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Just the Facts: Highlights from the e2open 2024 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study

Building resilient supply chains for uncertain times What does it take to prepare for the unexpected? The e2open 2024 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study analyzes five years of supply chain performance, uncovering lessons learned from the pandemic and actionable strategies to prepare for what’s ahead. In this fact sheet, the top three takeaways from the report are broken down for a snapshot look into: How the pandemic reshaped supply chain planning and forecasting, with two striking trends The hidden vulnerabilities and diminishing returns of traditional planning methods Proven strategies and benefits of using AI and inventory optimization, including reduced forecast error Explore how innovative approaches like AI-driven demand sensing and multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) help businesses improve forecasting, reduce inventory, and gain a competitive edge during volatile times. Gain the insights. Gain the resilience. Lead the way. Download the fact sheet or submit the form below to receive the full […]

Supply Network Discovery: Disrupting the Disruptors

Unlock the power of your supply chain with e2open’s Supply Network Discovery application. In an era of constant disruption, your business can leverage e2open’s platform to ensure compliance, seamlessly share strategic information, trace raw materials to their origins, and collaborate to avoid disruptions. Download brief to learn how e2open’s platform enables greater due diligence, increased visibility, and enhanced collaboration—all while simplifying compliance and supplier management. Connect with e2open for questions about how our solutions can help with smarter decisions across demand, supply, and logistics ecosystems.

Supply Sensing

Short supply and service gaps at every stage of manufacturing and distribution are potential threats for all of supply, from raw materials to finished goods. The effects extend across internal operations, outsourced manufacturing, and distribution. E2open Supply Sensing helps companies determine the probability of material shortages and service shortfalls over time for the entire supply chain.

Vehicle Routing and Scheduling

Planning the optimal delivery route based on your available resources saves on transportation costs. Responding to disruptions to meet your customers’ expectations keeps them coming back. An efficient, automated transport and delivery application, E2open Vehicle Routing and Scheduling uses a powerful algorithm to determine the ideal plan, provides visibility for tracking progress along the way, and can adjust the plan to maintain service levels if a disruption occurs. Dashboard visibility and proactive notifications keep your customers up to date on delivery arrival times.

Logistics Visibility

Tracking in-transit cargo in real time rather than merely receiving periodic milestone updates has become increasingly critical. Without reliable real-time visibility, companies are blind to costly disruptions and vulnerable to the fallout. E2open Logistics Visibility application leverages data from various sources to pinpoint the status of shipments so leaders can proactively manage potential disruptions.

Duty Management

Reducing customs duties and tariffs can significantly raise margins. However, most organizations struggle to manually identify and qualify products for free trade agreements (FTAs) and duty savings programs. With e2open Duty Management application, importers can automatically identify relevant duty, tax and tariff reduction programs and fulfill all documentation requirements with minimal manual effort. Importers get a streamlined process that reduces the burden of complex documentation while dramatically lowering import costs with less risk of errors.

Transportation Management

With shipping making up about 15% of the entire product cost, transportation management is an important element to the bottom line. It is a careful dance of strategy to coordinate with all logistic partners to get goods where they need to go on time. E2open Transportation Management application is a user-friendly transportation management system (TMS) that optimizes shipment cost and speed and connects you to partners locally or around the globe.

Due Diligence Screening

Global supply chains are one of the most collaborative environments in an organization, thus inherently the most vulnerable. In an era of elevated enforcement, conducting a thorough screening of party, commodity and destination against hundreds of lists will protect businesses from economic and reputational risk. With e2open Due Diligence Screening, companies gain confidence and efficiency in the screening process to transact with new and existing partners confidently.

Manufacturing Collaboration

Manufacturers and Brand Owners are facing a growing list of challenges when engaging with contract manufacturers to make themselves more agile and resilient. The global growth has made obtaining real-time visibility into production and manufacturing a challenge that if achieved, can provide real benefits through a holistic view of production performance across internal and external manufacturing facilities.

Supply Planning

Now manufacturers can quickly and confidently create feasible plans that take into account all materials and capacity at each tier of the extended supply chain. Plans are automatically optimized to meet company demand priorities, giving planners time for more critical activities.

Bookings

When shipping goods globally, companies usually need to use multiple carriers. This means submitting booking requests and shipment instructions across various platforms—and often using emails or phone calls as well. The complicated efforts that are required result in delays and increased overhead. E2open’s Bookings application simplifies the process with a one-stop connection to an extensive global network of ocean, air, truck and rail carriers. Seamlessly execute multimode shipments through a single portal by leveraging key capabilities like these: Handle all shipment modes with one connection to all carriers and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) Allow carriers to receive bookings and respond with confirmations via the same portal Transmit carrier booking requests, shipment instructions and confirmations electronically Create shipment bookings from scratch, predefined templates or existing booking requests

Sales Order Collaboration

As a brand owner conducting business-to-business selling, you routinely face complex processes involving retailers, distributors, resellers and direct sales that can result in customer service challenges. E2open’s Sales Order Collaboration application provides end-to-end real-time visibility and management capabilities across sales orders, shipments, receipts and invoices in the channel ecosystem. Through seamless collaboration with end customers and channel partners, you can quickly address any changes and help ensure that the right product—whether make-to-stock or make-to-order—gets delivered at the right time.

Sales and Operations Planning

Organizations confidently balance demand and supply with financial goals by aligning internal and even external stakeholders using e2open’s Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) application. Powerful what-if simulations reveal the financial and service impacts of tradeoff decisions, enabling a consistently profitable response.

Risk and Quality Management

For manufacturers across industries, managing recalls can involve high costs or even life-threatening situations. Ensuring consistent quality and lot, batch, and serial number traceability across the supply chain is crucial for controlling risks and safeguarding consumers. In regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, deep traceability and detailed recordkeeping are required for compliance. Capabilities in e2open Risk and Quality Management enable manufacturers across all industries to trace the origin of products, lots, batches, and even raw materials and easily manage quality and recall risks to avoid costly disruptions.