Blog Entries: Control tower

Don’t believe the hype! The truth about supply chain control towers

Sean Rollings, Vice President, Product Marketing, E2open - Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 0 Comments

There are a lot of people talking about supply chain control towers lately – but what’s all the hype? And are we all talking about the same thing to begin with? Probably not. It’s easy enough to slap a “control tower” label on a piece of software, but actually delivering a more agile, intelligent control structure is quite a different feat. More »
What’s driving supply chain collaboration? Rupture points.

Cesare Rotundo, Director, Customer Solutions, E2open - Friday, July 22, 2011 - 0 Comments

After analyzing the reasons why some companies make supply chain collaboration an investment priority, I noticed that for many of them the decision comes after they experience firsthand “rupture points” in their value chains. What is a rupture point in this context? At any point in time, the extended supply chain of an enterprise is under pressure by market dynamics—including competitive pressure in the form of product capabilities and price wars, demand volatility... More »
As good as it gets? Notes from a CPG buff.

Bill Goodison, Vice President, Consumer Goods, E2open - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - 0 Comments

In my last blog post, I touched on some of the top supply chain challenges facing the CPG industry—and recommended that visibility and collaboration were the surest ways to get the CPG supply chain back on track. Today I want to take the conversation a bit further, and suggest that visibility and collaboration may also be the first stepping stones to something much larger and visionary—namely, a Supply Chain Control Tower... More »
Sail a ship while you’re building it? Research In Motion is doing it.

Jane Paolucci, Vice President, Corporate Marketing, E2open - Friday, April 29, 2011 - 0 Comments

Research In Motion (RIM), better known as maker of the BlackBerry (including the cool new PlayBook tablet) product line, is living proof that supply chain contributes to brand equity. I’m sure the hundreds of people who attended our webinar yesterday – from supply chain and IT professionals to marketers and C-level executives alike – would back me up on that statement. More »
Building a Supply Chain Control Tower: What it takes and what it gets you

Edward Toung, Vice President, Asia Pacific, E2open - Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 0 Comments

The concept of a Supply Chain Control Tower is getting some major buzz among leading global manufacturers. In fact, many of my recent conversations with customers have been dominated by the topic – What does it take to build a Control Tower? How much does it cost? How quickly can I expect to see returns on my investment? And while I could easily bore everybody to tears with the details (after all, who isn’t totally jazzed about the idea of a Control Tower?), I’ll try to stick to the basics. More »
Houston, we’ve had a problem: The case for a Supply Chain Control Tower

Edward Toung, Vice President, Asia Pacific, E2open - Wednesday, March 02, 2011 - 0 Comments

At E2open, we have the privilege of serving global companies with some of the fastest moving and most complex supply chains. And while their planning challenges may not be as daunting as landing a spacecraft on the surface of the moon, few would argue that the coordination required to successfully build out the infrastructure to run some of the world’s largest and most complex telecom networks is in and of itself a monumental task. More »