time visibility into medical supplies. This will ultimately empower clinicians and supply chain teams to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional care to patients."
Advanced Inventory Management for Healthcare
Oracle Fusion Cloud Advanced Inventory Management, a new solution within Oracle Fusion Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM), helps healthcare organizations leverage AI to more efficiently manage and execute supply chain tasks, accelerate fulfillment, and improve logistics coordination. It includes:
- AI-driven inventory automation: Improves operational efficiency by using embedded AI to help optimize stock levels, prevent stockouts of critical items such as PPE, trigger replenishment actions, and automate routine inventory tasks.
- Robotic material handling integration: Optimizes material flow by automating the movement of supplies from hospital stockrooms to periodic automatic replenishment (PAR) locations using autonomous mobile robots from ST Engineering Aethon.
- Streamlined task assignment and execution: Enables faster, more accurate task completion by helping assign PAR counts, cycle counts, physical counts, deliveries, and pick slips to designated team members.
- Suggested put-away locations: Accelerates storage decisions and improves space utilization by recommending optimal locations for incoming medical goods, including temperature-sensitive items.
- Simplified inventory transactions: Improve accuracy and efficiency by using license plate numbers to help streamline receiving, shipping, transfers, and counting with real-time inventory updates within Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management.
- Real-time cross-docking alerts: Optimize fulfillment and reduce handling time by notifying staff of opportunities to bypass storage and deliver urgent supplies, such as surgical kits or high-use medications, directly to the point of care.
- Load-based shipment grouping: Improves logistics, reduces transportation costs and helps ensure essential medical products arrive together by helping consolidate shipments for transport in a single container or truck.
Procurement for Healthcare
New user experience enhancements in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement help healthcare organizations simplify procurement processes, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency by better connecting sourcing, purchasing, and inventory management. The new capabilities include:
- Enhanced requisition processes: Provide flexibility and help ensure compliance by allowing requisition lines for special handling to be sourced from multiple suppliers and sites, extending support beyond bill-only requisitions and purchase orders.
- Streamlined purchase orders: Minimize errors by enabling requesters to add special handling requisition lines to existing open purchase orders, with automatic copying to the corresponding order.
- Automated lead times: Reduce manual data entry and improves delivery timelines by automatically applying lead times from master item records or blanket purchase agreements.
- Seamless system integration: Synchronizes item master, inventory location, and cost information through native integration with Oracle and third-party Electronic Health Records (EHR), a well as Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Hub.
Part of Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Cloud SCM enables customers to seamlessly connect supply chain processes and quickly respond to changing demand, supply, and market conditions. In addition, embedded AI acts as an advisor that analyzes supply chain data, generates content, and augments or automates processes to help improve business operations and create a resilient supply network.
To learn more about Oracle Fusion Applications, visit www.oracle.com/applications.
About Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications provide an integrated suite of AI-powered cloud applications that enable organizations to execute faster, make smarter decisions, and lower costs. Oracle Fusion Applications include:
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Provides a comprehensive suite of AI-powered finance and operations applications that help organizations increase productivity, reduce costs, expand insights, improve decision-making, and enhance controls.
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM): Provides a unified AI-powered HR platform that connects all people-related processes and data to help organizations automate tasks throughout the employee lifecycle, improve the employee experience, and give HR leaders actionable workforce insights.
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM): Provides a unified AI-powered platform that integrates supply chain and operations processes and helps organizations enhance resilience and quickly adapt to market changes.
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX): Provides a suite of AI-powered applications that helps organizations manage marketing, sales, and service processes to win business, build stronger customer relationships, and improve customer experiences.
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