Business Reply Tariff Tool for OTM freight rates management. Benedetto Mollica

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1 Business Reply Tariff Tool for OTM freight rates management Benedetto Mollica

2 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 2

3 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 3

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6 Business Reply Founded in 1998, Business Reply is today the main Italian system integrator for solutions based on Oracle Applications. A team of more than 100 specialized consultants speaking Italian, English, French and German language Oracle Platinum Partner Oracle Transportation Management Specialized Experience in Automotive, Freight Forwarding, 3PL, 4PL, Large Retail, F&B and Oil&Gas areas Consolidated methodological approach and PMI certifications 6

7 7 Demand Planning Oracle Value Chain Planning Product Lifecycle Management Oracle Agile PLM Oracle Innovation Management Enterprise Resource Planning Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle Peoplesoft Oracle ERP Cloud Oracle HCM Oracle Incentive Compensation Customer Experience Oracle Service Cloud (RightNow) Oracle Sales Cloud Oracle CPQ Cloud (BigMachines) Oracle Marketing Cloud (Eloqua) Business Reply s Offering Business Reply Offering Transportation Management Oracle Transportation Management Global Trade Management Mobile Platform In Memory Application Oracle Global Trade Management Project Management Oracle Primavera Oracle Project Portfolio Management Reply Enterprise Mobile Platform Oracle Mobile Platform Reply In Memory Laboratories Oracle Logistics Command Center

8 GTM/OTM Offering Business Process Consulting Process reengineering, best practices introduction Application Maintenance support AMS 24/7 Integration with ERPs and third parties applications GTM/OTM Offering Solutions for system upgrade Reusable components Customer Tailored approach Solutions based on customer industry and core business Business Process consulting Integration with external systems Reusable components Customer tailored approach Solutions for system upgrade Application Maintenance Support 8

9 OTM Implementation Specialist certification OTM Continuous Learning Business Reply career path requires our OTM consultants to achieve the certification of OTM Implementation Specialist: OTM Training Path OTM R&D 9 Business Reply periodically organizes internal trainings to keep all the resources updated on new OTM releases and functionalities. Business Reply has internal R&D environments where new product features are studied: In Memory solutions (Logistics Command Center), Global Trade Management, Transportation s Mobile solutions are just some examples of the functionalities tested or developed.

10 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool? Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 10

11 Rate Management in OTM: AS IS OTM offers an extreme flexibility during tariff definition process, but: Huge number of cost basis, constraints and other parameters available High complexity of rate setup Long time required to create and manage each rate It is difficult to handle new versions, updates, copies... Final rating results rely on system configuration 11

12 OTM : Common Business Requirements Contracts created and managed by business, not IT: Application must be user-friendly Flexibility, but inside a specific pricing scenario Versions / Adjustments / Copies Comparisons among different contracts Quick insert and edit of contracts 12

13 Business Reply Tariff Tool Business Reply Tariff Tool (BRTT) is a tool developed by Business Reply to help OTM users in freight rates management. Simplify OTM Speed BRTT Preconfigurate Turnkey Templates Templates Reuse of of information 13

14 BRTT: Main Features Some of the main features of the BRTT are: Cloud or On premise solution Based on excel Ease in inserting or updating quickly many rates Possibility to copy or versioning rates Possibility to create new rate models Validity periods and expiration dates management Accessibility from the main menu of OTM No need to know rates structure to upload contracts in OTM 14

15 BRTT: Contract Templates Based on a limited number of templates to support the most common requirements Each template refers to a specific scenario (e.g. FTL, LTL, AIR,...) Obtained by contract analysis and generalization Used to produce a high variety of Contract Models CT 1 CT n Manages buy and sell perspective Each template has a set of costs and specific fields associated CM 1 CM 1 CM 1 CM N

16 BRTT: Contract Models Many different models can be obtained from a single template User-friendly creation and management Can be modified / copied / updated Generates external Contract Sheets for rapid data entry Ease of sharing Sheets and approve CM 1 CM 1 Data integrity checked before upload process begins Ease of sharing Sheets for approval berfore rate upload CS

17 BRTT: Possible scenario FTL CT 1 CM 1 Cost per equipment Cost Basis Cost per shipment Cost per stop Cost per Km... CM 2 Cost per equipment Distance breaks Constraints Equipment Weight breaks... CM 3 Fixed cost per stop Cost per Km Other data Perspective (b/s)...

18 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 18

19 OTM: A simple scenario 3 Costs 3 Equipment Type CS = fix cost per shipment [ /shipment] CE = equipment type (ad eg. 5-ton truck) [ /shipment] CF = cost per fuel [ /Km] Total trasportation cost = CS + CE + CF 5 cost to configure ( CS, CE1, CE2, CE3, CF) 20 Regions 400 combinations from to (lane) 19

20 20 OTM: Main steps to setup only one rate

21 OTM: Rate Offering Setup Create one Rate Offering This is simple but.. Too many blank fields! 21

22 OTM: Rate Record Setup Create one Rate Record for each of the 400 routes This is complicated I will never finish! 22

23 Add Rate Cost: 5 for each record OTM: Rate Costs Setup (C S, C E1, C E2, C E3, C F ) Argh! too many different pages. This requires a long time and it is hard to compare or copy costs betwen rates! 23

24 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 24

25 25 BRTT: Main steps to setup many rate

26 BRTT: Contract Header Setup Create one Contract Header to fill the main informations of the rate (Otm Rate offering) Only a pre configured set of fields defined for the scenario 26

27 Create one Contract Record BRTT: Contract Record Setup Fill in the main rate information Add costs by selecting them from a list of Cost Types associated to the template Define the Geography 27

28 BRTT: Contract Sheet Setup Download and popolate one Contract Sheet for all lane Easy and quick to define costs and specific information for all the 400 lane. Easy to compare and to copy data between rates. Sheets formatted based on the data previously configured on the Rate Record. Add all routes. Add quickly amount value. Add quick validity dates and repetitive information. 28

29 BRTT: Contract Manager Create a new rate from a preconfigured Template Search and update or create quickly from a contract or model already created 29

30 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 30

31 Tariff Tool: New Requirements Based on the experience on the BRTT some of the common new business requirements are: Less fields and steps for configuring a rate Create and update rate massively Update of validity date faster Excel user friendly 31

32 A new BRTT version: Tariff Tool Express Preconfigured Rate Types associated to the template New look and feel with Adf 11 Different Rate Types exported in a single Sheet Costs preconfigured and associated to Rate Types Exported Sheet to insert or update rate offerings and rate records massively Possibility to update dates directly on the search tables Multi tabs to manage more rates simultaneously 32

33 33 Tariff Tool Express: Contract Manager

34 34 Tariff Tool Express: Contract Sheet

35 Tariff Tool Express To Be Purposes for the new version in developement phase: Combine flexibilty and quick operations Supportability on Otm Cloud Manage more types of costs massively 35

36 Agenda Business Reply Company Overview What is Business Reply Tariff Tool Complexity in managing freight rates with OTM How Business Reply Tariff Tool speeds OTM? New Tariff Tool Developing Q&A 36

37 37 Q&A

38 Thanks Benedetto Mollica