Session at North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit to Focus on the Outsourced Supply Network

Foster City, Calif. - April 7, 2015 - Executives from E2open and Coriant, a global supplier of end-to-end transport networking solutions, will be presenting at the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit. The annual event will be held at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center on April 13-14 in Chicago, Illinois.

Ed Tymick, Vice President, Global Operations at Coriant, and Steve Lykken, Vice President, Customer Solutions at E2open will present their views in a featured session titled, "Minimizing Inventory Liability in an Outsourced Environment," on Monday, April 13, at 2 p.m. (CT).

During this session, topics covered include:

  • Getting ahead of unplanned excess and obsolete costs, reducing expedite charges, and improving on-time delivery
  • Streamlining processes to manage and cross-balance inventory across an outsourced supply network in the event of part shortages
  • More effectively negotiating PPV through better monitoring of supplier responsiveness to changing demand
  • Modeling "what if" scenarios for inventory liability
  • Executing more rapid new product introduction (NPI) cycle times with cross-balancing inventory

"As the global supply chain and manufacturing landscapes continue to evolve, businesses are constantly facing pressures to keep up with growing competition," said Michael Schmitt, Chief Marketing Officer at E2open. "By leveraging the cloud, E2open's solutions enable many of today's largest global brands to have better visibility into their extended value networks, which enables them to synchronize unpredictable supply and demand to minimize inventory liability and ultimately enhance profitability to better perform in today's fast-moving global economy."

To learn more about how E2open can help your business effectively minimize its inventory liability, visit our booth #28, and join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #NAMES15.

About E2open

E2open is the leading provider of cloud-based, on-demand software solutions enabling enterprises to procure, manufacture, sell, and distribute products more efficiently through collaborative planning and execution across global trading networks. Enterprises use E2open solutions to gain visibility into and control over their trading networks through the real-time information, integrated business processes, and advanced analytics that E2open provides. E2open customers include Avnet, Celestica, Cisco, HP, IBM, Lenovo, L'Oréal, Motorola Solutions, NVIDIA, Seagate and Vodafone. E2open is headquartered in Foster City, California with operations worldwide.

More than 41,000 trading partners and 140,000 unique registered users currently participate in the E2open Business Network, which allows participants to share plans and data and execute business processes in a secure, real-time manner. The E2open Business Network also provides collaboration tools and analytics so that E2open customers can make more informed and efficient decisions.http://www.e2open.com, follow the company on Twitter at @E2open, or visit us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/e2open.

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