One of the world’s largest publicly traded international oil and gas companies.

Single Source of Truth

The company was unable to keep an overview of all data and processes due to challenges in their data structures. These challenges led to a lack of a single source of truth.

o9の支援

With o9, they obtained the unique capability to have full visibility over sales, inventory and supply chain planning on an integrated, single source of truth, cloud-native platform.

Forecasting

The forecast accuracy was low and predominantly only manual, lagging indicators were used in the forecasting process resulting in too high inventory levels.

o9の支援

With o9, the company optimized and reduced inventory levels by incorporating internal and external drivers of demand into o9’s highly differentiated ML forecasting capabilities.

Strategic Planning

The focus was more on execution rather than on planning, with a lot of day-to-day volume management and firefighting.

o9の支援

With o9, all planning processes were managed in the platform, resulting in freed-up up time to start mid-range planning and focus on other strategic priorities.

実装したコア機能

The o9 Enterprise Knowledge Graph was used to build demand, inventory optimization and supply-knowledge models. This allowed for running the entire process in a single integrated platform without need of further integration. o9 leveraged its open architecture by using live-streaming data integration (API’s, Azure, Nifi).

リプレースしたシステム

Excel and Legacy Systems.

成功要因―o9を採用した3つの理由

1. o9’s highly differentiated Enterprise Knowledge Graph brought all key functions together on one platform with full integration support.
2. o9’s functional expertise in solving business problems in the oil and gas industry.
3. o9 being the future proof platform with continuous innovation in advanced analytics, NLP, solvers, etc.

達成したKPI

1. Improved planning accuracy for both forecast and supply chain.
2. Inventory reduction.
3. Decrease in demurrage (Oil & Gas industry related, cost of unused ships and vessels).