OTM SIG User Conference 2018 India: Presentations

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OTM SIG User Conference 2018 India

The OTM SIG Board proudly organised a OTM User Conference at India on 6-7 Sept 2018, which was the first OTM event in India.
The event is designed to bring together users and potential users of the OTM software to share knowledge, ideas and experiences.

Key representatives from OTM Clients/Users, OTM Strategy and Development attended this conference, and various partners in OTM's ecosystem sponsored.

This conference is an addition to the yearly OTM User Conferences in Philadelpha, Amsterdam and Singapore.

Presentations and videos will be posted on https://otmfaq.otmsig.com/forum/otm-...-presentations

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OTM Product Strategy Update by Derek Gittoes (Oracle)
Derek Gittoes is vice president for supply chain management product strategy and leads the team responsible for Oracle

Abstract: The best Transportation and Global Trade Cloud solution continues to innovate and improve! Join this session to learn about current business drivers, see the current and future go-to-market strategy, and get a sneak peek at the roadmap. Come learn about advances to existing capabilities and expansion to new areas such as Trade Agreements and Logistics Network Modeling. Learn how disruptive technologies like IoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chatbots and Blockchain are being incorporated to help you manage your global supply chain efficiently and keep on top of regulatory needs.
Profile: Derek Gittoes is vice president for supply chain management product strategy and leads the team responsible for Oracle

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Detect, Predict, and Act: How OTM and IoT Deliver Next Generation Supply Chain Visibility by Chris Peckham (Oracle)

Abstract: The demand for visibility in modern day supply chains goes far beyond the capabilities currently in use by many logistics practitioners. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), carrier portals, and other such technologies are still popular, but each has inherent limitations that will continue to diminish over time. This session will illustrate how OTM Cloud and Oracle IoT Fleet Monitoring combine to give shippers, fleet operators, and logistics service providers next generation visibility, enabling them to better serve their customers and gain a competitive advantage.

Profile: Chris Peckham is Senior Principal Product Strategy Manager for Oracle Logistics Cloud. Focused primarily on Oracle Transportation Management, he collaborates with customers and other Oracle thought leaders to set the future direction for the product. Further, he serves multiple roles in the OTM product ecosystem, including liaison to the OTM SIG Board of Directors, owner of the OTM Customer Advisory Board, and also manages numerous partner relationships. Mr. Peckham has spent 23 years in the TMS software industry. He worked for nine years as an implementation consultant at Manugistics (now JDA Software), six years at TransWorks (a Norfolk Southern railroad subsidiary), and has spent the past eight years on the Logistics Product Strategy team at Oracle. Chris holds a Bachelor

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Key New Features in Oracle Transportation & Global Trade Management 6.4.3 & 18.x by Ashok Kalidindi & Sailaja Callore (Oracle)

Abstract: The best Transportation and Global Trade Cloud solution continues to innovate and improve! Join this session to get some quick insights on our upcoming new features in areas like User Experience & Workbench, Content & Cloud Experience, Fleet, Planning, Maps, EDE, Global Trade Management and Other Technology Improvements among others.
Profile Ashok: Ashok Kalidindi is Director, Product Development and leads the team responsible for Oracle Logistics Cloud product. Mr. Kalidindi is responsible for research and development covering areas of Transportation Rating, Execution, Tracking Events, Brokerage and Freight forwarding, Financial, Technical & Cloud Infrastructure, Integration and Global Trade Management. Mr. Kalidindi has more 20 years of experience in ERP and SCM software industry with expertise in product development, engineering and support. Mr. Kalidindi holds a Master of Technology in Industrial Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering.
Profile Sailaja: Sailaja Callore is Senior Manager and responsible for Oracle Logistics Cloud Quality Assurance in the areas of Sourcing, Fleet, Execution, GTM & FTI/GTI of the Product. Ms. Sailaja has 16 years of experience in software industry. Ms. Sailaja is Mechanical Engineer graduate from JNTU University.

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Working Effectively with Product Support - On premise and Cloud by Jyothi Venkatesh & Krishna Mohan Raghuram (Oracle)

Abstract: In this session, the aspects of Support Processes that will help expedite Service Request resolution will be covered. We will also cover a Diagnostics review explaining the relevant diagnostics/logs to debug various product issues both on OnPremise and Cloud Instances.
Profile Jyothi: Jyothi Venkatesh is Product Support Manager, Oracle Product Support with over 14 years of experience in Manufacturing & Oracle Applications Product Support (E-Business Suite Manufacturing and Oracle Transportation Management). I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from Bangalore University
Profile Krishna Mohan: Krishna Mohan Raghuram is Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Product Support with over 20 years of experience in Manufacturing & Oracle Applications Product Support (E-Business Suite Manufacturing and Oracle Transportation Management). I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University & CPIM (APICS)

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Reverse Logistics by Athmanathan Granavel & Sagar Daipule (Kuehne+Nagel)

Abstract: Kuehne+Nagel India Reverse Logistics has not been a mature segment to provide it to the customer. Since Kuehne+Nagel is an asset free organization we trend to depend on third party vendors for the visibility of reverse logistics. Though they provide the alternatives but they are high in cost and low in actual visibility. So Kuehne+Nagel India has come up with a complete work package for Reverse Logistics providing End-End Visibility to the customer with Optimal Vehicle Utilization at a reasonable price using OTM Reverse Logistics Parameter.
Profile Sagar: Sagar has 7+ years of experience in IT industry and implementing solutions using OTM (Oracle Transportation Management. Implementation and support project support experience and worked on customizations of out of box features in OTM.
Profile Athmanathan: Athmanathan.G has total 8+ years of experience in Logistics Industry - Warehousing & Distribution with multiple implementations using OTM (Building Custom Solutions) and Tableau (Custom Reports & Big Data Analysis).

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Boosting the power of OTM through RPA by Sakshi Kachru (Unilever)
Abstract: RPA continues its upward journey through an increasing number of automations in organizations, enabling users to deliver higher value jobs, and increasing efficiency of the repetitive tasks. While we see a natural adoption is specific areas of finance and reporting, automation through RPA in logistics is still developing. We in Unilever, have been able to implement RPA in core business processes, that impact our daily operations. In most such cases, OTM being our standard tool for transportation, has been at the foundation of it all. RPA has helped us to cater to multiple geographies and processes that span across multiple systems: SAP and OTM. This has streamlined and fast-tracked operations, advancing our vision of No-touch planning.

Profile: Sakshi Kachru is a delivery manager with the Make and Deliver IT platform within Unilever. She has been in the organization for more than five years, and worked across areas of Service management, project delivery and RPA implementation. In her most recent roles, she was responsible for OTM implementation in South East Asia, and for delivery of RPA solutions across the globe for transportation. She holds an engineering degree from UP Technical University, and an MBA from NITIE, Mumbai.

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Leveraging OTM for Parcel Order Tracking Where no Tendering by Prashant Jain (Western Digital) & Lokanadha Chari (Tech Mahindra)
Abstract: Order track and trace is one of the key factor to track the on-time performance of a carrier and thus achieving the customer satisfaction. OTM can be configured to send the tenders to the carriers and in-turn, OTM can receive events/milestones from carrier based on the tender acceptance. This will help to track the orders in OTM only if tenders are sent to carrier and what if there is no tendering is accepted by the contracted carrier but still need to build track and trace functionality! This may not be case with traditional carriers but will be the case especially with the Parcel carriers where they do not follow or accept the tenders from OTM. While the milestones/events are received on the tracking number level for parcel shipment instead of shipment level

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Implementing OTM with Digital Boost for 3PL with eCommerce, first/last mile, Cash on Delivery and Chat Bots by Nikhil Gupta (Inspirage)
Abstract: Join this presentation to experience our journey of implementing OTM with a digital boost, for a 3PL. The solution implemented was for the ecommerce operations handled by our client for multiple customers including an iconic furniture and home furnishing retailer. The project is part of a larger implementation which covered Import, Store transfer and delivery to retail customer. The customer delivery process also included planning and recording installation activities. Project successfully went live with OTM on Cloud along with various digital components including Mobile app. Mobile app solution for them includes address validation, customer bookings on mobile app, assignment of drivers, cash on delivery and several other first/last mile features. While few of them are already live, others are planned for subsequent phases. Innovative approaches for customer reach like chatbots are in the process of being developed for upcoming phase. These chatbots are integrated with OTM and help consumers with easy track and trace and other features. With the increase in ecommerce business and online shopping, both shippers and 3PLs are focusing on gaining efficiencies in the first/last mile scenarios. This presentation will help provide detailed insights of various challenges and how those were handled in OTM on cloud, with our digital boost.
Profile: Nikhil Gupta is a Principal Consultant with Inspirage and has been working in delivery and presales for OTM & GTM for 10 Years. He comes with strong experience working as Solution Architect in complex Greenfield implementations and delivering innovative solutions across US, EMEA and APAC. Development and Deployment of various Logistics Visibility Solutions has been one of his key interests and competency. Nikhil also has 8 international presentations/publications to his credit on OTM/GTM published or presented in OTM SIG (US, Europe and APAC), Oracle Value Chain Summit (US) and Oracle Scene Journal (UK). A Computer Science Engineer and MBA (Gold Medalist) with specialization in Software Enterprise Management from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (India), Nikhil has demonstrated innovation in various dimensions of his work and was awarded a national level prize for the most innovative project idea presentation. Nikhil has also earned a certificate in Supply Chain Technology and Systems, issued by MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT

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Dynamic clustering in OTM using HERE Map by Suhel MD (Unilever)
Abstract: Unilever believes in sustainable development goals with reduction in Carbon footprint. Dynamic clustering with HERE map is the planning technique adopted in Unilever where real life geographical constraints are being considered to build multi stop shipments. It provides most optimized shipment in terms of Load, distance covered, accurate route planning and in turn reduced CO2 emission. Recently it has been implemented in the frozen business of Philippines where business can foresee a tremendous benefit with 10% optimized shipments, 20% reduction in time, fuel consumption and an expected cost reduction of over 20%. Thus, dynamic clustering will create a win-win scenario for both Unilever and the service providers and make a greener and faster transportation landscape throughout the world.
Profile: Suhel is a Senior IT manager with Transportation management within Unilever. He has been in the organization for more than eleven years and worked across areas of supply chain. In his most recent roles, he was subject matter expert for OTM implementation in Asia, Africa, Russia, Masreq, Magreb and Australia. He holds an engineering degree from National institute of science technology, Orissa and did EGMP from IIMB.

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OTM Upgrade Best Practice Sharing by Paritosh Mangrulkar (GE Appliances)

Abstract: OTM 6.3 to 6.4 is a huge leap. Oracle has changed the every single user click for the application, and also from the Technical & integrations perspective there are huge number of changes introduced. From Integrations perspective there are few key areas need to be looked into before upgrade. Every OTM upgrade comes with massive list of new features. We will share the best practice for OTM 6.4.2 upgrade & how to leverage the new features.

Profile: Paritosh Mangrulkar is working as OTM Project Manager & Architect at GE Appliances. Experience in Logistics & Warehousing applications. Implemented OTM in 2011 with Legacy integrations and in 2015 with EBS integrations.

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Multi-echelon matchback optimization with iOT/M by Ashlesh Garate (Accelalpha)

Abstract: With rapidly expanding economies of Asia, positive outlook of trade volume has dramatically increased the pressure on transportation service companies to operate efficiently and meet the ever-growing demand specifically due to the asset shortfall (Fleet/Container and Driver). While transportation companies are cognizant of the efficiencies and cost savings that potentially could be gained through the rationalization of assets, they are often away from institutionalisation of best practices due to lack of holistic solution to the problem statement. A key objective of this session is to understand how Accelalpha is holistically addressing the pain-points of their customers by enabling OTM/IOT on cloud as a service. Following differentiators are the main focal point of the session: (1) Rationalizing the movement of container matchback strategy, (2) Collaborate with third party transporters to convert non-revenue activities to opportunities Order swapping strategy, (3) Real time insights (fleet/driver/shipment visibility) from integrated OTMIoT solution

Profile: Ashlesh has over 10 Years of management consulting, project management and solution architect experience across industry verticals such as manufacturing, FMCG and retail sectors. He has managed the large transformation programs for Fortune-500 enterprises and led delivery and key solution service offering in warehouse and logistics domain. His significant contribution to build go-to-market strategies on emerging technologies and create a quantified value proposition which has resulted in revenue growth for the accounts he has managed. Ashlesh has successfully delivered more than 8 E2E projects with Oracle OTM as a technology which includes providing solution blueprint, fit/gap analysis, functional configuration, estimates, solution write-up and presentations.

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HERE Platform for OTM by Shivendra Pratap (HERE)

Abstract: HERE is the only supplier of current, off-the-shelf global content that provides geographic data conforming to Oracle standards for geocoding, mapping and routing. It uses Oracle Spatial & Graph for managing and processing the HERE Map data. HERE Location Services come preconfigured and pre-integrated into Oracle Transportation Management (End user/integrator adds license keys, URLs). Can be used with OTM Cloud or OTM On premise.

Profile: I am Shivendra Pratap Singh working as Lead Technical support at HERE Technology. I have more than 17 years of experience with different GIS and mapping organization. I am currently responsible for supporting HERE customers with HERE SDK, APIs and HERE Map & Contents.