Oracle + Uber : Collect & Receive

Oracle knows Retail Processes. Uber knows Delivery.
We’re connecting our retail and delivery platforms to disrupt how businesses work. Together, we can improve the experience and profitability of the retail industry globally.
According to Uber Direct | The New Brand-Builder Report, 75% of consumers now expect express delivery, with 72% more likely to reorder from companies offering it. And 44% of consumers mentioned a company lost their business because they didn't offer express delivery.
Are you ready to reimagine how retail moves?
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Oracle + Uber: Co-innovating to transform last mile delivery

Speakers:
  • Jordi Suarez Cambra, Senior Director, Global Head of Uber Direct
  • Jordan Speer, Research Director, Worldwide Retail Product Sourcing, Fulfillment and Sustainability Strategies, IDC·      
  • Jeffrey Warren, VP Global Retail Sales, Oracle

Retailers have been focused on efforts to mitigate returns, as total returns for the industry amounted to $743 billion in merchandise in 2023. As a percentage of sales, the total return rate for 2023 was 14.5%. The volume of returns retailers are receiving keeps growing, many now look to recoup losses by charging consumers for returns. More than ever, retailers need a platform that gives agility, speed, and control to operationalize returns at scale. The flow of inventory back into the business is more important than ever.

IDC's Point of View

"With this partnership, Oracle is enabling retailers to easily extend the value of their Oracle retail applications with last-mile delivery services from Uber. This will lower the cost of last-mile deliveries of whatever sort – whether product delivery to home, store-to-store transfers of merchandise, product returns, and so forth. This bilateral communication between Uber and Oracle is a significant step forward in providing retailers a more valuable, intelligent, end-to-end supply chain process."
Jordan K. Speer, Research Director of Worldwide Retail Product Sourcing, Fulfillment, and Sustainability Strategies at IDC Research

How can retailers keep up with increasing consumer demands without sacrificing profit margins? 

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Retailers must constantly innovate and evolve to meet customer expectations for products to be available whenever and wherever they need them. However, it is nearly impossible for retailers to anticipate and fulfill the needs of every customer. 
Here are some of the business challenges:
- Unable to understand the interdependency of Customer, Product, Experience, and Profitability - Incomplete and single-threaded retail processes around the silos of plan-buy-move-sell without regard to customer lifecycle or preference - No regard for the financial impact of returns from a customer to a store’s inventory - Inefficient execution of inventory distribution at a single product level vs. basket-level aggregations
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Tell me more. How does it work?

Collect and Receive brings together Oracle’s retail expertise with Uber’s global delivery network and local logistics expertise to help retailers gain agility and better serve their customers in two ways: 
1. Inventory management: Help retailers understand how they plan, price, and place merchandise to optimize supply distribution to meet demand more efficiently.
2. On-demand delivery: Allow retailers to offer express, same-day, and scheduled delivery and return options to their customers from their own channels.

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Introducing Collect & Receive

Collect and Receive connects retail businesses to Uber’s delivery network through the Oracle Retail Data Store and allows them to access last-mile delivery to fulfill customer expectations and rebalance their available inventory. Design and orchestrate how you can increase customer satisfaction and inventory productivity.

Total Operational Transparency

Maintain control of the entire set of retail processes centered on serving the customer with total transparency. With this new capability, we put the customer at the center of your operations.

Plan Beyond the Sale

Plan the business in its totality by recognizing that both customer lifecycles and inventory lifecycles have extended beyond the initial sale.

Embrace the Super Process

Insert a higher-level process and point of control above disparate legacy processes that can now achieve a global optimum, balancing financial and qualitative targets.

Complete the Customer Journey

Acknowledge the impact of returns and embracing the return transaction as an important experience, making returns an integral step in the customer experience.

Move Inventory with Intent

Enhance distribution by anticipating future stock disposition, e.g., returns, and available to promise at store level.

Lower the Cost to Serve Your Customer

Reduce costs by directing returns to appropriate locations and engage the customer without the burden of revenue sharing models.

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