E2open's Q4 Technology Update Expands Automation

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.

AUSTIN, Texas – November 12, 2020 –E2open, the network for the emerging digital economy, today announced the release of its fourth quarter technology update, with enhancements to help clients further automate complex global supply and distribution processes, make better decisions and become more resilient to disruptions in an increasingly uncertain economy. Clients can benefit from new network and application capabilities for improved performance, faster integration to ecosystem partners and lower overall cost of ownership.

“Global operations continue to get increasingly complex, requiring a greater level of orchestration for sourcing, contract manufacturing, transportation, import, export and distribution activities across a wide array of ecosystem partners,” said Pawan Joshi, executive vice president of product management and strategy for e2open. “Seamlessly connecting all tiers of upstream and downstream partners and automating these processes provides a strategic advantage to our clients allowing them to identify risks and opportunities early and take corrective actions holistically. This quarterly release expands the level of automation across core network, functional and cross-functional activities to increase data accuracy and decision quality, improve efficiency and lower operational risk. It also spotlights the speed at which e2open certifies its network add-on adapters, within weeks of a major enterprise resource planning (ERP) release, reinforcing our commitment to offer clients the latest interoperability options to quickly, easily and cost effectively connect to any and all systems.”

Some of the primary enhancements in this release include:

Channel Shaping

Automated duplicate invoice detection, automated validation of rebates adjustments and visibility to reasons for zero or partial rebate payments give brand owners confidence that channel revenue is accurate, incentives fraud is prevented, and sales reps are rewarded fairly.
New exception auto-resolution propagates corrections across all relevant partner data in one click dramatically improving productivity.
Availability of a larger variety of best-in-class marketing activities templates with improved designs and impressive layouts improve user experience for both partners and customers.

Demand Sensing and Business Planning

New service-time based optimization improves inventory performance for make-to-order businesses. This improves on time, in-full performance, reducing penalties on brand-owners and improving retailer satisfaction.
Enhancements to deployment planning improve supply plan accuracy with product distribution based on fair share allocation rules. New transport load features convert shipment plans into truckload or containers, simplifying logistics execution and reducing costs.
New “Discussions” feature simplifies real-time collaboration with intuitive online chat directly within Harmony® for planning applications. Both internal and ecosystem partner communications are captured and archived, providing a knowledge repository that can be tapped for future process improvements and better decisions.
Artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements in demand planning accelerate machine learning to reduce the time for initial deployments and enable ongoing auto-tuning for maximum forecast accuracy.

Global Trade Management

As the Brexit date approaches, e2open’s Global Knowledge® trade content database adds 21 new Trade Agreements related to UK trade programs, keeping clients current in a fluid regulatory landscape. Constant updates ensure that every shipment complies with new regulations and filed to qualify for the best possible duty rates.
The Customs Filing application continues to be enhanced with greater coverage of US Automated Customs Entry (ACE) query functionality allowing importers to collect, share, track and process required trade information.
E2open also received the seal of approval from Belgium customs as a certified Belgium PLDA Import and Export filing vendor.

Transportation & Logistics

Enhanced transportation rating capabilities let clients see and apply contracted ocean and air rates with their preferred carriers directly in the Transportation Management application. This extra level of transparency helps drive more accurate and timely decision-making when booking shipments.
Carriers can now efficiently manage container re-use pricing across multiple haulage and carrier modes on the Avantida platform. Users can easily change custom price exceptions for location-specific and carrier- or merchant-haulage scenarios.
Actionable shipper dashboards in the ocean-booking platform improve usability and increase efficiency while orchestrating all shipment tasks. These intuitive graphical dashboards also display the workflow status of all shipments in progress.

Collaborative Manufacturing

Improve productivity with manufacturing transactional enhancements that enable multiple inbound data feeds to be processed in parallel. This significantly increases the processing rate of events to support high-volume serial number consumption data.
Improve manufacturing visibility with the new performance metrics dashboard, which provides trending information on key operational metrics and enables users to compare performance patterns for an individual supplier or across multiple suppliers.

Supply Management

To achieve set business objectives, brand owners and logistics service providers can effectively comply with contracted volumes by enabling splits across multiple partners based on predefined allocation rules for inbound and outbound processes.
Streamline data management and improve user experience through location master enhancements that provide a modern user interface and advanced validation rules helping to reduce data entry errors in both transportation planning and execution workflows.
Enhance time to value with faster onboarding, lower costs and a quicker response from low-volume suppliers through email-based collaboration on blanket purchase orders and scheduling agreement-based procurement processes.
Reduce product testing risk with lab requests that capture safety ratings at a granular level for lab and brand level attributes to enable validation across samples and ensure compliance with safety, quality and performance standards.

Network (E2net)

Clients planning to upgrade to the latest 2020 version or currently running the 1909 version of SAP’s S/4HANA ERP system can now use e2open’s certified add-on to rapidly integrate with the entire application suite. This benefits all clients with SAP migration plans from ECC to S/4HANA and continues e2open’s commitment to stay current with the latest S/4HANA offerings, receiving certification less than a month after SAP released its 2020 version.
Out-of-the-box configurations of e2open’s SAP Adapter are now available for Export Management application to quickly enable data flows between their SAP systems and the cloud-based application.

Learn More About Technology Updates

As a cloud-based offering, e2open consistently brings the best in channel and supply chain management technology to clients, with many more updates than are shared in this press release. To Learn More, please join us for the 20.4 technology update webinar. Additionally, e2open clients can access all technology update webinars through the Mye2open client portal.

About e2open

E2open is the connected supply chain software platform that enables the world’s largest companies to transform the way they make, move, and sell goods and services. With the broadest cloud-native global platform purpose-built for modern supply chains, e2open connects more than 400,000 manufacturing, logistics, channel, and distribution partners as one multi-enterprise network tracking over 12 billion transactions annually. Our SaaS platform anticipates disruptions and opportunities to help companies improve efficiency, reduce waste, and operate sustainably. Moving as one.™ Learn more: www.e2open.com.

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