Guided Solution Results
Here are the e2open solutions based on your specific business challenges.
Your Challenge: Connecting siloed systems into a single platform
Solution: The e2open Connected Supply Chain Platform creates a digital representation or “digital twin” of your supply chain – this enables you to quickly connect all partners and logistics providers across all tiers and ecosystems.
How it works
The supply chain digital twin provided by e2open establishes a digital abstraction layer representing the end-to-end physical supply chain and continuously updates it with information from underlying ERP and executional systems. A transparent view of the truth lets organizations collaborate instantly, balancing supply and demand in real time.
There are four elements of the Supply Chain Digital Twin:
Harmony
The Harmony user platform delivers a consistent, sophisticated interface across all e2open’s offerings. Personalized dashboards, easy drilldowns and actionable workflows enable users across the extended supply chain to connect, collaborate, visualize, plan and execute – all with a single version of the truth.
Intelligent Applications
Intelligent applications connect demand to supply, and planning to execution. This creates agility, intelligence, foresight and automation. Companies can sense demand using channel data, balance supply and demand against financial objectives and build realistic plans that factor in supply constraints across multiple tiers of suppliers, contract manufacturers and co-packers.
Networked Ecosystem
With easy integration across all major ERP systems, e2open’s cloud connectivity solution connects all partners, allowing the entire supply chain to exchange information and collaborate securely. At this layer, the data is cleaned, normalized and stored securely in the cloud so it can be readily available to applications and users at all points in the network.
Physical Layer
Outside the digital twin is the physical layer. A company’s physical supply chain is the global, multi-partner, incredibly complex network of suppliers, subcontractors, third party logistics (3PL) providers, distributors and retailers that has built up over time.
Your Challenge: Managing parcel deliveries across multiple carrier and service options
Solution: As a SaaS-based, multi-carrier application for global parcel shipping, the e2open Global Parcel application simplifies carrier booking, monitors delivery movements, and identifies opportunities to increase profits with each shipment.
How it works
Global Parcel provides for direct integration with e2open’s transportation, global trade, and supply chain management applications and also integrates with external business systems for the seamless execution of shipments from any operation. The application automates processes so users can identify the best carrier and service and generates the required documentation for full compliance.
Your Challenge: Getting retail visibility and insights across all retailers
Solution: The Demand Signal Management Application captures, harmonizes, and analyzes cross-retail demand data and helps you take profitable action.
How it works
The E2open Demand Signal Management application provides insights from cleansed and harmonized demand data to empower you to respond quickly to market shifts, improve on-shelf availability, successfully launch and promote products, and drive sales growth across products and categories.
Your Challenge: Visibility into multi-tier distribution performance
Solution: The Channel Data Management Application improves performance and streamlines your operations with decision-grade data and automation.
How it works
The E2open Channel Data Management application captures, cleanses, harmonizes, and enriches data from all channel partners, including distributors, resellers and retailers. With automated real-time validations, flexible workflows and easy-to-use dashboards, companies can reduce manual steps and streamline key aspects of channel management.
Your Challenge: Managing programs that attract, enable, motivate and reward the entire partner ecosystem
Solution: The Rewards and Funds Management Application creates, monitors, controls, and manages results-driven partner funding and rewards programs for optimal yields.
How it works
E2open Rewards and Funds Management manages a broad range of programs across all partners and regions. Leverage rewards, CO-OP funds, and market development funds (MDF) as well as partner and business development funds programs, all of which draw upon timely, accurate data and deliver superior results.
Your Challenge: Detecting and intelligently responding to uncertainty, market volatility, and shifting demand
Solution: Combining multiple demand signals, the e2open Demand Sensing application predicts near-term demand with superior forecast accuracy compared to traditional approaches. The application has been used in more than 180 countries for $250 billion in annual sales.
How it works
Part of the e2open Planning suite, e2open Demand Sensing examines multiple sources of real-time data. Using machine learning, the application combines these inputs to predict near-term demand with a 30 to 40% improvement in forecast accuracy compared to traditional time-series approaches.
Your Challenge: Maintaining the right inventory in the right place
Solution: The E2open Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization provides more accurate inventory targets so you can reach service goals with confidence.
How it works
As part of the e2open Planning suite, e2open Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization determines time-phased inventory targets for every item and location across all locations simultaneously. Inventory targets can be established at plants, supplier sites, distribution centers, inbound and outbound vendor-managed inventory (VMI) hubs, retailer locations, and other sites. All forms of stock are addressed — from raw materials and work-in-process to finished goods—as are all inventory types, including safety, cycle, and in-transit stock.
Your Challenge: Managing supply disruptions and uncertainty
Solution: With its unique customer-driven, rules-based approach to planning, the e2open Supply Planning application quickly delivers feasible and profitable plans while enabling users to easily identify and address supply bottlenecks.
How it works
Part of the e2open Planning suite, e2open Supply Planning uses the latest data from all tiers of the end-to-end supply chain to generate plans optimized to meet company goals. The application creates multi-tier plans that respect constraints and take supply alternatives into account. Users can define extensive rules for how to align supply with demand priorities. In cases when resolving a bottleneck is not practical, planning logic ensures that the most important demands are met first and plans are aligned with business objectives.
Your Challenge: Moving large volumes, complex products or conducting multiple border crossings
Solution: The E2open Customs Filing application automates multi-country customs declarations and filings, so you can consolidate all your trade into the correct filing format and submit it with greater efficiency.
How it works
One of e2open’s Global Trade Management intelligent applications, e2open Customs Filing empowers shippers to confidently prepare complete, accurate and timely customs declarations without using a third party. Rich automation and operational research capabilities support the filing process with a comprehensive set of validation and verification rules that relies on the world’s largest repository of country-specific filing data, contained in e2open’s Global Knowledge® application. If desired, shippers can also file export and import declarations directly with customs agencies, leading to better control, reduced costs and confident filing.
Your Challenge: Identifying and qualifying products for free trade agreements (FTAs) and duty savings programs
Solution: The E2open Duty Management application gives you a streamlined process for automatically identifying relevant duty, tax, and tariff reduction programs, while fulfilling all documentation requirements with minimal manual effort.
How it works
The e2open Duty Management application enables importers to automatically identify relevant duty, tax and tariff reduction programs and fulfill all documentation requirements with minimal manual effort. Importers get a streamlined process that reduces the burden of complex documentation while dramatically lowering import costs with less risk of errors.
Your Challenge: Managing the complexity of exporting to foreign markets
Solution: The e2open Export Management application automates trade compliance and minimize risk by replacing error-prone manual export activities. It efficiently screens export transactions against the world’s most comprehensive trade content database.
How it works
Part of e2open’s Global Trade Management intelligent application suite, e2open Export Management automates export compliance, verifying that every line of a sales order fully adheres to all the regulations of each jurisdiction involved and helping enable exporters to ensure their goods get to market on time. The application classifies products and screens all parties in the transaction to ensure compliance with sanctions and denied party lists. The system also determines whether companies need an export license and helps manage the data and documentation. Exporters operate with complete and current information sourced from a proprietary, complete database of global trade rules.
Your Challenge: Dealing with fluctuating transportation costs and delivering goods on time
Solution: E2open Transportation Management is an all-encompassing logistics management application that automates transportation activities across all modes and regions, driving transformational efficiency and the ability to scale. Purpose-built for companies that plan and execute their own shipments, shipper-specific capabilities cover all the bases – from planning and rating, execution, settlement, analytics, and procurement.
How it works
E2open’s comprehensive Transportation Management application simplifies and optimizes domestic and international logistics for shippers, freight forwarders, carriers, and logistics service providers (LSPs) by providing capabilities based on your specific needs so you can serve your customers better. E2open provides a single application purpose-built for your business’s unique volumes and workflows, covering all modes and regions with full functionality for planning, carrier procurement, execution, tracking, and settlement.
Your Challenge: Having real-time location visibility into every shipment across modes
Solution: The e2open Logistics Visibility application gives you real-time location visibility into every shipment across all modes, legs, and regions so you can make informed business decisions and pivot to deliver shipments on-time and in full.
How it works
Logistics Visibility gives logistics operations teams instant access to predictive and real-time status information for shipments moving across all modes, regions, and shipment legs. Leveraging highly contextualized data through its technology partnership with Shippeo, e2open enables movers of all types to know where their shipments are and what they contain. As part of e2open’s network, Logistics Visibility collects and connects data from all global logistics partner ecosystems and analyzes it using powerful, proprietary algorithms. Using comprehensive, high-quality, and timely data, clients can quickly and accurately anticipate issues allowing them to manage exceptions to mitigate the impact.
Your Challenge: Managing logistics and reducing spend
Solution: Logistics as a Service from e2open Over 275 e2open logistics coordinators, analysts, managers and supply chain engineers put the power of our transportation management solutions and four connected ecosystems to work for you, giving you more time for other strategic supply chain initiatives.
How it works
Our experts analyze transportation benchmark information for tactical and strategic planning, then utilize e2open’s transportation management solutions to keep your shipments moving at the optimum speed and cost.
Your Challenge: Managing supply chain volatility
Solution: The E2open Manufacturing Collaboration application provides complete visibility into end-to-end manufacturing processes and costs at all stages of production to improve operational efficiency, collaborate on product design, and reduce invoicing inaccuracies. As blind spots disappear, profitability increases.
How it works
E2open Manufacturing Collaboration provides deep insight into production across both internal and external factories. Operations, finance, and engineering teams receive shop floor and quality metrics from each facility in the manufacturer’s ecosystem to proactively identify nonconformances in processes and quickly address variances before they become supply chain issues.
Your Challenge: Minimize inventory liability and disruptions in outsourced manufacturing
Solution: The E2open Supply Inventory Collaboration application gives you visibility into materials at all nodes in your network and enables contract manufacturers and suppliers to proactively manage shortages and excesses. The result is reduced safety stock requirements, carrying costs, and working capital liability.
How it works
Supply Inventory Collaboration provides real-time visibility into inventory at supplier facilities, internal sites and VMI hubs to enable companies to manage and reduce financial liabilities. Visibility into inventory within the network helps manufacturers situate the right inventory at the appropriate locations to mitigate excess and obsolescence costs. Companies can conduct what-if analyses for different scenarios in a real-time environment, reducing safety stock, inventory carrying costs and working capital liability.
Your Challenge: Consolidate purchasing to reduce costs with procurement buy-sell management
Solution: With the e2open Buy-Sell Management application, you can regain visibility and control by leveraging economies of scale and improving supply assurance through the direct procurement of raw materials on behalf of contract manufacturers.
How it works
Buy-Sell Management enables brand-owners to regain centralized visibility and control by procuring large volumes of raw materials directly from suppliers at negotiated wholesale prices. They can then arrange for suppliers to drop-ship the raw materials directly to contract manufacturers. These capabilities not only enable brand owners to improve margins but also ensure a consistent supply of raw materials to meet demand.
Your Challenge: The agility to react to near-term supply and demand signals
Solution: The E2open Purchase Order Collaboration application helps you reduce network inventory, expedite the delivery of goods, and improve productivity.
How it works
Purchase Order Collaboration provides end-to-end, real-time visibility and management capabilities across POs, shipments, receipts and invoices. Buyers can collaborate with suppliers to address any changes and ensure that the right product gets delivered at the right time. Trading partners benefit from the automation of order management, particularly the complete transaction history that provides a single version of the truth to help avoid miscommunication. The result is a streamlined procure-to-pay process that benefits all parties by reducing network inventory, expediting the delivery of goods and improving productivity.
Your Challenge: Keep pace with volatile demand with proactive partner collaboration
Solution: The E2open Supply Forecast Collaboration application enables you to collaborate across all supply tiers to secure raw materials and outsourced capacity for new and existing orders.
How it works
Supply Forecast Collaboration synchronizes demand across every tier of supply and creates shared value for all parties within the supply ecosystem. Advance visibility into orders enables suppliers to better ensure that materials and capacity are available. Transparent processes and trust in the forecast give suppliers the confidence to scale back or even remove their hedge against uncertainty. With complete visibility into order commitments and supply constraints, buyers gain confidence in suppliers’ ability to meet planned and unexpected demand. The result is a more efficient supply chain with better service, lower costs and greater productivity for all parties.
Your Challenge: Maintaining brand reputation and quality control
Solution:The E2open Risk and Quality Management application addresses quality and recall issues by helping manufacturers trace the origin of products, lots, batches, and raw materials.
How it works
By leveraging capabilities in Risk and Quality Management, brand owners continuously monitor production quality and receive automated alerts for potential quality concerns. They reduce overall costs and manage recalls effectively by tracing products in the manufacturing cycle, the logistics network and customer channels. Customer service and manufacturing operations teams are empowered to trace and control inventory by lots and maintain material usage genealogy trees, gaining the ability to quickly understand the root cause of potential defects and pinpoint which goods are affected.
Your Challenge: Automatically detect quality issues and effectively manage recalls
Solution: With the e2open Recall Management application, you can analyze goods for potential failures, identify the source of any defects, locate and quarantine the affected goods, and respond quickly with surgically precise recalls.
How it works
One of e2open’s Collaborative Manufacturing intelligent applications, e2open Recall Management helps brand owners identify the source of defects, quickly locate all the affected goods, efficiently recall them and issue replacements. The ability to take quick, decisive action helps protect consumers and mitigates financial liability and brand damage. Brand owners gain end-to-end visibility across channel, logistics, global trade and supply, orchestrating remedial actions across multiple cross-functional and cross-enterprise areas. The ability to pinpoint the root cause of defects also helps prevent the need for future recalls.