The planning engine behind global industry leaders
TOO MANY UNCERTAINTIES
Supply chain planning has changed. Most companies haven’t kept up.
Traditional planning solutions are ill-equipped to deal with the hazy uncertainties of modern supply chains. Check out the biggest headaches facing planners today.
Demand volatility
Struggling to align supply with unpredictable global demand
Siloed data
Difficulty accessing real-time, integrated data across regions and functions
Supply disruptions
Addressing risks from geopolitics, material shortages, and logistics delays
Forecast accuracy
Pressure to improve forecast accuracy and cut inventory cost
Sustainability goals
Balancing cost efficiency with ESG and compliance requirements
Skills gap
Difficulty finding and retaining skilled planners and analysts
Solution Brief
Shadow Planning: Reveal the blind spots in your supply chain
Learn how a supply chain digital twin can help you anticipate disruptions before they affect your bottom line.
A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH
Connected Planning is built for the messy reality of supply chains
With AI-powered decisioning and automation, Connected Planning from e2open lets you break through silos and respond instantly to both risks and opportunities.
CONNECTED VISIBILITY
Combine downstream channel data with upstream supply visibility
Use Case: Your contract manufacturer (CM) is encountering unforeseen delays. By incorporating n-tier supplier data, Connected Planning lets you identify the causes of part shortages at your CM’s supplier and collaborate with them to find mutually-beneficial solutions and maintain production schedules.
CONNECTED MODEL
Teams work from one source of truth for faster collaboration
Use Case: A global electronics manufacturer faces sudden demand spikes for a new product across multiple regions. With Connected Planning, planners in North America, Europe, and Asia collaborate in real time, sharing insights and updating scenarios as market conditions change. The team quickly identifies bottlenecks, reallocates inventory, and adjusts production schedules, ensuring products reach customers faster and maintain service level expectations.
CONNECTED SCENARIOS
Model, compare, and promote “what-if” scenarios in real time
Use Case: When your competitor faces disruption, e2open’s scenario planning capabilities enable your team to quickly model inventory changes, expedite orders, evaluate impacts, coordinate responses, and update baseline plans to capture opportunities and reduce risks. Connected planning lets planners collaborate seamlessly, test ideas, and quickly respond to disruptions or opportunities, all within a single connected platform.
CONNECTED WORKFLOWS
Bring people and application systems together in one workflow
Use Case: A food manufacturer builds a workflow to automate S&OP planning across plants and distribution centers. As planners align demand forecasts with constrained supply, the Connected Planning system orchestrates each step, assigning tasks, tracking progress, and monitoring compliance, so every update and adjustment is instantly visible, auditable, and executed according to company standards.
CONNECTED DECISIONS
Give planners the power of AI and automation to align decisions with goals
Use Case: If a shipment of raw materials is delayed for 5 days due to port congestion, weather, or terrorist attacks on vessels, you can link the transportation disruption back to the plan for an immediate impact assessment and initiate corrective action if needed. Connected Planning gives planners the power of AI and the flexibility to work at any level of detail or time horizon by automating micro-decisions, aligning every decision with business goals for greater agility, resilience, and profitability.
CONNECTED INTELLIGENCE
Upskill planners even if they lack certain experience or skills
Use Case: Consider a new planner dealing with an unexpected disruption in the supply plan from a climate event and isn’t quite sure what to do. Simply engage the agentic digital assistant to instantly learn the root cause is an impacted supplier, gain expert analysis of orders at risk, identify alternative suppliers, compare total landed costs considering tariffs and logistics, screen suppliers for regulatory compliance, and receive detailed step-by-step guidance on how to update purchase orders. Expert answers and actionable insights, fast.
CASE STUDY
New product introductions require a connected planning solution
It’s tough to make accurate forecasts and ensure inventory alignment, but new product introductions (NPIs) add extra layers of complexity. Discover how e2open helped one company refine its NPI forecasting models by analyzing patterns from multiple data points.
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Nucleus Research: Assessing the Value of e2open Supply Chain Planning for Manufacturers
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Candymaker Leverages Demand Sensing AI to Resolve Volatile Demand
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Break the Planning Silo to Gain Agility
Today’s complex, intertwined supply chains face a volley of volatility, uncertainty, and disruptions that extend well beyond their four walls. It is all too clear following the pandemic that risks anywhere in the layers of multi-tier suppliers and partners can and will impact a company’s bottom line. The pressure for companies to generate more value and better performance from their supply chains hasn’t changed. When it comes to organizational strategy and the expectations for financial performance, customer satisfaction, and contribution to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals — that pressure is only increasing. More than ever, companies are focused on maximizing the returns from their existing investments and amplifying benefits across the enterprise.