After years of non-stop talk of AI changing every aspect of the human experience, and billions of private investment poured into making those claims happen, it’s reasonable to be a little skeptical. For all the monumental progress in AI development, there are plenty of missed expectations as well.
For companies managing complex supply chains, the AI promise has always hinged on making the complicated coordination of planning, sales, finance, and strategy as efficient and accurate as possible. At ORI, we are thrilled to unveil a legitimate breakthrough in this application of AI.
Today, we launched an agentic layer to the ORI Excellence Platform that connects multi-agent AI to strategy and comprehensive and well-structured data. We’re launching in a limited pilot, but we’ve already seen the tremendous impact this release will have for ORI customers. Let’s walk through what’s going live today, and how it can benefit your company.
The new agentic AI layer is built on the ORI Excellence Platform, our software and data system purpose-built to help organizations with complex supply chains achieve and sustain S&OP excellence and improve a wide range of business outcomes. This powerful new platform addresses the key problems of achieving and sustaining high levels of sales and operations planning (S&OP) maturity and preventing drift over time. More simply, we’re assigning well-informed and strategy-aligned agents to help your business get better business outcomes now and, in the weeks, months, and years to come.
ORI was founded to connect the right technologies to helping companies stay dynamically aligned between supply and demand planning, sales, finance, operations, and company strategy. The new agentic AI layer intentionally directs targeted agents to specific workflows connected to strategy and full-context data. In essence, we’re arming highly efficient workers who never sleep with the data, strategic context, and rules they need to scale your S&OP effort while preventing drift and erosion of S&OP maturity. The results will be stronger sales, reduced overhead costs, tighter turnaround times, and a business more resilient against increasing supply chain volatility.
The (mostly) unspoken secret in the world of AI is it’s easy to spin up new agents or automated workflows, but ensuring those efforts are productive and not catastrophically distracting comes down to the quality, quantity, depth, and breadth of the underlying data. Garbage in-garbage out, as they say.
ORI is uniquely well positioned to deliver an effective multi-agent AI product because we’ve been building the industry’s fastest, deepest, and broadest data engine for more than a decade. The ORI Excellence Platform is built on the Kinetic Data Engine, the industry’s deepest, broadest, and fastest data resource with access time up to 30 times faster than popular business intelligence tools.
For years, ORI has helped some of the world’s largest consumer companies connect their ERP systems, spreadsheets, customer and supplier data inputs, and other private and public data assets to a software platform built for S&OP. Now, we’ve added agentic AI to the mix, unlocking the full potential of your entire data set and unleashing well-trained AI agents to run specific tasks and deliver targeted value.
The AI paradox is that it has tremendous potential to dramatically accelerate both value creation and complete distraction. Many examples of AI absurdity begin with poorly structured instructions, rules, guardrails, and context.
In addition to anchoring the ORI agentic AI offering to strategy and the industry’s top data engine, we’ve developed a list of 20 core requirements that any multi-agent AI layer for S&OP must have. Our product and engineering teams have been hard at work for many months ensuring our product experience is anchored on these 20 core requirements, and we’re continuing the refine our approach to each one.
Alignment to core requirements is a dynamic, living process and not a one-and-done. We will continue calibrating our agent-powered product experience to deliver maximum value for ORI customers.
At ORI, we’re extreme pragmatists and don’t like to engage in hype. With that said, it is objectively true that multi-agent AI can unlock transformative value when it’s built on the right foundation and deployed with an intentional strategy. That’s what we’ve been building for much of this year, and we’re excited to unveil it to the broader industry.
Don’t take our word for it. We’re accepting a modest cohort into our limited pilot program, which will include a comprehensive demo and high-touch onboarding and value-delivery phases. We’re selecting for companies who can most benefit from ORI’s agentic AI product. If you’re interest in learning more, drop us a line and we will be in touch with more information.
Compress years of S&OP maturity into months, prevent maturity decline, and maximize human efficiency with agentic AI purpose-built for S&OP – grounded in strategy-driven planning and the industry’s broadest, deepest, and fastest data engine.
Get a free demo and find out how agentic AI, anchored in strategy and built on the industry’s best data engine, can supercharge your S&OP.