o9 Selected by Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Digital Brain for Supply Planning Optimization

TOKYO & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. (CCBJ) has selected o9 to optimize its supply planning.

Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan, one of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in Asia by revenue, produces and supplies approximately 90% of Coca-Cola system products in Japan. o9 Solutions Japan is committed to supporting CCBJI's transformation by enabling data-driven management and maximizing the utilization of data assets. This will facilitate business efficiency, advanced analysis, and improved decision-making.

With the implementation of the o9 Digital Brain platform, Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan will be able to create more accurate and efficient supply plans that take into account production and warehouse capacity, material procurement, and logistics constraints such as the number of trucks. This will help reduce costs while maintaining high service levels. The platform also supports industry-specific needs, including managing inventory allocation and inter-site transfers in line with customer-specific expiration date requirements. Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan also expects to improve overall supply chain performance by using mathematical optimization algorithms to determine the most efficient supply routes as part of its planning processes.

"We are honored to support Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan in their efforts to transform their supply planning," said Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-founder and CEO of o9. "By leveraging our platform to streamline planning processes and optimize supply planning, we will strongly support Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan 's transformation."

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o9 Solutions is a leading AI-powered platform 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 AI-powered digital solutions. o9 brings together technology innovations—such as graph-based enterprise modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for scenario planning, collaborative portals, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery—into one platform. For more information, please visit www.o9solutions.com.