Outsourced Manufacturing

Strategic Drivers

• Lower Costs:
  Move functions to best-in-class highly efficient manufacturing partners.
• Improved ROI:
  Reduce capital and operating investments required by manufacturing activities.

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Execution Challenges

• Lack of Visibility:
  Outsourced manufacturing results in lost visibility to supply chain, procurement information and processes that now reside at partners. This makes it more difficult to commit to customer demand or to identify production or supply issues in a timely manner.
• Lack of Control:
  With more companies participating in the manufacturing process, there are more opportunities for supply disruptions or excess inventory to occur. This can result in missed revenue opportunities, customer dissatisfaction, increased liabilities and higher costs.
• Increased Supply Chain Lead Times, Costs and Liabilities:
  Many outsourced manufacturing partners are located far from the end-customer, extending the supply chain and resulting in longer and more variable lead times and increased logistics costs. This can lead to lost revenue, higher inventory, increased expediting fees, poor delivery performance, and inevitably customer satisfaction issues.

Proven Approach

Industry leaders that have successfully executed Outsourced Manufacturing Initiatives find that sharing a single view of information and processes between themselves and their manufacturing 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.

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Solution Requirements

To successfully share a single view of information and processes across multiple 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.
• 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).