December 11, 2024
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DALLAS, Dec. 11, 2024 – o9, a leading enterprise software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its partnership with Molson Coors Beverage Company to support its long-term integrated business planning vision with end-to-end enterprise planning capabilities.
As the fourth-largest beer company in the world, Molson Coors’ beverage portfolio includes iconic brands such as Coors Light, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian, Carling and many more, which are sold in more than 100 countries worldwide. Molson Coors will leverage the o9 planning platform in the Americas to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, enhance its planning tools and unify processes across its commercial, supply chain planning, and finance teams.
Over the next several years, o9’s commercial planning and Revenue Growth Management capabilities will aim to enhance Molson Coors’ profitability through strategic, data-driven planning and optimization. Through o9’s Demand Planning solution, Molson Coors stands to benefit from improved forecast accuracy and explainability. o9’s Supply Planning capabilities are poised to help the company continue to generate an end-to-end constrained plan and guide its response to market demand. Finally, o9’s financial planning technology allows Molson Coors the opportunity to collaboratively create and maintain financial outlooks and forecasts that are aligned with the latest in demand and supply assumptions.
“Investing behind our organizational and commercial capabilities is foundational to our strategy as a business,” said Molson Coors’ Vice President of Integrated Business Planning, Solomon Tesfai. “We’ve upscaled our capabilities significantly over the past several years, and now we’re working to transform the way our commercial, supply chain and finance teams plan for what’s next across the enterprise. We’re excited to undertake these efforts in partnership with a best-in-class partner like o9.”
Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO of o9, said, “We envision success for Molson Coors’ cross-functional planning processes with real-time data tracking and management to further its integrated business planning initiatives. We look forward to supporting Molson Coors on its transformation journey.”
To learn more, visit www.o9solutions.com.
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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.
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