Featured
BLOG
Looking Ahead to 2020: Global Transportation and Logistics
Gary M. Barraco / Director of Product Marketing
Learn about the three significant areas of concern for anyone with global transportation and logistics operations and how to overcome them with technology.
Latest
GS1 Standards Compliance Achieved with the E2open Global Data Pool for Product Data Exchange and Traceability
Companies need widely recognized standards to work effectively with partners to meet changing customer demands. GS1 standards provide a common language for companies and trading partners that enables them to identify, capture and share supply [...]
Data and Collaboration at the B2B Sales and Marketing Exchange, Plus a Top 5 B2B Innovator Award Winner
The B2B Sales and Marketing Exchange Conference took place on August 12 and 13 in Boston, MA and hosted over 1,000 B2B professionals and thought leaders in revenue marketing, demand generation, and account-based marketing (ABM) [...]
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 [...]
Bridging the Gap: Advantages of Digital Supply Chain Management in a Perpetually Connected World
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
A few weeks ago, I posted a blog outlining key themes from the 2018 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study that will be published later this month. As the “State of the Nation” for forecasting performance, [...]
Sneak preview: 2018 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study
What’s your favorite time of year? For some people, it might be the first sign of spring, or if you’re a movie buff perhaps it’s around the Oscars. For me, as a bit of a [...]
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 [...]
What the OTIF Mandate Means for Walmart – and What it Means for You (Part 1)
Mohit Dubey, Senior Director, Product Marketing, E2open Partners are central to the supply chain strategy at Walmart®, and Walmart has clear expectations of them. Those expectations just went up. The Bentonville, Arkansas, based retailer now [...]
Demand Sensing – The Top 7 Myths
Demand sensing technology has been around for more than 15 years, yet there are still many myths around just what it is, what it does and the prerequisites to use it. With that in mind, [...]
Your Forecast Isn’t Accurate – Is Your Inventory Optimization Solution Making Things Worse?
Mohit Dubey, Senior Director, Product Marketing, E2open Inventory buffers can counteract the effects of inaccurate forecasts. But, are you setting wrong inventory targets because your inventory optimization solution doesn't understand how bad the forecast really [...]
Four Capabilities that Will Help You Be Better Prepared for Your Next Recall
Mohit Dubey, Senior Director, Product Marketing, E2open Companies whose products cater to end-consumers – especially in industries such as Consumer Electronics, Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods and Automotive – run the risk [...]
Why an Integrated Business Planning Process Cannot Be Effectively Managed Using ERP and Spreadsheets
Breaking free of spreadsheets is an important milestone in the journey to a mature integrated business planning process. Excel is a natural starting place because everyone is familiar with it, but spreadsheets quickly become a [...]
Realizing Value from Order Promising
Sudy Bharadwaj, Senior Director, Value Engineering, E2open Turning Your CFO into a Supply Chain Fan Value measurement for solving supply chain problems has been a challenge in the past. However, the emergence of analytics frameworks [...]