Solutions:

• Demand Planning: o9’s AI/ML powered demand planning helps predict demand better. In addition, it enables organizations to sense, analyze, plan and shape demand to optimize both short-term and long-term sales and margin performance.

• Revenue Optimization: Align bottoms up revenue plans and top-down growth targets and strategies by category, region, and channel.

• NPI Planning: Optimize product portfolio range with Advanced Segmentation, Analytics and Scenario Planning capabilities. Improve success of new product launches and transitions.

• Market Intelligence: Create insightful category, customer, competitor, and channel intelligence to support revenue management and demand planning processes.

• Commercial Analytics: Leverage o9’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) model and advanced AI/ML algorithms to create predictive and prescriptive insights to guide Product Assortment, Pricing, Promotion, Distribution Investments and Initiatives to optimize Revenue and Margin.

Capabilities:

• Integrated Revenue Planning Model: Connecting plans and initiatives across different Product Lines, Markets, Channels, and Time horizons to real time Market Knowledge.

• Rich Market Knowledge:  Using o9’s EKG and external data sources, build a sophisticated model of local markets, customers, competitors, channels, and other leading indicators of demand.

• Real-time risk and opportunity alert:  Detect changes in market conditions, competitor actions and execution. Evaluate and prioritize impacts for proactive response.

• Robust Scenario Planning: Construct different demand scenarios based on risks, opportunities, and incremental commercial initiatives (NPI, marketing, pricing, promos). Evaluate P&L impact and feasibility before deciding on the optimal course of action.

• Real-time demand shaping:  Align revenue initiatives to shape demand away from constrained supply. Simulate demand for excess inventory and capacity and deploy alternative strategies.

• Drive Rapid Adoption: o9’s UX innovations including NLP, connected Excel, Mobile Assistants and digital storyboards drive rapid adoption in your enterprise with minimal disruption to your current processes.