Harmony^® is E2open’s supply chain platform that offers a modern and intuitive user experience. The platform utilizes robust data integration and extends across the E2open supply chain intelligent applications. It enables all users across the extended business ecosystem to seamlessly connect, visualize, plan and execute supply chain operations in a closed-loop collaborative manner using real-time information.

Running a modern supply chain requires a new paradigm, one that extends past what enterprise resource planning has done for companies to date. This new reality of the multi-enterprise supply chain adds the agility and responsiveness that was missing. E2open represents a new class of intelligent applications that uniquely address the new business order.

E2open’s trading partner network, also known as E2net, is the industry-leading business network. More than 70,000 partner companies and 200,000 users—including many of the biggest brands and manufacturers across a range of industries—use the E2open network and platform to orchestrate their supply chains, creating efficiencies measured in the billions.

E2net was specifically designed for companies that either manage distributed supply chains or participate in them. A cloud-based, integrated connectivity platform, E2net simplifies and enables electronic integration between tenants and supply chain partners such as manufacturers, contractors, shippers, transportation carriers and logistics service providers. E2open customers rely on E2net to deliver real-time messaging so they can respond quickly to change.

A company’s physical supply chain consists of the complex global, multi-partner network of suppliers, subcontractors, third party logistics (3PL) providers, distributors, retailers and warehouses that has built up over time. Goods flow from supply to consumer, with critical information housed in disparate transactional, financial and executional systems. Some companies still run their physical supply chain with spreadsheets using manual processes.

Multi-enterprise connectivity through E2open automates the collection of data across the supply chain. E2open’s digital twin sets up a digital abstraction layer representing the end-to-end physical supply chain and continuously updates it with information from underlying systems. A transparent view of the truth lets companies collaborate instantly, balancing supply and demand in real time without manual effort.

E2open’s platform architecture includes a real-time digital twin of the physical supply chain. This pairing of the digital and physical worlds allows for improved monitoring and analysis. Imagine preventing problems before they even occur, developing new prospects, and forecasting with real-time data.