Advisory Boards, Strategy Councils, and Workshops

Advisory Boards,
Strategy Councils,
and Workshops

Get Involved in the Oracle Supply Chain Community

Our supply chain customer community is made up of savvy professionals dedicated to modernizing their business operations for a competitive advantage. To strengthen that community and provide opportunities for our Modern Supply Chain Experience attendees to learn from one another in focused settings, we’ll host a series of customer advisory boards, strategy councils, and workshops on Monday, January 29 and Thursday, February 1, 2018.

Some sessions are available to all Modern Supply Chain Experience attendees and some are invitation-only. To register for a session, follow the registration instructions in the session description.

Adaptive Intelligence for SCM
Monday, January 29 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
San Jose Convention Center, Room: LL 20D

Open to All Modern Supply Chain Experience Conference Attendees

In this interactive session, experts from Oracle Applications Development share Oracle’s vision for Adaptive Intelligence (“AI”) Applications for Supply Chain Management. These new applications are leveraging deep machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to provide actionable insights and real-time recommendations by analyzing massive amounts of data. Learn how your organization can amplify value across your entire applications portfolio with our suite of adaptive intelligence apps that enhance human decision making to reduce risk. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get a preview of AI applications for SCM and share your business use cases!

Registration instructions: Open to all attendees, although space is limited. To register, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com.

Calling All Maintenance Folks: Plot Your Journey for the Modern Supply Chain Experience
Monday, January 29 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
San Jose Convention Center, Room: 21BC

Open to All Modern Supply Chain Experience Conference Attendees

Kick off your week with this Homeroom session, where you can connect with your Maintenance peers and Oracle experts while you learn about the lineup of sessions and activities that we have in store for you at the Modern Supply Chain Experience. Use this insight to plot your journey so you can make the most of your week at the conference.

Registration instructions: Open to all attendees, although space is limited. To register, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com.

Oracle IoT Cloud Customer Advisory Board SOLD OUT
Monday, January 29 | 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
San Jose Convention Center, Room: 21D

Oracle IoT Cloud Customer Advisory Board (CAB) will be a gathering of key customers and partners. IoT CAB will include:

  • IoT Applications product updates and roadmap presentations
  • Customer experience & partner solution presentations
  • Feedback sessions
  • Opportunities to interact one-on-one with Oracle IoT engineering and product management

Registration Instructions: If you are an approved member of the Oracle IoT Cloud Customer Advisory Board and want to attend, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you are not currently part of the Oracle IoT Cloud Customer Advisory Board, please contact harish.gaur@oracle.com for more information.

Executive Overview of Oracle Maintenance Cloud
Monday, January 29 | 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and
Thursday, February 1 | 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Hilton San Jose, 300 South Almaden Boulevard

EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) Masters will take you through the features and functions of Oracle Maintenance Cloud. They will review what’s new and different from Oracle eAM. Find out how ready your company is to take advantage of the opportunity to shift to the Cloud. Meet face to face with expert Oracle instructors and ask questions throughout the learning sessions. The lessons will focus on the latest R13 release and also review the Maintenance Cloud Roadmap describing future upgrades. The lessons will be presented using a mix of interactive instruction and system demonstrations.

Registration instructions: Open to all Modern Supply Chain Experience attendees, although space is limited. Register here.

SCM Analytics Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 8:00am – 1:00pm
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Blossom Hill I and II

Oracle’s Business Intelligence (BI) Applications provide a comprehensive and integrated suite of products that empower users to gather insights and drive actions across their Supply Chains. The objectives of the Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is to hear from you, our customers regarding your reporting and analytics business needs! In our conversations, we would like to hear more about your pain points and challenges with unmet user needs, identify reporting and analytics gaps in OTBI, and solicit feedback on future product direction for our BI Analytics offerings.

This CAB is a great opportunity to help us define the roadmap while simultaneously building out your network with other Oracle customers. Our ask of you is to actively participate and share your best practices with not only the Analytics team, but with your peers as well.

If you are an approved member of the SCM Analytics Customer Advisory Board and want to attend, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you are not currently part of the SCM Analytics Customer Advisory Board, please contact ashlesh.bajpai@oracle.com for more information.

Complex Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (cMRO) Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Ballroom Salon II

The cMRO Customer Advisory Board is a collaborative group of customer representatives with expertise and vision in the area of complex assembly maintenance. The Customer Advisory Board provides an opportunity for you to gain insight into recent releases, ongoing development activities as well as our plans for future projects. Attendees can discuss challenges and opportunities as well as share their needs and priorities with other participants. The Customer Advisory Board offers the perfect environment for building a closer relationship with the Oracle team and provides opportunities to meet face-to-face and learn from other Oracle cMRO customers.

Registration instructions: The cMRO Customer Advisory Board is open to customers and partners by invitation only. If you have received an invitation, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact michael.payne@oracle.com.

Innovation Management Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Oracle San Jose Office, 488 South Almaden Avenue, Room: 2006

The Innovation Management Cloud Customer Advisory Board provides an opportunity for you to review and provide input into planned and future product direction for innovation ideation, requirements, concepts, and portfolio processes. We will discuss the innovation cycle from ideation through the commercialization and budgeting process. Attendees can discuss challenges and opportunities as well as share their additional business needs and priorities with other participants.

This Customer Advisory Board offers the perfect environment for building a closer relationship with the Oracle team and other Oracle Innovation Management customers. Our ask from you is active participation and a willingness to discuss your best process activities with others.

Registration instructions: Innovation Management Customer Advisory Board is open to customers that have already purchased Innovation Management. However, attendance at this meeting is subject to approval and requires a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA). If you are an approved member of the Innovation Management Cloud Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact gayle.hayes@oracle.com.

Maintenance Cloud Strategy Council
Thursday, February 1 | 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Ballroom Salon III

Please join our Maintenance Cloud Strategy Council as we review and discuss our plans for cloud maintenance. This is a great opportunity for you to learn about the Oracle Cloud strategy and provide input on our design documents and screen mock-ups. The Maintenance Cloud Strategy Council environment encourages you to build a closer relationship with the Oracle team and provides opportunities to learn from other Oracle customers. All we ask from you is active participation and a willingness to discuss your best practice activities with others.

Registration instructions: The Maintenance Cloud Strategy Council is open to customers and partners by invitation only. Attendance at this meeting is subject to approval, and attendees are required to have a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA) in place prior to attending. If you are an approved member of the Maintenance Cloud Strategy Council or interested in joining, please contact Jennifer.allen@oracle.com for more information.

Manufacturing Cloud Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Ballroom Salon V

This is your opportunity to get involved with our Manufacturing Cloud development organization to address ongoing and future requirements for aspects of your internal and contract manufacturing processes in the cloud. We will discuss the full manufacturing cycle, from planning through production and quality testing, followed by optimizing the rest of the supply chain. The Manufacturing Cloud CAB is run jointly with Oracle Strategy, Development, and Product Management and provides a forum in which attendees can discuss challenges and opportunities as well as share their needs and priorities with these groups.

This Customer Advisory Board offers the perfect environment for building a closer relationship with the Oracle team and provides opportunities to learn from other Oracle customers. Our ask of you is active participation and a willingness to discuss your best practice activities with others. You will also gain from collective knowledge, professional and career experiences, and best practices thinking, with a distinguished group of peers from a variety of organizations, disciplines, and global regions and apply the experience and knowledge gained to issues within each member’s own organization.

Registration instructions: Each customer is limited to 3 attendees. Attendance at this meeting is subject to approval and requires a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA). If you are an approved member of the Oracle Manufacturing Cloud Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact karen.theel@oracle.com.

Oracle Global Trade Management Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Ballroom Salon VI

The Oracle Global Trade Management Customer Advisory Board is a dedicated group of customer representatives with passion, expertise and vision in global trade management processes. The group works in partnership with the Oracle Global Trade Management Strategy and Development teams to provide strategic input on product direction. The Customer Advisory Board provides collaborative work sessions between the Oracle Global Trade Management team and key customers to allow the customers to articulate global trade compliance requirements as well as share strategic trade initiatives for their company as it pertains to the business processes enabled by the Oracle Global Trade Management product suite.

The Oracle Global Trade Management Customer Advisory Board provides attendees with the opportunity to:

  • Influence product design and direction
  • Obtain direct contact with product development teams
  • Provide input on future functionality and releases
  • Obtain knowledge of industry best practices from participating companies
  • Learn from peers about how they are using Oracle Applications in the real world and where they are going

Registration instructions: By invitation only. Each customer is limited to three representatives and must have a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA). Other prerequisites for membership exist. If you are an approved member of the Oracle Global Trade Management Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact maria.matheny@oracle.com.

Oracle Warehouse Management Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Ballroom Salon I

The Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud (LogFire) Customer Advisory Board is a focused group of customer representatives with expertise and vision in warehouse management processes. The group meets with the Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud Strategy and Development teams to provide strategic input on product direction. The Customer Advisory Board provides collaborative work sessions between the Oracle Warehouse Management team and key customers to allow the customers to articulate and share the strategic vision for their company as it pertains to the business processes enabled by the Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud product suite.

The Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud Customer Advisory Board provides attendees with the opportunity to:

  • Influence product design and direction
  • Obtain direct contact with product development teams
  • Provide input on future functionality and releases
  • Obtain knowledge of industry best practices from participating companies
  • Learn from peers about how they are using Oracle Applications in the real world and where they are going

Registration instructions: By invitation only. Each customer is limited to three representatives and must have a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA). Other prerequisites for membership exist. If you are an approved member of the Oracle Warehouse Management Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact susan.flierl@oracle.com.

Supply Chain Planning Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Ballroom Salon IV

The Supply Chain Planning Customer Advisory Board working group is a collaborative undertaking between the Oracle Supply Chain Planning development team and selected customers. The content and schedule of sessions are designed to complement the product development lifecycle. This will enable customer input and feedback to become an integral part of the overall development process.

Attendees in this Customer Advisory Board will get the opportunity to:

  • Share experience and knowledge on how to use Oracle Supply Chain Planning functionality effectively
  • Use it as a forum for customers and Oracle to jointly identify areas of further improvement, set priorities, and drive the Oracle Supply Chain Planning roadmap to achieve best-in-class functionality
  • Quantify business value associated with Oracle Supply Chain Planning enhancement areas
  • Review and validate Oracle Supply Chain Planning product plans and enhancements
  • Provide necessary depth and background on Oracle Supply Chain Planning enhancements tagged for inclusion in future releases

Registration instructions: By invitation only. Each customer is limited to two representatives and must have a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA). If you are an approved member of the Supply Chain Planning Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you are interested in attending and not currently on the board, please contact kiran.saindane@oracle.com.

Oracle Product Hub Customer Advisory Board
Thursday, February 1 | 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, Room: Willow Glen III

Advanced Registration Required

You may be like a lot of customers that still struggle to meet key business objectives in the face of increasing customer demands, supply chain complexities and a rapidly evolving IT landscape. You need clean, reliable and integrated product data to efficiently run your ERP, Supply Chain and Omni-Channel Commerce processes to meet your objectives. Common product data challenges you may be experiencing include:

  • Multiple systems that create or consume product information
  • Manual and inefficient product data maintenance
  • Lack of change control and governance
  • Poor data quality such as duplicate part numbers, insufficient detail on commerce channels, or non-standardized descriptions

Oracle Product Hub Cloud helps companies establish a digital thread with capabilities to effectively aggregate, enrich, govern, and share clean and accurate product information across the enterprise. It also provides a best-practice approach to cloud adoption by providing a foundation for a clean and accurate product data record across cloud and on-premise applications.

Oracle Product Hub Customer Advisory Board is a collaborative forum where a select set of strategic customers can engage with Oracle strategy and development teams. You will be able to discuss use cases, pain points, implementation details, and have the opportunity to review and give valuable input into the product roadmap.

Registration instructions: Attendance at this meeting is subject to approval and requires a current corporate Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA). If you are an approved member of the Oracle Product Hub Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact kirk.carlsen@oracle.com or sachin.patel@oracle.com.

Oracle Product Development and Quality Management Cloud Workshop
Thursday, February 1 | 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Oracle San Jose Office, 488 South Almaden Avenue, Room: 2010

Advanced Registration Required

Take advantage of the opportunity to discuss product lifecycle management and scenarios focused on the Product Development Cloud and Quality Management Cloud solutions. During this session, Oracle strategy and development teams will share how these applications can manage item and quality use cases throughout the lifecycle. In addition to presenting the latest features, there will be time spent discussing industry requirements and where we may see changes in those requirements due to development and supply chain evolving complexities.

This workshop offers the perfect environment for building closer relationships with the Oracle team and other Oracle customers. We look forward to for your active participation and your willingness to discuss your best process activities with others. If you are an approved member of the Product Development and/or Product Quality Customer Advisory Board, please contact the Modern Supply Chain Experience registration office at MSCEreg@travelhq.com to register. If you have questions, please contact Steven.Delzell@oracle.com.