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  • Going Global is Risky Business: Gain Better Control to Maintain Profitability
    E2open

    Continuity and profitability are the key factors to your success, and you don’t want your supply chain to limit this success. With the globalization of the supply chain, companies need greater focus…
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  • Managing Inventory in Uncertain Times: A Modern Roadmap to Profitability
    E2open

    This white paper summarizes the top challenges currently facing global supply chains, and provides best-practice recommendations for achieving a best-in-class inventory management program.
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  • Market Alert: E2open Releases New Solution to Enable Multi-Enterprise Collaboration in the Demand Network

    August 19, 2009 | Aberdeen Group

    With demand-related issues being the top ranked cause of supply chain disruptions over the past year, effectively managing and forecasting customer demand has become a critical capability for companies with complex interdependent demand-supply networks. View Now  »

  • Supply Chain Risk Management: Building a Resilient Global Supply Chain

    July 17, 2009 | Aberdeen Group

    Growing global operations are forcing companies to more pro-actively evaluate and address their supply chain risks. Companies are sourcing from and selling to more new regions, often adding new carriers, forwarders, logistics, and distribution partners to their network…. View Now  »

  • Breaking the Supply Chain Barrier: Dynamic Demand-Supply Networks for Today’s Virtual Enterprises

    March 31, 2009 | E2open

    Few business objectives have been so ill-served as the notion of equilibrium between demand and supply. While the adoption of supply chain management systems has been a multi-billion dollar fact of life over the last 20 years, the ability of companies to truly manage their global trading partner networks in an efficient and effective way has failed to live up to vendors' promises. View Now  »

  • The Collapse of Demand

    March 24, 2009 | E2open

    Getting a grip on the overall environmental burden of the entire demand-supply network is vital to successfully improving both your company's sustainability and profitability. View Now  »

  • Integrated Demand-Supply Networks: Five Steps to Gaining Visibility and Control

    March 17, 2009 | Aberdeen Group

    Seventy-one percent of the participants in this study indicated that they were removed from their end customers by at least two levels of the supplier chain (tiers). Moreover, rising supply chain costs, escalating customer service demands, an increasingly global operation and an increasing number of value chain partners have resulted in increased complexity…. View Now  »

  • Achieving Sustainable Supply Chains: Lessons from Global 500 Enterprises

    March 15, 2009 | Corporate EcoForum

    Making their supply chains sustainable remains a major challenge for the vast majority of companies. Some struggle to see the value of sustainable supply chain initiatives; some don't know where to start, while others work diligently to move their current efforts forward. To provide new insight, the Corporate Eco Forum conducted a series of confidential, in-depth interviews with sustainable supply chain experts and practitioners in late 2008. View Now  »

  • Profiting on Sustainability through Smart Demand-Supply Networks

    January 15, 2009 | E2open

    This white paper describes the imperatives and requirements for attaining a sustainable demand-supply network, and explains the ways in which sustainability can drive both top and bottom-line improvements while ensuring market access and a stronger brand image. View Now  »

  • The Secret SaaS: On-Demand Supply Chain Management

    December 17, 2008 | Aberdeen Group

    Supply chain globalization, increased complexity, rising costs, and the need to respond rapidly to supply chain changes and disruptions are forcing companies across industries to consider new ways to quickly deploy and modify supply chain management solutions. View Now  »

  • Globalization: Gaining Leverage from Size and Scope

    May 13, 2008 | E2open

    Summarizes management risks and challenges associated with globalization and centralization strategies and provides proven approaches to mitigate these risks. View Now  »

  • E2open Delivers the Goods in Value Chain Collaboration

    March 11, 2008 | AMR Research

    Multi-Enterprise Collaboration: Multitier technology is a key enabler to helping high-tech companies achieve value chain leadership in their global supply chain. View Now  »