Oracle Retail Platform: AI Foundation for Supply Chain
Effective retail supply chain management could be worth several percentage points of profitability. Align your planning decisions to demand forecasting, inventory management, and receipt flow to drive profitable allocation and replenishment, supply chain execution, and order fulfillment. Learn how our retail supply chain solutions can help your business operate more efficiently and drive results in a changing omnichannel world.

Agenda
1
3 How Oracle Supply Chain Brings Value
2 Current Trends & Challenges
5 Q&A
4 Where are we headed?
1 Supply Chain & AI Foundation Overview
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The Platform for Modern Retail
Retail Home
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure / Next-Gen Architecture STORAGENETWORKING COMPUTE CONTAINER ORCHESTRATIONCONTAINERS
Retail Reference
Model
Business Process Flows
Glossary
Technical Models
Retail AI Foundation
Forecasting Engine
Affinity Analysis
Profile Science
Customer Decision Trees
Demand Transference
Innovation Workbench
Attribute Extraction
Advanced Clustering
Customer Segmentation
Retail Cloud Services
Merchandising
Inventory Operations
Brand Compliance
Planning
Store Operations
Order Broker
Analytics
Order Management
Supply ChainCustomer Engagement
Retail Extensibility
Low-code App Development
REST Data Services
Cloud Extensions
Retail Data Store AUTONOMOUS DATA WAREHOUSE DATA MANAGEMENT RETAIL SCHEMA EXTENSIONSPACKAGED RETAIL SCHEMAS
BUSINESS KPI’S ADMINISTRATIVE MONITORING NOTIFICATIONSSERVICE PORTAL
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Oracle Retail Analytics & Planning
Affinity Analysis
Profile Science
Customer Decision
Trees
Demand Transference
Innovation Workbench
Attribute Extraction &
Binning
Advanced Clustering
Customer Segmentation
Merchandise Financial Planning
Assortment Planning
Assortment & Space
Optimization
Promotion & Markdown
Optimization
Offer Optimization
Inventory Optimization
Retail Insights
Demand Forecasting
Forecasting Engine
16.6% 2021 Return rate vs. 10.6% in 2020
60% Average turnover in retail
+8.3% Increase in Annual Inflation Rate
+ 65 index point Increase in truckload spending
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What’s New RDF v22 – Enhanced Forecasting
Returns Forecasting
Clustering
AI Foundation
16.6% 2021 Return rate vs. 10.6% in 2020
Model Training Period Forecast Horizon
Trends & Seasonality
Slow Seller- Intermittent Demand Demand
Machine Learning & Time Series Forecasting
Forecast HorizonModel Training Period
Prepare Reference
Data
Estimate Demand
Parameters
Forecast & Evaluate
Model Performance
Select Best Fit Model
Refit over entire history
& Generate Forecast
Automated Analytical Engine
ü Trends & Seasonality ü Out of Stocks ü Events ü Promotions ü Outliers
Trends & Seasonality ü Out of Stocks
Events Promotions
ü Outliers
RDF Algorithm Evolution
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RDF Algorithms v13 v16 v19 v21
Regression Trees ● Decision Trees ● Random Forrest ● Neural Networks (Returns) ● Gradient Boosting (Returns) ● ML Cluster Generation for Forecast Model Training ● ● Ridge Regression ● ● Forecast Ensemble (Blended Forecast) ● ● TensorFlow Extensibility ● ● Lost Sales ● ● ● ● Simple Exponential Smoothing ● ● ● ● Holt Exponential Smoothing ● ● ● ● Additive Winters: Triple Exponential Smoothing ● ● ● ● Multiplicative Winters: Triple Exponential Smoothing ● ● ● ● Croston’s Intermittent Demand ● ● ● ● Simulation Based Parameter Optimization ● ● ● ● Average ● ● ● ● Bayesian ● ● ● Stepwise Regression ● ● ● Seasonal Regression ● ●
● New Introduction
● Significant Enhancement
● Same from Previous Version
On Prem
On Prem
RDF Capability Evolution
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Capability v13 v16 v19 v21
Workflow
Exception Based Workflow ● ● Responsive Scorecards & Dashboards ● ● What-if Analysis ● ● ● New Item Automation ● ● Jet UI Client (Look and Feel) ● ● ●
Forecast Calculation
Escalation & Pooling ● ● Anomaly Detection & Correction ● ● Model Transparency ● ● Demand Transference ● ● Extensibility ● ● Flexible Source Level Groupings ● ● ● Markdowns ● ● Price Elasticity ● ● ● Promotion Effects ● ● ● ● Promotion ● ● ● ● Price Discounts ● ● ● ●
● New Introduction
● Significant Enhancement
● Same from Previous Version
On Prem
On Prem
16.6% 2021 Return rate vs. 10.6% in 2020
60% Average turnover in retail
+8.3% Increase in Annual Inflation Rate
+ 65 index point Increase in truckload spending
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What’s New RDF & Inventory Optimization– Automation & Smarter Merchandising
SLC/LLC Simplification
Rules Library
Science Setup
Merch video
60% Average turnover in retail
16.6% 2021 Return rate vs. 10.6% in 2020
60% Average turnover in retail
+8.3% Increase in Annual Inflation Rate
+ 65 index point Increase in truckload spending
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Demand Transference Science Drive Product Substitutions & Assortment Rationalization
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Unique Demand Substitutable Demand
Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
Unique Demand Substitutable Demand
Transferred Demand
62% Current accuracy for department with frequent assortment changes
80% Accuracy with next generation RDF paired with Demand Transference science
Learn customer preference
Adapt to assortment and availability
Exploit AI to manage speed and scale
+8.3% Increase in Annual Inflation Rate
16.6% 2021 Return rate vs. 10.6% in 2020
60% Average turnover in retail
+8.3% Increase in Annual Inflation Rate
+ 65 index point Increase in truckload spending
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Inventory Optimization Optimize Purchase Orders & Re-balance Trapped Inventory
Review
Analyze
Adjust
+ 65 index point Increase in truckload spending
The Value of One Transforming Inventory Precision
$ 1
.0
$ 1
.3
Net Revenue $ Power of One Net Revenue $s
$1.020
$1.010
$1.000
$1 Billion retailer, AUR $36, 30% markdown revenue
-1 +1
$ B
ill io
ns
Customers typically see anywhere from
2 – 4 day improvement
Ø Robust Analytical & Machine Learning Techniques Ø Optimization Ø Automation Ø Scalability Ø Integration
+ $2,500,000 One time benefit for 1 day reduction in inventory *unconstrained