FCS Oracle Product Add-Ons
FCS Retail Adapter provides EDI 852 parsing capabilities and pre-built integration to Oracle Demand Signal Repository. FCS Retail Adapter parses EDI data, cleanses and allocates retailer data, manages UOM and currency conversions and supplies clean data to consuming applications.
In today’s world, the bulk of information exchange between retailers and manufacturers occurs through EDI files. FCS Retail Adapters reduces the cycle time between receiving an EDI file and supplying data to Oracle DSR, thus reducing cost and complexity of IT solutions while empowering Supply Chain managers to rectify inventory and order issues on time.
Features
- Metadata driven EDI 852 Parser
- Extensible and Customizable Loading Architecture
- Pre-Cleanses EDI Data for Oracle DSR
- Extensive Data Model that can be leveraged by consuming applications
- Loading program for Oracle DSR that handles time based allocation, UOM and currency conversions
- Schedulable Load Programs
- Ad-Hoc Analytical Capability
- Pro-Active Detects and Alerts
- Archives Historical EDI Data
- Pre-shipped Metadata for Top Retailers
Benefits
- Reduces IT Cost by reducing time spent on EDI Data cleansing and maintenance of multiple EDI parsers for different systems.
- Ability to leverage market trends quickly due to reduced cycle time between EDI parsing and Analytics.
- Makes POS, inventory and order information from retailers available to Manufacturers.
- Empowers Supply chain managers to address retailer quality issues, out-of-stock situations in time.
- Empowers Manufacturers to provide category management, space management services to the retailers by having access to retailer’s EDI data in time
- Enables seamless integration with Oracle DSR
- Improves quality of EDI interchange by locating frequency of EDI errors by retailer