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• Use New Supply Chain Visibility Technologies To Improve Customer Service And Return On Assets

  January 4, 2011 | Forrester Research
  

  This report highlights the blind spots that continue to plague global supply chains and the business impact of poor supply chain visibility. Based on interviews with 26 vendor and user firms, including E2open, Forrester describes the supply chain visibility solution landscape and the key technologies and capabilities needed to not only gain visibility but act on supply chain events. View Now  »

• Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration in the Cloud

  November 22, 2010 | Aberdeen Group
  

  This benchmark report summarizes the key findings of an October/November 2010 survey on supply chain pressures and how different categories of company – from best-in-class to laggards – respond to them. Aberdeen also offers steps to success for each class of company. Special focus is given to the role of cloud-based solutions in enabling visibility and promoting collaboration within integrated demand-supply networks. View Now  »

• Intelligent Inventory Management: A Modern Roadmap to Profitability

  September 22, 2010 | 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. View Now  »

• B2B Integration Outsourcing: The New Business Network Imperative

  September 1, 2010 | E2open
  

  The first step toward 100 percent supply chain visibility and collaboration is 100 percent business partner integration. But IT teams can spend too many years onboarding too few business partners. Why? Learn how B2B outsourcing can help and how to get started, in this guide for supply chain and IT executives. View Now  »

• 21st Century Manufacturer: 4 Requirements for Transformation

  February 4, 2010 | E2open
  

  There’s no doubt that the supply chain landscape is more complicated than ever before. But having four basic capabilities will put you well on your way to transforming your linear, rigid supply chain into a flexible, dynamic demand-supply network. View Now  »

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

  November 2, 2009 | 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 on the unpredictable factors in business management and to implement strategies to help mitigate these uncertainties. Companies that tackle risk as a top priority are less likely to face major issues with scalability and responsiveness to volatile demand. View Now  »

• 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  »