Oracle Audio Technologies 12.2 manual Overview of Place, Place Enterprise Components

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Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Retail Place and a roadmap for implementing the application. It contains the following sections:

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Overview of Place

Overview of Oracle Configuration Manager

Roadmap for Implementing Place

Overview of Place

Oracle® Retail Place enables retailers to generate and publish recommended allocations based on optimal size profiles, pack configurations, available warehouse inventory or advance shipping notices (ASNs), and forecasted sales. It also enables the retailers to integrate the other systems to capture the daily warehouse inventory, the current ASNs, and generate the recommended allocations to the stores.

Place is a Web-based allocation optimization system that helps retailers optimize the distribution of the merchandise to the stores. It helps the retailers to allocate the right merchandise at the right time to the right stores.

Place Enterprise Components

The Place application is a distributed application, using an application server as the platform for the services, a database, and several other software components. It contains the following components:

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Client System Tier

Application Server Tier

Database Server Tier

The following figure displays a typical configuration:

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