Globalization

Strategic Drivers

• Leverage Scale and Scope:
  Combine functions across multiple operating units and/or geographies to reduce costs, eliminate redundancies and increase efficiencies.
• Presenting a Single Face to External Trading Partners:
  Improving efficiency by making it easier to do business with your global organization.

Vodafone Leverages Economies of Scale and Scope Over Its Distributed Global Supply Chain Network
B2B eHub allows Vodafone to track and analyze global spend, while gaining assurance of supply with reduced inventory.Access Case Study

Execution Challenges

• Operating Units Do Not Share Common Business Processes:
  Multiple back-end systems and processes across operating units create redundancies and errors and do not allow for consolidation of data for global visibility.
• Lack of Compliance to Global Processes and Standards:
  Each operating unit has the ability to monitor and control its own supply chain processes, but the global or central organization does not have any mechanism to do the same across all operating units and partners.
• Trading Partners are Forced to Manage Multiple, Independent Relationships:
  Without a single external face, global suppliers and customers need to work independently with each operating unit resulting in increased costs to accommodate differences and lower service levels.

Proven Approach

Industry leaders that have successfully executed Globalization Initiatives find that sharing a single view of information and processes between themselves and their trading partners is essential.

• Rapid Time to Value:
  E2open on-demand solutions offer the industry’s fastest time to value – most implementations are up and running in 90 days or less. This is made possible by E2open’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, comprehensive trading partner on-boarding and fine-tuned best practices.
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership:
  E2open offers an economical and predictable monthly fee, and E2open SaaS means no additional costs for upgrades, maintenance, operation or support, and all partner on-boarding is provided.
• Continuous Value Roadmap:
  With at least two product releases every year delivering powerful new functionality and unique value-added services, E2open consistently delivers long-term value by enabling you to meet continuously changing market demands.
• Greater Data Accuracy:
  E2open delivers highly accurate data, enhancing visibility across the supply chain, and adding to the value of your other enterprise management technologies, such as ERP.
• Seamless Integration:
  E2open provides seamless integration between internal enterprise applications and trading partners – including suppliers, customers, distributors and logistics providers – enabling you to maximize your current investments in ERP and other technologies. E2open offers a portfolio of integration options covering 100% of your extended value chain – regardless of your partner’s technical sophistication, enabling even faster time to value. Options include all forms of B2B communication; integration to any B2Bi server; direct integration to SAP, Oracle, and other ERPs; a Web portal; and use of traditional formats such as Excel and PDF.
• Proven Success:
  E2open has deployed more successful multi-enterprise supply chain management solutions than any other provider – validated by global leaders in the electronics, aerospace and defense, telecommunications, capital equipment, and consumer product industries that use E2open to drive significant improvements in business performance.

Inside Hitachi GST's Rapid Supply Chain Deployment: Project Launch to Initial Go-Live Takes Just Four Months
Learn how Hitachi GST integrated the storage divisions of Hitachi and IBM, transforming its global supply chain into a demand-driven model that responds quickly to changing customer demand.Access Case Study

Globalization: The Turning Point for Packaged Supply Chain Applications for Automotive, Aerospace & Defense Industries
Recommendations and insights into how companies should reexamine their supply chain processes and supporting technology to support globalization.Access Paper/Report

Solution Requirements

To successfully share a single view of information and processes across multiple business units and companies, industry leaders are leveraging a new class of solution.

• Multi-Enterprise Workflows:
  Multi-enterprise supply chain and procurement workflows providing process automation with alerting and exception management.
• Multi-Enterprise Analytics and Reporting:
  Analytics and reporting against a multi-enterprise data repository for consistent performance management and scorecards across companies.
• Exception Management:
  User configurable event management providing alerting and exception management.
• Operating Unit and Trading Partner On-boarding and Integration:
  Any-to-any integration infrastructure with rapid global deployment capabilities including trading partner on-boarding and system integration.
• On-going Operations and Change Management:
  On-going operations, support and change management, including technology upgrades, measured against a global Service Level Agreement (SLA) and providing a reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).