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Don’t Believe the Control Tower Hype – Buyer Beware
If you hear conflicting messages about control towers you are not alone. Control tower is one of those catchy but misleading phrases that is widely used in supply chain but means something different [...]
Technology Reference Model for Stage 5 Maturity Supply Chain Planning
"Traditional supply chain planning will not work in a fast-paced digital world.” The link among Stage 5 planning maturity, algorithmic planning and the full digitalization of planning will be essential to organizations that [...]
Integrated Business Planning: Powering Agility in a Volatile World
Economic, political and environmental challenges combined with the growing complexity of global operations have made Integrated Business Planning (IBP) a top corporate priority. In the most volatile business climates the potential is tremendous [...]
2016 Forecasting Benchmark Study: Highlights
E2open’s 2016 Forecasting Benchmark Study is an in-depth analysis of demand planning performance and the benefits realized by industry leaders from sensing demand. In this white paper, see highlights of the analysis and findings. [...]
Achieving End-to-End Visibility in Your Outsourced Supply Chain
To run today’s supply chains requires a new paradigm, one that extends what ERP has done for the company within its four walls to the new reality of the multi-enterprise supply chain. This [...]
Building a Digital Supply Chain
Current supply chain management approaches have run out of steam. New digital supply chain technologies can be transformative, but only if three enablers are in place: high-quality and timely data from the entire [...]
Orchestrating Every Link: Equipped for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Opportunities
“E2open adds advanced supply chain management (SCM) applications powered by cognitive artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and automation so companies can use real-time data to deliver new insight and drive smarter decisions.” See [...]
Forecast Accuracy: Why It Matters and How to Improve It
Demand forecasts underpin essentially every major business decision, but discussions about forecast accuracy rarely get visibility outside of supply chain organizations, let alone at the board level. In this white paper, learn why [...]
2016 Forecasting Benchmark Study
Now in its seventh year, this remains the most comprehensive study of demand planning performance, encompassing $250 billion in annual sales from 17 multinational consumer products companies, with 9 billion cases and 1.6 [...]
Driving Channel Program Success
Channel marketers spend millions each year to engage tiered distribution ecosystems in marketing activities driven by marketing development funds (MDF) programs. Organizations place ever-increasing demands on marketers to drive results from channel program [...]
Nucleus Research: Inventory Optimization Value Matrix 2018
Inventory optimization solutions are a key lever which can enable companies to streamline operations while maintaining service levels and freeing up working capital. In the 2017 edition of the Inventory Optimization Value Matrix, [...]
Nucleus Research: Control Tower Value Matrix 2017
Supply chain control towers continue to evolve from tools that deliver visibility almost exclusively to solutions that provide capabilities like collaboration with trading partners and functionality that enables supply chain planners to automate processes [...]
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Global Manufacturer Manages Disruption, Nimbly Adapting to Changes in Corporate Strategy
In addition to addressing internal quality control and inventory reporting pressures, a global semiconductor manufacturer sought to transition from a 90% in-house manufacturing model to 80% outsourcing. Find out how E2open’s visibility platform was instrumental [...]
E2open Demand Sensing Application
E2open's Demand Sensing application is a next-generation forecasting technology invented by E2open in 2002, it analyzes current demand signals such as orders, shipments and retailer data like point-of-sale, to predict the most likely amount of [...]
E2open Enables Recall Management
Superior recall management through E2open’s Manufacturing Quality & Traceability application protects your reputation and profitability with rapid tracing and identification of affected batches and swift, transparent and fair recalls. Learn how you can contain costs [...]
Manufacturing Quality & Traceability
E2open’s Manufacturing Quality & Traceability application provides companies with deep visibility to the production processes and end-to-end quality information across the supply chain, to create comprehensive product genealogies regardless of who manufactures or distributes the products. [...]