Supply Chain Analytics
Turn supply chain data into continuous intelligence — and intelligence into action.
Supply Chain Analytics on the o9 Digital Brain enables organizations to move beyond static reporting and reactive dashboards toward continuous, decision-centric intelligence. By connecting performance data, real-time signals, and decision workflows in a single platform, supply chain leaders can understand what happened, anticipate what will happen next, and take action before value is lost.
Today’s supply chains operate in an environment defined by constant disruption.
Supply chain leaders are under constant pressure to answer three fundamental questions: What happened? What is likely to happen? And what actions should we take? While data volumes have exploded, actionable insight has not kept pace.
Most organizations are overwhelmed by data spread across ERP systems, spreadsheets, and siloed BI tools. Reports arrive too late, alerts fire after problems escalate, and teams spend more time explaining numbers than fixing issues. In volatile environments, this lag leads directly to service failures, excess inventory, and missed opportunities.
From Static Reporting to Continuous Intelligence
Traditional business intelligence was designed for periodic review, not real-time decision-making. As volatility increases, organizations need continuous intelligence — the ability to capture and interpret event streams as business conditions change.
Supply Chain Analytics enables this shift by moving beyond dashboards to continuously monitor performance, proactively identify exceptions, and embed analytics directly into the decision-making process.
What this solution enables
Visualizing Performance Across the Network
Supply Chain Analytics provides a comprehensive view of performance across the end-to-end network, extending beyond Tier 1 suppliers to include Tier 2 and Tier 3 relationships.
Executives and operational leaders can visualize KPIs, metrics, and events in context, isolating weaknesses and comparing performance across products, regions, customers, or policies. Executive-level views align financial outcomes with operational drivers, ensuring that insights remain relevant from the shop floor to the C-suite.Continuous Intelligence and Impact Analysis
The platform ingests real-time data streams to continuously monitor supply chain activity and detect meaningful change.
External signals such as weather disruptions, cyber incidents, logistics delays, or geopolitical events are contextualized to show their potential impact on service, cost, and inventory. During disruptive events, planners can run real-time scenarios to evaluate alternative paths forward and select the most profitable or least risky response.
What Makes o9 Different
From Data to Decisions
traditional BI tools that stop at visualization, o9 embeds analytics into collaborative decision workflows.
The system actively identifies exceptions before they become alerts, guides users toward the most impactful issues, and facilitates structured decision-making across functions. This ensures analytics drive action — not just awareness.Unified KPI Logic Across the Enterprise
Conflicting metrics are a common source of misalignment.
o9 aligns all stakeholders on a unified set of KPIs — such as OTIF, order cycle time, inventory value, and service levels — eliminating confusion caused by inconsistent definitions and siloed reports.
With a shared performance language, teams can focus on improving outcomes rather than debating numbers.
Industries Supported
Powered by the o9 Digital Brain
Supply Chain Analytics is powered by the o9 Digital Brain, which serves as a single source of truth across supply chain, finance, and commercial functions.
The platform’s architecture supports continuous intelligence and event stream processing, enabling departments to work from a common performance model. CIOs, CFOs, and CSCOs can align on shared goals while maintaining the flexibility required by their respective teams.
Modular by design, enterprise by default
The Control Tower operates as a real-time nerve center, sitting above transactional systems to orchestrate decisions across planning, execution, and partners.
Core Building Blocks
Unified KPI Logic Layer
Standardizes performance definitions such as OTIF, order cycle time, and inventory value across all functions and business units.Data Ingestion & Integration Layer
Ingests structured and unstructured data from internal systems and multi-tier supplier networks into a unified analytical foundation.Executive & Operational Dashboards
Provides role-based views ranging from C-suite performance summaries to detailed operational root-cause analysis.
Advanced Building Blocks
Continuous Intelligence Engine
Uses event stream processing to detect anomalies and performance shifts as they occur, not after the fact.Impact Analysis Module
Calculates how external events propagate through the supply network to quantify operational and financial impact.Predictive Driver Analysis
AI identifies the specific drivers — such as overrides or supplier variability — behind forecast and plan deviations.
Pre-built industry templates provide packaged logic and workflows that reduce time to value while remaining fully customizable.
A digital operating model for VUCA conditions
APEX is o9’s AI-powered operating model for enterprises navigating volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). It enables organizations to plan, execute, and learn as one connected system.
The o9 Digital Brain powers APEX by connecting enterprise data, knowledge, and decisions through a single intelligent model.
Collaborative Demand Planning is one of the building blocks of the Digital Brain. It contributes domain-specific capabilities into the enterprise-wide model that enables APEX from the ground up—linking this solution to decisions across the entire value chain.
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Where AI drives real decisions
Artificial intelligence extends analytics beyond hindsight into foresight and insight.
Predictive analytics forecast future performance states and identify emerging risks before they materialize. Rather than reacting to misses, organizations can proactively adjust plans and execution.
Driver analysis uses AI to uncover the root causes behind performance deviations, such as identifying where planner overrides diverge from agreed policies or where specific drivers are eroding forecast accuracy.
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Results in real-world complexity
Asian Paints
Asian Paints relied heavily on Excel-based KPI tracking and lacked automated systems to surface leading indicators.
By implementing an o9 analytics workbench for daily operations, the company centralized performance metrics, automated alerts, and enabled critical SKU identification. Operations teams moved from spreadsheets to a single platform and reduced inventory carrying costs through faster, insight-driven decisions.
“The decisions taken by the logistics team are already processed by the engine, a priori. They validate it, it feeds into our execution engine for track-building and shipments. The workbench allows our team to move the same-day order fill rate. Last month we actually achieved a 98.5% OFR.”
Harish Lade
SVP, Supply Chain at Asian Paints
TB International
TB International needed immediate visibility into excess inventory without manually consolidating spreadsheets.
Using the o9 Digital Brain for analytics, the organization gained instant access to actionable insights simply by opening a report. Manual analysis was eliminated, enabling faster response and improved inventory management.
“We see the first results really in being by far quicker to see things like access inventory. What is really the biggest one without trying to crunch numbers very hard? An access spreadsheet, you directly simply open the report.”
Anne Molitor
Senior Supply Chain Manager at TB International
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Supply chain analytics applies data, metrics, and advanced analytics to monitor performance, identify risks, and support better decision-making across the supply chain.