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Agribusiness

From Manual Guesswork to Grower Prosperity: How a Leading Agricultural Cooperative Automated Gap Closure

When top-down financial goals don't align with bottom-up commercial realities, planning cycles stall and waste increases. Discover how this 700-member grower cooperative replaced disconnected spreadsheets and legacy systems with o9’s AI-powered platform—automating gap detection, slashing planning cycle times, and providing a real-time, data-driven financial outlook for its growers.

This customer had disconnected top-down and bottom-up commercial and financial plans operating within siloed systems. Gap closure was manual and time-consuming, leading to prolonged planning cycles.

Sustainability impact

Decrease in product waste.

challenges

Complexity to Clarity

Challenge

There was a highly manual financial planning process and gap resolution tracking. They were prone to mistakes, labor-intensive, and lacked visibility into the assumptions behind the plan.

Solution

With o9, this customer was able to automate gap detection and enable an initiative-driven approach to gap closure. Assumptions tracked against initiatives are actively managed based on changes in the business climate. The system projects related impacts to the overall P&L, providing visibility and eliminating guesswork.

Value Delivery

Systems Replaced

  • Hyperion Essbase
  • Excel

Key Functionalities Implemented

The Enterprise Knowledge Graph is used to build commercial and financial planning models, including long-range planning, annual operating plans, and a rolling 18-month forecast.

Customer Benefits

success factors

  • Excellent user experience of the platform, allowing for high user adoption by the organization.
  • o9 is the future-proof platform with continuous innovation.
  • The ability to use o9’s open architecture to customize the solution to fit the organization’s needs.

KPI Impacted

  • Improved financial outlook for growers.
  • Reduced NPI cycle times.
  • Improved productivity.
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