o9 Solutions: Leader in AI-Powered Planning and Procurement

o9 Solutions, a leading AI-powered platform for integrated business planning and decision-making for the enterprise, is going from trength to strength.

The last quarter of 2025 saw the company welcoming new telecommunications, high tech, food and beverage and retail and apparel clients, adding to big names including JD Sports, Mango, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, the DS Group and Toyota Motor Corporation.

Multiple global manufacturers in food and beverage and industrial equipment also expanded their use of the o9 Digital Brain platform, underscoring the company's role as a long-term transformation partner with the ability to scale across varying functions and workflows.

Real-time solutions for enterprise supply networks

The Digital Brain Solution, as well as its Supply Chain Control Tower, have been recognised for their ability to help companies monitor demand, supply and inventory levels in real time and gain early visibility into potential delays or disruptions.

The o9 Supply Chain Control Tower integrates with o9's Supply Chain Planning and Analytics and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) solutions to align planning and decision-making across financial, commercial, procurement and supply chain functions. Leveraging Digital Twin technology, the o9 Supply Chain Control Tower creates a digitised model of an organisation's end-to-end supply chain network to strengthen scenario planning and risk management.

Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO at o9, says: "The o9 Supply Chain Control Tower is uniquely positioned to help the world's largest enterprises sense and understand variations across their vast supply network, identify and execute solutions in real-time and then measure and analyse the results to improve future decision-making.

"We believe that our Control Tower's unique capabilities in addition to our commitment to continuously enhancing the o9 Digital Brain platform with next-generation technologies is the reason for o9's recognition in the Nucleus Control Tower Technology Value Matrix 2025."

Take, for example, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, which selected o9 to support its transformation by enabling data-driven management and maximising the utilisation of data assets. This will facilitate business efficiency, advanced analysis and improved decision-making.

With the implementation of the o9 Digital Brain platform, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan will have the ability to create supply plans which are more accurate and efficient – while taking into account factors like production and warehouse capacity, material procurement and logistics constraints such as numbers of trucks.

Why KDP went 'middle-out' instead of 'top-down'

Navin Chander, Vice President of S&OP and Customer Service at Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), describes how the US$12bn North American beverage leader is transforming planning thanks to o9.

With 125 brands, 30+ manufacturing sites, 100+ DSD distribution centres and a 29,000-strong workforce, scale and complexity demanded a bold approach.

According to Navin, the central challenge was designing a supply chain capable of capturing the earliest indicators of risk or opportunity and connecting them seamlessly to every operational decision across the organisation.

Rather than start with demand planning, KDP went "middle-out" with supply planning on o9. By leveraging existing demand signals, building material forecasts in SAP and establishing o9 as the planning engine, KDP unlocked quick execution wins while laying the foundation for expansion upstream and downstream.

Navin explained that this strategy generated early momentum through better demand-supply synchronisation, enhanced visibility into demand stability and more effective inventory planning.

He adds: "Weekly S&OE cycles now focus less on identifying risks and more on mitigating them. Even with challenges like strikes at manufacturing sites, we’ve maintained service levels and launched new products successfully."

Accelerating global deployment and innovation

o9 has achieved more than 30 "go-lives" around the world in 2025, with deployments including integrated business planning, demand and supply planning, master planning, production scheduling, allocation and replenishment and material requirements planning capabilities.

The business is providing exactly what enterprises want: synchronised, AI-powered planning that improves decision speed, resilience and business outcomes.

Chakri adds: "Generative AI and specialised AI agents are accelerating the value generated by our platform for integrated business planning, helping our clients achieve faster, easier and more impactful digital transformations.

"Looking forward, we will continue our steadfast commitment to innovation and excellence as the foremost enterprise planning partner on the market today."

Elsewhere, o9 is working alongside the World Economic Forum's Associate Partner programme, further expanding its collaboration with the international institution for public-private cooperation. The programme connects global leaders from business, government, international organisations and academia to share knowledge and drive positive change relating to the world's most pressing challenges.