Sessions

Collaborating with major logistics stakeholders to unify and standardize integration practices helps eliminate inefficiencies and fosters seamless digital communication. Join us to learn how e2open, through its participation in these consortiums, addresses critical industry challenges, promoting efficiency and opportunity.

Trimble is the largest provider of asset-based carrier technology in North America. Learn how Trimble’s recent innovations improve carrier capabilities to establish a more connected supply chain. Reduce the friction between shippers and carriers with more seamless integration to carrier systems. Supercharge your private fleet operations with Trimble’s industry-leading carrier technology.

This session will explore crucial strategies and best practices for working effectively with customs brokers in today’s trade environment. Participants will gain valuable insights from e2open and its customers into the latest regulatory changes introduced by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The goal is to equip attendees with practical knowledge to enhance their collaboration with customs brokers, streamlining import procedures and ensuring compliance.

Join us for a discussion with CH Robinson, a leading logistics provider, as they explore innovative AI applications in supply chains and global logistics. They will share practical examples and success stories, showing how AI enhances supply chain efficiency and customer experience and reduces costs, giving businesses a competitive edge in today’s market.

The new era of ESG regulations holds you accountable for everything that happens from source to market, and beyond. To comply, you need a way to capture details on the actors and materials in your network. Join this session to learn how to implement a holistic approach to traceability with supplier mapping, item BOM traceability, document collection, and partner screening to prove your supply chain transparency and resiliency.

ESG-focused regulations, tariff wars, and election-year political agendas keep compliance managers on their toes. How can companies prepare themselves for the inevitable regulatory change coming? What is the role of technology in being agile and flexible? How can you make your teams and workflows nimble enough to adapt? Join this panel of compliance experts as they share their insights and practical advice so you’re ready for anything.

Distribution channel partners and downstream channel data hold the key to growth and agility. Hear first-hand from the channel product leader at e2open about the innovations and new product launches that empower our channel management offerings to help you improve partner experience with more relevant partner programs, increased collaboration, more accurate revenue and stock management, and better overall business resilience.

The risks associated with the cross-border movement of goods and materials require advanced technology to ensure trade compliance, streamline filing requirements, and maximize duty programs. Hear from e2open product leaders about the recent innovations and coming enhancements to help you reduce cross-border and corporate risk, improve decision-making with analytics, and access new regions for sourcing and supply.

Streamlined transportation management and logistics visibility are crucial to a responsive supply chain. Join this session to hear the product management team share recent innovations and reveal a peek at what’s coming next as we look to the future of transportation management.

The e2open network is unique in the industry and is the critical component to unlocking the connected supply chain. Hear e2open product management talk about recent network innovations and coming enhancements to ensure fast, robust ERP integration, certification with industry standards, state-of-the-art multi-enterprise master data management, and more.

Accurate demand, supply, and inventory planning drives efficiency and agility across the supply chain planning. Join this session to hear the supply chain planning product management team share recent innovations and reveal a peek at what’s coming next as we look to the future of supply chain planning.

Supply assurance requires effective collaboration, visibility, and control across all tiers of supply and production. Join us in this session as we explore strategies to navigate the complexities of multi-tier supply networks. Hear from e2open product management about recent innovations and coming enhancements to help you manage manufacturing quality and performance, streamline direct procurement processes, and improve n-tier supply collaboration.

The challenge about Scope 3 is that it lies with thousands of sub-tier suppliers, distribution, and logistics partners outside your control. It doesn’t take long to realize that industry averages aren’t enough for accurate measures, compliance reporting or to make strategic sourcing tradeoffs to cut emissions. Learn how connected sub-tier thinking is key to cracking the Scope 3 challenge. This is a must-see session for anyone dealing with Scope 3 now or in the next few years.

In a world where AI threatens to overwhelm, how can we harness its power to create seamless software experiences? Let’s explore the delicate balance between human needs and artificial intelligence, reimagining software as a choreographed dance between user and technology. Dive into how e2open is leading this transformation, combining traditional and generative AI with intuitive design to remove friction and empower users. But it’s not just about AI everywhere – it’s about AI exactly where it matters. Discover why thoughtful restraint in AI implementation is crucial for driving tangible business outcomes. Explore the future of enterprise software, where the spotlight isn’t on AI itself but on the harmonious performance it enables between humans and their digital tools.

The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today, is more than a tagline at Mars; it’s a way of working. They are reinventing how they do business today to create the world they want tomorrow. And the supply chain is no exception. Join Mars Wrigley planning experts, Nora Dutia and Sagar Shah, to hear how Demand Sensing continues to create value and win over skeptics to transform end-to-end supply chain planning to achieve greater agility and help Mars become Sustainable in a Generation.

Effective inventory management is essential in today’s dynamic and competitive environment. Learn best practices in inventory planning and automation to reduce costs, enhance customer satisfaction, boost your supply chain resilience and significantly reduce your carbon and water footprint for greater sustainability.

Discover how to transform uncertainty into advantage through antifragility, surpassing mere resilience. Learn to integrate antifragility into your supply chain. We’ll explore real-world examples, practical strategies, and assessment methods, emphasizing the critical role of comprehensive visibility. Join us to see how to leverage Global Logistics Orchestration capabilities in building a truly antifragile supply chain that thrives amid volatility.

In today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace, the role of women in supply chain management has become increasingly pivotal. This panel brings together a diverse group of accomplished female leaders who are at the forefront of supply chain innovation and transformation.

The discussion will explore the unique challenges and opportunities faced by women in this field, highlighting their contributions to driving efficiency, sustainability, and resilience in supply chains. Panelists will share their personal journeys, insights on leadership, and strategies for overcoming barriers to success.

Attendees will gain valuable perspectives on how to foster a more inclusive and diverse supply chain environment, and the critical role that gender diversity plays in enhancing organizational performance and innovation. Join us for an inspiring and informative session that celebrates the achievements of women in supply chain and explores the path forward for future leaders.

Discover how Crown Cork & Seal, a leading packaging manufacturer, and Dessert Holdings, a leading North American bakery company, achieved continuous process improvements and cost savings with e2open’s TMS and LaaS team. Michael Wingert, Vanessa Ridley-Gray, and Molly Feller discuss evolving strategies to navigate market conditions, enhance relationships, improve customer service, and control costs.

Effective the end of the year, all companies trading in goods derived from cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy or wood within the EU must prove their supply chains don’t include farms on land deforested since 2020; else face fines up to 4% of annual revenues. Join us to learn what the new EU’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) means for manufacturers across industries, why this obligation extends into your upstream and downstream supply chain, and steps you can take now to be ready in time for the compliance deadline. Spoiler – your ESG group can’t do this one alone because EUDR is fundamentally a multi-enterprise supply chain challenge that starts with collaboration. Whether you are an existing collaboration customer or haven’t yet started, this is a must-see session for anyone doing business in the EU.

You’ve taken the plunge and have seen the value your logistics technology solution delivered in the honeymoon phase. Let’s discuss what your peers are doing to take advantage of both tactical enhancements and long-term strategic initiatives to get continuous value/improvements from your TMS.

PriceSmart, the only operator of membership warehouse clubs in Central America, the Caribbean, and Colombia, needed to transform its supply chain to achieve next-level performance. While establishing a clear vision is a key first step to transformation, defining priorities and developing a roadmap is critical to gaining alignment across the business. Join Rafael Rodriquez and Wayne Sadin of PriceSmart as they share their journey with e2open’s Will Thomas. They’ll explain how they realized the need for transformation, how they defined their future state vision, and the importance of proper sequencing of initiatives driving their business into the future.

Join the discussion with Sebastian Poehl from global logistics service provider Leschaco as he shares different applications for incorporating AI into international logistics, including Route Optimization, Pricing Optimization, Supply Chain Visibility, and Sustainability Initiatives. He will highlight practical examples showcasing Leschaco’s business cases and collaboration with e2open.

After having a relatively stable transportation procurement environment for the past couple of years, the likelihood for a significant market shift is increasing. In this session, Zach Strickland will discuss specific examples and takeaways from industry data to paint a picture of what to expect in the freight markets over the next year.

Trade compliance is mired in messy data, changing regulations, complicated forms and processes. Are you ready for a step change in your trade processes? Traditional AI approaches and GenAI/LLMs are poised to revolutionized product classifications, screenings at scale, and unlock next-level productivity. In this session, experts from e2open will demonstrate the power of AI to increase to reduce your compliance risk and increase the value of your Global Trade deployment.

Discover the power of e2open’s Demand & Supply Sensing Technology with insights from industry experts at the forefront of this technology. This session will showcase how leveraging real-time data and AI significantly enhances forecast accuracy and supply chain agility. Learn how our proven methodologies deliver measurable value: capturing growth opportunities, improving customer satisfaction and reducing inventory levels.

We’ve all heard the endless refrain of how AI will transform everything around us, including supply chains. While true, it’s not going to play out the way the hype would suggest. Join us to learn what it takes to unlock value from AI in your supply chain, how e2open leads the way in pushing the boundaries, where you can start today, and why this is on the path to an autonomous supply chain.

Join us to hear how long-time customer and partner Michael Foods has leveraged their e2open TMS to adapt to business growth and deliver its products on time. This enables Michael Foods to provide value-added solutions to their customers while achieving high customer satisfaction.

Join Larry Walsh, CEO and Chief Analyst at Channelnomics for a deep dive into multi-tier distribution planning and inventory management. Topics include promotion planning, allocation and order promising, and the collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) process.

As cross-border e-commerce continues to surge, businesses grapple with the intricacies of Type 86 customs entries. Join us as we explore the hurdles, compliance complexities, and strategies for seamless cross-border transactions in this evolving landscape.

Learn how companies exporting goods can simplify the international logistics planning, collaboration, and settlement of ocean movements in a dynamic and constrained global operating environment.

Join us for an overview of the changing compliance and cybersecurity requirements where we will explore the history, upcoming changes, and recent trends to understand how these regulations may impact your industry and business processes. Learn about secure collaboration and gain insights into practical implementation strategies with e2open, highlighting Exostar’s approach to ensuring compliance and security across the supply chain.

Continued disruptions in global supply chains demand a shift towards operational resilience. This session explores the integration of transactional data and risk monitoring systems to enhance visibility and responsiveness, emphasizing key technology foundations required. Join us to learn how to build a resilient supply chain by leveraging data-driven decision-making.

When it comes to small parcel delivery, businesses must strike a delicate balance between reducing costs and ensuring an exceptional customer experience. Join us as we delve into strategies for leveraging carriers’ strengths across parcel, postal, and postal induction while collaborating with partners like e2open to translate this vision into reality.

Disruptions come in many forms, but most of them have a direct impact on whether manufacturing production can begin. Without the right supply at the right time, production can come to a halt. Join us to learn how proactive shortage identification and collaborative resolution are the foundation to supply assurance.

Discover the success story of Ally Logistics and Kerry Foods as they leverage e2open TMS to bring Real-Time Rating (RTR) to life. Explore the benefits of RTR, the technology behind it, the partnership possibilities, pitfalls, and the ultimate success. See how this innovative solution can enhance efficiency, accuracy, and cost savings for both shippers and carriers. Join us to learn more!

Whether planning, analyzing, reporting, or responding, all solutions require accurate data. Accurate data is the pulse of processes. Take a journey with e2open as we take a narrative approach to highlight our unique ability to connect, cleanse, and harmonize customer data into a heartbeat to feed a collaborative, AI-driven ecosystem.

Inventory risk is a balance of too little and too much, but how do you know how much inventory is the right amount. Join us as we explain how solving this riddle requires gathering partner’s data, jointly prioritizing exceptions, and collaborating on resolutions.

Modern logistics sourcing strategies must prioritize carrier diversification, technology integration, digital collaboration, and proactive risk management. Join your peers to discuss how companies have built logistics networks that have adapted to the ever-changing market landscape and rising adoption of new technologies.

Join Larry Walsh, CEO and Chief Analyst at Channelnomics for an exploration of effective partner incentivization strategies. Attendees will gain insights into Activity-Based Marketing Development Fund programs, behavioral incentives such as audit-based and penetration strategies, and Performance-Based rewards like VIR and Growth Rebates.

Channelnomics’s CEO and Chief Analyst, Larry Walsh will present the current state of market trends influencing the channel and how go-to-market partnerships will evolve in the coming years to meet the dynamic needs and expectations of business customers.

It’s been four years since the onset of the pandemic turned many supply chains upside down. Join us to hear fact-based insights from e2open’s latest Forecasting and Inventory Benchmarking Study on what actually happened to supply chain performance during the pandemic and in its aftermath. Learn how the pandemic made doing business harder than ever, strategies by global manufacturers in response, the importance of AI and real-time data to manage extreme events, and lessons learned to manage future disruptions – even those at pandemic scale.

Volatility in supply chains is not going away. Traditional approaches have not worked well to prepare companies in front of massive disruptions. Accenture will share how a number of leading companies are creating a competitive advantage by leveraging n-tier visibility of their supply network coupled with AI to “stress test” their supply chain (a pioneering approach based on joint research with MIT). Visibility on vulnerabilities helped these leaders to better prioritize investments as well as interventions to derisk their complex end-to-end supply chains…while creating a solid foundation for driving their supply chain sustainability efforts. E2open’s strong supply collaboration and network can be leveraged to feed n-tier visibility as a key component.

Automating order management and inventory collaboration is essential to achieve time savings, data accuracy, and effective supplier communication. However, the challenge lies in onboarding your many suppliers, each with varying technology requirements. Learn what made e2open and Jabil a rockstar team capable of achieving the goal of onboarding 15,000 suppliers.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks have risen to become boardroom-level topics as the inherent nature of multi-tier supply chains presents an array of challenges. Regulators now expect companies to implement unprecedented levels of due diligence when sourcing or procuring materials, products, and manufacturing services internationally. Global forced labor and sustainability rulings require importers to prove their suppliers and products comply. As you discover more of your supply chain through traceability efforts, you need to ensure these discovered partners are compliant with these Forced Labor regulations. The e2open Global Knowledge content is vast and with the added benefit of the Kharon UFLPA and 50% Ownership list, you can ensure your traceability efforts highlight bad actors as soon as they are discovered. We’ll cover how these lists are created and regularly updated and refreshed and the robust insights of multi-tier mapping and connectivity.

In today’s interconnected world, the success of supply chains is built on three crucial elements: visibility, analytics, and collaboration. In this webinar, you will hear experts from KPMG and e2open speak on the power of Connected Planning, which emphasizes the integration & collaboration within the extended supply chain, from suppliers and logistics providers to end customers. What can embracing this approach mean for your business? It can lead to increased efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness. We’ll uncover the tangible benefits of adopting a connected approach, examine the pitfalls of disconnected planning, and offer actionable insights for optimizing your supply chain operations.

Join Larry Walsh, CEO and Chief Analyst at Channelnomics for a discussion of performance tracking, campaign management, asset tracking, grey market activities, and restricted party compliance.

Thousands of the world’s most successful transportation providers have joined the e2open Carrier Marketplace. In this session, we will cover the tools and capabilities used to help carriers maximize the value of their Carrier Marketplace subscriptions. From integration to education and from Scorecard to Certification, join us to learn how you can leverage the power of the Marketplace to grow and optimize your business.

Discover the importance of recording and analyzing quote data. While tendering loads cost effectively is crucial, understanding trends and networks is equally vital. Join us to learn how capturing your quote data can help you gain valuable insights into your business to increase your efficiency. Both shippers and LSPs will benefit from data collection which will foster stronger strategic relationships.