Solution Briefs

Transform Your Channel Management with e2open’s Managed Services

Managing diverse channel partners with unique needs can feel like a high-stakes juggling act. Your success depends on personalized engagement and seamless support — but it’s a challenge to deliver this consistently across your entire ecosystem. E2open’s Channel Managed Services takes this burden off your shoulders, providing expert support that complements your channel strategy and empowers your partnerships.

Shadow Planning:

Reveal the Blind Spots in Your Supply Chain

Supply chain blind spots between brand owners and their contract manufacturers and component suppliers are no longer acceptable in the modern supply chain. Without real-time insights, disruptions in production schedules, inventory shortages, and delivery delays can spiral into costly setbacks.

Navigating Outsourced Manufacturing: Visibility, Quality, & Sustainability

On the Same Page: See How Appointment Scheduling API Can Streamline Transportation Management

Eliminating fragmentation with a standard application programming interface (API) When it comes to logistics scheduling, collaboration is crucial. The biggest challenge faced by companies and their logistics providers is fragmented data architecture, and yet, far too many of them rely on disjointed platforms to manage this task. In many cases, the process is handled manually, making scheduling more time-consuming, and vulnerable to human error. Along with other industry leaders, e2open serves as a voting member of the Scheduling Standards Consortium, which aims to reduce or eliminate the fragmentation of ecosystems in the supply chain. To this end, the e2open Transportation Management System includes a standard appointment scheduling API that provides the most up-to-date information and allows carriers to schedule appointments and communicate in real time with other stakeholders. The e2open TMS also significantly improves data sharing, creating greater efficiencies and decision-making across the supply chain. Read our solution brief to learn […]

Sailing into Efficiency with Electronic Bills of Lading

Key advantages of digital bills of lading Discover the transformative and sustainable future of global trade compliance with e2open and WaveBL’s digital bill of lading or electronic bills (eB/Ls) solution. Say goodbye to traditional paperwork and hello to secure, efficient, and compliant shipping practices. Unlock cost savings, global standards conformity, and unmatched efficiency with e2open’s Ocean Booking Platform and WaveBL’s customizable eBL solution. Key advantages: Cost savings: Digitizing bills of lading could save $6.5 billion in direct cost for trade ecosystem Global standards: Aligned with Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) and United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CERFACT) for industry-wide unity E2open’s Ocean Booking platform: Experience unmatched logistics efficiency Secure and customizable: WaveBL’s adaptable eBL solution caters to your unique needs Faster customs clearance: Streamline processes to improve performance goals Sustainability: Over 95% less carbon emission compared to traditional paper-based delivery Reduced operational costs: Eliminate courier services […]

Stay Ahead of Compliance with Our Global Trade Compliance Services

Explore how Global Trade Compliance Services from e2open delivers both re​​gulatory content and trade expertise as a one-stop service for businesses to mitigate risk and compliance burden. Our unique model gives you a competitive advantage by customizing the service to your needs while maintaining complete control and visibility into compliance operations. To learn more about Global Trade Compliance Services and how our team of trade specialists can help you navigate the complexities of trade compliance, download the solution brief. Please contact e2open with any questions or to discuss how we can support your needs with our services.

A Revolution in Freight Payment Services by e2open and PayCargo

Ocean freight, an integral part of global trade, faces many challenges, including slow, error-prone payments. Shippers and carriers grapple with various intermediaries, currencies, and regulations, leading to delays, disputes, and undue expenses.

Transforming Freight Payments: Automated Logistics Payment Services

Efficient logistics payments: automated solutions for cost control Revolutionize your logistics payments with Automated Logistics Payment Services by e2open and TriumphPay. Effortlessly tackle the challenges of cost management, cash flow oversight, and carrier collaboration. By embracing automated freight payment services, you will experience enhanced visibility and fortified security at no additional cost. Additionally, Automated Logistics Payment Services by e2open and TriumphPay help shippers and brokers: Streamline operations Gain clearer insights into your payment ecosystem Fortify financial transactions Strengthen collaborations Discover more about the transformative power of Automated Logistics Payment Services by downloading the brief. Or connect with e2open and TriumphPay to discuss controlling freight spending and managing end-to-end cash flow for maintaining financial efficiency.

Break the Planning Silo to Gain Agility

Today’s complex, intertwined supply chains face a volley of volatility, uncertainty, and disruptions that extend well beyond their four walls. It is all too clear following the pandemic that risks anywhere in the layers of multi-tier suppliers and partners can and will impact a company’s bottom line. The pressure for companies to generate more value and better performance from their supply chains hasn’t changed. When it comes to organizational strategy and the expectations for financial performance, customer satisfaction, and contribution to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals — that pressure is only increasing. More than ever, companies are focused on maximizing the returns from their existing investments and amplifying benefits across the enterprise.

Using Modern Channels

Challenges create opportunity. Today, heightened global risk and increased business constraints on a backdrop of disruptive technological advancements are increasingly creating new opportunities for organizations brave enough to transform. The current business landscape provides the perfect conditions for modern retail and distribution channels to become the spark that helps companies thrive and outcompete their rivals –– even in challenging times.

Empowering the Chief Supply Chain Officer

With deeper connections to supply chain partners powered by innovative technology, companies can break down silos, reduce costs, enhance customer satisfaction, and gain a competitive advantage. This document uses three business use cases to illustrate how deep collaboration with global network partners can drive more organizational value.

Harness the Power of Global Trade Management

Global trade is essential to the modern economy but comes with compliance challenges and risks. Navigating the evolving global trade environment can be stressful and costly for companies that don’t have visibility and control over end-to-end processes. Harnessing the power of Global Trade Management is no longer an option but a necessity for businesses to confidently navigate the complexities of global trade, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize their supply chain performance for sustainable success. Download this solution brief to learn how three companies mapped their global trade automation journey and implemented e2open solutions to enable themselves to adapt to regulatory changes, automate processes, optimize costs, and manage risks in their supply chains.

Harness the Power of Sub-Tier Supply Collaboration

Discover how true multi-tier supply collaboration drives agility, resilience, and innovation across different industries.

Planning With Insight: Channel and Planning Functionality Combine for Success

Do you know what market requirements might be next year, next month, or in a few days? Companies seeking to delight customers, establish operational excellence, and beat the competition need granular-level planning accuracy to achieve the right level of certainty. Yet there are many obstacles when it comes to leveraging clean data and reliable forecasting to predict demand. Now you can overcome the challenges by using applications in e2open’s Channel and Planning suites in tandem. One pre-integrated solution empowers planners and channel professionals to define successful long-term strategies and achieve short-term execution excellence.

Channel Marketing Made Easy for All

You often complement your channel partners’ marketing resources with funds, content, and services to drive profits — but the outcome tends to fall short of expectations. Utilizing these tools without a cohesive plan typically results in a low ROI. Managing brand-issued resources manually or with siloed applications can impact quality and cost, and failure to pay partners promptly and accurately promotes disengagement. E2open’s Channel suite of applications addresses concerns like these with a comprehensive, end-to-end channel marketing solution to drive demand, grow sales, and expand reach in a controlled, predictable, and optimized way.