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Process manufacturing has always been one of the more demanding environments to run on any system. You’re not building identical units on a line, you’re blending, reacting, and formulating products where every batch can behave slightly differently. Materials vary. Yields shift.

Regulations don’t budge. And when something goes wrong, the consequences in industries like life sciences, chemicals, or food and beverage can be costly.

Oracle’s latest updates to Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing address exactly this — and the enhancements are worth paying attention to if you’re in this space.

What Oracle Is Actually Solving Here

The core problem with process manufacturing operations has always been fragmentation. Recipe management sits in one place, batch execution in another, quality and traceability somewhere else entirely. When something changes mid-production — a material ratio, a yield deviation, a regulatory requirement — the ripple effect across disconnected systems is where things go wrong.

Oracle’s new capabilities bring these functions into a unified cloud environment. The goal, as Oracle’s Group VP of SCM Product Management put it, is helping manufacturers maintain consistent quality despite the variability in materials, yields, and production conditions that comes with the territory.

Four Areas Where the Updates Land

Recipe and Yield Management Gets Tighter

Changes to a formula or recipe now propagate automatically across the entire manufacturing plan. There’s no longer a gap between what the recipe says and what the batch execution system knows. Oracle has also added operation-level yield modeling — which means teams can get more accurate predictions of production outcomes before a batch even starts, rather than discovering yield problems after the fact.

Batch Execution Becomes More Flexible

Batch sizes in process manufacturing are rarely fixed. Oracle now lets manufacturers define allowable batch size ranges and track intermediate inputs and outputs throughout the production run. This gives operations teams more control over what’s actually happening at each stage — and makes regulatory documentation significantly easier to manage.

Shop Floor Connectivity Improves

Oracle has extended process execution to include material sequencing within operations, multi-operation co-product and by-product recovery, and electronic batch record approvals. The integration with Oracle Smart Operations connects the digital supply chain directly to the shop floor — closing a gap that has historically forced manual workarounds between planning systems and physical production.

Materials Traceability Gets More Granular

For regulated industries, traceability is non-negotiable. The new updates add lot-specific unit-of-measure conversions, lot grade capture for quality tracking, and automated lot expiration calculations with mechanisms to prevent expired lots from entering production. These are the kinds of controls that make the difference during an audit — or when a recall situation needs to be contained quickly.

Why This Matters Beyond the Feature List

What Oracle is building toward is a manufacturing environment where the digital and the physical operate in sync — not just during steady-state production, but when conditions change. A supplier delivers materials outside spec. A yield drops unexpectedly. A regulatory requirement shifts. The question is whether your system helps you adapt in real time or forces you to catch up after the fact.

The embedded AI layer across Oracle Cloud SCM is what gives these enhancements their connective tissue — surfacing signals from the data so operations teams can act faster and with more confidence. For manufacturers who have been running on legacy systems or heavily customized ERP environments, this represents a meaningful step forward in what a cloud platform can actually do for day-to-day operations.

For Teams Evaluating What This Means for Their Environment

If your organization is in life sciences, chemicals, food and beverage, or any process-intensive manufacturing vertical, these updates are directly relevant to how you manage production complexity and compliance pressure. The question worth asking is whether your current setup gives you this level of control — and if not, what the cost of that gap actually is.

If you’re running Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, the 26A roadmap is worth your time. Every quarter, Oracle’s development teams push out hundreds of updates — new features, smarter tools, and forward-looking plans. But the 26A release stands out for one reason: the scale of AI agent rollout across the entire Fusion suite is bigger than anything we’ve seen in a single quarter.

Here’s a plain-language breakdown of what’s new, what’s coming, and why it matters.

ERP Teams, Your Invoice and Banking Workflows Are Getting a Serious Upgrade

On the financials side, Release 26A brings some genuinely useful changes. Invoice handling gets smarter, change orders can now move with less manual intervention, and cash basis accounting support has been expanded — something mid-market finance teams have been waiting on for a while.

The embedded banking integration with Bank of America is also worth watching. Having banking services sitting inside your ERP environment rather than requiring a separate login or middleware connection is the kind of quality-of-life improvement that quietly saves hours every month.

Three new AI agents round out the ERP updates:

Source-to-Settle Assurance Advisor — monitors your procurement-to-payment cycle

Record-to-Report Assurance Advisor — flags gaps and exceptions in your financial close process

Access Request Assistant — simplifies and speeds up user access management

EPM also picks up two new agents plus expanded GenAI features, which should bring some relief to planning teams still spending too much time on manual consolidations.

HR and Talent Teams: The AI Isn’t Replacing Your Process, It’s Filling the Gaps

Oracle Fusion HCM’s 26A update focuses on three areas: Core HR, Talent Management, and Workforce Management. The new AI agents aren’t trying to overhaul how you work — they’re designed to remove the friction that slows things down.

A few highlights worth noting:

Annual review workflows get AI-assisted drafting, so managers spend less time staring at blank comment boxes

Scheduling agents get smarter, helping workforce managers fill gaps faster

Applicant screening enhancements give recruiters better signal earlier in the process

There’s also new GenAI support for note fields and approval workflows — which sounds small but anyone who’s watched a transaction sit in limbo because someone didn’t know what to type in a free-text field will appreciate this.

SCM Gets the Biggest Wave of New Agents in This Release

Supply chain gets the most ground covered in 26A. Oracle released over a dozen new agents in this single update, covering everything from:

Contract negotiation support

Cycle count analysis

Order configuration and fulfillment

The Product 360 Advisor agent — already a useful tool for product teams — gets enhanced in this release. Redwood UI pages continue rolling out across the SCM module, which means a more consistent and cleaner user experience as you navigate between functions.

For companies dealing with complex, multi-step supply chains, the volume of agent coverage in 26A is significant. These aren’t just dashboards — they’re tools designed to surface recommendations and flag issues in the flow of actual work.

CX: Sales, Service, and Marketing Each Get Their Own Set of Tools

The CX updates in 26A are spread across all three pillars — and each one has a clear focus.

Sales teams get AI agents that advise on:

Pipeline health

Product and contract recommendations

Subscription and compensation guidance

These are the kinds of prompts that typically require a manager conversation or a BI report. Having them surface in context, while a rep is already in the deal, changes how quickly people can act.

Service teams gain a new attachment processing agent — useful for organizations handling a high volume of support cases with documents, images, or files attached. Knowledge search also gets a GenAI boost, helping agents find the right answer faster without keyword-hunting through an outdated knowledge base.

Marketing picks up two useful additions: a copywriter assistant agent that helps with campaign content, and advanced bot detection for email metrics. If you’ve ever looked at your email open rates and wondered how much of that traffic was actually human, the bot detection feature is going to give you a much cleaner picture.

How the Roadmap Is Actually Structured (So You Know What to Look For)

Oracle publishes two types of roadmaps on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect — a high-level version covering the full Fusion suite, and solution-level roadmaps that go deeper into specific product families like Financial Management, Procurement, Talent Management, and others.

Each roadmap breaks features into three columns:

Update — what’s already live in the most recent release

Upcoming — features confirmed for the near term

Future — longer-horizon plans that are directionally committed but not yet scheduled

The naming convention follows the calendar year and quarter: 26A is Q1 2026, 26B will be Q2, and so on. Roadmaps are available on the OCCC roadmaps page, but you’ll need to be logged in to access them.

The Bigger Picture

What makes 26A notable isn’t any single feature — it’s the consistency of the pattern. Every pillar, every function, every workflow is getting AI agents layered in. Oracle isn’t waiting for a big-bang AI release. They’re shipping incrementally, quarter by quarter, across the entire suite.

For Oracle customers, that means the value isn’t in waiting for the perfect moment to adopt — it’s in understanding which agents are relevant to your team’s actual pain points right now, and building from there.

If you haven’t already pulled up the 26A roadmap documents, that’s the logical next step

The problem is not the people. It is the tools they have been given. Ask any supply planner what their morning looks like. It rarely starts with strategy. It starts with spreadsheets — cross-referencing purchase orders, chasing supplier updates, and trying to explain why a shipment that was due last Tuesday still has not arrived.

By the time the data is compiled, half the day is gone. And the window for a clean corrective action has already closed.

This is the quiet productivity crisis inside most supply planning teams. And Oracle Fusion Cloud’s Lead-Time Insights AI — explored in depth by supply chain and Oracle specialists — is one of the most practical answers to it.

The Real Problem: Planners Are Detectives When They Should Be Strategists

When a planner cannot quickly identify which suppliers are consistently delivering late, they end up giving equal attention to every supplier — the reliable ones and the problematic ones alike.

That is an enormous waste of time. Skilled professionals who should be tightening procurement strategy and building supplier relationships are instead piecing together what happened from emails, carrier reports, and manually updated logs.

The downstream effects compound fast. Late supplier deliveries delay production. Delayed production misses customer commitments. Missed commitments cost revenue and relationships.

And sitting at the start of that chain is a planner who simply did not have clear enough data to act in time.

Supplier Variance Table — Where the Fog Lifts

The starting point inside Lead-Time Insights AI is the Supplier Variance Table, and it is more useful than it sounds.

It breaks supplier delivery behaviour into concrete, comparable numbers:

Average days late per supplier

Variance percentages across order history

Historical performance trends over time

This matters because averages alone lie. A supplier might show an acceptable average delivery time while hiding a pattern of severe delays on specific product categories or during peak seasons. The variance table surfaces those patterns — giving planners a ranked, evidence-based view of exactly where the disruption is actually coming from.

The practical result is straightforward. Planners stop spreading their attention across fifty suppliers and focus their energy on the five causing eighty percent of the problems. That shift alone reclaims hours every single week.

Order Details View — Every Delay Becomes a Traceable Story

Knowing which suppliers are underperforming is the first step. Understanding why is where the real value sits.

The Order Details View makes every order fully traceable — when it was placed, when it was expected, when it actually arrived, and what the variance was. Delay data stops being abstract trend lines and becomes specific, investigable events.

A planner can see that a particular shipment was twelve days late, trace it to a customs clearance bottleneck at a specific port, and immediately check whether the same pattern repeats across other orders from that region.

That granularity completely changes supplier conversations. Instead of walking into a review meeting with a general complaint, planners walk in with documented evidence — specific orders, specific dates, specific variances. Those conversations resolve faster and produce more actionable outcomes.

What This Does for Productivity — In Plain Terms

The gains show up in three ways that matter day to day.

Faster decisions. When the top variance drivers are visible at a glance, planners do not spend half the day building the case for why a supplier needs attention. The data makes the case automatically.

Leaner meetings. Supplier performance reviews that used to require hours of manual preparation now start from a shared, live view of the facts. Less time on “here is what happened.” More time on “here is what we are going to do about it.”

Root causes get fixed, not just managed. When planners can see order-level detail, they stop patching symptoms. A recurring customs delay at a specific port gets solved structurally — not managed reactively every time it surfaces.

Where This Makes the Biggest Difference

Pharmaceuticals — Drug supply chains have zero tolerance for delay. Lead-Time Insights AI helps pharma planners spot recurring supplier issues at the batch level early enough to trigger contingency sourcing before a gap in supply actually materialises.

Industrial Manufacturing — Unplanned downtime in heavy manufacturing costs thousands per hour. Having a continuously updated picture of which suppliers are most at risk means planners can act before a critical component shortage stops the production line.

Consumer Packaged Goods — FMCG supply chains run on thin margins and tight windows. Identifying recurring carrier delay patterns and fixing them structurally keeps the chain flowing — rather than constantly reacting to the same disruptions.

A Real-World Example Worth Knowing

A mid-sized pharmaceutical manufacturer had a recurring problem. Supplier delays were being discovered late — often only after production schedules had already slipped — because there was no centralised view of incoming shipment performance. Information was scattered across emails, carrier portals, and manually maintained spreadsheets.

After deploying Lead-Time Insights AI, the planning team used the Supplier Variance Table and Order Details View as their primary daily tools. Within one quarter, the results were measurable:

Planner investigation time dropped significantly

Supplier review meetings became data-driven, cutting prep time in half

Repeat delays from the same root causes reduced noticeably

They did not add headcount. They gave their existing planners better visibility — and the productivity followed naturally.

The Shift That Actually Matters

Lead-Time Insights AI saves planners time — but that undersells what is really happening.

When planners have clear, reliable, granular data, the entire character of the supply planning function changes. It stops being reactive and starts being proactive. Supplier relationships become more honest because both sides are working from the same facts.

Teams that have successfully implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud consistently report the same outcome — planners stop spending their energy figuring out what happened and start spending it preventing what is about to happen. That shift, from firefighting to genuine supply chain management, is what the right Oracle deployment makes possible.

If your team is still spending more time chasing data than acting on it, the tools exist to change that. Understanding what deployment looks like for your specific environment is the right first step — and speaking with an experienced Oracle partner is the fastest way to get a clear picture of what is actually involved.

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