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• Electronics supply chain speed adds complexity to management

  May 7, 2012 | CGN Business Performance Consulting

  The electronics industry moves at a rapid pace, with new innovations made on a near daily basis. In order to respond, manufacturers need a quick and nimble global supply chain. However, as EBN Online notes, the fast-moving electronics supply chain creates additional management problems, especially without visibility of the various interactions happening along the way. The supply chain going global has only served to exacerbate the matter. View Now  »

• Foster City Tech Has Among Bay Area’s Happiest Workers

  May 4, 2012 | Foster City Patch

  E2open was on Thursday named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for 2012 by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. E2open ranked15th among San Francisco Bay Area-based companies with 51 to 100 staffers. Some 142,583 employees were asked to rate their company's policies, culture, compensation, and practices in a multiple-choice survey that was the basis for the rankings. View Now  »

• Have OEMs Relinquished Too Much Control Over Their Supply Chains?

  May 4, 2012 | EBN Online

  A dozen years ago, some of the biggest OEMs in the electronics industry -- including IBM, Hitachi, Matsushita, LG Electronics, and Nortel Networks -- established E2open as a component trading site. A very different E2open released a cloud-based trading platform earlier this week. The E2open Business Network V 8.0 allows supply chain partners to view and manage procurement events in real-time. View Now  »

• ERP: the tangled web

  April 26, 2012 | SupplyChainStandard.com

  Enterprise Resource Planning systems have served linear supply chains well over the years. But, with the emergence of complex supply chain networks, requirements have changed, says Nick Allen. Supply chains are no longer the linear processes they used to be. The trend over the last decade or so, to outsource manufacturing and services to distant places, coupled with the need for greater agility to meet customer demands, has lead to a fundamental change in the IT architecture required to support the “networked” supply chain. View Now  »

• Supply Chain News: When Outsourcing Production, it is Increasingly Important to Keep Control of the Bill of Materials, Leading Academic and Practitioner Both Say

  April 25, 2012 | Supply Chain Digest

  The trend towards outsourcing in industrial and high tech products roll on, with many companies adopting a strategy of using a smaller group of contract manufacturers not only to deliver the final product but increasingly to identify and manage the components that go into those finished SKUs or major assemblies. This is risky business, say both Dr. Tom Choi of Arizona State University and Tom Linton, now Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at contract manufacturer Flextronics, formally in a similar role at LG Electronics, a maker of consumer electronics. View Now  »

• Should you build a control tower?

  April 9, 2012 | DC Velocity

  Has a flood in a foreign country shut down a supplier's manufacturing plant? Has a strike crippled a major port you use for shipping? Ask almost any supply chain or logistics manager if an unexpected event of some kind has disrupted the company's supply chain flow in the past year and the answer is likely to be yes. View Now  »

• Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility

  April 4, 2012 | Manufacturing Business Technology

  E2open (Foster City, CA) recently announced the availability of the E2open Business Network V 8.0, which introduces the E2 Collaboration Center and Supply Dashboard. This new product provides cross-network, real-time visibility into forecasts, orders, inventory, and logistics across multiple tiers of a trading network. View Now  »

• Open Up Your Supply Chain With E2open

  April 4, 2012 | Sourcing Innovation

  Today is the official launch of E2open's new Collaboration Center, E2open Version 8.0. The focus of this release are their new supply dashboards with real-time KPIs, predictive analytics and exception notifications designed to allow an organization to manage its global trading network across multiple supply tiers. View Now  »

• Some Takeaways from the E2open sponsored SCM World Collaborative Execution Study

  April 4, 2012 | Sourcing Innovation

  SCM World recently released a study on Collaborative Execution (defined as two or more parties working together to improve supply chain performance by continuously solving real problems with better information), focussed on Speed, Innovation and Profitability, overseen by Kevin O'Marah, and sponsored by E2open that had some rather interesting, and in a few cases, surprising results. View Now  »

• Supporting Supply Chain Initiatives With A SaaS Solution

  April 3, 2012 | Manufacturing Business Technology

  Managing communications with a global supply chain of thousands of suppliers, logistics companies, and customers around the world is no small feat. As a result, one company turned to a SaaS solution. View Now  »

• A Promising Solution For Supply Chain Management

  April 3, 2012 | Industrial Distribution

  With multiple suppliers, hundreds or thousands of customers, even more products, and a limited amount of hours in the day, how do you manage every aspect of the supply chain so that your business is impacted least by interruptions? And how do you still sleep AND eat in addition to all that? View Now  »

• True Collaboration Could Cause Certain Metrics to Improve By Half, Report Finds

  March 30, 2012 | SupplyChainBrain

  In “truly collaborative” trading relationships, targeted operational metrics, such as inventory days, total landed cost, and cash-to-cash cycles, can be expected to improve by 50 percent over those without collaborative execution capabilities, according to a joint research project of E2open and SCM World. The two have released a report entitled, “Collaborative Execution: Speed, Innovation and Profitability,” based on a survey of 374 supply chain professionals.
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