Leveraging OTM's Fusion Transportation Intelligence

Leveraging Fusion Transportation

Intelligence

OTM Sig Conference 08’

Presented by Sam Levin

Fusion Transportation Intelligence

Index

!   Introduction to FTI !   What is FTI

!   Implementation of FTI in OTM !   Introduction to FTI !   FTI Implementation Details !   FTI Setup Notes !   FTI Features

!   FTI Demo

!   Q&A


What is FTI

•  FTI is an implementation of the Oracle BI suite of products within OTM

•  Derived from the Siebel Product - Siebel Business Analytics Platform

•  FTI provides organizations the ability to analyze organized data and generate metrics to measure their state of business


Introduction to FTI in OTM

•  OTM integrates with Oracle BI Transportation Intelligence by providing a direct link to the Oracle BI interfaces

•  The database for FTI can either be installed separately or on the ROD database or use the OTM Operational database

•  FTI uses a new status ‘READY_TO_LOAD’ for Orders, Order Releases and Shipments to identify when the object is ready to be pulled into the FTI database.

•  This status change is implemented through 3 public agents namely – LOAD_ORDER_BASE_TO_HD LOAD_ORDER_RELEASE_TO_HD LOAD_SHIPMENT_TO_HD


Implementation of FTI in OTM

•  FTI Currently supports the following Master data •  Lane •  Location •  Service Provider •  Transport Mode

•  FTI Currently supports the following Transactional data •  Order •  Order Release •  Shipment •  Shipment Detail •  Shipment Claims •  Carrier Stop Pickup •  Carrier Stop Delivery •  Tender Performance


FTI Implementation Details -Data Flow between OTM and FTI


FTI Installation Notes

!   Check with Oracle Support for the latest install instructions

!   For existing data in OTM you may need to update the 3 out of box agents to port data over to the FTI database

!   Have your DBA ensure there are enough database connections to handle your new functionality


FTI Implementation Details – Dashboard and Predefined KPI’s

•  OTM Ships with a default set of KPI’s and Dashboard settings that can be customised as per requirement

•  Dashboard includes the following details •  Statistics •  Financials •  Utilization •  Carrier •  Cost Benefit •  Regional Cost Benefit


Dashboard Overview

!   Graphs and Charts on !   Statistics !   Utilization !   Financials !   Carrier Metrics !   Targets*


Target Definition

Step1: Define the type of target to be met.

Step 2: Define the actual target to be analyzed.


Adhoc Queries

• FTI allows you to select the column to add to your report • For each field selected you can define criteria for that value


Formatting and Filtering Queries


User Input Prompts

!   Prior to the report running you can force the user to input or define values

!   You can set parameters to be selected


Advanced Options


Report Capabilities

!   FTI Report Capabilities Include !   Printing !   Download to

!   Excel !   Delimited File !   HTML

!   Sending Report !   Scheduling

Reports !   Defining

Recipients !   Sending as

attachments

FTI Demo


Online Resources for Oracle BI

•  Extensive online documentation are available at the following places

•  http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/index.htm

•  http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=145

•  https://metalink.oracle.com


Q & A and Discussion

Below is Answers to questions asked at the conference

!   Can you add additional columns to FTI database? !   Yes, you can add custom tables to the FTI

database. Just like any other data warehouse type tool you can have a DBA alter the db to enhance data content

!   Can you get Financial Data in FTI? !   Out of Box FTI does pull in Voucher data that

can be use in your reports.

Thank You!


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