Supply chain planning (SCP) software is a robust platform that empowers companies to seamlessly manage, connect, align, collaborate, and share planning data across their extended supply chains. It typically encompasses a wide range of planning activities, from demand forecasting to detailed supply-side response planning and from strategic planning to execution-level coordination.
When planning functionality is connected to channel, supply, and logistics functionality, it is the central repository for all planning decisions within an end-to-end supply chain. Furthermore, it provides an environment for managing integrated supply chain decisions, ensuring a consistent version of planning data and decisions, regardless of the underlying execution technology.
At e2open, we deliver supply chain management solutions that enhance visibility, efficiency, and collaboration across the entire supply chain ecosystem – and supply chain planning sits at the core of the Connected Supply Chain. The underlying premise is that it’s not a matter of if the next disruption will occur but rather how many disruptions will happen, how often, and how they will impact your supply chain.
E2open Connected Planning aims to transform supply chains to solve today’s pressing challenge of end-to-end planning in a supply-constrained world with unpredictable swings in demand and logistics capacity; it’s not to fixate on incremental improvements to traditional enterprise-level planning. Transformation leaders choose e2open Planning because it goes beyond planning and execution convergence to include multi-tier collaboration across supply, distribution, logistics, and global trade ecosystems.
One reference point is analyst competitive evaluation reports. These are valuable tools for technology buyers to get a quick assessment of the landscape in a clearly defined marketplace. But they are just one tool, one insight, not an absolute. Analysts always advise readers to consider their own use cases, complexities, and maturity requirements when evaluating solutions. Just like you should not judge the value of an elephant by how well it climbs a tree, supply chain planning solutions should be assessed against the organization’s needs today and well into the future. Gartner recently published the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions Report. Against Gartner’s evaluation criteria, e2open was named a Visionary in this report.
Another reference point is to benchmark against supply chain leaders with similar challenges. At e2open Connect Europe 2024 in Amsterdam, enterprise leaders from various industries shared their experiences with e2open supply chain planning solutions. Among them:
Our customers’ continued successes speak volumes. Today’s supply chain processes span internal operations, multiple tiers of upstream and downstream trading partners, and reach down to the end consumer. These processes and the inherent dynamics of demand, supply, and transportation are all connected, interdependent, and highly reactive.
Few companies have sufficiently invested in connecting end-to-end processes and systematically leveraging current information to build resilience. These winning companies and many others are better prepared to weather future disruptions with resilient processes, support the communities you serve during trying times, and emerge stronger than before.