Supply Chain Control Tower Software
Trusted by leaders across industry verticals
Sense demand and supply changes across the network and respond in real time with optimal, automated decisions.
The o9 Supply Chain Control Tower leveraging its Digital “Supply Chain Knowledge Graph”, monitors demand and supply signals in real time, detects problems early and drives automated, demand and supply shaping decisions with intelligent evaluation of resolution options.
AI Powered Supply Chain Control Tower
Disruptions and market volatility are increasing exponentially. Proactively manage risk and opportunities by sensing and managing demand and supply on an AI platform.
More and more data is becoming available. Real-time signals from supply chain disruptions and market opportunities should alert planners instantly. Leveraging the o9 AI scenario capabilities, solutions to these disruptions are presented and highlighted with lead-time and cost implications. The o9 Control Tower allows enterprises to connect and harmonize planning and execution seamlessly on a common AI platform.
"One of the clients I was working with receives over 15,000 signals per day from an S&OE perspective, and a control tower can filter out 99% of these signals, with 98% able to be resolved automatically by the system as it learns to identify, prescribe, implement, and suggest solutions to problems."
Supply Chain Lead
"The capability that we've enabled now allows our users both upstream and downstream to look at the actions that have been taken in the supply chain and the decisions that have been made all in one place."
Head of Technical Programs
"We are seeing about a 50% scrap reduction. And that is driven by the fact that we have a line of sight now to our customer forecasts, and we're making decisions to avoid bringing in excess inventory or inventory we don't need."
Global Supply Chain Manager
"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
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Top reasons
Why customers choose o9
AI enabled real-time visibility to risks and opportunities with ongoing machine learning and prescriptive recommendations.
Ability to connect to many (unstructured) internal and external data sources.
Ability to shape demand in real-time. Present field opportunities and execute real time D/S matching.
Demand alerts (demand surge scenarios, orders exceeding forecasts, orders below forecasts, large changes to orders, etc.), scheduled receipt alerts (shipments arriving later due to bad weather or port delays), procurement alerts and production alerts.
Real-time IoT sensor alerting for monitoring manufacturing resources (Maintenance, Fault alerts, Energy Consumption,etc)
Seamlessly connect short-term S&OE planning to longer term IBP on a common platform.
Use cases
With the o9 Supply Chain Control tower our customers are able to take fast, high quality decisions that mitigate risk and capture market opportunities.
- Improved visibility to demand and supply changes: Lack of integration to sources of demand and supply changes makes visibility poor and often late, reducing time available for response,
- Real-time scenario analysis: Even when visibility is available, users don’t have real time ability to assess various alternative choices of resolving the issues, resulting in often late and sub-optimal decisions.
- Automation at scale: Because of lack of early detection and fast response systems, a disproportionate amount of time of supply chain planners is going into manual firefighting drills.
- Exceed your customer expectations: Deliver your customers needs on-time and in-full with the optimal supply chain strategy and flow plan.
Plan better. Create an efficient supply chain. Make the planet a healthy place to live
An efficient and proactive supply chain makes our planet a more healthy place to live and your employees happier in their jobs.
The o9 Control Tower can help reduce costly expediting by proactively sensing demand and supply changes and then recommending optimal transportation modes and flow paths that enable you to meet your customer service objectives without excessive CO2 emissions and suboptimal asset utilization.
Video Example: Unplanned Maintenance
The o9 Control Tower enables companies to Sense, Translate, Solve, Execute, and Learn using a robust AI enabled platform.
The o9 Control Tower utilizes advanced machine learning that enables superior supply chain results. It begins with “Sense” capabilities that detect internal as well as external demand and supply disruptions. It is followed by “Translate” capabilities which helps to highlight risks and determine the potential impact of the disruption.
Next, “Solve” capabilities provide decision support by prescribing resolutions to help mitigate the impact of the disruption. These capabilities are enabled with workflow execution orchestration that breaks down organizational silos to make informed decisions faster. Finally, the Control Tower “Learns” from past decisions and resolutions that have been taken and then adjusts future resolution protocols and recommendations for optimal performance.
Get real time visibility. Leverage the o9 Digital Brain in your business.
Frequently
Asked
Questions
Can o9’s Control Tower co-exist with different planning systems?
✅ Yes. There are multiple deployments where the Control Tower is supporting 3rd party planning systems.
Is o9’s Control Tower limited to alerting on transportation/disruptions?
❌ No. Examples include demand alerts (demand surge scenarios, orders exceeding forecasts, orders below forecasts, large changes to orders, etc.), procurement alerts and production alerts (e.g. expected machinery downtime due to fault indicators or energy consumption).
Can o9’s Control Tower execute on decisions made within Control Tower to other solutions?
✅ Yes. Supply chain execution needs schedules at a detailed plant/line level or truck level for driving daily execution. o9’s EKG model can translate plans generated in weekly or daily planning cycles into schedules using intelligent rules/algorithms. o9 can send the plans to intelligent schedulers that create the schedules. (for example, a factory scheduler). The o9 EKG can accept back status updates against those schedules so that it can then monitor if higher level plans are tracking or deviating.
