Supply Chain Shortages: Predict and Act
Know the likelihood of supply shortages. Use real-time data, artificial intelligence (AI) and lead-time variances to improve service.
The Future of Supply Assurance Is Here
Just as demand sensing uses real-time data and AI to predict what a customer is most likely to order, e2open’s Supply Sensing application leverages real-time signals, AI and market volatilities to predict the likelihood of service risk over time.
Mitigate risk, improve service levels and lower inventory costs:
Understand the Risk of Shortages
Real-time data and predictive analytics provide visibility into potential inventory shortfalls during specific periods.Triage Shortages for Optimal Outcomes
After you prioritize any shortages, prescriptive analytics give you options such as selecting alternate suppliers, adding manufacturing runs and changing production volumes.Safeguard Service Levels
The ability to monitor the current service risk at any level of aggregation based on the state of demand and supply helps you keep customers happy.
Balance Inventory and Service Risk
You can review tradeoffs for the current service risk versus the cost of inventory at any stage to help maximize profits—even during a holiday season.Resolve the Most Pressing Risks
By identifying and responding to only the most critical near-term service risks, you save time, maintain customer loyalty and minimize the cost of expedites.Mitigate Risk from End to End
Assuring supply helps you mitigate risk across all tiers of all ecosystems, including internal operations, upstream contract manufacturers and downstream distribution partners.
Mitigate risk, improve service levels and lower inventory costs:
Balance Inventory and Service Risk
You can review tradeoffs for the current service risk versus the cost of inventory at any stage to help maximize profits—even during a holiday season.Resolve the Most Pressing Risks
By identifying and responding to only the most critical near-term service risks, you save time, maintain customer loyalty and minimize the cost of expedites.Mitigate Risk from End to End
Assuring supply helps you mitigate risk across all tiers of all ecosystems, including internal operations, upstream contract manufacturers and downstream distribution partners.
Understand the Risk of Shortages
Real-time data and predictive analytics provide visibility into potential inventory shortfalls during specific periods.Triage Shortages for Optimal Outcomes
After you prioritize any shortages, prescriptive analytics give you options such as selecting alternate suppliers, adding manufacturing runs and changing production volumes.Safeguard Service Levels
The ability to monitor the current service risk at any level of aggregation based on the state of demand and supply helps you keep customers happy.
Probabilistic Planning for an Increasingly Uncertain World
Supply assurance has been in greater jeopardy than in recent years for companies involved in producing or distributing physical goods in the United States and other countries. In volatile supply chains with container delays, congestion at the ports, higher prices and labor shortages—including the shortage of truck drivers—nothing is certain. Questions like “Will I have enough stock to keep production running each day?” have no clear answers.
Hundreds of variabilities compound across each supply chain node. For both domestic production and outsourced, simple calculations to compare stock on hand and receipts with demand are impossible. Complicated probabilities combine what’s happening in the supply chain with fluctuating demand, supply and transportation lead times, making component and product shortages likely but unpredictable. This leaves firms at risk of short supply and service gaps at every stage for all consumer goods, from raw materials to end customers and from toilet paper and computer chips to grocery store items. The effects extend across internal operations and outsourced manufacturing and distribution.
E2open’s Supply Sensing software enables you to determine the probability of material shortages and service shortfalls over time for your entire global supply chain—and recommends actions to mitigate these risks. This unique approach uses AI to analyze real-time signals reflecting what’s happening in your supply chain right now—such as purchase order activity, forecasts, replenishments and changing inventory levels at every tier—combined with variabilities in supply, demand and transportation. Early visibility and awareness of the service risk at various time horizons help your company proactively mitigate risk, assure supply continuity and avoid financial penalties.
Probabilistic Planning for an Increasingly Uncertain World
Supply assurance has been in greater jeopardy than in recent years for companies involved in producing or distributing physical goods in the United States and other countries. In volatile supply chains with container delays, congestion at the ports, higher prices and labor shortages—including the shortage of truck drivers—nothing is certain. Questions like “Will I have enough stock to keep production running each day?” have no clear answers.
Hundreds of variabilities compound across each supply chain node. For both domestic production and outsourced, simple calculations to compare stock on hand and receipts with demand are impossible. Complicated probabilities combine what’s happening in the supply chain with fluctuating demand, supply and transportation lead times, making component and product shortages likely but unpredictable. This leaves firms at risk of short supply and service gaps at every stage for all consumer goods, from raw materials to end customers and from toilet paper and computer chips to grocery store items. The effects extend across internal operations and outsourced manufacturing and distribution.
E2open’s Supply Sensing software enables you to determine the probability of material shortages and service shortfalls over time for your entire global supply chain—and recommends actions to mitigate these risks. This unique approach uses AI to analyze real-time signals reflecting what’s happening in your supply chain right now—such as purchase order activity, forecasts, replenishments and changing inventory levels at every tier—combined with variabilities in supply, demand and transportation. Early visibility and awareness of the service risk at various time horizons help your company proactively mitigate risk, assure supply continuity and avoid financial penalties.
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Demand Sensing Intelligent Application Suite
Tracking demand is essential but difficult. Manage real-time partner and consumer demand with real-time…
White Paper
Forecast Accuracy: Why It Matters and How to Improve It
Understand the importance of forecast accuracy and how it drives key financial metrics that directly…
White Paper
The 2021 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study
Understand the pandemic’s effect on supply chain performance and learn proven best practices for using AI to…
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Blueprint for Managing Supply Chain Disruptions of Any Size
Gain insights from a fact-based study on global supply chain performance during the pandemic and learn why…
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Expand your benefits and see even better results. Once you implement an e2open application, it’s easy to add more capabilities through integration with one or more additional applications from our unified platform.
Demand Planning
Anticipate, understand and shape customer demand with advanced machine learning algorithms and automation powered by information from across all sales channels.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Achieve consistently profitable, execution-ready plans that balance demand, supply and financial goals to facilitate consensus across internal and external stakeholders.
Supply Planning and Response—Discrete Manufacturing
Achieve fast, feasible and profitable supply responses with supply plans that reflect constraints across multiple tiers of suppliers and subcontractors.
Supply Planning and Response—Process Manufacturing
Enable an agile response with scheduling plans that take into account both shifting demand and factory process constraints while ensuring high utilization levels.
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO)
Optimize materials and finished goods at all stocking echelons in the value chain, from internal operations to supplier and channel ecosystems.
Distribution Planning
Profitably fulfill customer demand with efficient replenishment plans for each location across the entire network to ensure continuous availability and minimize costs.
Allocation and Order Promising
Commit with confidence and maximize sales and profit opportunities with feasible allocation plans based on actual materials availability and manufacturing capacity.
More from the Business Planning Suite
Expand your benefits and see even better results. Once you implement an e2open application, it’s easy to add more capabilities through integration with one or more additional applications from our unified platform.
Demand Planning
Anticipate, understand and shape customer demand with advanced machine learning algorithms and automation powered by information from across all sales channels.
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Achieve consistently profitable, execution-ready plans that balance demand, supply and financial goals to facilitate consensus across internal and external stakeholders.
Supply Planning and Response—Discrete Manufacturing
Achieve fast, feasible and profitable supply responses with supply plans that reflect constraints across multiple tiers of suppliers and subcontractors.
Supply Planning and Response—Process Manufacturing
Enable an agile response with scheduling plans that take into account both shifting demand and factory process constraints while ensuring high utilization levels.
Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO)
Optimize materials and finished goods at all stocking echelons in the value chain, from internal operations to supplier and channel ecosystems.
Distribution Planning
Profitably fulfill customer demand with efficient replenishment plans for each location across the entire network to ensure continuous availability and minimize costs.
Allocation and Order Promising
Commit with confidence and maximize sales and profit opportunities with feasible allocation plans based on actual materials availability and manufacturing capacity.