Daily blog · Oracle Supply Chain Management
Gowtham KumarShivakumar
Oracle Cloud SCM Consulting Manager. One practical entry, every day.
- Procurement & P2P
- Inventory & Costing
- SCM Simplified on YouTube
About
Gowtham Kumar Shivakumar is an Oracle SCM Consulting Manager. His core work sits in Procurement, Procure to Pay, and Inventory and Costing, with a growing practice in Manufacturing and Supply Planning, built across projects in manufacturing, healthcare, retail and distribution, and the public sector.
His work is the hands-on side of implementations. Requirements sessions, configuration builds, test cycles, and the steady stream of issues that sit between a design document and a working system. It is detailed work, and it teaches him something new almost every day.
This site is his working notebook, published every day. Each entry covers one practical thing. A configuration that behaved strangely. A setting worth knowing about. A lesson pulled from a live issue. Read it and skip a mistake he already made. Longer walkthroughs live on his YouTube channel, SCM Simplified.
If Oracle Cloud SCM is your world too, say hello on LinkedIn. He reads every message.
Blog
- Five Create Accounting Errors in Cost Management and How to Fix ThemMonth end is close. The cost processor runs, and instead of clean distributions it throws a wall of errors, transactions stuck unprocessed, the period refusing to close. Everyone looks at the costing consul...
- Cycle Count Setup: The Tolerance Cascade Auditors Look ForTwo warehouses run cycle counts. One posts every adjustment automatically and wonders why its inventory accuracy score keeps drifting. The other holds the right counts for review and catches the errors bef...
- Receiving Parameters: The Settings That Quietly Control EverythingA warehouse clerk receives a shipment two weeks early, three hundred units over what was ordered, against a PO that already had an advance shipment notice. No warning fired. No block. The receipt sailed thr...
- Enabling the Redwood Purchase Orders Page: The Complete SetupA consultant flips on the Redwood profile option for purchase orders, tells the client it is ready, and moves on. The next morning a buyer opens the s...
- Mass Editing POs and Agreements with the Visual Builder Excel Add-inA buyer has three hundred purchase orders that all need the same buyer reassigned. Or four thousand agreement lines with a price update. Or a batch of...
- What Autocreate Actually Decides in Requisition to POTwo requisition lines go in. One purchase order line comes out, with the quantities added together. Most of the time that is exactly right, and nobody...
- Supplier Sites vs Addresses: The Mistake That Breaks POsA supplier is set up. The address is right there on the screen, correct to the letter. Then someone tries to raise a purchase order against it, and th...
- Building the Procurement Policy Advisor in Oracle FusionSomeone needs a new laptop. They open a requisition, and a question freezes them. Does this need a quote? Is there a preferred supplier? What is the s...
- Special Handling in Oracle Fusion: Beyond Bill OnlyA nurse scans an implant into a patient, mid surgery. No purchase order. No requisition. No receipt. The device left the shelf and went straight into ...
- Personalizing the Springboard and Navigator for a Smooth Redwood TransitionRedwood is the best thing to happen to the Oracle Fusion home page in years. Cleaner screens, smarter layouts, less clutter. And Oracle is rolling it ...
- Day 1: Why This Blog ExistsHere is a bet worth making. One post a day about Oracle Supply Chain Management, every day, no skipping. The configurations nobody documents. The sett...