Customers span a rangeof industries and include The Boeing Company Celestica Cisco Dell

Customers span a rangeof industries and include The Boeing Company, Celestica, Cisco, Dell, Hitachi,IBM, LG Electronics, LSI Corporation, Panasonic, Motorola, Seagate Technology,Spansion, Vodafone, and Wistron. Deployed as an on-demand managed service thateasily connects with SAP, Oracle, and other ERP systems of record, E2opendelivers fast time to value in dramatically improving customer service andprofitability across extended business networks.Further information can befound at , Inc.Margaret Hoerster, +1-312-329-3909, , for E2open, Inc.. The company delivers a workingbusiness process including software, deployment, and operations that improvesvisibility, control, responsiveness, and collaboration across multiple tiersof customers, partners, and suppliers, resulting in major improvements acrossall key demand and supply network performance metrics. al–Ability to “mask prices” to maximize brand owner margins anddrive greater price competitiveness–Ability to allocate demand in case of constrained supply–Shipment document management in a drop ship processFor more information about E2open visit E2open, Inc.E2open is the leading provider of on-demand, multi-enterprise solutions fortoday’s global demand and supply networks. Those who have implemented IPC find it challenging to scale the’Buy-Sell’ process manually to achieve significant business value.”The result is that operational inefficiencies remain rampant at a time whencost savings are critical,” said Desikan Madhavnavur, VP Product Managementfor E2open.

“Given the multi-tiered, multi-layered nature of today’sdemand-supply networks, legacy systems are often ill-equipped to seize theopportunity of reducing procurement cost and reduced component shortages atcontract manufacturers. Moreover, it’snot just visibility that is lacking but the ability to trigger action.Another key finding was that while many companies have or plan to establish anIPC to support ‘Buy-Sell’ processes (buy directly from component suppliers andsell to the contract manufacturers/internal divisions), the ability toconfidently aggregate spending with one or more contract manufacturers andcomponent suppliers is limited.The survey findings suggest that while a brand owner’s primary procurementobjective is to reduce costs by leveraging spend across contract manufacturersand/or internal business units, the lack of supply chain visibility for thosewho have not implemented IPC often results in loss of control over costmanagement. Inaddition, four out of five respondents have only partial or no visibility intotier two component suppliers, thus hampering the ability to make informeddecisions and manage multi-tier supply chains cost effectively. Gatepoint asked respondents questions abouttheir level of outsourced manufacturing; percentage of procurement that isinternationally sourced; how many contract manufacturers are used; spendaggregation across internal divisions and contract manufacturers; suppliervisibility rating; intentions for establishing an International ProcurementCenter (IPC) to execute ‘Buy-Sell’ processes; and the systems in place toensure they can maximize margin by appropriately masking prices.The survey findings demonstrated that more than half of respondents currentlydo not have access to real-time supply chain information and seventy-fivepercent lacked fully automated data collection and consolidation systems. The survey found that with the evolutionof supply chains into supply networks, brand owners require better systems toimprove visibility and control, data quality and buying efficiency throughconsolidated procurement.Gatepoint Research surveyed more than 1,100 executives including CIOs, CFOsand supply chain executives from the following industries: High Technology(including Consumer Electronics, Semiconductor & Components, and Computers &Peripherals), Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers, Aerospace & Defense,and Industrial Manufacturing. markets and sells PurinaCare(R) policiesas a licensed insurance agency. Hatfield, , or Will Ellis, , both ofKGBTexas PR, +1-210-826-8899, for PurinaCare. Gatepoint Research Survey Reveals Pressing Need for New Systems to Manage andStrengthen Demand-Supply NetworksResearch Sponsored by E2open Cites Visibility, ‘Clean Data’ and the Ability toAggregate Spend Across Contract Manufacturers and Tier Two Suppliers as TopRequirements for EfficiencyREDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — E2open, the leading provider ofon-demand, multi-enterprise solutions that provide visibility and controlacross global demand and supply networks, and Gatepoint Research, a leadingbusiness-to-business research organization, today announced the results of aSupply Chain Benchmark Survey focused on international procurement in thecontext of outsourced manufacturing.

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