Oracle introduces AI-powered features within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to streamline healthcare supply chain operations, boosting efficiency, transparency, and patient care.
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| Oracle unveils advanced AI tools at the Health & Life Sciences Summit, designed to optimize healthcare supply chain operations, cut costs, and improve patient care. Image: Oracle/ CH |
Orlando, USA – September 13, 2025:
At the Oracle Health & Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Florida, Oracle announced a new suite of AI-powered capabilities integrated within its Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. These tools are designed to help healthcare organizations streamline their supply chain operations, offering a significant boost to inventory management and procurement processes. By leveraging AI, Oracle aims to assist healthcare providers in improving operational efficiency, enhancing transparency, and, ultimately, providing better care for patients.
With healthcare organizations under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality patient care while managing costs, Oracle's new solutions promise to address these challenges head-on. As Kristen Miles, Oracle’s Vice President of Healthcare Product Strategy, emphasized, the enhanced capabilities within Oracle Fusion Applications enable organizations to automate workflows, reduce manual intervention, and gain real-time visibility into medical supplies—factors that will allow healthcare professionals to concentrate on what matters most: delivering exceptional patient care.
One of the central features of Oracle's new offerings is the Oracle Fusion Cloud Advanced Inventory Management solution, which integrates AI-driven automation to optimize stock levels, prevent shortages of essential items such as PPE, and trigger automatic replenishment. This solution also helps streamline routine inventory tasks, reducing the likelihood of errors and inefficiencies. Hospitals will benefit from improvements in their logistics as AI-powered autonomous mobile robots—developed in collaboration with ST Engineering Aethon—automate the movement of supplies within healthcare facilities, particularly between stockrooms and automatic replenishment areas.
Moreover, Oracle’s solution improves the process of managing critical medical supplies, including temperature-sensitive products, by recommending the most optimal storage locations. This level of sophistication not only saves time but also enhances space utilization, which is crucial for hospitals dealing with high volumes of medical goods. The use of license plate numbers for tracking inventory streamlines processes such as receiving, shipping, and inventory transfers, ensuring that data remains accurate and up-to-date.
Another noteworthy enhancement is Oracle's cross-docking alerts, which notify healthcare staff about urgent supplies—such as surgical kits or medications—that need to be delivered directly to the point of care, bypassing storage. This feature is designed to reduce handling time and ensure that essential products are always available when and where they are needed most. Additionally, AI facilitates load-based shipment grouping, optimizing logistics to ensure that medical supplies are transported efficiently, reducing costs and delays.
On the procurement front, Oracle has unveiled user experience improvements in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, aimed at streamlining the entire procurement lifecycle. The system now allows for greater flexibility in requisition processes and ensures compliance by enabling special handling requisition lines to be sourced from multiple suppliers. This enhancement minimizes errors in the purchasing process and improves operational efficiency across sourcing, purchasing, and inventory management.
By automating lead times and integrating seamlessly with both Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Hub, Oracle’s procurement solution simplifies data management, helping healthcare organizations meet their unique needs with greater speed and accuracy. The system’s real-time synchronization with other critical data sources eliminates manual entry, reducing the likelihood of errors and improving delivery timelines.
The introduction of these AI-powered tools is part of Oracle’s broader strategy to help healthcare organizations remain resilient in a rapidly changing environment. With supply chains facing more disruptions than ever before, these AI-driven solutions ensure that healthcare providers can respond swiftly to shifts in demand, supply shortages, and changing market conditions. By streamlining these processes, Oracle is helping to build more efficient, transparent, and agile healthcare supply chains—ensuring that essential medical supplies are always available when needed.
As Oracle continues to innovate in the healthcare space, these enhancements mark an important step toward a future where AI not only supports healthcare professionals in their daily tasks but actively improves the overall quality of care patients receive. With Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM at the heart of these advancements, healthcare organizations now have the tools necessary to navigate the complex challenges of modern supply chain management while ensuring that patient care remains the top priority.