Manufacturing
Businesses face significant challenges in executing complex, cross-functional tasks efficiently, often due to siloed operations that hinder comprehensive insight and collaboration. According to Deloitte, 83% of "digitally maturing" companies use cross-functional teams, yet many still struggle with inefficiencies. Data silos exacerbate these issues, with employees wasting an average of 5.3 hours per week waiting for data from colleagues, contributing to an estimated $1.8 trillion in lost productivity annually for U.S. businesses. Additionally, inconsistent and incomplete data sets from siloed departments lead to flawed decision-making and increased IT costs due to duplicated data platforms and processes. These factors result in value leakage and suboptimal outcomes, significantly hindering the overall effectiveness of an organization’s planning processes.
Addressing these difficulties front on, o9, a prominent corporate AI software platform supplier, has announced a substantial upgrade to its Digital Brain platform. o9 intends to revolutionise the way planners undertake complicated tasks by adding generative AI-powered Large Language Model (LLM) composite agents, resulting in continuous development in integrated business planning skills.
“Our Digital Brain’s EKG offers cross-functionality as it touches supply chain, finance, procurement, commercial, customers, and suppliers. It connects the knowledge of all these entities – and is constantly accumulating new knowledge as well,” said Anand Srinivasan, o9’s Chief Strategy Officer. “Now we are deploying composite agents that can do a lot more cross-functional analysis.”
