Deloitte Consulting and Oracle Establish Supply Chain Innovation Center to Develop Supply Chain Management Service Offerings

Oracle and Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte Consulting) announced today that they have established a Supply Chain Innovation Center powered by Oracle. The Center will concentrate on seven initiatives: Transportation Management, Oracle Lean Transformation, Advanced Supply Chain, Enterprise Asset Management, Product Life Cycle Management, Service Parts Logistics and Tax-Advantaged ERP.

The Center will facilitate research and the development of thoughtware, as well as the evaluation of simulations that model and leverage industry- specific functionality in the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite to better position both Oracle and Deloitte Consulting to help companies in their efforts to maximize value and address unique, industry-specific business challenges related to supply chain management (SCM). The Supply Chain Innovation Center powered by Oracle activities will also incorporate input from both Oracle and Deloitte Consulting clients regarding the issues facing particular industry segments and the types of solutions required to resolve them and it will also leverage the resources of Pennsylvania State University for their leading-edge thinking on supply chain practices.

"Deloitte Consulting and Oracle have a long and productive history of working together in the Supply Chain arena," commented John Wookey, Oracle Senior Vice President of Applications Development. "The Supply Chain Innovation Center provides a lens through which we can focus our joint efforts even further to develop service offerings that can help our supply chain clients in their efforts to create value. The initiatives we have chosen not only address some of the most pressing issues that our clients are grappling with but they also emphasize innovative ways for our clients to create value."

The Supply Chain Innovation Center grew out of the preferred relationship that Deloitte Consulting and Oracle have in the SCM space. Because of Deloitte Consulting's industry knowledge, Oracle chose Deloitte Consulting as a preferred collaborator in providing insight into product development and in implementing SCM solutions for manufacturing clients. Jon Williams, Managing Director, Enterprise Applications for Deloitte Consulting explains: "The Center is a natural extension of our relationship with Oracle in the supply chain arena. Both Oracle and Deloitte Consulting are deeply interested in helping our clients in their efforts to create value, and the Center provides a practical structure for bringing together the appropriate knowledge, skills, experience and technology -- from consulting, enterprise solutions, the business community, and academia -- to develop approaches designed to help manufacturers with their efforts to resolve real business issues that are problematic for them."

Under the Supply Chain Innovation Center structure, Oracle will provide application development resources, ERP knowledge, skills and experience, and marketing support; Penn State will provide thought leadership, input into requirements development and research capabilities; and Deloitte Consulting will provide multidisciplinary capabilities across supply chain management, service parts logistics, Lean/Six Sigma, transportation logistics, enterprise applications, new product development, enterprise operations, and tax. The new Center will also receive support from the Center for Supply Chain Research (CSCR) at Penn State University. Deloitte Consulting and CSCR have recently entered into a relationship that will allow access to their leading-edge thinking on supply chain practices.

About the Participants in the Supply Chain Innovation Center powered by Oracle

Oracle is a leader in E-Business Supply Chain Management Solutions. With the Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management family of applications companies can integrate and automate all key supply chain activities, from design, planning and procurement to manufacturing and fulfillment. A unified data model can provide a single, accurate view of the entire supply chain, to help companies enforce lean principles across increasingly complex, global supply chains. When Oracle Supply Chain Management runs on Oracle technology, companies have the opportunity to speed implementation, significantly improve performance, streamline support -- and achieve an excellent ROI.

Deloitte Consulting is a recent winner of two of Oracle's 2006 Titan North America Partner of the Year awards and an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner (CAP), the highest relationship level within the Oracle PartnerNetwork. Deloitte Consulting's Oracle service offerings are supported by more than 3,000 professionals around the world, and includes deep industry and functional knowledge across Oracle's full line of solutions. In addition, the professionals who support Deloitte Consulting's Supply Chain serviced offerings have significant experience across all sectors of the supply chain, and have served a large portfolio of clients around the world. Moreover, many of the professionals are Six Sigma Certified, and Deloitte Consulting is well known for its insightful thought leadership. Finally, Deloitte Consulting has access to professionals with a broad range of capabilities in tax, finance, HR, risk, and business consulting -- as well as systems implementation, which enables Deloitte Consulting to offer innovative SCM-related services, such as tax-advantaged ERP services.

The Smeal College of Business at Penn State University is world-renowned for its supply chain program and the groundbreaking work being performed at its Center for Supply Chain Research. A recent survey of supply chain practitioners and academics in Canada, Mexico and the United States ranked Penn State's Smeal College of Business as having the top supply chain program in North America (Supply Chain Management Review, 2005). Additionally, the Center for Supply Chain Research at the College has been named the 2006 institutional recipient of the Eccles Medal of the International Society of Logistics (SOLE).

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