Demand Planning Software
Can AI/ML forecasting help improve your forecast accuracy rapidly?
Yes, it can. Calculate the potential savings from AI-powered forecasting.
Trusted by leaders across industry verticals
Improve forecast accuracy and sales adoption. Strengthen alignment of sales, product, supply chain and finance organizations.
o9’s demand planning software is not just helping organizations predict demand better, it is also helping them sense, analyze, plan and shape demand to optimize both short-term and long-term sales and margin performance.
Drive significant bottom-line value
By improving forecasts based on leading indicators while providing early visibility to risks and opportunities.
Scattered market visibility and spreadsheets make responding to market changes problematic. o9’s AI-powered, digital solution for demand planning features collaborative analytics, planning and continuous learning that helps your organization eliminate poorly made demand decisions.
Top reasons
Why customers choose o9
Handling omni-channel, multi-region, large product portfolio complexity
Create accountability. Enforce planner commentary to convert tribal knowledge into corporate knowledge that is visible across the organization.
Increasing sales adoption in the demand planning process
Take away the guesswork. o9’s AI/ML framework learns from multiple historical drivers to come up with a better forecast considering all the planned initiatives and events in the future.
Adopt automation. Use data-driven, actionable insights that are and highlight and prioritize areas for planners to focus on.
Rally around a single source of truth. o9’s platform provides a 360 view of external and internal drivers of demand, streamlining cross-functional collaboration.
Use cases
o9’s demand planning software brings together predictive analytics, assumptions visibility, collaboration, and post-game analytics.
- Omnichannel, multi-region, large product portfolio planning made simpler
- Multiple types of driver-based forecasting
- Sell-out based forecasting for retail and distribution channels
- Incorporating opportunity pipelines in CRM systems into demand forecasts
- Consensus forecasting made simple
- Cycle-over-cycle forecast change assumptions tracking and collaboration
- Forecast accuracy and bias post-game analysis – increasing accountability
- Range based forecasts – managing risks
- Integration of sales, supply chain and finance forecasts
- Increased sales adoption of demand planning
- Visibility to marketing and promotion initiatives
- Demand-shaping based on supply constraints
Plan better. Reduce waste. Create an efficient business for a better planet.
o9’s next-generation demand planning software capabilities are helping global enterprises improve forecast accuracy, which directly correlates to better plans and improved financial performance. And when a business plans better, it creates operational efficiencies that significantly reduce wastage.
The integrated planning efficiencies delivered by o9 is helping corporations do more, be more and mean more, internally and to the world at large.
AI-powered demand planning software: the smarter approach to planning processes.
o9’s cloud-native AI/ML-driven integrated business planning platform’s capabilities solve some of the most complex challenges linked to demand planning. It resolves the disconnect from the end-customer by linking macroeconomic data, down to a local level.
It correctly defines different streams of demand, identifies them then creates a composite forecast across horizons. And it dynamically adjusts plans and scenario-based responses to changes in planning parameters. This is the power of agile thinking in creating future resilience.
"With o9, we had visibility and we were able to save on overtime. So we’re talking about unprecedented volumes and we didn't have to throw unproductive volume or dollars to that. We were able to do it properly. "
Demand Planning Manager
"The o9 platform makes our decision-making much faster. It’s also giving us a better and deeper understanding of the analytics, the cost of decisions, and now when we make those decisions, there’s a much higher degree of confidence that we actually execute."
Director of S&OP
"Creating high-level financial plans and targets for our biggest regional channels and top product categories has been game-changing. It has led to more strategic conversations, better quality, and more accurate plans, and grounded us to unlock long-term growth."
Director of Global Planning
"Our goal is to achieve 80% of touchless operations. What we mean by that is taking away a lot of the manual operations, enabling automation [...] Through the work with o9, we've eliminated them, and now these manual operations are mostly a thing of the past."
Head of Technical Programs
"o9 is moving the team’s workload and energy away from executing mundane, tedious tasks like determining how many units of each SKU go to each store every single week. We're moving them upstream into preseason planning, into developing strategy, and then the system executes automatically."
Associate Vice President of Allocations and Merchandise
