Give integrated planning a working operating model
Bristlecone helps organizations use o9 to connect demand, supply, inventory, commercial, financial, and operational decisions.
We design the planning model, Enterprise Knowledge Graph inputs, scenarios, data, integrations, governance, and adoption around the decisions the business needs to make.
The planning problems o9 helps solve
Commercial, financial, and operational plans often live in separate tools and meetings, so the business debates numbers instead of decisions. Integrated planning brings them together, but only if the model reflects how the business actually decides.
Design the decisions before the model
We align o9's Enterprise Knowledge Graph, planning models, scenarios, measures, and workflows to the decisions, horizons, roles, and meeting rhythms your business needs. Work can span:
- Demand planning and sensing.
- Supply and capacity planning.
- Inventory.
- S&OP and IBP.
- Revenue and commercial planning.
- Control-tower use cases.
- Integrated financial scenarios.
Master and transactional data, hierarchies, transformations, integrations, security, exception logic, and organizational change are designed as one planning system.
Keep the planning model useful after go-live
After implementation, we help keep o9 aligned with how the business actually plans:
- Model performance and data quality.
- Scenario and solver design.
- User experience, workflow, and exception tuning.
- Release adoption.
- Planning process maturity and center of excellence design.
- Managed services and an improvement backlog tied to service, inventory, forecast performance, capacity, and margin.
Already running o9? Get more from it
If o9 is live but the business isn't getting the decisions it expected, the answer is rarely to start over. We tune model performance, improve data quality, redesign scenarios and exception logic, strengthen planning governance, and help users adopt new releases, so the platform you have becomes the planning system you wanted.
What leaders ask about o9
Practical answers to the questions that often shape the first conversation.
What data and model decisions make o9 planning useful across functions?+
The model has to represent the relationships among products, customers, locations, suppliers, resources, and plans at the level where decisions are made. We align master data, planning dimensions, measures, constraints, and workflow ownership so connected scenarios reflect operational reality and remain performant at scale.
Can Bristlecone help with an existing o9 implementation?+
Yes. We support model performance, data quality, scenario design, workflow tuning, release adoption, managed services, and continuous improvement for live o9 environments.
How long does an o9 implementation take?+
It depends on scope, data readiness, and the number of planning processes involved. We phase the work so the business sees value early.
Can o9 work alongside SAP?+
Yes. o9 regularly runs alongside SAP and other ERPs, and we design the integrations between them.