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Welcome to E2open Blogs!, an interactive forum where the E2open community can exchange ideas about the latest trends, technologies, and topics of contention in the supply chain world. Here's where we share relevant news, useful insights, industry best practices, and lessons learned in the field—and we welcome your feedback and participation. Comment, ask questions, make recommendations, and collaborate with us to solve today’s most pressing supply chain challenges.
Customer success is the best kind

Sean Rollings, Vice President, Product Marketing, E2open - Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 0 Comments

Nothing is more gratifying to a solution provider than seeing those who adopt their products succeed. With that in mind, we congratulate two of our customers, L'Oréal USA and Motorola Solutions, for being selected as winners of the 2013 Manufacturing Leadership 100 (ML100) Awards. Both of these industry leaders leveraged E2open’s cloud-based platform to achieve transformative success of their supply chain operations, increasing visibility and collaboration across their supply chains. More »
5 traps Chief Supply Chain Officers must avoid

Mark Woodward, President & CEO, E2open - Thursday, May 09, 2013 - 0 Comments

I have the good fortune of being in frequent conversation with supply chain leaders from a variety of companies across a breadth of industries. They are customers, customers’ trading partners and prospects—and I feel like I’m an author interviewing experts on supply strategy and tactics for a tell-all book. I get to canvas them to see what they are working on, what challenges they are grappling with, and what clever things they’re doing to improve their business. More »
Are we approaching the tipping point of the bullwhip effect?

Rich Becks, General Manager, High Technology, E2open - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 0 Comments

It’s been over half a century since Jay Forrester introduced the concept of the bullwhip effect in Industrial Dynamics. The bullwhip effect is an observed phenomenon in forecast-driven distribution channels. It refers to a trend of larger and larger swings in inventory in response to changes in demand, as one looks at firms further back in the supply chain for a product. More »
The burgeoning cloud market

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 0 Comments

While there are disparate estimates of the size of the cloud services market, there is consensus on one thing: it’s growing—and fast. In a recent blog post, Market Research Media, an information technology analysis firm, is cited as predicting the global cloud computing market will grow at a 30 percent compound annual growth rate from 2015 to the end of the decade, reaching $270 billion. More »
Survival of the…most agile?!

Rich Becks, General Manager, High Technology, E2open - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - 0 Comments

In an academic paper released at the turn of this century that now seems prescient, Martin Christopher, Emeritus Professor at the Cranfield School of Management, detailed the implications of the global economy to supply chain management, identifying agility as the key to responsive supply chains, and to survival in increasingly complex, volatile, and hard-to-predict markets. More »
Playing the hand you’re dealt: Everything’s better with visibility

Andrew Atkinson, Director, Product Marketing, E2open - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 0 Comments

You wouldn’t play Texas Hold’em if you couldn’t see the cards you were dealt; yet many companies continue to play blindly in the game of cards known as global business. According to a recent article in Supply Chain Digest, survey data indicates that less than 20 percent of companies will have end-to-end supply chain visibility by 2016. More »
Two brains are better than one: Harnessing your network’s collective brainpower

Mondher Ben Hamida, Vice President, Deployment & Analytics - Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 0 Comments

It’s hard to read a business journal today without coming across articles on collaboration. This is understandable. In today’s globally extended, complex, multi-tiered supply networks, a company’s trading partners may be the closest observers to what’s going on in the market. As such, they are ideally positioned to make good, fast, executable decisions based on the best available information. More »
Year of the snake? For supply chain management, it’s the year of the network!

Michael Schmitt, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, E2open - Friday, March 08, 2013 - 0 Comments

Merriam Webster defines tipping point as “the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.” This year may mark when that point will be reached in regards to business networks and traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP). More »
If you’re still point-to-point, you’re missing the point

Dave Hale, Chief Information Officer, E2open - Monday, February 25, 2013 - 1 Comments

True collaboration between businesses and their supply chain partners requires more than just creating point-to-point connections, even where you are using international standard data formats. Point-to-point connectivity misses the point. Thirty years ago we thought that EDI would dramatically improve efficiencies of communicating with suppliers and customers... More »