Linda Peel, Industry Lead for Consumer Goods and Retail, spoke about Oracle capabilities that can help Consumer Goods companies generate and evaluate forecasts, provide a base volume that shows trend and seasonality impacts, and evaluate each element of the trade spend across price, merchandising, special store placement, consumer incentives, etc. 

PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 34 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features. Check out the highlights in this post.

Bob Block, PeopleSoft Product Strategy Director at Oracle, gave a presentation about how to utilize PeopleSoft procurement contracts to the full capacity.

In today's consumer landscape, many Millennials are more concerned than ever with supporting brands whose business practices have a positive impact on the environment, employees, and the regions from which they source their materials. People want organic, grass-fed goods when they shop. Accenture's 2018 global consumer pulse report surveyed over 30,000 consumers to find out why they purchase certain brands over another. The results showed an emphasis on what a brand says, does, and stands for, which is why Oracle Chief Sustainability Officer Jon Chorley explained that transparent supply chains improve brand integrity and ultimately get people to shop from that brand.

PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 33 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features.

Joyce Boland, Oracle's Vice President of Applications Global Marketing, wrote about Oracle CEO Mark Hurd's thoughts on the new wave of supply chain automation that is coming in today's workforce.

As part of PeopleSoft Industry Day 2019, representatives from Kaiser Permanente spoke about how the company successfully completed a “quad play” upgrade in 2018 for their single-instance finance and supply chain PeopleSoft ERP supporting 250,000 users.

In PeopleSoft Now! episode three, there are several important topics being discussed – the PeopleSoft Innovators program, PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, and the PeopleSoft FSCM investment strategy. Logesh Balasubramaniam, Director of PeopleSoft Cloud and Digital Services at Presence of IT, and David Bain, Senior Director of PeopleTools Product Management, join to discuss PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and PeopleSoft Cloud Manager. Madhavi Makkapati, PeopleSoft Product Strategy Director from the PeopleSoft FSCM team, also joins to discuss the ongoing investment strategy for PeopleSoft Financials products.