2024 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study - Now Available!

Get the Report
Planning | Supply Sensing

AI-Based Supply Signal Analyses Help Improve Supply Assurance Amid Uncertainty

GettyImages-1320950393-72dpi

E2open Supply Sensing uses real-time signals, artificial intelligence (AI), and market volatilities to predict supply shortages, so you can deliver better service and lower inventory costs.

Easily predict supply chain shortages and act decisively

Supply assurance is in jeopardy

Uncertainty is the new norm

Factory closures, labor shortages, and container delays have become all too frequent today. It seems like constant change is the only constant. That makes predicting supply shortages more difficult than ever, putting organizations in a constant reactive state and leaving many of their customers unsatisfied.

Automation with AGV and robotic arm in smart distribution warehouse.

Predict, react, and adapt when supply shortages hit

Use real-time data, artificial intelligence, and lead time variances to predict supply shortages and deliver better service.

Understand the risk of shortages

Understand the risk of shortages

Real-time data and predictive analytics provide visibility into potential inventory shortfalls during specific periods.

Triage shortages for optimal outcomes

Triage shortages for optimal outcomes

Prescriptive analytics give you options such as selecting alternate suppliers, adding manufacturing runs and changing production volumes.

Safeguard service levels

Safeguard service levels

The ability to monitor the current service risk at any level of aggregation based on the state of demand and supply helps you keep customers happy.

Balance inventory and service risk

Balance inventory and service risk

You can review tradeoffs for the current service risk versus the cost of inventory at any stage to help maximize profits—even during a holiday season.

Resolve the most pressing risks

Resolve the most pressing risks

By identifying and responding to only the most critical near-term service risks, you save time, maintain customer loyalty, and minimize the cost of expedites.

Mitigate risk from end to end

Mitigate risk from end to end

Assuring supply helps you mitigate risk, including internal operations, upstream contract manufacturers, and downstream distribution partners.

For more accurate decisions

Increased visibility

For more accurate decisions

With collaborative planning

More confidence

With collaborative planning

By making smarter AI-driven decisions

Fewer costly expedites

By making smarter AI-driven decisions

Related applications

Customers

Testimonials

VMware by Broadcom logo

We rebranded e2open Concierge Services as Help Desk Plus and it has become a real extension of our company. The Help Desk Plus has enabled us to meet our partners where we need them and where they need us and make it as seamless and as easy as possible for our partners to go to market for their customers.

Sarah Masessa
Global Partner Platform and Communications Manager
VMware by Broadcom
Sandvik logo

Centralizing and automating our export control processes, and particularly our trade compliance, not only reduces risk for Sandvik, but opens new opportunities to do more business worldwide.

Sandvik

Working with e2open enables us to better fulfill short supplier lead times, reduce inventory levels, and dramatically improve inventory turns—all while lowering the total cost of ownership to our customers.

Celestica

Having visibility to the supply chain gives us and our suppliers the opportunity to plan. We talk about planning its capacity, its resources, its material—and it helps with the cost as well by having all those elements tied together.

L’Oreal

With the e2open system, processes that used to take a whole calendar year now happen in a matter of days.

Vinny Moscatello
Avon

We know what stock we have in the channel, is it healthy, what our average days of stock are, do we ship in more or do we reduce what we are shipping? We are really in control of channel data.

Mailin Boeker
Acer

By implementing an integrated international purchasing system, we have ensured that Leggett & Platt is maximizing its efforts to conduct its international procurement activities in a compliant manner.

John Wainwright
Leggett & Platt, Inc.
Geodis logo

E2open compliance capabilities are very important for the Geodis Supply Chain Optimization compliance risk management program. The digital information is key to providing timely and accurate visibility, streamlining our compliance check processes, improving their efficiency and reliability. We’re now very well-positioned for the next wave of growth and ready to offer our customers more value than ever before.

Laurent Rosa
GEODIS

The vision for us is that the core activities of transportation should be running independently and smoothly without any interaction from ourselves so that we can really focus on the additional services that we offer to our customers.

Sebastian Poehl
Head of Global Business Solutions
Leschaco

We want to achieve world-class logistics, with teams able to leverage the best tools to overcome todays and future challenges. The benefits we are anticipating by using e2open’s TMS tool for intercontinental logistics are threefold: standardization, reduction of logistics costs, and end-to-end visibility. This should give us a competitive advantage in the market.

Dan Jianu
Logistics Operations Manager
Michelin

We consider e2open global trade software as a game changer. It has enabled us to gain in efficiency, follow the evolution of trade rules timely and accurately, and exploit the necessary free trade agreements. It enhanced our overall competitiveness.

Jean-Paul Verschoor
Origin Responsible Manager
Renault Group
Jabil logo

The e2open capabilities through supplier collaboration have enabled Jabil to standardize and digitalize our forecast communication process for all suppliers, providing increased optionality for more efficient collaboration. This is undoubtedly providing us with a competitive advantage, ensuring we have near real time visibility into forecast status with our suppliers and helping us make more reliable commitments to our customers.

Alan Brown
Vice President of Supply Chain, Technology and Transformation
Jabil
More sales and better service

Take the guesswork out of supply risks.

background image