Siloed Systems? Connect to Better Results with Redwood

No matter your industry, chances are you’ve invested in software from Oracle and other providers to optimize your operations. As data volumes increase, demand becomes more volatile, the supply chain grows in complexity, and disruptions mount, digital solutions are the only way to master today’s logistics challenges. Human analysis and manual processes simply can’t keep up.

If you’re like most Redwood customers, solutions like Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), Global Trade Management (GTM), and Oracle Warehouse Management (WMS) are adding value in your organization. They’re helping your teams by gathering data, analyzing it, and driving fast, fact-based decisions with predictable outcomes.

But owning and leveraging these advanced systems isn’t enough. You may be realizing only a fraction of the potential value of these solutions if they’re not connected to each other in real time—as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, order management systems (OMS), carrier platforms, customer systems, and other digital components of the supply chain.

Disconnected, siloed systems can actually work at cross-purposes—using different data sources and chasing diverse, sometimes conflicting, goals. When solutions are disconnected, it’s hard for cross-functional teams to agree on where the supply chain is today, let alone master the tough challenges that stand in the way of optimal performance.

Complex Challenges Demand Simplified Systems

While the problem is complex, the solution is straightforward: You need to simplify and integrate your solutions, whether from Oracle or other vendors. Today’s difficult challenges require intelligent, advanced systems that are connected in real time, access the same data, and share the same rules and guardrails—customized by you.

A simplified, connected system provides alignment and purpose for hundreds of day-to-day decisions. A missed inbound delivery logged in OTM is immediately visible to the warehouse team using WMS. Customer orders, picking tasks, workforce schedules, shipping plans, and other affected supply chain components can be intelligently, and profitably, adjusted. An alternate carrier or source of supply can be identified quickly.

It’s easy to see the benefits of this real-time connectivity and awareness, especially when you contrast it with the slow pace of manual handoffs, spreadsheet-based reports and logs, and email communications.

In the disconnected, siloed tech environment that exists within many supply chains, inefficiencies and wasted costs abound. It might take hours for the warehouse team to realize a delivery isn’t coming. In the meantime, employees have reported for their shifts, daily priorities have been established, and customers are awaiting their orders. Delivery reliability, service levels, and margins are going south, but no one even knows.

Today’s digital solutions do a fantastic job of honoring functional rules, automating decisions, and improving performance in a given area like transportation. But their real power emerges when they’re seamlessly connected and aligned for cross-functional success, driving “good for the enterprise” decisions. Not only can they track and measure supply chain key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time, but they can also drive improvements in those shared KPIs.

As a Modern 4PL, Redwood Knows Logistics—and Technology

While 3PLs know logistics, Redwood is a Modern 4PL that also knows advanced technology, inside and out. Our experts understand how to optimize the physical supply chain, as well as the digital supply chain that underlies it.

As a longtime member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Redwood has managed over 500 Oracle implementations, upgrades, and customizations. We have deep expertise in Oracle solutions, including OTM, GTM, and WMS—and can help you leverage their full features and functionality. Whether customers are implementing Oracle software, improving what they’ve already built, or adding new modules, we help make the process fast and manageable.

But we also know how to create an ideal technology ecosystem where Oracle solutions deliver their highest value. By directly connecting your Oracle software—as well as your internal systems like an ERP or OMS— via our RedwoodConnect™ integration platform, we align your digital supply chain for success. Instead of focusing on narrow functional metrics, you can gain traction in reaching higher-level goals like profitability, service, and sustainability—backed by a simplified and connected tech landscape.

As a 4PL, our team also helps you establish new partnerships, bring in new technology, and design new network models. We make tech environments more connected, easier to manage, and aligned to how modern supply chains operate—with a focus on Oracle, as well as complementary logistics solutions and systems.

RedwoodConnect™ can also create integrations with your carriers and customers, for even greater impacts on profitability, service, sustainability, and other top-level objectives. Our customer commitment is to drive a maximum return on investment (ROI) for all your supply chain systems, assets, and relationships.

You’ve Made the Investments. Now Grow Your Returns.

At Redwood, we’re firm believers in Oracle solutions and other advanced technologies that keep the world’s supply chains running. We’ve witnessed more than 500 customers—retailers, manufacturers, and wholesale distributors—realize incredible value from their Oracle investments.

But we’ve also seen firsthand the exponential value that’s made possible by integrating all your tech investments and aligning them around shared data, shared processes, and shared strategic objectives.

How can you leverage our deep logistics and technology expertise in your own operations? A great starting point is our Logistics Health Assessment. We’ll focus on your tech solutions and architecture, as well as how those investments support your larger business goals. Reach out to Redwood and start growing your tech returns, and your supply chain results, today.