Michael Gibby

Oracle Fusion: Cycle Counting vs. Physical Inventories

Inventory is the lifeblood of many companies, and inaccurate inventory can cripple even the most profitable supply chain. Businesses of any moderate size employ counting processes to keep the inventory accurate, usually splitting them into Physical Inventories and Cycle Counts, as separate functions. Oracle Cloud offers comprehensive tools for both, but many implementers do not …

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Creating Correct Cycle Count Culture

Oracle Inventory / By Michael Gibby

If a business isn’t currently cycle counting their inventory, then they probably have a goal of switching from a single, arduous annual Physical Inventory to the simpler Cycle Count process. Where almost all businesses fail is by focusing far more time and energy on reporting the values, and not enough on improving the processes that …

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Oracle Procurement: Self Service Receiving and Notifications

Oracle Procurement / By Michael Gibby

Most of the time, when you order something, you get something; and when you get it, you have to let the system know it’s been received so that the invoice may be paid. You don’t want to pay invoices for something that never arrived, and if something has arrived but the invoice has not, you …

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Neat Idea: Combining Cycle Count and Physical Inventory functions in Oracle Fusion Cloud

Oracle Inventory / By Michael Gibby

One of the ways that Oracle decides which new features to focus on, is by general community input in their Cloud Connect Community “Idea Lab.” Anyone can submit an idea, and anyone can vote for ideas that they prefer–including the ability to vote against an idea. I recently shared an idea for simplifying and improving …

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Oracle Fusion: Adding Phone Number to PO Documents

Oracle Procurement / By Michael Gibby

Let’s review a fun problem shared on Oracle Cloud Connect by a popular pizza company! Deliveries were delayed due to difficulties finding the delivery dock, and they wanted to add a phone number to the PO documents to help. This is a common issue in supply chains, and let’s start by talking about Locations! What …

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