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Oracle has announced the availability of new releases of Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management.

By introducing a broad set of market driven enhancements, Oracle Transportation Management 6.2 and Oracle Global Trade Management 6.2 further support global transportation and trade compliance processes.

The new releases provide additional transportation and global trade management support through enhanced fleet management, transportation sourcing, transportation business intelligence, transportation planning, small parcel transportation, rail transportation, dock scheduling, product classification and trade control determination.

By delivering an unmatched breadth and depth of transportation and global trade management functionality on a single, unified platform, the new releases help reduce transportation costs, increase operational efficiency, improve customer service, decrease supply chain lead times and mitigate supply chain and trade compliance risk by further standardizing and automating processes.

To further streamline processes, the new release also delivers process integration between Oracle Global Trade Management and Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1

Industry Leading Transportation Management Capabilities

Oracle Transportation Management 6.2 and Oracle Global Trade Management 6.2 enable companies to manage their comprehensive trade compliance and transportation requirements, including fleet, on a global basis within one central platform.

New capabilities within Oracle Transportation Management 6.2 include:

Fleet Management enhancements for shipment and asset optimization, dispatch workflow automation, geographic visualization and mobile communications.

Transportation sourcing enhancements to support the requirements of procuring and optimizing less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services.

Transportation planning enhancements to optimize order consolidation and three-dimensional equipment load configuration (e.g. accounting for equipment with multiple compartments, equipment with curved roofs).

Transportation business intelligence enhancements, with embedded support for Oracle Data Integrator, increase the ease with which customers can extend and configure the analytical data model.

Small parcel transportation enhancements for carton level rating, tracking and freight payment and audit.

Rail transportation enhancements for shipment rating, shipment execution and rail equipment tracking.

New capabilities within Oracle Global Trade Management 6.2 include:

Packaged integration with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 for sales order and delivery trade compliance screening automates trade compliance as part of an integrated order-to-cash process for international sales.

Usability enhancements streamline the resolution of orders on trade compliance hold, improving process efficiency and customer service.

Product classification of items based on “rollup” of an item’s sub-component classifications (e.g., classification of configure-to-order items).