o9 Solutions Recognizes aioneers In Its Inaugural Partner Awards Program 

Dallas, February 28, 2023 – o9 Solutions, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that it is recognizing aioneers as the best all-around partner in sales and delivery. The supply chain software company is receiving o9’s Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award as part of its inaugural Partner Awards program. 

Since 2020, aioneers’ strong end-to-end capabilities, from go-to-market to sales and delivery, have been essential in joint implementation projects at clients such as Fujitsu and Voestalpine. aioneers was given the most valuable partner distinction due to the company’s in-depth planning experience, its open and transparent communication style, and its ability to be seen as a trusted advisor across its clients and business partners. 

“o9 is a thought leader in supply chain planning and supply chain management digitalization. The o9 platform enables true end-to-end planning processes, features best-in-class AI and analytics-powered decision algorithms, and is built on a powerful, flexible, and open data and knowledge base,” says Dr. Christoph Kilger, CEO Services & Solutions at aioneers. “What I particularly like about o9 is its special business orientation: o9 always focuses its efforts on creating and adding value for its customers. We at aioneers share this philosophy with o9. Therefore, our cooperation is more than joint projects: o9 and aioneers together transform businesses and build the supply chain of the future!”

“Accurate forecasting is crucial for us to fulfill our quality and delivery promises to our customers. The joint team of aioneers and o9 S&OP expert consultants helped us to define and implement a best-practice end-to-end demand planning process framework to substantially improve our planning results whilst increasing planning efficiency and cross-functional collaboration,” says Melanie Stevenson, E2E Forecasting Solution Programme Lead at Fujitsu. “The well-established partnership of aioneers and o9 was a true benefit for our project by leveraging the technical and Supply Chain know-how of both companies at the same time. We really appreciated the excellent collaboration.”

“We’re honored to recognize aioneers with our first MVP Award. They are an excellent partner in the supply chain planning space and helping joint clients to strengthen their digital execution,” says Igor Rikalo, President and Chief Operating Officer o9 Solutions. “Their dedication to serving clients and becoming a trusted resource across all aspects of digitally transforming their supply chain planning practices is very impressive, and we look forward to collaborating with aioneers for many years to come.” 

In addition to the MVP Award, o9’s annual Partner Awards will highlight the outstanding contributions made by its partner organizations across four additional categories: 

• The 10x Partner Award, for the fastest-growing partner of the year 
• The Digital Brain Award, for the best technology partner of the year
• The Graph-Cube Award, for the most impactful innovation on the o9 platform
• The Digital Operating Model Award, for the largest transformation of the year

Recipients of the o9 Partner Awards are selected based on their exceptional performance and collaboration within specific categories. The o9 Partner Awards will continue to be announced prior to the aim10x global conference, which will take place March 28-29, 2023. 

For more information, go to o9solutions.com.

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o9 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.