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Say Goodbye to Manual Workflows with Purchase Order Collaboration
Imagine trying to drive an old truck with worn-out tires down a muddy backcountry road. It’s slow-going, you get stuck several times, and the entire trip you keep thinking that there has to [...]
Looking Ahead to 2020: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
2019 started with the United States and global manufacturing experiencing tremendous growth. However, the Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) is now experiencing a downward trend towards 2020 (November’s PMI is at 48% and December’s [...]
5 Global Trade Compliance Predictions for 2020
When it comes to global trade compliance, 2020 is not the time to bury your head in the sand. Let’s face the fact that existing trade frictions are here to stay for the [...]
8 Easy Steps to Ensure Your Channel Incentives Work
Channel incentive programs often lack clarity and impact, fail to attract partners and result in overspend. How can you avoid issues like these? Follow the 8 steps below to incentivize your channel successfully [...]
Forecast Collaboration Gives You More Visibility
Unpredictable demand puts undue pressure on supply partners to keep up with the balance of materials and capacity, often incurring the financial burden of producing and storing elevated stock to offset these uncertainties. E2open’s [...]
Looking Ahead to 2020: Global Transportation and Logistics
Predicting the future is a trying task in today’s global trade environment. You can’t talk about global shipping unless you take into account the trade policy shifts that continue to impact consumers in [...]
How to Manage the Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ)
Often the real reason for manufacturing delays or companies not meeting their on-time-delivery (OTD) goals is because of the underlying product quality problems. If not caught in a timely manner, it ends up [...]
The Dangers of Ignoring Restricted Party Screening
A post-9/11 world has brought a host of new regulations and procedures touching virtually every area of business and commerce, not to mention our daily lives. A couple of significant examples — the [...]
Your Lawfully Incentivized Channel
The benefits of transacting through a channel are well known. Companies that adopt the indirect channel as their go-to-market avenue can expand their presence in new territories and segments, and also gain access [...]
Forecast Collaboration Improves Visibility into Customer Demand
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller Companies who would like to improve their forecast accuracy and their customer service must first understand future [...]
Global Trade Management – Time to Unleash the Potential!
Any global organization must orchestrate the movement of goods anywhere in the world — with the agility to respond rapidly to demand changes in an ever‐changing and volatile trade environment. Modern technology advances [...]
The Importance of the EEA Agreement for Global Business
The European Economic Area (EEA) is an international agreement that enables the extension of the European Union (EU) single market to non-EU member parties. E2open follows the developments of the EEA with great [...]
Brexit Uncertainty – The Time to Get Ready is Now
Even after more than three years since the UK voted to leave the EU, uncertainty still reigns when it comes to the future of Brexit and what it means for the international trade [...]
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Why They Are Important to You
Globalization and free trade spur economic growth and ideally will lead to lower prices on many goods, according to American Economist Robert Reich. Not everyone has to agree with Professor Reich’s claim, but [...]
Cross-Border Supply Chain Solutions – 5 Hidden Costs and Lost Control
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
What is Shipment Visibility? 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 [...]