Initially launching in limited pilot, new product is purpose-built for S&OP, grounded in strategy, and connected to the industry’s deepest and fastest data engine to prevent agentic drift and deliver faster results at scale
LEHI, Utah – September 29, 2026 – ORI, creator of the ORI Excellence Platform for supply chain success, today announced the public launch of a new agentic artificial intelligence (AI) layer designed to compress years of S&OP maturity into months, prevent maturity decline, and maximize human efficiency with an AI and data platform purpose-built for S&OP.
“We live in an age of tremendous opportunity and tremendous hype with regard to AI,” said ORI founder Brant Slade. “For large companies with complex supply chains, it is not hyperbole to say that unlocking agentic AI can be transformative. Done poorly, however, agentic AI can lock in bad assumptions and send a planning program wildly off course. We’ve addressed this problem by tying agents to documented strategy and robust, complete data.”
The new agentic AI layer is built on the ORI Excellence Platform, a 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. The new agentic AI product is initially launching in limited pilot with select new and existing ORI customers.
The new agentic AI layer intentionally directs targeted agents to specific workflows connected to strategy and full-context data. 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.
“A key to delivering confidence in agentic AI for S&OP is feeding agents critical context through real-time access to all the necessary data,” said ORI President James Barlow. “Ultimatley, the value of any AI agent is only as good as the underlying data. At ORI, we have spent more than a decade building a data engine made for the AI era, bringing together a broad set of planning data — including ERP, spreadsheets, customer and supplier inputs, public data, finance files, and other applications — with the speed required for interactive scenario analysis and real-time decision-making.”
With the agentic AI addition, the ORI Excellence Platform dynamically analyzes the business plan, identifies risks and drift, recommends decision options, and continuously monitors assumptions and signals by applying agentic AI to strategy-driven planning and the industry’s broadest, deepest, and fastest data engine. This allows organizations to run continuous and self-learning S&OP, accomplish more with a leaner team, and maintain planning continuity through every system change, migration, and transition.
Key benefits of the ORI agentic AI product include:
Purpose-built for modern S&OP and S&OE, the ORI Excellence Platform fills critical gaps in larger supply chain management platforms. ORI is used by large enterprises and mid-market firms in a wide range of industry verticals where effective S&OP is critical to long term success, particularly as global supply chains become more volatile and firms increasingly need to manage uncertainty and build resilience.
“As global supply chains increase in volatility, the stakes are reaching a fever pitch as it relates to the promise of AI,” Slade said. “The principles of S&OP excellence have not changed. Agentic AI promises to help organizations execute those principles more efficiently and at greater scale over a longer time horizon. But only if the agentic system is built correctly and anchored on clean, relevant, and well-structured data. The solution we’ve been building at ORI perfectly matches the needs of this moment in the AI era.”
After spending more than a decade developing the Kinetic Data Engine and purpose-built software interface, ORI has been in heavy development to add agentic AI to unlock the platform’s full potential. With the agentic layer in place, the ORI Excellence Platform achieves the 20 core requirements for effective multi-agent AI for S&OP.
ORI was founded as a consultancy in 2003 and pivoted to software-as-a-service (SaaS) in 2013. Initially launched as a software and data platform for sales and operations planning (S&OP), the ORI Excellence Platform has evolved as a single place to manage S&OE, S&OP, and long-term planning.
The agentic AI product is currently in a limited pilot phase and offered to select new and current ORI customers. To request a demo and consideration for the pilot, visit [drop URL for web form].
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About ORI
ORI’s data and agentic AI platform helps companies compress years of S&OP maturity into months, prevent maturity decline, and maximize human efficiency. Founded by respected industry veterans, ORI has led some of the most successful and advanced S&OP implementations in industries such as automotive products, chemicals, consumer packaged goods, cosmetics, electronics, food and beverage, health care, logistics and transportation, paper goods, and more.
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