Case Study: Leading Multinational Automaker Car Manufacturing Company achieves resilient, achievable supply plans with e2open Supply Collaboration

Leading Multinational Automaker Car Manufacturing Company - Customer Case Study

A century-old American automaker faced severe production disruption as constrained, assumption‑based supply plans, single-sourcing practices, and poor visibility into multi‑tier supplier inventories led to costly stoppages, unmet customer commitments and even long-term idling of finished vehicles. The company needed a way to share accurate, time‑phased forecasts and secure supplier commitments to proactively align supply with demand and reduce risk.

By deploying e2open Supply Collaboration—including Supply Forecast Collaboration and Supply Inventory Collaboration—the automaker began sharing forecasts, ingesting supplier inventory status, and capturing formal supplier commitments through an analytics dashboard. The result was earlier visibility into constraints, faster remediation, more feasible supply plans, improved on‑time delivery and a more resilient, flexible multi‑tier supply chain able to reduce lead times and better meet customer demand.