Tech Solutions That Track Shipping Transactions

摘要

Networked platforms can create collaborative visibility once you conquer a host of data problems. Whether you call them e-commerce platforms or "federated business models," these interlocking circles of trading partners, and even competitors sharing electronic tools, are changing the notion of both the supply chain and the notion of work, but they bring their own host of issues to conquer. Take the communication, legal, management and technology problems that have to be tackled for one manufacturer and one supplier to function together electronically in a seamless fashion. Then multiply them by hundreds and even thousands of participants to a platform. Those are the sorts of issues that Lorenzo Martinelli, executive vice president of E2open in Red Wood City, California, copes with daily in his role as a vendor of software that enables transactions between manufacturers, along with serving as the technology base for major platforms.