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Automated Product Data Publishing from Oracle Product Hub Is the Way Forward Document Transcript

• 1. • Cognizant 20-20 InsightsAutomated Product Data Publishing fromOracle Product Hub Is the Way ForwardA framework using Oracle tools and technologies to publish products fromOracle Product Hub to disparate product data consuming applications. Executive Summary organizations today are countering it by employing master data solutions in the Having accurate and up-to-date product data in an enterprise. Where this is not implemented, enterprise is a key to improving customer ignoring data management may impact the experience. Oracle Product Hub, along with a ability to deliver the key enterprise functions and configurable publishing mechanism, helps in processes. Inaccurate product data is a leading sharing clean product information as a single source for process inefficiencies in any business, source of truth across enterprise applications. which leads to: This process demands an effective framework, to standardize the product publishing process ! Fragmented and duplicate information, leading a u to m a t i ca l l y f ro m P ro d u c t H u b, w i t h to supply chain inefficiency and process configurable business criteria built in. inefficiencies in warehouse management, sourcing, replenishment, supplier payment This paper deals with a common framework for the processing, etc. product data publishing process, with business !? Continuously evolving information, resulting in validation for each target system, which will lost market opportunity. improve productivity significantly with a user interface for configuring business criteria for !? Low data quality, leading to bad user data dissemination. The key business benefit experience in channels where the end from this is a simple, fast and automated customer is not able to touch and feel the publishing mechanism from Product Hub and product. easy on-boarding of new product data consuming !? Difficulty achieving harmonized information systems, without any additional development sharing among organizations and trading effort. partners, with an inadequate data collaboration mechanism. Overview Product Hub needs to provide a common Over the past few decades, organizations have definition of the product across the organization. invested heavily in IT, which has helped them And to publish product information for multiple improve their supply chain efficiency. But this has downstream applications, for performing resulted in master data spread being across different business processes around product data multiple systems in the organization, which is in a in downstream applications. constant state of flux. This is a major challenge and Cognizant 20-20 Insights
• 2. One of the key challenges for most of the interfaced automatically, without manualorganizations implementing the Product Hub intervention, based on predefined businesssolution is to automate the product dissemination criteria.process, satisfying business criteria and ! Business criteria include mandatoryvalidation without manual intervention. validations, conditional validations based onWhitespace Analysis product lifecycle stage, data completeness check, payload and frequency, etc.Our Oracle Solutions Practice provides services ! These business criteria need to be userranging from business consulting to application configurable in Product Hub for businessmaintenance across Oracle’s entire solution suite. flexibility.! Product Hub is to distribute data as a single ! Oracle Fusion Applications offers tools and source of truth for consistent enterprise view. middleware to perform the product publishing! A typical business scenario demands data process, but there are no standard frameworks managed in Product Hub is published/ prescribed by Oracle to facilitate the automatic publishing process.Configurable Publishing Analysis Identify Automatically Eligible Identify Item for Items for Different Distribution Systems Configurable Publishing Automatically Manage Identify Data Payload Entities for Type for Each Different Downstream SystemsFigure 1We propose a framework for publishing product data from Product Hub that will address the aboveidentified gaps. Our automatic publishing mechanism greatly aids efficient data dissemination andprovides easy on-boarding for new consumption/destination systems.Product Data Publishing Mechanism Service l to identify products: Service......... FOR MORE VISIT....

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