Latest Innovations at o9. A session where we educate users and users can share best practices amongst themselves.

Latest news and sneak preview of latest innovations.

Feedback on a journey to find the next generation Planning processes and systems of the Future.

How does M/L has transformed the way your company is doing forecasting – which key improvements you could generate and how this impacted positively the time of your planners?

How a technology can bring profound changes in the way the largest retailer in the world is mananing its supply chain – now having full visibility in its constraints and if it is possible to meet or not the demand coming from the stores.

Demo on Commercial Planning, IBP and Control Tower.

What is the key care-about of P&L owners, Regional Markets, Sales Owners in every monthly and weekly business plan review? Hitting the plan. And in this respect, gap closure to the plan is the focus? How are companies doing this today? As is status: organizations detect gaps based on shipments vs. revenue budgets – but they don’t have capabilities to monitor and correlate leading indicators/drivers to shipment performance. As a result, detection of problems is late, and often wrong counter measures are taken. Best practices Commercial Planning has to be a strong part of IBP vs. being only supply chain centric. And it should have the following key capabilities: -Real time Market Sensing of leading indicators and demand drives, sell-out/POS data for companies that sell through retail channels and competitive Product Ratings, Assortment, Pricing, Promotion data Opportunity -Pipeline visibility from your CRM system -Localized Customer/consumer demographics data Learn more about Analytics powered Insights into 3Ws questions by absorbing above data into a Knowledge Model – “EKG” of o9: –

What happened Last Cycle, YTD, QTD & why? Post-Game Insights: ML/AI powered Performance Analytics of sales vs. demand drivers – What is likely to happen? Predictive Insights – ML/AI powered demand and revenue forecasting based on leading indicator/demand driver forecasts -What actions to take – Prescriptive insights (Gap closure commercial plays {marketing, promotions, pricing, NPI, etc.) drive by AI powered Initiative Analytics)

Coming back how Starbucks started with forecasting demand at store level with its data scientist to now using a platform like o9 to scale it up at the size of Starbucks US and drive improvements and waste reduction.

How the biggest CPG (BEverage and Food) companies in the world are seeing Commercial Planning as a new white space for integrated planning – bringing the front line of the business in connection to their SC for real demand shaping capabilities in their business.

What are the latest innovation to come on the roadmap as well as what makes o9 different from any other solution on the market due to its specific technology choices.

Bringing change to a company with a complex business to plan from Demand to Supply. How a technology like o9 made weathering the COVID-19 situation easier, making better decisions and with which results.

Bringing the outside-in perspective into a B2B environment to drive next generation IBP.

Demo on Commercial Planning, IBP and Control Tower.

Control Tower? War Rooms? Demand and Supply Sensors? What does this really mean and how do we drive value? Common challenges in your supply chain are demand surges (unexpected spikes in demand), shipment delays, and production delays (strikes, unplaned and planned maintenance, etc.) Most likely, in today’s world, you cannot sense those demand and supply disruptions, resulting in a reactive supply chain often in a continuous fire fight stage. But what if we could turn this around? What if we could have your sales organization connected to your entrprise planning platform through mobile apps to provide real-time responses to demand surge scenarios? What if we could sense supply disruptions based on IoT data, market reports, and the conversation of unstructured data sources (e.g. commodity procurement reports)? Yes, if that is possible, we could start shaping demand in real-time and optimizing our supply chain performance considerably. Learn more about how technology can enable this process, and how you turn your supply chain in a prescriptive machine (yes you read this right, we do not only turn your supply chain into a proactive machine, we take this one step further and provide prescriptive actions).

Even the most AI driven company in the world like Google saw as a key advantage to run the o9 Platform to drive the supply planning of its key business activities. Why such a choice and which benefits were derived from it?

New technology bring challenges to companies to transform – how the big consulting company are approaching this challenge with their customers, making change management a reality in a digital transformation.