Supply | Supply Inventory Collaboration
Inventory Collaboration Helps You Increase Supply Assurance for All Supply Tiers
Minimize inventory liability and disruptions in outsourced manufacturing
Avoid high carrying costs and the risk of obsolescence. E2open Supply Inventory Collaboration gives you visibility into materials at all nodes in your network and enables contract manufacturers and suppliers to proactively manage shortages and excesses. The result is reduced safety stock requirements, carrying costs, and working capital liability.
Manage Supply Shortages
Proactive identification and resolution of supply shortages
Effectively managing and resolving supply shortages requires advanced warning, collaborative resolution, and strategic engagement to minimize production downtime and ensure business continuity.
Excess safety stock
Poor supplier collaboration and inventory visibility
Brand owners often store excess inventory to hedge against suppliers’ shipment delays and quality issues. Lack of in-transit inventory visibility, especially within upstream tiers in the supply chain, requires them to maintain even higher levels of safety stock. However, excess inventory at brand owner and manufacturer warehouses, supplier plants, and vendor-managed inventory (VMI) hubs is a liability. High excess and obsolescence costs, expedite charges, and a poor on-time delivery record are some of the consequences.
Complete inventory optimization helps you reduce working capital
Get precise inventory information to avoid supply shortages, minimize excess inventory, and unlock precious capital. Let e2open manage the flow of component, work-in-progress, and finished goods inventory across all your supply tiers.
Manage inventory with confidence
Real-time visibility into stock held at internal and external manufacturing sites, warehouses, and hubs—as well as inventory in transit between locations—keeps you informed.
Use simulation to plan
What-if scenario planning in a real-time environment enables you to simulate the impact of forecast changes on inventory across multiple tiers of supply.
Mitigate supply shortages
Proactively identify inventory gaps and resolve shortages through a collaborative ticketing process.
Resolve issues much faster
Contract manufacturers and suppliers can collaborate on inventory issues without brand-owner engagement, speeding resolution while saving you time and effort.
Multi-tier inventory management
Right-sizing inventory across all tiers helps reduce inventory, increase turns, and minimize the “bullwhip effect” for your entire supply network.
Automate pull and replenishment
Automating pull and replenishment cycles for VMI, consigned inventory, and unallocated inventory across the supply chain increases efficiency.
More applications in the supply ecosystem
Buy-Sell Management
Manufacturing Collaboration
Product Cost Management
Customers
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Don’t let imbalances become disruptions