Is o9’s Digital Brain Exposing Alternate ERP Planning Gaps?

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like o9 have become integral to building supply chain resilience, helping organisations manage day-to-day business processes. 

In today's volatile environment, businesses have been working to eliminate data silos and create a singular source of truth, rather than having information spread across a range of operations and heightening risk.

With the amount of ERP resources that exist today to help organisations, finding the one best suited to a company's individual operations and needs can be difficult, but o9 is proving to be a leading platform to connect businesses.

Managing complexity

Fragmented systems have been a major disruption point for global businesses – particularly in today's era of constantly changing regulations and ongoing geopolitical events. 

As a result, end-to-end real-time visibility and forecast accuracy have become key to maintaining business resilience, driven by ERP systems like o9. This platform has proven to be a valuable tool in today's complex environments, as it is more applicable to agile, AI-driven and complex supply chain planning.

Traditional ERP systems are better suited for single-vendor ecosystems, which is becoming less common in today's resilience-building landscape. Today, global organisations recognise the risk of a single vendor, instead looking to diversify their supply chains in order to stay afloat if disruption occurs.

This, however, can be difficult to manage, as larger ecosystems are harder to gain visibility into and add complex layers of even more regulation. As a result, platforms like o9 are vital, as they can cope with the complexity of multi vendors. 

Real-time strengths

Due to traditional ERP systems being best suited for single-vendor ecosystems, they maintain siloed data modules. This creates risks for organisations, as it results in missing information, heightened opportunity for mistakes makes them vulnerable to geopolitical risks. 

o9's Digital Brain platform is an AI-powered planning solution, utilising analytics and data to transform siloed planning into integrated and intelligent decision-making. As a result, organisations who use o9 as their ERP system of choice see greater cohesion across customer service, inventory levels, ESG, resource use and key performance indicators.

Its real-time analytics capabilities mean that organisations can undergo significant transformation, with better demand forecasting accuracy and cross-team collaboration. Through this, leaders can remain agile throughout market changes, with greater ability to reduce costs and improve efficiency. 

The platform seamlessly connects finance, marketing, sales and supply chain data across a single and live online platform. This allows for the greater capitalising on opportunities and mitigation of risks, due to its integrated business planning solutions.

Risks are managed more efficiently though modern ERP systems like o9, as they include scenario planning and simulation capabilities. This makes it easier for businesses to withstand global disruptors, as they have solutions in place already. 

o9 also offers an agility in its capabilities which other ERP systems do not. It can configure its data structures and workflows to reflect the evolving environment. Moreover, the platform encourages end-to-end visibility and ongoing transparency, making it easier for leaders to gain constant insights of their global supply chain in order to make more informed decisions. 

"Accuracy alone is not enough. Teams need transparency, consistency and alignment with how the business actually works," explains Igor Rikalo, President & COO at o9 Solutions.