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Global Trade Contracts – Are you Prepared for 2020 and Beyond?
Suzanne Richer / Director, Global Trade Academy
Five contract “must-haves” to help reduce risk and increase global trade compliance in supply chains.
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Free Trade Agreements and Why They Are Important to You
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Compliance challenges grow daily for manufacturers, exporters and importers. These challenges include ever-changing international trade regulations, consumer demands for shorter delivery times and delivery time accuracy while maintaining high quality and trade compliance. [...]
Ocean Shipment Visibility: Shining the Light on Shipping’s Black Holes
Cargo shipments traveling across the open ocean enter a vast black hole in between ports where updates are few and far between or entirely non-existent. For logistics providers and shippers who depend on [...]
The Connection Between Trade Compliance and Logistics
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Weathering the Trade Policy Storm: Trade Content is Key
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GS1 Standards Compliance Achieved with the E2open Global Data Pool for Product Data Exchange and Traceability
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APIs and the High Value of ‘Useless’ Data
Global enterprises spend a lot of money on technology — up to 7% of revenues go toward hardware and software to communicate, gather, store, curate, and analyze the organization’s data. However, a robust IT infrastructure [...]
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When driving by a busy seaport, I’m always awed at the hulking towers of shipping containers stacked eight to ten high in the yards surrounding the terminals. Every ocean container full of goods has a [...]
Vote for E2open’s Kathy Mammon for the B2B Innovators Award
E2open is honored to announce that Kathy Mammon, Director of Marketing, was shortlisted in the Top 35 B2B Innovators of the Year list cultivated by Demand Gen Report as part of the third-annual B2B Innovator [...]
Don’t Get Trapped Within Your Own Four Walls
The rise in outsourced manufacturing and distribution has prompted a new way of thinking about supply chain management. Instead of focusing solely on internal operations, leaders have broadened their scope to encompass the entire value [...]
Taming the Tail
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Sneak preview: 2018 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study
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The 6 W’s of Supply Chain Planning Systems of Record
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “supply chain planning system of record,” it is essentially the one place where an organization can bring together all supply chain data and plan its enterprise operations. To better [...]
What the OTIF Mandate Means for Walmart – and What it Means for You (Part 2)
Mohit Dubey, Senior Director, Product Marketing, E2open Part 1 of this blog focused on Walmart’s® motivations for introducing the on-time, in-full (OTIF) mandate, but how does that affect your organization? The pace of change faced by Walmart, and [...]