E2open vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM)

E2Open [Digital Transformation Solutions] is best used for customers/partners that do not have their own marketing automation software. It provides them a space to use already built in campaigns for use. A scenario where it may not be the best recommended tool is in a partner type scenario, such as ours. Currently, the tool does not have a fully customizable campaign for a partner to go in and build out a campaign from scratch. They can only take bits and pieces (depending on what is allowed) and make changes as they see fit.

Incentivized

Oracle SCM Cloud is extensively used in my organization for a complete
Supply chain. We use all the Procure to Pay modules starting with
Procurement, Order management, and Financial modules. We also use Product
Information Management and Product Development Management modules to create and maintain items and products that we sell. These modules are interfaced with Inventory Management for shipping and supply chain demand and supply planning as well. Analytics is integrated with all these modules so it is very useful to keep track of metrics. However, if you are not using Sales Cloud and use another CRM system, there could be some hiccups in syncing the system if you don't have a middleware.

Incentivized

• A wide offering of service to manage channel data
• How they engage with me to understand my needs as their customer
• A clear structure of where to go for which kind of issues

Incentivized

• Allows you to visualize your data in more graphical manners.
• Provides a solid configurable forecasting engine.
• It's user configurable which helps to deliver the results you are looking for.
• Product is keeping up with the speed of innovation - constantly being improved and pushed out to the customers.

Incentivized

• Marketing of solution capabilities - needs to be better marketed
• Costing could be better optimized
• Support and Service issues
• Availability of skilled experts/consultants

Incentivized

• UI - Needs a definite update. Tool can do wonders if UI is intuitive.
• Excel based data doesn't upload easily.
• No open APIs, integration is not possible with other tools.
• Extra charges for a module for integration.
• Implementation is not easy.

Incentivized

E2Open [Digital Transformation Solutions] was very cost effective and does provide a simple tool for us to provide our partner network. We have a vast array of partners, some of which do not have any marketing expertise. This tool makes it that much easier for a partner to take advantage of a tool that does all ends of automation for them.

Incentivized

Oracle SCM is best suited for Small & Mid Sized Business, whereas SAP SCM is best suited for large scale businesses. Oracle SCM has Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SCM) integrations which is missing in SAP SCM. Oracle supports modular integration and electronic data integration (EDI) which was one of the pre-requisites of the client.

Incentivized

• The data that they organize for us, give clear sell in opportunities
• We can spend our marketing money better on the product that is not selling as much as expected
• We can make sure our factories produce the right products because we have insights in which products are really in demand by our consumers.

Incentivized

• There is a large reduction in man hours spent attempting to manually create the traceability matrix
• There is a strong involvement of different BUs and collaboration on the requirements creation process
• The time to develop and approve requirements has been shortened

Incentivized