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DALLAS, July 8, 2024 – o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that CooperVision, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of contact lenses, has selected the o9 Digital Brain platform for Demand and Supply Chain Planning and Integrated Business Planning. CooperVision’s selection of o9 is part of a larger initiative to support robust growth by accelerating its supply chain operations.
CooperVision produces a full range of daily disposable, two-week, and monthly soft contact lenses that feature advanced materials and optics, as well as premium rigid gas permeable lenses for orthokeratology and scleral designs. CooperVision will leverage o9’s AI-powered Digital Brain platform to replace and modernize existing systems across demand planning, supply planning, and integrated business planning to navigate today’s supply chain complexities. The cloud-native o9 platform was selected due to its unique ability to integrate all supply chain planning processes into a single platform, breaking down siloes across supply chain and commercial teams and creating a planning center of excellence. The platform provides real-time insights and what-if planning scenarios about supply chain volatility, ultimately allowing CooperVision to make more informed decisions, improve customer service levels, and optimize capacity utilization.
Vice President of CooperVision's Global Supply Chain, Jose Bonilla, said, “Our ambition at CooperVision is to improve our planning processes with AI technology so we can make data-driven decisions and ultimately serve our customers better. Today’s supply chain challenges require us to think about how to best streamline our processes and end-to-end operations in a more holistic approach. By leveraging the o9 platform, we enable our teams to work more collaboratively and intuitively across different functions. We’re excited to partner with o9.”
Co-founder and CEO of o9, Chakri Gottemukkala, said, “We’re excited to help CooperVision with its strategic initiative to accelerate its supply chain operations with our state-of-the-art AI-powered platform. To navigate today’s supply chain challenges, it’s essential that companies work on breaking down departmental siloes and leverage real-time insights to make smarter decisions that ultimately leads to better service levels. We look forward to supporting CooperVision with its robust growth plans.”
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The Digital Brain Platform
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
