Reduce Development Cycle Times
Global brand owners must compete to stay ahead as consumers demand more innovative products faster. With E2open’s Product Lifecycle Management application, companies can leverage enterprise data to improve decision-making for product development, sampling, material selection, initial costing and supplier selection. Collaborative development enables brand owners to track each step with accuracy and confidence before moving to production.
Increase Productivity while Lowering Costs
Introduce products faster and more efficiently. Reduce errors and sourcing costs across the board by streamlining the end-to-end product development process through automation.
Strategic capabilities help improve speed-to-market:
Collaborate early in the product lifecycle to reduce development and pre-production time
Share images of design concepts with internal and external parties
Gain global visibility into the development, costing and sampling of materials and items
Track sample costs, quantities, receipts and approvals with detailed, informative views
Facilitate multi-supplier bidding with online request-for-quote (RFQ) notifications and costing analyses
Enable sourcing teams to capture and analyze product costs at the item and component level
Collaborate with vendors on bill of material (BOM) specifications to acquire the most suitable materials at an optimal cost
Maintain a pricing history for parts quotations and sales data