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DALLAS, Sept. 21, 2023 – o9 Solutions, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that WS Audiology has selected the o9 Digital Brain platform to enhance its supply chain planning capabilities and continue its digital transformation journey. WS Audiology is a global leader in the hearing aid industry, aiming to unlock human potential by making wonderful sound part of people’s lives. The company has 140 years of experience and is active in over 130 markets worldwide.
WS Audiology has embarked on a digital transformation journey with ambitious plans to optimize its demand planning and inventory visibility capabilities to more effectively navigate market complexity and uncertainty. The company selected the o9 Digital Brain platform because of its best-in-class demand forecasting capabilities and the o9 team’s expertise in the medical, retail, and consumer product space. The joint partnership will enable WS Audiology to deliver on its multi-brand and omnichannel ambitions more efficiently through automated forecasting and demand planning.
“Our ambition is to digitize our planning capabilities fully so that we can make better, data-driven decisions and ultimately serve our customers better,” said Roberto Di Fiore, Chief Operations Officer of WS Audiology. “Navigating today’s supply chain challenges requires the ability to use real-time information to make the most accurate decisions. By leveraging the o9 platform, we will be equipped to do so and work towards our goal of helping millions of people regain and benefit from the miracle of hearing with our products and solutions.”
Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO of o9 Solutions, said: “We are thrilled to help WS Audiology improve planning and decision-making across its supply chain. The o9 platform, combined with our expertise in end-to-end planning, will empower WS Audiology to make smarter and more strategic decisions in the evolving market landscape. We look forward to supporting WS Audiology’s digital transformation journey.”
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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.
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.
