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by prokes 3161 days ago
I am an Oracle consultant specializing in inventory/manufacturing and give you this perspective.

Oracle offers two main products - their legacy, on premise E-Business Suite application, and their new Oracle Cloud offering. The functionality, maturity, customizability, and usability of these products is very different. With EBS, it is super customizable and there is a whole host of open API's you can use to create transactions. You can access the database directly and change data there if you want. Very simple to create custom programs on top of the ERP system and report against it to do what you want. I see companies truly make this their own and succeed with it.

Not so much yet with Oracle Cloud. The inventory / warehouse management systems are nascent and the API's are very limited. They may have some of what you want but there will be something for which an API does not exist and it will be a show stopper. You cannot access the database and building on top is difficult.

Of course, each of these is a $500k+ investment to setup and manage per year. Oracle will try their darndest to push to you to Cloud, but if you truly want customizability you want EBS. If you have further questions or need help feel free to email in profile.