o9 joins Catena-X Community to Advance Standard-Based Collaboration in Automotive Supply Chains

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its membership in the Catena-X community. This development builds upon o9's achievement of the Catena-X Demand and Capacity Management (DCM) certification in October 2024, marking a significant step in its commitment to fostering standardized, secure, and collaborative data exchange within the automotive industry.

Catena-X is the first globally trusted, industry-governed data ecosystem for the automotive sector. It provides the shared standards, open-source components, and certification framework that enable secure and interoperable data exchange across company boundaries. As a community member, o9 is contributing its expertise in digital planning, supplier collaboration, and multi-tier integration to help shape and scale Catena-X technical processes and standards. The focus is on making data sharing easier, faster, and more trusted across complex supply networks. For suppliers, Catena-X also reduces the need for multiple OEM-specific solutions by guaranteeing interoperability of certified solutions, leading to a vendor-agnostic ecosystem.

o9’s platform is already certified for Catena-X’s Demand and Capacity Management use case. As a community member, the company is now actively contributing to workstreams that aim to improve the scalability and usability of Catena-X standards in live planning environments. This work supports o9’s broader mission to help organizations close the gap between planning and execution by enabling faster, more aligned decision-making across the value chain.

“Joining the Catena-X community reflects our belief that effective collaboration is not just about connectivity. It depends on a foundation of shared standards and trust, and on enabling broad participation through low barriers to entry and simple, secure communication,” said Falko Feldchen, Vice President of Procurement at o9 Solutions. “Catena-X plays a vital role in bringing more stakeholders into one connected ecosystem. With our experience in supplier collaboration, we are proud to support the consortium in advancing this shared vision.”

To learn more about data sharing in the automotive supply chain, please download this whitepaper here.

About o9

o9 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.

About Catena-X

Catena-X is the first end-to-end, collaborative and open data ecosystem for the automotive industry, connecting all players along the value chain. The Catena-X association acts as a neutral governance to enable standardized, interoperable and data-sovereign collaboration and drive innovation, increasing efficiency and compliance across the entire data ecosystem. Catena-X is Gaia-X compliant and serves as a model for all Manufacturing-X initiatives and is shaping the development of standardized data ecosystems in other industries. Founded in 2021, the association has hubs in the USA, China, Spain, Sweden and France and more than 300 individuals from various players in the automotive industry working in more than 40 expert groups to develop future standards.