Trading Partner Integration

Many companies have implemented collaborative supply chain strategies with the objectives of lower costs and improved customer service and satisfaction. This requires a common platform for process and data integration with supply chain partners.

Strategic Drivers

• Higher Service Levels:
  A common platform requires high levels of operational performance, rapid change management, and easy upgrades.
• Lower Costs:
  Implementing a common platform for all external integration provides lower total cost of ownership and increased ROI.

Multi-Enterprise Integration Strategies
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Execution Challenges

• Wide Diversity of Technology Across Supply Chain:
  A wide variety of processes and technical capabilities exist across global trading partners making it difficult and costly to achieve 100% integration.
• Total Cost of Ownership:
  Implementing a collaboration and integration solution across global supply chain partners often takes longer and costs more than many companies anticipate.
• High Solution Availability and Reliability:
  A common platform that manages critical processes with your global trading partners must be reliable enough to support your supply chain. This requirement is difficult and expensive to deploy and maintain.

Proven Approach

Industry leaders that have successfully implemented a Multi-Enterprise Platform to automate inter-company processes 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.

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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.
• 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).