e2open Efficient Supply Collaboration User Guide

e2open Efficient Supply Collaboration

Product Usage Instructions

Automate Procure-to-Pay Process:

• Utilize E2open Purchase Order Collaboration for real-time visibility and collaboration with suppliers.
• Streamline purchase order processes to improve supply assurance and efficiency.

Keep Pace with Demand:

• Use E2open Supply Forecast Collaboration to secure raw ingredients and capacity for orders.
• Collaborate across supply tiers for better alignment with customer demand.

Minimize Inventory Liability:

• Employ E2open Supply Inventory Collaboration to reduce carrying costs and excess inventory.
• Gain visibility into ingredients across the network for proactive management.

Reduce Compliance Risk:

• Utilize E2open Supply Network Discovery for supplier discovery and compliance improvements.
• Perform due diligence and impact assessments for better understanding and compliance.

Build an Agile Network:

• Transition to a single, automated platform for end-to-end visibility and control.
• Improve decision-making, efficiency, and stability in your supply chain network

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Digitalization and effective collaboration are the engines that will support supply chain growth. You can increase efficiency, make work easier for associates and partners, and improve supply assurance by integrating, automating and standardizing key sourcing and planning processes.

Automate your procure-to-pay process

Digitalize and simplify your end-to-end purchase order processes with e2open Purchase Order Collaboration, an application that gives you real-time visibility and collaboration with suppliers across POs, shipments, receipts, and invoices.

Key Benefits

• Streamline your ingredient requirements planning and purchase order changes, including expedites, de-expedites, and cancellations.
• Improve the ability to adapt to changes in business dynamics with flexible order management workflows.
•  Oversee governance for the entire PO process – including shipping instructions – with supplier communication standardization.
• Manage discrete orders, blanket orders, blanket releases, scheduling agreements shipments, receipts, and invoices.
• Get access to the largest direct materials procurement network and extensive supplier onboarding capabilities, so you can expand while keeping data flowing into and out of one place.
• Quickly identify critical gaps, such as mismatches between order and shipment quantities.
  • 20-30%
    • PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE BY ELIMINATING MANUAL MANAGEMENT ERRORS
  • 10-20%
    • IMPROVEMENT IN SUPPLIER ON-TIME DELIVERIES
  • 50-75%
    • DECREASE IN EXCESS AND OBSOLETE INVENTOR

Keep pace with volatile demand

• Move away from Excel-based supply planning to reduce lead times and risk. E2open Supply Forecast Collaboration lets you collaborate across all supply tiers to secure raw ingredients and outsourced capacity for new and existing orders.

Key Benefits

• A time-series view displays ingredient and other materials forecasts, upsides, and commitments for suppliers.
• Automated issue identification helps you solve supply chain problems through collaborative workflows across multiple stakeholders.
• Dynamic alerts for demand-supply mismatches between buyers and suppliers help you avoid= crises upstream.
• Advance visibility into sizable upside orders helps buyers and suppliers adjust smoothly and avoid shortages and delays.
• A single source of truth for forecasted demand and supplier commitments helps you proactively secure materials and capacity.
  • 25-35%
    • REDUCTION IN COMPONENT EXPEDITING COSTS DUE TO IMPROVED VISIBILITY INTO FORECASTS
  • 10-20%
    • FEWER MISMATCHES BETWEEN FORECASTS AND SUPPLIER COMMITMENTS THROUGH ACCESS TO REAL-TIME ORDER INFORMATION
  • 5-10%
    • IMPROVEMENT IN CUSTOMER ORDER FILL RATES DUE TO BETTER ALIGNMENT OF SUPPLY WITH FINISHED GOODS DEMAND

Minimize inventory liability and disruptions

Avoid high carrying costs and the risk of expiration. E2open Supply Inventory Collaboration gives you visibility into ingredients 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.

Key Benefits

• Gain real-time visibility into stock held at internal and external manufacturing sites, warehouses, and hubs, as well as inventory in transit between locations.
• Allow suppliers to collaborate on inventory issues without brand-owner engagement, speeding resolution.
• Easily simulate the impact of forecast changes on inventory across multiple tiers of supply with what-if scenario planning in a real-time environment.
• Reduce inventory, increase turns, and minimize the “bullwhip effect” by right-sizing inventory across all tiers.
• Proactively identify inventory gaps and resolve shortages through a collaborative ticketing process.
• Increase efficiency by automating pull and replenishment cycles for VMI, consigned inventory, and unallocated inventory across the supply chain.
  • 20-30%
    • REDUCTION IN INVENTORY DUE TO RIGHT-SIZING ACROSS MULTIPLE TIERS
  • 30-50%
    • IMPROVEMENT IN INVENTORY TURNOVER THROUGH INCREASED VISIBILITY & AGILITY
  • 8%
    • AVERAGE REDUCTION OF EXCESS AND OBSOLETE INVENTORY
  • 35%
    • DECREASE IN THE TIME REQUIRED TO RESOLVE POTENTIAL SHORTAGES

Reduce compliance and supply assurance risk

E2open Supply Network Discovery provides multi-tier supplier discovery, relationship mapping, and traceability. A structured engagement to perform due diligence and partner impact assessment capabilities improves supply understanding and compliance, especially for key ingredients subject to changing ESG legislation (deforestation, child- and forced-labor).

Key Benefits

• Ability to identify, screen, certify, and document all supply partners
• Structured partner engagement on regulation compliance
• Traceability of ingredients and raw materials
• Geographic representation of supply chain partners
• Multi-tier supply network management and compliance
• Partner impact self-assessment for disruptions and shortages
• Partner certification, screening, and onboarding
• Single source for documentation and shared information
  • 20%
    • COST REDUCTION THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF TIER 2 & 3 SUPPLIERS DISRUPTION IMPACT ASSESSMENTS IN HOURS, NOT DAYS
  • 50%
    • REDUCTION OF DISRUPTION-RELATED COSTS THROUGH PROACTIVE REPORTING AND MITIGATION
  • 54%
    • OF SUPPLY CHAINS WILL ONLY DO BUSINESS WITH ESG-COMPLIANT BUSINESSES (GARTNER)

More agile responsive, and efficient network

With our Supply solutions, you will transition from siloed, pieced-together systems and slow, error-prone spreadsheet communications to a single, automated, and AI-enabled operating platform that gives you end-to-end visibility and control. As a result, you will build trust and confidence into your network, leading to stability, efficiency, and smart decision-making.

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 480,000 manufacturing, logistics, channel, and distribution partners as one multi-enterprise network tracking over 15 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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FAQs

• Q: How can I access the E2open Supply Collaboration Solutions?
  • A: You can access the solutions through the E2open platform or by contacting E2open directly for more information.
• Q: What kind of support is available for implementing these solutions?
  • A: E2open provides implementation support, training, and ongoing assistance to ensure successful integration and usage of the collaboration solutions.
• Q: Can these solutions be customized to fit specific supply chain requirements?
  • A: Yes, E2open offers customization options to tailor the solutions to meet the unique needs of your supply chain.