How o9 is Advancing Enterprise Planning With Snowflake

As supply chains around the world look to break down data silos in the throngs of global disruption, o9 Solutions is partnering with Snowflake to help develop a single source of supply chain truth.

Global volatility in recent years has proven the risks of fragmented supply chains, so businesses are increasingly looking towards simple solutions for creating a streamlined and transparent workflow.

This partnership will help strengthen connectivity between enterprise data and the decision-making process.

Greater transparency

o9 Solutions is a leading AI-powered platform, operating to help companies build autonomous, agile and adaptive planning and execution models. Through this, businesses can undergo company-wide transformations to enable better, more impactful decision-making, with confidence even throughout volatility.

Through a range of solutions including improving forecasting accuracy, matching demand and supply, as well as the increase in collaboration across a multi-tiered supply chain, o9 has proven to increase resilience and drive revenue across a business.

Now it is partnering with Snowflake, a cloud-based data platform, to further strengthen operations. The company helps businesses unite their siloed data and gain a seamless experience across data warehousing, data science, data sharing and more. 

The integration leverages Snowflake’s Connected Application framework in order to strengthen the bonds of enterprise data and its connection to planning and decision-making. o9 will connect its Digital Brain Platform with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, which will help joint customers utilise governed data across business functions.

As a result, there will be greater compliance and transparency, with more confident decision-making following the unification of business functions and planning models.  

"Enterprises are working with large volumes of data, but the challenge is turning that data into decisions that are aligned across the organisation," says Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO of o9. 

"Our Connected Application with Snowflake enables organisations to connect their data foundation more directly with planning, so teams can make decisions using consistent information and respond more effectively to change.”

Reducing fragmentation

The integration will enable complex organisations to break down their data silos, creating a level of cohesion that has previously seemed impossible for companies of that scale. AI-powered planning models will run directly against a single, governed source of truth across the supply chain, commercial and financial domains. 

As a result, continuous data flows between o9 and Snowflake will take place, surpassing the fragmented integrations of the past. As a result, there will be better cohesion and less opportunity for errors to arise. The partnership allows for more sharing of data – anything stored within Snowflake can be utilised directly within o9's planning models. This then allows outputs from o9 decision models to return to Snowflake to be applied across operational processes and downstream systems. 

In today's era of constantly shifting trade routes, relationships and regulations, a constant stream of communication and data sharing is a necessity for businesses to stay resilient. This level of data sharing across planning and execution helps unite business functions with more recent data flows and greater accuracy, allowing business leaders to make decisions with confidence. 

"Building a Connected Application with o9 is exactly the kind of deep technical collaboration that creates real value for our joint customers," adds Liana Shuma, Sr. Manager, Strategic Industry ISVs at Snowflake. 

"By embedding o9's advanced planning and decisioning capabilities directly into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, we're enabling enterprises to move from insight to action faster—creating a continuous, closed-loop system on a single platform. In an environment defined by volatility and rapid change, this Connected Application gives enterprises the ability to shift from reactive planning to continuous, intelligence-driven decision-making at scale."

Partnership gains

o9 and Snowflake have a selection of joint enterprise clients around the world, operating across manufacturing, retail and consumer products. The o9 Connected Application is building off the model in order to provide a more standardised approach to sharing data and increasing collaboration across enterprise data environments and planning capabilities.

The closed-loop architecture will help customers to:

• Use real-time and governed data flows to streamline supply chain planning
• Optimise inventory levels through reducing timelines across data, decisions and execution
• Create a stronger alignment across financial and operational plans, using a collaborative and real-time data foundation
• Have greater response times to market changes, utilising intelligence-driven and automated decisions

The collaboration is driving greater transparency and connectivity across supply chain, commercial and financial domains, reducing data silos in order to make strong, valuable decisions with confidence.