o9 Partners With Molson Coors on a Multi-Year Initiative to Transform its Enterprise Planning Capabilities in the Americas

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--o9, a leading enterprise software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its partnership with Molson Coors Beverage Company to support its long-term integrated business planning vision with end-to-end enterprise planning capabilities.

As the fourth-largest beer company in the world, Molson Coors’ beverage portfolio includes iconic brands such as Coors Light, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian, Carling and many more, which are sold in more than 100 countries worldwide. Molson Coors will leverage the o9 planning platform in the Americas to facilitate cross-functional collaboration, enhance its planning tools and unify processes across its commercial, supply chain planning, and finance teams.

Over the next several years, o9’s commercial planning and Revenue Growth Management capabilities will aim to enhance Molson Coors’ profitability through strategic, data-driven planning and optimization. Through o9’s Demand Planning solution, Molson Coors stands to benefit from improved forecast accuracy and explainability. o9’s Supply Planning capabilities are poised to help the company continue to generate an end-to-end constrained plan and guide its response to market demand. Finally, o9’s financial planning technology allows Molson Coors the opportunity to collaboratively create and maintain financial outlooks and forecasts that are aligned with the latest in demand and supply assumptions.

“Investing behind our organizational and commercial capabilities is foundational to our strategy as a business,” said Molson Coors’ Vice President of Integrated Business Planning, Solomon Tesfai. “We’ve upscaled our capabilities significantly over the past several years, and now we’re working to transform the way our commercial, supply chain and finance teams plan for what’s next across the enterprise. We’re excited to undertake these efforts in partnership with a best-in-class partner like o9.”

Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO of o9, said, “We envision success for Molson Coors’ cross-functional planning processes with real-time data tracking and management to further its integrated business planning initiatives. We look forward to supporting Molson Coors on its transformation journey.”

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About o9

o9 is a leading platform provider for integrated business planning and decision-making for the enterprise. Whether it is driving demand, aligning demand and supply, or optimizing commercial initiatives, any planning process can be made faster and smarter with o9’s digital solutions. o9 brings together technology innovations for scenario planning, collaborative portals, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery—into one platform. For more information, please visit www.o9solutions.com.