Agility isn't optional when frequent changes are the only certainty in global hyper-connected supply chains. Businesses that can adapt quickly to market shifts, customer demands, and unexpected disruptions don’t just survive—they thrive. Unfortunately, many companies are still tethered to legacy supply chain planning systems that are slow, inflexible, and out of step with the technologies of the modern world. These outdated systems often take years to implement, and by the time they’re fully live, the setting of parameters are already obsolete, leaving organizations vulnerable and typically unable to even react to events after they occur. Moreover, legacy systems require highly specialized and expensive consultants to implement, tune, and configure these complex outdated systems, adding significant costs and complexity while limiting an organization's ability to adapt and adjust to disruptions without outside help.

ketteQ’s Adaptive Supply Chain Planning solutions offer a way out of this legacy prison of outdated parameters and assumptions. Our AI-powered PolymatiQ™ solver is designed for rapid implementations, ensuring businesses don’t have to wait years to realize value. In fact, ketteQ customers start seeing meaningful benefits in a matter of months. Here's why speed matters in supply chain planning and how ketteQ delivers transformative results faster than legacy systems ever could.

Legacy Systems: Slow to Implement, Slow to Deliver Value

Legacy supply chain planning systems are infamous for their sluggish implementations. The process often takes anywhere from 12 to 36 months, during which time businesses must deal with lengthy data and planning validations, custom development, and endless data and parameter headaches. Worse yet, by the time these systems are fully operational and live, the market or business needs may have already shifted, rendering the system outdated or misaligned with the company’s current goals.

This slow pace also means businesses must wait years to see a return on their investment if ever. This kind of delay is costly for companies operating in fast-moving industries—both in terms of lost opportunities and the inability to anticipate market changes or disruptions in real-time. The slow time-to-value and high total cost of ownership (TCO) of legacy systems simply doesn’t work in today’s hyper-connected evolving landscape.

How ketteQ Delivers Value in Months

At ketteQ, we understand that speed is a critical factor in supply chain planning. That’s why we’ve built our solutions to implement in just 3 to 6 months—a fraction of the time required by traditional systems. By leveraging the power of our cloud-native and open architecture, built with AI –first and automated parameter tuning, our platform seamlessly integrates with existing enterprise systems while staying flexible, allowing businesses to bypass the long and complex seemingly never-ending projects that legacy systems often demand.

But the real power of ketteQ isn’t just in how quickly the system can be up and running—it’s how fast companies start seeing results. Our open architecture and cloud-based deployment, combined with a conversational UI, simplify implementation and user adoption, enabling teams to adapt quickly with minimal training. Powered by the patent pending PolymatiQ™ solver, ketteQ delivers adaptive planning capabilities, allowing businesses to run multi-pass solves, predictive analytics, ML/AI and real-time scenario planning almost immediately. From day one, companies are better equipped to make informed decisions, anticipate disruptions, and better plan their operations.

Furthermore, ketteQ is the only supply chain solution that can seamlessly work on a company’s existing Salesforce platform. This integration enhances collaboration across key functions such as sales, marketing, and finance, providing improved demand signals, aligned supply, and optimized promise date setting. The result? New revenue opportunities and increased profitability. By leveraging Salesforce, businesses can scale faster, reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through faster user adoption, and benefit from IT synergies. Additionally, customers gain access to thousands of complementary apps and ISVs within the Salesforce ecosystem, unlocking even greater value across multiple business functions

ketteQ Customers See Results Fast

Many of ketteQ’s customers have experienced firsthand how our rapid implementation and adaptive planning solutions deliver quick, measurable value.

For example, Trimble Transportation faced challenges in managing its supply chain's complexity and ensuring accurate demand forecasts. After implementing ketteQ, Trimble saw a 10% boost in productivity and significantly improved forecast accuracy in just a few months. This fast turnaround allowed Trimble to optimize its supply chain, reduce inefficiencies, and better serve its customers—well ahead of schedule.

Similarly, quip, the innovative oral care company, was struggling with supply chain agility as its business expanded rapidly. Quip’s previous system couldn’t keep up with fluctuating customer demand and production needs. Within months of transitioning to ketteQ, quip transformed its supply chain planning process, improving production scheduling and reducing costly inventory misalignments. The ability to adapt to changes in real time allowed quip to operate more efficiently and capitalize on new market opportunities.

Another success story comes from Carrier, a global leader in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. Carrier implemented ketteQ’s platform to improve its supply chain responsiveness. Within a short time, Carrier was able to reduce planning cycles and gain faster insights into its supply chain performance. This quick access to actionable data allowed the company to respond rapidly to fluctuations in demand and avoid potential supply chain disruptions.

These examples are just a glimpse of how ketteQ’s speed-to-value approach helps companies make smarter decisions faster. While legacy systems require months or even years to begin delivering value, ketteQ customers can take advantage of real-time planning, multi-scenario analysis, and AI-driven decision-making within weeks of implementation.

The Critical Importance of Speed in Supply Chain Planning

Speed is everything in an era where market volatility, global disruptions, and shifting customer demands are the norm. Here’s why it matters:

• ‍First-Mover Advantage: Businesses that know when and how to quickly adapt to market changes have the upper hand. Whether it's securing better supplier terms, adjusting production schedules, or capitalizing on new customer trends, ketteQ’s ensures that companies can understand the boundaries of what their supply chain can withstand better and more completely  than their competitors.

• Disruption Mitigation: The supply chain disruptions of recent years—whether caused by geopolitical tensions, labor shortages, or pandemics—have exposed the fragility of slow, rigid systems. ketteQ’s fast adoption gives companies the tools they need to prepare for and mitigate disruptions, ensuring that they stay operational when the unexpected occurs.  

• Optimized Inventory and Cash Flow: By gaining quick access to real-time data and advanced analytics, businesses can better optimize their inventory levels, reducing excess stock and freeing up cash flow. This is a game-changer for companies that try to rely on precise forecasting to maintain lean operations.

• Faster, Smarter Decision-Making: Legacy systems often rely on outdated data and static parameters, models and assumptions, which require manual adjustments and time-consuming adjustments. ketteQ’s patent pending PolymatiQ solver delivers insights in real-time, allowing companies to make proactive decisions based on the latest data, not disconnected silos of data.

Why Waiting Isn’t an Option

With the increasingly critical role of adaptive supply chain planning to business success, waiting years for results is not and really never has been a viable strategy. Businesses need solutions that can automatically adjust to market conditions and deliver value quickly. ketteQ offers precisely that—an adaptive, proactive, and efficient supply chain planning solution that is implemented in months to deliver fast-time-to value—meaningful value at a low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Our customers, from Trimble to quip to Carrier, have already seen the benefits of speed firsthand. Whether it’s increasing productivity, improving forecast accuracy, or gaining the agility to respond to disruptions, these companies have leveraged ketteQ’s capabilities to enhance their operations in record time.

In today’s volatile business world of hyper-connected supply chains, where every second counts, speed is a critical differentiator. With ketteQ, businesses don’t have to wait years to see the impact—they can start realizing value in months, not years. And in a market where agility is the key to success, that’s an advantage no business can afford to ignore.

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