Media and Press

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” is a frequently quoted word of caution from Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) certainly falls into the category of essential planning, something a competitive supply chain organization can’t do without.

AUSTIN, Texas – November 18, 2020 – E2open, the network for the emerging digital economy, has been named a winner of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) 2020 Central Texas Growth Awards. ACG honors companies across a range of industries based on the growth of their business in a given year. E2open was selected, for the second year in a row, as the 2020 winner in the category of companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Updates continue e2open’s march to network global economic capacity. The value of an operating platform with a multi-enterprise network at the core has never been clearer.

Trade compliance management, landed cost calculation and shipment visibility solution for today's global e-commerce environment

AUSTIN, October 28, 2020 – Cloud Logistics by e2open (Cloud Logistics) and Uber Freight today announced a partnership on a direct Application Programming Interface (API) integration for seamless access to digital freight brokerage rates and capacity when planning or executing shipments within the industry’s easiest-to-use Transportation Management System (TMS). Cloud Logistics and Uber Freight will work together to provide shippers with a new level of ease, flexibility and rate transparency to successfully secure capacity in today’s increasingly uncertain and fast-moving markets.

There is one advantage to having poor channel incentives technology: You can always blame it on the tools!

Do you remember taking long road trips as a kid and repeatedly asking, “Are we there yet?” During long transport journeys, Logistic Service Providers (LSPs) often get asked a similar question by their customers – “Is my stuff there yet?”

Believe it or not, most incentive programs are completely unsuccessful.

Some aspects of channel marketing programs are intuitive, while others require more thought or even intensive study. One of the less-intuitive channel marketing concepts is contra revenue, which actually means “against revenue.”