o9 Sustainability
Circular Operational Planning
o9’s powerful EKG patented technology is expanding to tackle our clients' sustainability needs.
Leverage the o9 operational planning capabilities for improved product sustainability and circularity
Move away from the linear ‘take, make, waste’ model towards more circular operational business processes with our NPI and circular planning capabilities. Understand how new product designs will impact your operations and how you can build a circular logistics model.
The measurable benefits of a sustainable supply chain
It is essential to think about supply chains as a critical component on the path to a sustainable economy.
Key capabilities
Key capabilities
Rethink your products circularity potential with our NPI capabilities
Transition to a circular product portfolio and deliver on zero-waste commitments
Identify raw materials in your new products that have low sustainability indexes
Plan your circular planning models with our supply chain model and unlock value of reverse logistics, circular forecasts and more
Identify trade-offs and simplify the strategic circular decision-making process
The importance of Circular Operational Planning for optimized reuse, recovery, and recycling
The benefits of integrating circular economy principles into operational planning versus a linear approach include increasing efficiency, creating new revenue streams through innovative use or resale of products and eliminating waste and pollution.
A circular approach in operational planning can both increase raw material security and can also reduce environmental damage when aligned with a broad range of environmental metrics.
Quick-win benefits for embracing circular operational principles
Quick-win benefits for embracing circular operational principles
COGS: Reduce your bottom line by promoting post-consumer material reuse in your supply chain
Planning cost: Reduce overhead by having a digitized and streamlined system to plan your reverse logistics, distribution, and material needs
Better decision-making: With a system view of your supply chain understand ways to reduce, reuse or recycle your products
Waste reduction at the core of sustainability
Legislation
- Low cost plastics, poorly managed waste and visible environmental damage are driving new legislation globally. For example, new regional legislation introduced in the USA such as Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations
- EPR
Packaging waste awareness has increased
- Consumer concerns over microplastics and toxicity from electronics waste in the environment and food chain.
- Plastic taxes, and 127 countries have regulations related to use of plastic bags
Trusted by the world’s leading companies
"o9 is moving the team’s workload and energy away from executing mundane, tedious tasks like determining how many units of each SKU go to each store every single week. We're moving them upstream into preseason planning, into developing strategy, and then the system executes automatically."
"We are seeing about a 50% scrap reduction. And that is driven by the fact that we have a line of sight now to our customer forecasts, and we're making decisions to avoid bringing in excess inventory or inventory we don't need."
"So with IBP, what we are achieving now is one single source of truth. Everyone aligns behind one number, with the ultimate accountability for IBP being the general manager. So you take the power out of the functions and give it to the general manager to run the business as they see fit, which is unbelievable."
"The o9 platform makes our decision-making much faster. It’s also giving us a better and deeper understanding of the analytics, the cost of decisions, and now when we make those decisions, there’s a much higher degree of confidence that we actually execute."
"Our goal is to achieve 80% of touchless operations. What we mean by that is taking away a lot of the manual operations, enabling automation [...] Through the work with o9, we've eliminated them, and now these manual operations are mostly a thing of the past."
"o9 is moving the team’s workload and energy away from executing mundane, tedious tasks like determining how many units of each SKU go to each store every single week. We're moving them upstream into preseason planning, into developing strategy, and then the system executes automatically."
"We are seeing about a 50% scrap reduction. And that is driven by the fact that we have a line of sight now to our customer forecasts, and we're making decisions to avoid bringing in excess inventory or inventory we don't need."
"So with IBP, what we are achieving now is one single source of truth. Everyone aligns behind one number, with the ultimate accountability for IBP being the general manager. So you take the power out of the functions and give it to the general manager to run the business as they see fit, which is unbelievable."
"The o9 platform makes our decision-making much faster. It’s also giving us a better and deeper understanding of the analytics, the cost of decisions, and now when we make those decisions, there’s a much higher degree of confidence that we actually execute."
"Our goal is to achieve 80% of touchless operations. What we mean by that is taking away a lot of the manual operations, enabling automation [...] Through the work with o9, we've eliminated them, and now these manual operations are mostly a thing of the past."
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Enterprises are one of the largest consumers of the Earth’s precious resources. If your planning processes are poor, you use many more resources than you need. IBP is key to ending this practice and meeting your company’s goals. It is both smart for your business and positive for the planet.
A first in the supply chain software space, o9’s Sustainability Solutions helps organizations link sustainability metrics and performance to their planning and decision-making processes. Our new solution will drive organizations toward sustainable operating models.
Enterprises are one of the largest consumers of the Earth’s precious resources. If your planning processes are poor, you use many more resources than you need. IBP is key to ending this practice and meeting your company’s goals. It is both smart for your business and positive for the planet.
A first in the supply chain software space, o9’s Sustainability Solutions helps organizations link sustainability metrics and performance to their planning and decision-making processes. Our new solution will drive organizations toward sustainable operating models.