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Oracle Unveils Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud


Oracle Unveils Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud
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  • January 12, 2026

Oracle today unveiled Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration, a new cloud solution designed to help retailers navigate an increasingly unpredictable and complex supplier landscape. The platform enhances operational oversight, efficiency, vendor coordination, and compliance to protect margins and maintain customer satisfaction in the retail sector.

Quick Intel

  • Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration delivers AI- and data-driven insights to improve forecast accuracy and alert retailers to potential supply chain disruptions, including shifts in consumer demand or regulatory changes.
  • Integrated with Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS), it enables direct collaboration with suppliers for site assessments, production facility reviews, and pre-selection processes.
  • Retailers can issue urgent notifications to users and suppliers for changes, expedited actions, and acknowledgments to streamline workflows.
  • The solution supports enhanced supplier coordination, compliance management, sustainability goals, and merchandising operations through a unified portal.
  • Key benefits include data sharing for transparency, collection of sustainability certifications and audits, supplier evaluation and scoring, streamlined merchandising delegation, and contextual workflows.
  • Future planned AI digital assistant capabilities will allow simple prompts to find and summarize key supplier information.

Addressing Supply Chain Risks with Actionable Insights

Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration provides retailers with tools to mitigate risks from natural disasters, global trade shifts, and other uncertainties. By offering data-driven visibility, the solution improves forecast accuracy and proactively alerts to disruptions that could delay inventory shipments or impact operations. This helps retailers balance supply chains to meet customer expectations while complying with ESG and regulatory requirements.

Enhancing Supplier Collaboration and Compliance

The platform empowers retailers to manage merchandising operations globally by aligning practices with business objectives, compliance standards, and sustainability goals—from pre-selection through order fulfillment. Categorized activity lists and assignment views allow easy organization, filtering, and quick status updates for processes, activities, sites, and documents. Retailers can customize audit notifications for targeted communications. Direct integration with Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service enables automatic creation or updating of product records at the style or SKU level using supplier and item codes for efficient data synchronization.

Core Benefits for Retail Operations

Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration offers several advantages to boost efficiency and resilience:

  • Data Sharing and Collaboration: Share practices, policies, and critical information with suppliers, fostering transparency and better coordination
  • Sustainability and Compliance: Collect sustainability certifications, quality assurances, and compliance audits and assessments to make more informed decisions and maintain high standards
  • Evaluation and Pre-selection: Evaluate, score, and grade items to pre-select and continuously monitor suppliers, supporting ongoing compliance
  • Streamline Merchandising: Delegate specific responsibilities to suppliers and share data through a centralized portal to improve merchandising operations and efficiency
  • Contextual Workflows: Create, review, and approve essential merchandising data using contextual workflows, offering a structured and organized process

"From natural disasters to shifting global trade conditions, retailers are in a constant battle to better balance their supply chains to meet customer expectations, comply with ESG and regulatory requirements, and protect their bottom line," said Paul Woodward, global vice president, Oracle Retail Products. "This solution gives retailers the AI-and data-driven visibility and intelligence needed to navigate complex supply chain and vendor relationships to help mitigate financial, operational, and reputational risks."

The solution is being showcased at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show in New York, booth #5739, January 11-13. Retailers can book a demo or learn more via Oracle resources.

 

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