Supplier Collaboration

Companies across all industries are increasing reliance on partners to execute and manage critical supply chain processes. As a result, organizations are automating inter-company processes such as procure-to-pay, inventory replenishment, demand/supply balancing, logistics and quality.

Strategic Drivers

• Reduce Supply Chain Management Costs:
  Utilize fewer resources while maintaining and improving service levels.
• Increase Supply Chain Performance:
  Improve supply assurance, increase customer satisfaction and increase flexibility through exception management and process compliance.

IBM’s On-Demand Model Drives Faster, Leaner, More Efficient Supply Chain
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Execution Challenges

• Complexity and Scale of New Processes:
  Advanced supply chain processes designed to reduce cycle-times, inventory levels, and increase flexibly often increase process complexity across global operations and partners making it difficult to automate.
• Trading Partner Integration:
  All global trading partners, regardless of process and technology-readiness, must be able to integrate their data and back-end systems to participate in the process.
• End-To-End Process Support:
  Inter-company process requirements include closed-loop positive responses, frequent status updates, matching of transaction lifecycles, exception management and performance management.

Proven Approach

Industry leaders that have successfully automated inter-company processes find that sharing a single view of information and processes between themselves and their trading partners is essential.

• Rapid Time to Value:
  E2open on-demand solutions offer the industry’s fastest time to value – most implementations are up and running in 90 days or less. This is made possible by E2open’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, comprehensive trading partner on-boarding and fine-tuned best practices.
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership:
  E2open offers an economical and predictable monthly fee, and E2open SaaS means no additional costs for upgrades, maintenance, operation or support, and all partner on-boarding is provided.
• Continuous Value Roadmap:
  With at least two product releases every year delivering powerful new functionality and unique value-added services, E2open consistently delivers long-term value by enabling you to meet continuously changing market demands.
• Greater Data Accuracy:
  E2open delivers highly accurate data, enhancing visibility across the supply chain, and adding to the value of your other enterprise management technologies, such as ERP.
• Seamless Integration:
  E2open provides seamless integration between internal enterprise applications and trading partners – including suppliers, customers, distributors and logistics providers – enabling you to maximize your current investments in ERP and other technologies. E2open offers a portfolio of integration options covering 100% of your extended value chain – regardless of your partner’s technical sophistication, enabling even faster time to value. Options include all forms of B2B communication; integration to any B2Bi server; direct integration to SAP, Oracle, and other ERPs; a Web portal; and use of traditional formats such as Excel and PDF.
• Proven Success:
  E2open has deployed more successful multi-enterprise supply chain management solutions than any other provider – validated by global leaders in the electronics, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, capital equipment, and consumer product industries that use E2open to drive significant improvements in business performance.

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Solution Requirements

To successfully share a single view of information and processes across multiple companies, industry leaders are leveraging a new class of solution.

• Multi-Enterprise Workflows:
  Multi-enterprise supply chain and procurement workflows providing process automation with alerting and exception management.
• Multi-Enterprise Analytics and Reporting:
  Analytics and reporting against a multi-enterprise data repository for consistent performance management and scorecards across companies.
• Exception Management:
  User configurable event management providing alerting and exception management.
• On-going Operations and Change Management:
  Operating Unit and Trading Partner On-boarding and Integration:
  Any-to-any integration infrastructure with rapid global deployment capabilities including trading partner on-boarding and system integration.
• On-going Operations and Change Management:
  On-going operations, support and change management, including technology upgrades, measured against a global Service Level Agreement (SLA) and providing a reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).