By Business Wire, March 21, 2013, 08:58:00 AM EDT
Sessions Feature Collaborative Execution and Social Supply Chain
Strategies
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
E2open
(NASDAQ:EOPN), a leading provider of strategic, cloud-based solutions
for collaborative execution across global trading networks, today
announced it will be participating as a platinum sponsor at the Aberdeen
Supply Chain Management Summit, April 9-10 at the Swissotel in
Chicago, Illinois. Now in its seventh year, the Summit has emerged as
the leading forum for supply chain executives to share best practices,
strategic processes, and business improvements, and to explore the most
innovative products and services on the market.
E2open will also be sponsoring a keynote session, Collaborative
Execution: Supply Chain Transformation in the Wake of Unplanned Events,
presented by Marcos Meirelles, Vice President, Supply Base Management at
Seagate Technology. In this session, to be held on Tuesday, April 9 at
4:55 p.m. (CT), Meirelles will discuss how the unprecedented Thailand
floods of 2011 have impacted Seagate's global supply chain program and
transformation initiatives. Specifically, Meirelles will describe how
the lessons learned from this natural disaster were used to develop a
more responsive, resilient supply chain strategy designed to facilitate
collaborative execution across multiple tiers of Seagate's global
trading network.
In a session titled, Social Supply Chain - Myth or Opportunity?,
Lorenzo Martinelli, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy at E2open,
will share the output of recently completed primary research with
consumer packaged goods (CPG), high tech, and industrial companies,
along with findings from a webinar jointly sponsored with McKinsey &
Company. Martinelli will discuss the potential applications and
opportunities for social technologies and collaboration tools within a
supply chain context, including the ways in which social media might be
leveraged to improve demand sensing and risk management. Martinelli will
also provide practical insights for developing and implementing a social
supply chain road map. The session will be held on Tuesday, April 9 at
3:30 p.m. (CT).
To learn more about E2open's Social Supply Chain initiative, visit www.e2open.com/social-supply-chain.
For more information on E2open and its customer success stories, visit
the company's website
and follow the company on Twitter
and Facebook.
About E2open
E2open is a leading provider of cloud-based, on-demand software
solutions enabling enterprises to procure, manufacture, sell, and
distribute products more efficiently through collaborative execution
across global trading networks. Brand owners 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 Celestica,
Cisco, Dell, Embraer, HGST, IBM, L'Oréal, LSI, Motorola Solutions,
Seagate, and Vodafone. E2open is headquartered in Foster City,
California with operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.e2open.com.
Source: E2open