DALLAS, 10 August 2023 – o9 Solutions, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced the completion of the first phase of transforming the demand planning capabilities of Shurtape Technologies, LLC, an industry-leading manufacturer and marketer of adhesive tape and consumer home and office products. With this implementation, Shurtape is expecting significant forecast accuracy improvements, increased planner productivity, and improved customer service.
Shurtape, which markets well-known brands such as Duck®, FrogTape®, T-Rex®, Painter's Mate®, and Shurtape®, started its digital transformation journey by identifying gaps in process, data, and people skills in order to select the right platform to meet its needs. By leveraging o9’s AI-powered Digital Brain platform, Shurtape is able to more accurately predict, analyze, plan, and shape demand to optimize sales and margin performance of its omnichannel and multi-region product portfolio.
Philippe Libert, Supply Chain Planning Director at Shurtape Technologies, said: “We have completed the first stage of our planning transformation, which was focused on the reengineering of our demand planning processes, the implementation of a leading planning software, and the upgrade of our planning capabilities. We are leveraging the o9 reference model and platform to shape our supply chain to be more agile, capable, and cost-effective while fostering a productive cross-functional collaboration model.”
Anusha Sharma, Chief Customer Officer at o9 Solutions, said: “At o9, we value our customers and take pride in their success stories. Hence, it is great to see that Shurtape is using our unique platform to improve their overall demand planning capabilities and business performance.”
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The Digital Brain Platformo9 offers a leading AI-powered Planning, Analytics & Data platform called the Digital Brain that helps companies across industry verticals transform traditionally slow and siloed planning into smart, integrated and intelligent planning and decision making across the core supply chain, commercial and P&L functions. With o9’s Digital Brain platform, companies are able to achieve game-changing improvements in quality of data, ability to detect demand and supply risks and opportunities earlier, forecast demand more accurately, evaluate what-if scenarios in real time, match demand and supply intelligently and drive alignment and collaboration across customers, internal stakeholders and suppliers around the integrated supply chain and commercial plans and decisions. Supported by a global ecosystem of partners, o9’s innovative delivery methodology helps companies achieve quick impact in customer service, inventory levels, resource utilization, as well as ESG and financial KPIs—while enabling a long-term, sustainable transformation of their end-to-end planning and decision-making capabilities.
