Customer-Driven Forecast Collaboration
Work with your customers to reach an accurate consensus demand plan you can execute with confidence. With E2open’s Forecast Collaboration application, your customers can share forecasts, promotion upsides and other data with you. You can then arrive at a consensus plan and confidently commit to fulfilling demand. Both manufacturers and customers benefit from improved forecasts, better customer service and less inventory.
Streamline the Collaboration Process
E2open provides the power and flexibility to efficiently collaborate across large numbers of customers. Process automation, exception management and performance management analytics are key to accomplishing this at scale.
E2open offers what more manual approaches cannot:
Streamlined, efficient forecast collaboration process with automated workflows
Proactive issue resolution using alerts for exceptions such as forecast changes and forecast-commit mismatches
Dashboards to monitor joint key performance indicators (KPIs) and keep plans on track
Data connectivity that supports rapid customer onboarding, pre-built enterprise resource planning (ERP) interfaces and common data exchange standards
Secure role-based permissioning to provide appropriate levels of access to data and processes
20 – 40% reduction in stockouts resulting from more accurate forecasts
10 – 20% decrease in excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory
10 – 15% improvement in productivity by avoiding the tedious and error-prone manual reconciliation of spreadsheets and emails