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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
o9 is Recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning Solutions
DALLAS, May 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that it has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning Solutions. The report placed o9 among the top five providers for Demand Planning, Supply Planning and E2E Enterprise Planning Use Cases. The o9 Digital Brain platform for integrated business planning powers decisioning for the world's largest companies across 30-plus industry verticals. o9 attributes its success to helping global enterprises find new ways of solving value leakage, which has generated hundreds of millions in annual value for the Company's clients. Building upon its strong foundation in AI, o9 focused on integrating next-generation GenAI- and Agentic AI-enabled capabilities into its platform in 2024. Today, the Digital Brain supports end-to-end domain processes across supply chain, commercial and finance functions - a testament to its ability to transform, connect and operate planning and decision-making processes across the enterprise. "The o9 Digital Brain is uniquely positioned to provide our clients with a management system that connects all of their cross-domain planning and decisioning on a single platform, which drives consistency, speed and scalability," said Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO, o9. "This distinction sets o9 apart, highlighting the exceptional value that our AI-powered platform delivers by transforming traditionally slow and siloed planning processes into smart, integrated planning that is sustainable and aligned with our clients' strategic goals." Download a complimentary copy of the 2025 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning Solutions here. Visit for more information about o9. Disclaimers Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning Solutions, By Pia Orup Lund, Joe Graham, Caleb Thomson, Shane Brett, Eva Dawkins, Jan Snoeckx, 14 April 2025 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's Research & Advisory organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About o9 o9 Solutions is a leading AI-powered platform for integrated business planning and decision-making for the enterprise. Whether it is driving demand, aligning demand and supply, or optimizing commercial initiatives, any planning process can be made faster and smarter with o9's AI-powered digital solutions. o9 brings together technology innovations—such as graph-based enterprise modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for scenario planning, collaborative portals, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery—into one platform. For more information, please visit View source version on Contacts Jenni Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Major Coca-Cola partner makes bold tech shift that could change beverage production forever: 'We are honored'
A Coca-Cola bottler in a demanding market will optimize its supply chain with AI-powered tech, which could ensure better product availability for consumers and lower business costs. As Supply Chain Digital detailed, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, Inc., has enlisted the help of o9 Solutions to streamline its day-to-day operations. In order to accomplish this, CCBJI will use o9's Digital Brain platform, whose patented Enterprise Knowledge Graph — powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning — can assist companies with risk assessment and decision-making with its up-to-date, streamlined raw data. CCBJI handles roughly 90% of Coca-Cola system products sold in Japan, which Supply Chain Digital describes as "one of the most complex supply chain environments in Asia." In addition to dealing with geographic diversity and volatility, CCBJI must adhere to strict expiration requirements — the proper management of which prevents unnecessary waste. According to the report, CCBJI anticipates the use of Digital Brain will lead to lower storage costs, more accurate delivery windows, and fewer logistical bottlenecks. It also believes the Dallas-based company's "mathematical optimization" will improve the efficiency of its supply routes. This, in turn, may reduce harmful pollution associated with transport. While Coca-Cola has incorporated electric semis into its delivery fleet in various markets, it still has dirty fuel-guzzling vehicles on the roads, including in Japan. However, the project may not be without its pitfalls. For one, powering AI requires massive amounts of energy, which can stress electrical grids and generate large volumes of pollution. While o9 increased its clean energy consumption in 2023 and says it is committed to further slashing carbon pollution, only 31% of its power came from renewable sources. With further progress, though, CCBJI's use of o9's AI-powered tech may be a sustainability win for Coca-Cola, which has come under scrutiny for quietly backing out of promises to reduce plastic use. The company remains one of the world's top plastic polluters, though it has phased out some plastic packaging components at select facilities. Should everyone have access to free curbside recycling? Yes No I already thought we did I'm not sure Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. "We are honored to support Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan in their efforts to transform their supply planning," o9 co-founder and CEO Chakri Gottemukkala said. "By leveraging our platform to streamline planning processes and optimize supply planning, we will strongly support Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan's transformation." Join our free newsletter for good news and useful tips, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
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Hugo Boss Is Breaking Down Data Silos to Optimize Planning
As it aspires to be the 'leading tech-driven fashion platform,' Germany-based luxury label Hugo Boss has been undergoing a digital transformation that includes advancing its planning processes. Supporting this technology-focused strategy, the company is shifting from fragmented, manual planning activities to unified, artificial intelligence-powered systems that it sees enabling better use of data for decision-making across the supply chain. Through this work, the company expects to be able to respond to demand changes quicker, improve sourcing decisions and achieve better inventory alignment for greater availability, reduced markdowns and boosted margins. More from Sourcing Journal Hugo Boss Boosts Circular Economy with Textile Subsidiary, Eightyards Hugo Boss Uses Gen AI for Product Images and Videos Hugo Boss Sets Up Material Recycling Company During a panel at o9's Aim10x Digital virtual event, Ralf Kromer, vice president business planning and analysis at Hugo Boss, explained the motivation behind this transformation. 'Currently, we are living in a very volatile market, and we need data, and we need a decision-finding process which everybody can trust, everybody can build on,' he said, adding that the company is seeking to make planning more accurate and quicker by using AI and algorithms. Hugo Boss sought a 'real-time integrated' technology solution, which it found in o9's Digital Brain, a platform that unifies analytics, planning and decision-making. 'It's one technology stack, end-to-end and across the entire modules. From an IT point of view, a simple implementation in terms of integration—I just have to integrate to o9, not between o9,' said Eduard Spitz, senior vice president global IT at Hugo Boss. He added that this will make it easier to add on in the future, such as incorporating agentic AI—a form of artificial intelligence that can act more autonomously to achieve goals or solve problems. In the first half year of this project, Hugo Boss has been working to bring its demand, product and supply data streams onto a single platform, and O9's planning suite is being integrated with Hugo Boss' data management platform Azure Data Lake. Today, over 100 people across multiple functions of the business are actively involved in this project. In addition to having spokespeople overseeing individual business units, Hugo Boss has an analyst that looks at the end-to-end ecosystem to ensure that there aren't silos. In another cross-department push, it is establishing a center of excellence that will unite business and IT to facilitate adoption of these tools. As with any transformation, change management is a key part of the process. Ivica Maric, executive vice president business operations at Hugo Boss, noted that getting stakeholders on the same page should begin with discussing the value it will bring to the business. 'Communicate it constantly,' he said. 'It's not done with a launch event and just communicating it once. You have to bring that message across over and over again, and you really need to show also progress in delivering value to the business with what you're doing.' Digitalization is part of Hugo Boss' 'Claim 5' strategy, introduced in 2021 with the aim of doubling its business to 4 billion euros by 2025 by boosting its brands, focusing on product, leading in digital, accelerating omnichannel and setting itself up for growth. Through these efforts, the company already surpassed this financial target in 2024, with a record 4.3 billion euros in sales. 'By reducing manual workload, teams will be able to focus on the high-impact decisions that drive business growth,' said Santiago Poveda, vice president of retail, distribution and apparel at o9. As Poveda highlighted in a presentation during the virtual event, the apparel industry is facing a more complex planning landscape with factors like faster trend cycles and economic uncertainty making it challenging to predict consumer behavior based on historical data. At the same time, companies need to allocate merchandise to more fulfillment channels than before. There is also more complexity in planning product offerings to prevent inventory from being marked down or becoming waste. He pointed to the value of automation—including autonomous decision-making—and analytics in navigating escalating consumer demands. Understanding demand is one thing, but companies also must be able to execute on it, which Poveda explained is challenging amid heightened supply chain risks like geopolitical turmoil and natural disasters. Responding to demand effectively also requires companies to collaborate with suppliers and monitor potential risks, which digital tools can facilitate. He has seen companies increasingly opt to connect their environmental, social and governance (ESG) and supply chain management processes on a single platform to enable them to simultaneously plan for and balance sustainability and efficiency considerations. O9's technology allows companies to play out scenarios to predict what effect different decisions would have for their business. 'The future of planning is to no longer look at these challenges in isolation,' said Poveda. 'Planning decisions are tightly interconnected, and the potential value unlock through an end-to-end, next-gen integrated business planning that breaks down the silos is massive.' Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
o9 and Prewave Partner to Enhance Supply Chain Risk Visibility for Clients
DALLAS, February 25, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its strategic partnership with Prewave, the AI-powered supply chain intelligence platform, to enable joint clients to improve their ability to proactively manage potential supply chain risks and disruptions, while building greater supply chain resiliency. Integrating Prewave's multi-tier risk intelligence into o9's Digital Brain platform delivers a single source of truth, providing visibility of potential supply chain risks and challenges. Clients receive recommendations for alternative sourcing scenarios and can collaborate with suppliers directly to reduce risk. Clients will benefit from greater external risk integration into o9's S&OP solution through real-time risk alerts. These are organized into 200+ risk categories, such as labor strikes, geopolitical events, or supplier insolvency. This enhances decision-making across mid- and long-term sourcing strategies, enabling clients to quantify revenue at risk and informing "what-if" scenario planning to avert potential supply chain disruptions. "Modern, global supply chains are more complex and prone to disruption than ever before. Companies across the world need solutions that can help them mitigate potential disruptions. Prewave enables a rapid time-to-response and provides strategic, revenue-linked insights that build the foundation of proactive resilience," said Prewave co-founder, Harald Nitschinger. "By partnering with o9, we can provide an end-to-end, unified approach to supply chain risk management that facilitates proactive risk mitigation, improves inventory optimization, strengthens supplier collaboration, and enhances data-driven decision-making throughout procurement and risk management processes." "We're very pleased to provide comprehensive supply chain insights to our clients through our partnership with Prewave: combining its AI-powered external risk intelligence with o9's innovative planning and optimization capabilities," said Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-founder and CEO of o9. "As a result, joint clients benefit from an integrated workflow that provides real-time visibility into potential supply chain disruptions and capacity constraints, and are able to implement proactive risk management strategies that keep their business moving forward." Learn more about o9 at About o9 o9 is a leading AI-powered platform for integrated business planning and decision-making for the enterprise. Whether it is driving demand, aligning demand and supply, or optimizing commercial initiatives, any planning process can be made faster and smarter with o9's AI-powered digital solutions. o9 brings together technology innovations—such as graph-based enterprise modelling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for scenario planning, collaborative portals, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery—into one platform. For more information, please visit About Prewave Prewave leads a new era of supply chain transparency, resilience & sustainability, revolutionising supply chain risk management with its AI-powered intelligence platform. Founded in 2017, Prewave uses advanced AI technology and deep industry expertise to deliver unparalleled visibility and control over supply chain risk. Prewave's platform analyses data from over 200 risk categories and 400+ languages, enabling businesses like Lufthansa, Ferrari, and Siemens to anticipate and mitigate disruptions before they impact operations. From tier-1 suppliers all the way to raw materials, Prewave's solution ensures resilience, transparency, and sustainability at every step. Discover how Prewave can protect people, the planet, and businesses at View source version on Contacts Katie Sign in to access your portfolio
