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As the supply chain execution industry evolves into a new era, companies are forced to partner more tightly with their customers and suppliers in order to keep costs at bay and manage margins. These same companies will look to their existing software vendors for end-to-end (e2e) solutions to help facilitate this painful and previously unsophisticated bi-directional communication. Accordingly, software vendors will begin marketing an e2e solution suite in order to capture this market-share and follow-on work with existing customers and keep new competitors at bay. New industry infusions are met by a marketplace eager for clarification and further definition so that each company can self-evaluate the value of this new technology for their own organization. Companies will also be estimating how long they can prolong the unplanned capital investment and supporting infrastructure required as a participant.

Examples of past supply chain technology introductions include Just-in-Time (JIT), Collaboration Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and most recently Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The true definition of e2e is a seamless, information rich network connecting all appropriate "nodes" in a customer's supply chain complimented with easy to navigate user interfaces which empower users to make timely and educated decisions as kinks in the supply chain occur. The ability to more cost-effectively handle exceptions is why these new technologies are developed and deployed in the first place. The day and age of throwing more bodies at a problem in the hopes of resolving it proves very costly and rarely achieves the desired goals. We will illustrate the value and examples of a true e2e solution through our fictitious bike manufacturer and distributor, Masterson Bikes.

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