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SOA Based Oracle Transportation Management 5.5 Sports New Web Services

Oracle's acquisition of G-Log has finally borne fruit. The first product release since the acquisition of G-Log, Oracle Transportation Management 5.5 is aimed at companies looking to lower transportation costs, improve customer service and asset utilization, as well as provides flexible, global fulfillment options, said Oracle Corp. In an effort to evolve Oracle Transportation Management into an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform, this latest release introduces several new web services that expose key functional and informational components to external applications. This, the company hopes, will allow for easier data integration and cross-application business process flows. For example, users can invoke transportation business processes in the context of the overall business process flow and vise-versa. Users can leverage these capabilities to make Oracle Transportation Management a central part of the overall business process platform.

Some of the enhancements in Oracle Transportation Management 5.5 are:

Three-dimensional load modeling – This enhancement offers containerized item placement and volume calculations that account for orientation and stacking constraints. This feature will help reduce failed and sub-optimized loads by creating detailed loading instructions that account for actual item characteristics;
Dock and yard management – Oracle Transportation Management 5.5 now has the ability to monitor dock and labor utilization via newly added dock management intelligence. Users can now schedule, remove and recalculate appointment stop times as arrival and departure changes actually occur; and
Wireless carrier communications – New wireless capabilities allow users to stay in touch with service providers in remote locations or without on-board systems. This enables smaller niche carriers to adhere to automated communication process mandates with limited investment in technology.

"Oracle understands that transportation management requirements continue to evolve and that to further extend our leadership we must continue to invest," said Oracle Vice President SCM Strategy Jon Chorley. "Oracle Transportation Management 5.5 is a major release that delivers broad logistics capabilities and gives companies comprehensive visibility across supply chain operations in an open, standards-based architecture."


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