Oracle has officially announced the launch of new AI agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to help supply chain leaders enhance end-to-end supply chain performance.
According to certain reports, this assortment of agents will leverage Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications to enable planners, managers, and logistics teams in the context of automating supply chain processes, optimizing planning and fulfillment, and making faster, data-driven decisions.
 Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from Oracle’s all new Planning Advisor for Exceptions and Notes Agent, designed to help inventory planners quickly understand supply chain plan details, reduce analysis time, and accelerate decision-making. More on that would reveal how the given agent can seamlessly filter plan data by value, date range, or type to deliver a clear summary of key exception alerts and planning notes.
Next up, we have the Product 360 Advisor Agent, capable of empowering inventory planners to minimize supply disruptions. Here, the idea is to assess product availability, open orders, and usage across locations, while simultaneously identifying where specific products are stocked or are in use during urgent situations like a product recall and suggest alternative strategies.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted one Product Comparison Advisor Agent, who will be tasked with guiding procurement teams to take more accurate sourcing decisions. The agent in question can also generate side-by-side comparisons of products or components, including technical specifications, costs, lead times, and compliance or business attributes.
Then, there is the Quote to Purchase Requisition Assistant Agent, geared towards reducing manual effort, saving time, and minimizing errors across a typical procurement operation. As for how it will do so, the answer resides in automating the supplier quote intake to requisition process. On top of that, the agent can effectively capture supplier quotes and generate requisitions with quote details.
Joining that would be a bleeding-edge Disposition Assistant for Rejects Agent. This agent will support production supervisors big time in their perpetual pursuit of achieving timely delivery for quality products, realizing it all by assessing rejected items during production. To go along witn that, the said agent can even provide instant access to inspection details and past work orders for rejected items, as well as recommend automated actions to improve efficiency.
Oracle would take the given opportunity to reveal Maintenance Work Order Builder Agent, focused on helping maintenance teams manage work orders, reduce manual effort, and ensure quick repairs. Such a mechanism can also create or update work orders, assign operations, parts, resources, and streamline follow-up tasks.
Beyond that, users can even come expecting a specialized Item Shortages Analysis Agent, a solutions which is masterfully engineered to maintain operational continuity, using a dedicated mechanism for assessing, analyzing, and resolving item shortages. This agent can even go a step ahead to quickly identify items that are out of stock, provide real-time visibility into expected supply levels, and recommend approved substitutes or alternative sources.
Moving on to Material Expiration Analysis Agent, it can effortlessly help inventory managera in maximizing consumption and minimizing waste with the help of greater understanding on expiring material lots. Complementing that would be the technology’s ability to pinpoint expiring lots and their locations, assess on-hand quantities against current and projected demand, as as well as initiate transfer transactions.
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon Oracle’s ASN Creation Assistant Agent. The relevant agent can tread up a long distance to improve supply visibility with more accurate expected receipt dates, an improvement stemming from the creation of Advanced Shipment Notifications (ASNs).
Alongside that, the agent responsible can also generate an ASN using text-based input without navigating multiple pages or manually entering details, such as purchase order, quantity, lot numbers, or serial numbers.
“As supply chains become increasingly complex and customer expectations continue to rise, supply chain leaders can create a competitive advantage by re-architecting their operations for resilience and responsiveness,” said Chris Leone, executive vice president of Applications Development, Oracle. “The new AI agents embedded in Oracle Fusion Applications help supply chain leaders take this opportunity to optimize supply chain performance and drive business impact by enabling them to make faster, more informed decisions and automate time-consuming tasks.”
