o9 Sustainability
ESG Risk Detection and Sustainable Procurement
o9’s powerful EKG patented technology is expanding to tackle our clients' sustainability needs.
Supply chain risk and sustainability requirements are interconnected.
o9 Sustainability Solutions seamlessly integrates principles of resilience and sustainability through risk detection. We provide supply chain professionals with access to both the collective data, the resulting analysis, and real-time or predictive alerts on ESG risk.
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.
Increase resilience by visualizing your n-tier supplier network, their ESG risk scores, and identify risk through real-time alerts to inform procurement decision making
Increase resilience by visualizing your n-tier supplier network, their ESG risk scores, and identify risk through real-time alerts to inform procurement decision making
Understand exposure to ESG related risks, and track and manage supply chain resilience through risk notifications
Ability to identify significant CO2, waste and water reduction opportunities
Include key sustainability levers in procurement decision making
Understand risks vs. rewards trade-offs and improve sustainable sourcing through real-time, on-demand scenario planning
Use cases for supply chain operations and risk detection
o9 has access to data available to enable the prediction of various risks categorized under the ESG umbrella. This information can be used to understand the business exposure and facilitate a much faster response to increasing risk levels.
Currently companies make short term decisions based solely on cost impacts. With o9, disruption management takes both risk detection and sustainability information into account to guide supply chain professionals to sustainability aware decision making.
Procurement decisions are mostly based on financial data and supplier assessments, which are often lagging behind on a timescale, as data is only reported periodically. They also fail to include incidents at suppliers, such as strikes, imposed sanctions, human rights violations, or fires, etc.
Sustainable procurement capabilities aid sustainable sourcing decision making by using ESG risk scores for supplier sourcing selection process. This includes leveraging 3rd party data providers and integrating historical information for risk prediction, detection and real-time alerts.
Monitoring ESG risk levels
Extreme weather patterns, and geopolitical events that result in changing tariff, trade and tax policies are occurring with even greater frequency.
These changes can put continuity of supply at risk and may require changes in sourcing and manufacturing policies., Both weather-related events and geo-political events can have significant financial impacts.
These risks need to be integrated into a holistic outlook for monitoring and mitigating risks.
Our platform allows for flexibility to specify risk categories and their key indicators. It continuously monitors the news-feed, flags and sends the alerts as configured.
Each sector, each company can customize categorization and indicator priorities and preferences.
Trusted by the world’s leading companies
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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.