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Oracle Transportation Management (OTM)

Within five months, Osol successfully implemented and operationalized OTM application for all of Fatima Fertilizer's inbound and outbound operations.

OTM platform enabled Fatima Fertilizer to automate and optimize transportation planning, execution, and settlement of freight bills. Furthermore, the complete process cycle is streamlined by integrating Fatima Fertilizer's core financial inventory and order management applications with OTM cloud, improving the payment cycle of freight bills from 28 to 5 days.

Upto
70%
Process Efficiency
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20M
Annual Freight Cost Saving (PKR)
Upto
50%
Reduced Paper Utilization
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80%
Improved Payment Cycle

Business Operations

Domestic network of three plants and over 150 warehouses.

Logistics operations span across 6500 plus customer locations.

Inbound and outbound logistics planning is decentralized and managed by different teams.

Warehouse-to-customer order deliveries are not managed in-house but are done through self-pickup at warehouses by customers.

Multi-modal logistics.

Operations also include import/export.

Challenges

Lack of enterprise system to manage the logistics operations.

Lack of scalability of current processes and systems.

Non-alignment of inbound and outbound logistics.

Reactive exception handling on inbound shipments.

Lack of real-time visibility in the shipment life cycle.

Mismanagement of key stakeholders.

Lack of audit trail in the end-to-end processes.

Inability to monitor performances.

Challenges in Operator Rounds

Fatima Fertilizer engaged the Osol team for advisory services to evaluate the current state of operations and challenges being faced by the business team in the complete transportation cycle.

The Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) at Osol identified the need for a comprehensive platform for transportation management at Fatima Fertilizer and advised implementation of OTM cloud application as the best fit to streamline complete process cycle.

Fatima Fertilizer management decided to subscribe and implement the OTM application to manage transportation operations and implementation service contract was awarded to Osol.

Benefits of Oracle Transportation Management Implementation

Operational Efficiencies and Cost Reduction

  • Reduction of transportation costs through order consolidation opportunities.
  • Maximum truck capacity through proper load planning.
  • Well-defined sequence of delivery.

Business Process Improvements

  • Reduction of operational and functional waste in business processes by proper automation.
  • Reduction of time spent managing the consolidation.
  • Reduction of time for the freight settlement process.

Visibility

  • Improved visibility of orders and their shipments through their lifecycle.
  • Increased visibility of the transportation and operational metrics, enabling cost reduction.
  • Improved visibility of exception handling during the shipment execution.