o9 Sustainability
ESG Risk Detection and Sustainable Procurement
o9’s powerful EKG patented technology is expanding to tackle our clients’ sustainability needs.
Trusted by leaders across industry verticals
Supply chain risk and sustainability requirements are interconnected.
o9 Sustainability Solutions seamlessly integrates principles of resilience and sustainability through risk detection. We provide supply chain professionals with access to both the collective data, the resulting analysis, and real-time or predictive alerts on ESG risk.
Risk and Sustainable Procurement
Increase resilience by visualizing your n-tier supplier network, their ESG risk scores, and identify risk through real-time alerts to inform procurement decision making
Top quick-win ESG risk capabilities:
- Understand exposure to ESG related risks, and track and manage supply chain resilience through risk notifications
- Ability to identify significant CO2, waste and water reduction opportunities
- Include key sustainability levers in procurement decision making
- Understand risks vs. rewards trade-offs and improve sustainable sourcing through real-time, on-demand scenario planning
Use cases for supply chain operations and risk detection
Risk prediction
o9 has access to data available to enable the prediction of various risks categorized under the ESG umbrella. This information can be used to understand the business exposure and facilitate a much faster response to increasing risk levels.
Disruption management
Currently companies make short term decisions based solely on cost impacts. With o9, disruption management takes both risk detection and sustainability information into account to guide supply chain professionals to sustainability aware decision making.
Sustainable procurement
Procurement decisions are mostly based on financial data and supplier assessments, which are often lagging behind on a timescale, as data is only reported periodically. They also fail to include incidents at suppliers, such as strikes, imposed sanctions, human rights violations, or fires, etc.
Sustainable procurement capabilities aid sustainable sourcing decision making by using ESG risk scores for supplier sourcing selection process. This includes leveraging 3rd party data providers and integrating historical information for risk prediction, detection and real-time alerts.
Monitoring ESG risk levels
Extreme weather patterns, and geopolitical events that result in changing tariff, trade and tax policies are occurring with even greater frequency.
These changes can put continuity of supply at risk and may require changes in sourcing and manufacturing policies., Both weather-related events and geo-political events can have significant financial impacts.
These risks need to be integrated into a holistic outlook for monitoring and mitigating risks.
Our platform allows for flexibility to specify risk categories and their key indicators. It continuously monitors the news-feed, flags and sends the alerts as configured.
Each sector, each company can customize categorization and indicator priorities and preferences.
"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
"We had a significant reduction in expedited costs. Our target was 4 to 6 million dollars. And we achieved close to 9 million dollars…"
Vice President of Supply Chain COE
"The o9 software allows us to find the problem almost instantly, thereby allowing us to implement the corrective action much sooner well in advance of the opportunity that we faced."
Vice President of Supply Chain, Central Services, and Planning
"Now when we hear things like, "This has been the most important improvement or biggest improvement to my mental health" to "I have never, ever have to tell a customer I'm out of something." Those are the moments when you know we have got it right."
Vice President of Engineering and Quality Assurance
"The o9 platform unlocked significant processes for us in order to effectively address changes in our volumes and to align those volumes to our labor capabilities at our distribution centers."
Senior Manager Supply Chain Planning
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