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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 [...]
Achieve On-Time Delivery with Proactive Transportation Planning
Most logistics departments have limited visibility into their transportation capacity needs beyond just a few days of orders. This lack of visibility and proactive transportation planning is a serious risk for logistics because [...]
Your Essential Channel Marketing Blueprint
Building a house requires an accurate blueprint and a solid foundation. Measurements that are just the slightest bit off in the blueprint can negatively impact the structural integrity of the home. The same [...]
Demand Sensing and Planning in a Digital Era
Supply chains have developed into complex and ever-changing ecosystems, where all parts rely heavily on another to function properly. So, relying on traditional planning techniques, where historical data was generally a good predictor [...]
Driving Trade Compliance Across Your Organization
By Suzanne Richer, Director, Global Trade Academy Today's global supply chains are more complex than ever, with increasing regulatory oversight that impacts companies across the globe. Developing a trade compliance team to [...]
Bracing for an EU-UK Free Trade Agreement Post-Brexit
By Arne Mielken Ever since the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, Brexit has dominated political debates, newspaper headlines, dinner table conversations - often [...]
7 Channel Technology Predictions for 2020 and Beyond
We don’t have a crystal ball and we can’t read tea leaves. Managing a business, especially on a global scale, will always involve uncertainty and risk. But we can still make some reasonable [...]