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2020 and Beyond: The Future of Trade Compliance
Frequently used paths are formed over time, as the grass turns to dirt, and stone is worn smooth. But global trade is an industry caught in a perpetual state of metamorphosis, and these [...]
How to Improve Your Demand Planning and Forecasting Performance
How forecastable is your business, and how does that compare to best-in-class companies? Can real-time data and artificial intelligence create better forecasts, and just how much better are they? How do industry leaders [...]
Navigating the Waters of China Trade Management
Trading successfully across the world seems impossible without thinking about the role that China plays in global supply chains today. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, a data visualization tool created by [...]
Logistics Visibility: You Can’t Control What You Can’t See!
Years ago, the baseline for visibility was simple track-and-trace—where’s my stuff? Today, companies have advanced far beyond that, especially when global disruptions throw supply chains into a tail-spin that makes recovery difficult. Aside [...]
Duty Drawback Makes a Comeback in 2020
Many companies pay duties and taxes up-front when importing their products into a country—even though this is not legally required and ties up significant amounts of capital. Other importers simply never assess whether [...]
Tackle China’s Trade Regulation Challenges with Comprehensive Trade Management Capabilities
It is crucial to understand and master China’s specific regulations. From license requirements to local regulations on supply chain planning and execution, your organization needs to be fully up to date and compliant [...]
Three Keys to Achieving Best-in-Class Forecast Accuracy
Striving to achieve that optimal balance of demand and supply is like trying to catch a glimpse of the beautiful, yet elusive snow leopard in the wild. You spend what seems like an [...]
Gaining Sharper Visibility: Maintaining Control of Goods on the Move
As supply chains continue to adjust to disruptions or consumer shifts, companies must have the sharpest, most-focused visibility on their goods while they are in-transit. On June 6, during E2open’s E2talk Series: Gaining [...]
USMCA vs. NAFTA: The Who, What, Where, When and Why
With the new USMCA implementation date right around the corner, understanding how to prepare quickly and effectively before the July 1, 2020 start date is critical. On May 6, E2open’s E2talk Series: Are [...]
Why is the 2019 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study Dramatically Different?
Supply chains are complex systems that span multiple enterprises and functional groups, and predicting their behavior is extremely hard because of the myriad inter-relationships that exist between demand and supply. Organizations understand why [...]
When the Going Gets Tough, What Makes One TMS Stand Above the Others?
For companies moving goods, managing every stage of the shipment - over the ocean and the last mile – can be extremely complicated. Even some large companies struggle with distribution challenges and high [...]
The Tip of the Iceberg: From CBP’s Strategic Plan and Beyond
As much of the world has come to a standstill, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) marches on with the release of their new strategic plan for the next five years to [...]
Dance Your Way Through Supply Chain Management
Choreographed dancing, as you see on stage or in movies, requires meticulously planned steps and exact timing with the music. Although in the beginning, it is a lot of work for both the [...]
Five-Star Customer Service Starts with In-Transit Visibility and Predictive ETAs
In 2017, supply chains started lagging as China production slowed down due to the tariff war, then they ground to a halt as the world experiences a pandemic. When production gears up again, [...]
Supplier Collaboration is Key: Stay Out of The Turbulent Waters of Global Trade
Unpredictability is rearing its ugly head more and more these days. The best reaction companies can have to navigate these turbulent waters is to have the ability to foresee what’s coming down the [...]
New USMCA: Are You Ready to Lower Costs?
Editor's Note: This post was originally published on February 3, 2020, and has been revised and updated based on recent developments. On March 13, 2020, the Canadian Parliament ratified the United States—Mexico—Canada Agreement [...]