E2open

Rethinking the Traditional Control Tower

Stuff happens. That’s just the way things work. These days, more stuff seems to be happening more often—so it’s no surprise that the concept of control towers is so popular.

Executives, analysts and partners increasingly recognize the need to make better business decisions by connecting what is actually happening to how it impacts the business and taking the best course of action to achieve strategic goals. E2open makes this a reality.

Buyer Beware

With all the hype around control towers, it’s important to recognize that not all control tower capabilities are created equal. Consider the following questions to cut through the noise.

How do you get your data?

Knowing what’s happening across every tier in your supply chain means you first need to connect them all and get decision-grade data. This requires a multi-enterprise network. The classic control tower overlay approach to build your own connections through application programming interfaces (APIs) doesn’t economically scale.

With networks, size matters. Choose a large network with hundreds of thousands of partners across the specific ecosystems important for your business. This is essential for time-to-value, total cost of ownership and even the financial viability of most deployments.