The new Transportation Management software, which offers out-of-the-box integration with E-Business Suite 11i-based workflows, replaces two older Oracle offerings, Transportation Planning and Transportation Execution, said Mark Johnson, Oracle's senior director of product marketing.

Rob Porterfield, vice president of manufacturing at National Instruments Corp. in Austin, said he has been evaluating the software during his search for a new transportation application. The company already runs Oracle CRM business applications.

Adrian Gonzalez, an analyst at ARC Advisory Group Inc., a Dedham, Mass.-based consulting firm, said the replacement of Oracle's older transportation application reflects the vendor's desire to deliver a seamless product that fits into the 11i suite.

"Will users care that the name has changed? No," said Gonzalez. However, users seeking a "holistic" logistics application that handles warehouse management and can deliver supply chain visibility will be interested in how quickly Oracle can tie together all the various components of the Global Logistics software.

The new Transportation Management offering supports, among other things, order entry, procurement and supply chain event management processes.