Channel | Channel Inventory Collaboration
Improve Collaboration to Gain Full Cross-Channel Inventory Visibility
Drive results with less stock and higher service levels
Collaboration with customers and channels gives you valuable insight that helps you manage inventory more effectively. E2open Inventory Collaboration provides visibility into every item and downstream location so you can make better decisions about positioning and replenishing stock. The outcome is less inventory, more revenue, and better customer service.
Inadequate inventory level driving costs and missed revenue
Poor visibility and limited control over stock levels at partner locations
When sales are fulfilled by partners instead of a brand’s distribution centers and warehouses, brand owners lose control and visibility. Some partners may maintain excess safety stock to hedge against a lack of visibility into inventory in transit, delivery delays, and quality issues. Excessive stock at partners is costly for brand owners as it can lead to price protection payouts, product returns and write-offs, and the inability to sell other products. Yet, brand owners want to make sure partners have enough inventory to meet end-customer demand.
Better visibility for better decisions
Monitor demand and inventory and collaborate with partners to optimize replenishment by leveraging a powerful combination of visibility, analytics, exception management, and process automation. Multiple sell-side vendor-managed inventory (VMI) models are supported.
Manage and lower financial risk
Real-time visibility into inventory across partner facilities, internal locations, and VMI hubs enables you to manage and reduce financial liabilities and risks.
Gain visibility into all stock
Inventory visibility covers in-transit, stock-in-channel, sell-in, sell-through, and sell-out quantities to provide accurate tracking and keep you informed.
Minimize excess and obsolescence costs
Insight into inventory across your network helps you place the right inventory in the right locations to reduce excess and obsolescence costs.
Increase revenue
With improved visibility and collaboration, you can save lost revenue from price protection claims and experience fewer stockouts.
Collaborate with customers and channels
Support for rapid customer onboarding, pre-built ERP interfaces, and common data exchange standards makes it easier to connect and collaborate.
Address issues faster with alerts and automation
You resolve issues quicker with exception alerts for potential inventory shortages, excessive inventory, late shipments, and demand-supply imbalances. For even faster resolution pull and replenishment cycles and price adjustments can be fully automated.
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