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3M3M Adopts Oracle for Plan to Produce
3M, an industrials organization in the United States, uses NetSuite from Oracle to support plan to produce for planners and plant leads.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because supply and production planning has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in plan to produce sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how plan to produce actually runs |
Story
Inside 3M, plan to produce used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in industrials groups working out of the United States. Planners and plant leads needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
3M uses NetSuite from Oracle as the working layer for supply and production planning. Oracle delivers enterprise applications, databases, and cloud infrastructure, including Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The practical change is simple: plan to produce has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What 3M gets from Oracle is a durable place to run plan to produce and a way for planners and plant leads to see the same supply and production planning at the same time.
