Through its SCM solutions, Oracle can manage its transportation and global commerce operations, while streamlining daily warehousing needs (Oracle SCM Solutions- Transportation Management). Using Oracle Transportation Management, they have the ability to manage all transportation activities throughout their supply chain, allowing them to optimize service levels and automate the many processes to keep operations running more efficiently. As noted above, TMS can offer various functions to support a business, such as business intelligence, item visibility, and carrier contract management. Oracle's Transportation Management Service Provider accordingly provides similar services to improve procedures such as transportation intelligence, carrier visibility and procurement (Oracle SCM Solutions-Transportation Management). Transportation Intelligence attempts to track items/orders/shipments, make appropriate changes to improve costs and services, and monitor metrics against baselines and forecasts (Oracle SCM Solutions-Transportation Management). A key feature of TMS was the ability to track orders from pickup to delivery. Oracle focuses its practices on visibility, to ensure they provide superior service. Within its scope of visibility, Oracle manages the order lifecycle through automatic monitoring of milestones, inventory on hand and in transit throughout the extended supply chain, and tracks/traces each stage of the order lifecycle. their global shipments (Oracle SCM Solutions-Transportation Gestion). Additionally, through Carrier Sourcing, Oracle is able to negotiate pricing with its service providers, understand the financial impact before committing to pricing changes, and optimize deal execution through in the negotiation of rates (Oracle SCM Solutions-Transportation Management). Oracle provides a lot