Frequently Asked Questions

Adaptive supply chain planning is a modern approach to supply chain management that emphasizes flexibility, real-time responsiveness, and tuning in the face of uncertainty and volatility. Unlike traditional planning models that rely on static outdated assumptions and static parameters, adaptive supply chain planning dynamically adjusts to changing conditions, using real-time data and advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to make quick, data-driven decisions.

Here are some key elements that define adaptive supply chain planning:

• Real-Time Data Integration: Legacy systems often suffer from delays in data processing and analysis, resulting in out-of-date insights. Adaptive systems, on the other hand, integrate real-time data across various touchpoints in the supply chain. This ensures that decisions are based on the most current information, allowing businesses to quickly and accurately know when and how to best make adjustments, which are often ahead of the actual disruptive events. The scalability and integration capabilities offered by cloud-native architectures make real-time data integration seamless and far more effective.
  

• Scenario Planning: Adaptive supply chain planning accounts for multiple possible scenarios, allowing businesses to prepare for a range of outcomes. By simulating different disruptions (e.g., supplier delays, demand spikes, transportation issues), organizations can build contingency plans and pivot when unexpected events occur.
• Continuous Learning and Tuning:  Adaptive planning systems leverage AI and machine learning to continuously learn from new data and optimize future forecaststune system parameters and associated results. These systems adjust and evolve over time, becoming more accurate with every pass and providing planners with real-time, actionable insights. Cloud-native architectures are critical to enabling continuous learning, allowing systems to scale dynamically and evolve over timeupdate in real-time. Unlike static modelslegacy systems, which degrade over timeas time passes from when the parameters were set during implementation, adaptive systems improve with use, providing ongoing value.
• Proactive Decision-Making: Instead of reacting to disruptions or changes, adaptive planning enables businesses to anticipate issues before they occur. Whether it’s rerouting shipments due to a potential bottleneck or adjusting production schedules based on changing demand, the goal is to stay ahead of challenges.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Adaptive planning isn’t just about technology; it’s also about fostering collaboration across different business functions. By breaking down silos and allowing teams from supply chain, sales, finance, and operations to work from a unified platform, adaptive planning improves communication and ensures that all parts of the business are aligned.

Some of the many benefits of Adaptive Supply Chain Planning include:

• Increased Agility: Businesses can quickly respond to supply chain disruptions, reducing the impact on operations and customer service.
• Enhanced Resilience: Adaptive planning helps businesses build more resilient supply chains by identifying risks early and preparing for various potential outcomes.
• Improved Efficiency: By continuously optimizing operations, businesses can reduce waste, lower costs, and ensure more efficient use of resources.
• Higher Customer Satisfaction: Meeting customer demand more reliably, even in the face of disruptions, leads to better service levels and increased loyalty.

ketteQ’s Adaptive Supply Chain Planning solutions, powered by PolymatiQ™, take this concept even further by enabling businesses to benefit from the insights gained from automatically running and analyzing thousands of simulations and outcomes to know when and how to adjust before actual disruptive events occur. This ensures their supply chains are resilient, proactive, and prepared for any challenge.

The stark contrast between legacy supply chain supply chain planning systems and ketteQ’s cutting-edge, PolymatiQ™ powered Adaptive Planning solution couldn't be clearer. Traditional planning systems, bogged down by static parameters, outdated assumptions, and custom coding, simply can’t keep pace with today’s dynamic market demands. Businesses that rely on these legacy systems are often caught flat-footed by disruptions, struggling to adapt and losing valuable time and resources. In contrast, ketteQ’s Adaptive Planning brings real-time flexibility, intelligent scenario analysis, and proactive decision-making that keeps your business agile and ahead of the curve.

• Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Traditional supply chain planning, running on proprietary systems and databases, is often rigid and out of alignment with business demands even at the time of going live. They rely on fixed static parameters and predefined scenarios that are difficult to adjust without expensive specialized dedicated resources. In contrast, ketteQ’s Adaptive Planning is built to be flexible, automatically adjusting parameters to better respond to real-time data and shifting market conditions.
  

• Probabilistic vs. Deterministic: While traditional planning often produces a single, fixed plan, ketteQ’s Adaptive Planning automatically evaluates multiple scenarios simultaneously. By analyzing a range of potential outcomes, ketteQ enhances decision-making under uncertainty, enabling supply chain leaders to make more informed choices understanding the boundaries of what their supply chain can withstand.
  

• Proactive vs. Reactive: Legacy systems are often reactive, waiting for disruptions to occur before attempting to manually adjust course. ketteQ, on the other hand, anticipates issues before they arise. By forecasting and seeking out potential weak points, the system enables proactive interventions that can prevent disruptions altogether.
  

• Continuous Learning vs. Static Settings: Traditional systems rely on manual updates, often becoming outdated as conditions change or even at the time of going live in many cases. ketteQ’s Adaptive Planning learns continuously, improving its predictions and recommendations over time. This ensures that organizations are always working with the most current and relevant information.
  

• Rapid Coordination vs. Isolated Planning: Traditional planning systems tend to operate in silos, with data locked in proprietary databases requiring a project to get access to the data. ketteQ’s open architecture fosters rapid coordination between departments leveraging an open SQL database. By more efficiently integrating data from multiple sources, ketteQ enables swift decision-making and seamless risk mitigation. The inclusion of a natural language AI user interface with context and collaboration further enhances collaboration by making it easier for team members to interact with the system.

ketteQ is not just a better supply chain planning solution; it is truly the next era of planning—a fundamentally different way of working built on an open architecture, powered by the world’s most advanced supply chain solver and using the full power of the cloud to deliver game-changing value:

• Most Confident Decisions: With ketteQ, harness the power of AI, machine learning, and the patent-pending PolymatiQ™ solver to anticipate future trends and make the most confident, proactive decisions. Unlike traditional planning models that rely on static parameters and outdated assumptions often made at the time of implementation, ketteQ’s adaptive planning evolves, using generative AI and predictive analytics to project multiple outcomes seeking out disruption before it occurs.
  

• Fortified Agility: ketteQ’s adaptive planning, powered by the PolymatiQ™ solver, enables swift navigation through disruptions, bolstering supply chain resilience. PolymatiQ delivers deep insights into fluctuations, ensuring stability even in volatile environments. With automatic tuning, learning, and dynamic plan evolution, ketteQ keeps your business ahead of the curve, building a supply chain that is resilient to disruptions and consistently generates ongoing value as business conditions evolve.
  

• Seamless Collaboration: Efficient and seamless collaboration across departments and with external partners ensures a unified and synchronized approach to supply chain planning.  This alignment reduces delays in decision making and minimizes inefficiencies, leading to more streamlined and effective operations.
  

• Simplified Solution Interaction: ketteQ’s conversational interface, similar to ChatGPT, transforms how you engage with your planning solution by enabling natural, everyday language communication. No need for complex queries or technical expertise—simply ask questions, run scenarios, or access data as if you’re collaborating with a colleague. Acting as a trusted advisor, our intuitive interface delivers instant, actionable insights, empowering you to explore countless scenarios and choose the best strategy for minimizing risks and maximizing opportunities with ease.

• Low TCO and Fast Time-to-Value: Our cloud-native design and open architecture not only reduce implementation costs and simplify integration but also lower maintenance costs, resulting in a significantly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and the fastest time to value. ketteQ solutions are designed with a cloud-native and open architecture, combining the best of both worlds for unparalleled performance and flexibility. Built from the ground up to leverage the full power of the cloud, ketteQ’s platform ensures unmatched scalability and accessibility, effortlessly growing with your business while minimizing infrastructure costs. Its open architecture eliminates the limitations of proprietary tools, technologies and databases, enabling seamless integration with existing technology investments and reducing implementation time. This cloud-native approach facilitates real-time data sharing and collaboration from anywhere, ensuring synchronized and efficient operations both within the enterprise and with external partners. The PolymatiQ™ engine accelerates this by automatically setting and tuning parameters, eliminating the need for complex, manual configuration decisions typically required by legacy planning solutions.

ketteQ accelerates system implementations compared to legacy planning systems by leveraging several key factors:

• Cloud-Native Platform: ketteQ runs on Salesforce, a highly customizable cloud-native platform. This allows for faster deployment without the need for extensive infrastructure. In contrast, legacy systems often involve lengthy installation, integration, configuration customization and manual tuning.
• Modular and Scalable Design: ketteQ's modular architecture makes it easier to integrate with existing systems. It is designed for scalability, so businesses can start small and gradually add functionalities, avoiding the complex, all-at-once integrations typical of legacy implementations.
• Flexible Data Integration: ketteQ offers seamless integration with various data sources. Its built-in connectors and APIs streamline data mapping and synchronization, cutting down the time spent on complex data integration processes commonly associated with traditional systems.
• Adaptive Planning: The PolymatiQ™ solver enables adaptive planning by using AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to proactively adjust to different market conditions. This flexibility reduces the need for extensive system customizations, which often add months to legacy system implementations and maintenance.
• Collaborative Configuration: ketteQ provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface that facilitates collaboration between IT and business teams. This reduces miscommunication and accelerates the configuration process, unlike the often rigid and technically complex interfaces of legacy systems.

These combined elements enable ketteQ to complete system implementations in significantly shorter timeframes, ensuring businesses can adapt and benefit from new planning capabilities quickly even in the face of evolving business needs.

A growing list of enterprise companies and leading mid-market companies from diverse industries around the world are making the switch to ketteQ:

• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
• Food and beverage
• High Tech
• Consumer Electronics
• Industrial Equipment
• Semiconductor
• Life Sciences
• Pharmaceuticals

ketteQ isn’t just another supply chain planning solution; it’s a fundamentally different and truly a game-changer. Built on an open, cloud-native architecture, ketteQ redefines the field by fully integrating AI, machine learning, and state-of-the-art solvers to model and plan a supply chain in a way that is not only efficient and precise but also adaptive and resilient.

At the core of our innovation is the PolymatiQ™ solver—a cutting-edge engine embedded with AI/ML and powerful self-tuning capabilities. PolymatiQ generates actionable insights, setting a new industry standard and empowering your business to meet any supply chain challenge.

• Most Resilience from a Planning Solution: Our adaptive solution ensures your supply chain is ready to meet the challenges of today, tomorrow and the future. We empower businesses to efficiently navigate disruptions making your supply chain truly resilient to disruptions. With ketteQ’s PolymatiQ™, the supply chain and organization become less sensitive to fluctuations, ensuring more stable outcomes even in volatile environments. Automatic tuning, learning, and adapting consistently generate ongoing value as business conditions evolve without the need for daily firefighting.

• Trusted Partner for All Size Businesses: ketteQ is the trusted partner for businesses of all sizes, from mid-market companies to industry giants, seeking a reliable and scalable supply chain planning solution. Wherever you are on your supply chain transformation journey, ketteQ is designed to meet your unique needs, accelerating your progress toward a more resilient, adaptable, and ultimately autonomous supply chain. With ketteQ, you're not just adopting a solution—you're embracing a future of enhanced planning performance and sustainable growth.

• Unmatched Flexibility: The only supply chain planning solution with a truly open architecture eliminates the limitations of proprietary planning tools, technologies, and databases and delivers seamless integration with a client’s existing technology investments, reducing both implementation time and costs to deliver with a lower cost of ownership (TCO), offering unparalleled adaptability and ease of integration. With ketteQ, the data is harmonized and cleaned before entering the system, eliminating the need for cumbersome in-application data cleansing, coding, and processing. The open architecture future-proofs your investment by allowing for easy integration of new technologies and processes.

• Only Solution for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Service: ketteQ was designed and built from the beginning to address the unique requirements of the different types of supply chain operations. As a single open platform, ketteQ delivers value by leveraging the many areas of synergy across customers, suppliers, and the organization. At the same time, our solutions address the fact that there are very different business strategies, KPI goals, demand patterns, inventory plans, and replenishment options to manage.
  

• Salesforce Cloud Deployment: ketteQ is the only supply chain solution that can seamlessly work on a company’s existing Salesforce platform, enhancing collaboration across key functions such as sales, marketing, and finance. By improving demand signals, aligning supply, and calculating promise dates, companies can unlock new revenue opportunities and boost profitability. The platform also drives scalability, speed, and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) through faster user adoption and enhanced IT synergies. Additionally, with Salesforce, customers gain access to thousands of complementary apps and ISVs, further expanding value across multiple business functions.
  

• Unrivalled Performance: PolymatiQ automatically runs thousands of simulations testing and learning in the time it takes others to run just one. It doesn't deliver just a single perceived optimal solution based on outdated parameters and assumptions. Instead, PolymatiQ provides a range of potential outcomes, enhancing decision-making under uncertain conditions. Consequently, PolymatiQ is able to adapt to changing external conditions.  Say goodbye to expensive manual scenario planning and parameter tuning with specialized expensive resources and hello to autonomous.

At ketteQ, we empower you to plan every possibility with the most advanced, user-friendly supply chain planning solution on the market: Adaptive Supply Chain Planning. At the heart of our solution is the patent-pending PolymatiQ™ solver—a powerhouse of AI and machine learning that drives automatic scenario tuning and predictive analytics. This smart decision engine keeps your supply chain razor-sharp, enabling you to adapt automatically to any disruptions.

We harness the power of cloud-native technology and an open architecture to deliver unparalleled scalability, flexibility, and real-time data integration. Our solution unifies planning for supply, demand, and inventory into a single, cohesive solution designed for manufacturing, distribution, and service. As the only supply chain solution built on Salesforce, ketteQ uniquely bridges the gap between sales and operations planning, driving efficiency like never before.

But we don't stop at technology. Our intuitive UI framework is architected to empower users, enabling teams to create rapid, collaborative workflows that streamline decision-making and fuel innovation. This fusion of leading-edge technology and a relentless focus on the customer is what sets ketteQ apart, making supply chain planning not just more accessible to organizations of all sizes but more powerful and more aligned with the fast pace of today's business landscape.

ketteQ enhances forecasting and demand planning by leveraging its PolymatiQ™ solver, which combines AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics. It processes real-time data from multiple sources to generate more accurate demand forecasts, continuously adjusting its models as new data becomes available.

Unlike traditional systems that rely on static forecasts, ketteQ allows businesses to run thousands of “what-if” scenarios, exploring various market conditions, customer demand shifts, and supply chain disruptions. This flexibility helps companies respond proactively rather than reactively, reducing the risks of stockouts or excess inventory.

By integrating data from sales, marketing, operations, and finance, ketteQ enables cross-functional collaboration, ensuring that forecasts are aligned with business goals. The result is improved accuracy, better demand alignment, and optimized inventory management, all of which help businesses achieve higher service levels, reduce costs, and enhance overall supply chain efficiency.

ketteQ offers a plethora of features designed to deliver differentiating value to its customers:

• Adaptive Tuning for Customer-Centric Planning
  With PolymatiQ™, as data updates or supply chain conditions change, the solution intelligently analyzes parameters and autonomously adapts. This ensures that your supply chain remains agile and resilient when faced with varying customer needs or supply disruptions without the need for manual intervention or guesswork.
  

• Automatic Scenario Tuning
  Leverage the power of PolymatiQ™ to benefit from automatically running and testing thousands of dynamic scenarios rapidly. This feature provides you with a broad spectrum of potential outcomes, allowing for resilient and informed planning decisions. By considering multiple possibilities, you can better prepare for disruptions and ensure that your customer's expectations are consistently met.
  

• AI and ML-Based Predictive Analysis
  PolymatiQ™’s AI and ML capabilities analyze vast amounts of data to identify patterns and predict future trends. This allows you to move from reactive to proactive planning, ensuring that your strategies are always aligned with market and customer demands. The conversational interface powered by Generative AI further enhances this by allowing users to interact with the solution as if they were speaking to a colleague, making complex data more accessible and actionable.
  

• Effective Collaboration for Enhanced Customer Satisfaction
  ‍Facilitates seamless communication and alignment across all departments and the broader supply chain. By providing precise, real-time data, your teams can make informed decisions quickly, ensuring that your supply chain remains adaptive and customer-focused.
  

• Conversational Interface for Instant Insights
  ‍Without an intuitive, user-friendly interface, interacting with your supply chain data becomes effortless. Whether you need a quick overview of last month’s performance or an in-depth analysis of supplier risks, simply type your query, and you will receive instant, actionable insights. This feature enhances your strategic agility, ensuring that your business is always one step ahead in meeting customer expectations.
  

• Real-Time Data Integration
  Seamlessly integrate real-time data from various sources, including economic indicators, customer behavior, priorities, capacity, inventory, and supplier status. PolymatiQ™ ensures that your supply chain decisions are always based on the most current and relevant data, empowering your business to stay ahead of market shifts and customer demands

Yes, ketteQ helps you plan for disruptions by using its patent-pending PolymatiQ™ solver that automatically runs and tests thousands of real-time scenarios in parallel for you. This allows you to understand the boundaries of what your supply chain can withstand against various “what-if” situations, such as supply chain interruptions, demand shifts, or market changes, and proactively adjust your plans. With predictive analytics and continuous learning, ketteQ forecasts potential disruptions before they occur, giving you an understanding of when and how to adjust. Its adaptive planning reduces the impact of disruptions and ensures business continuity. This helps you stay agile and resilient, even in unpredictable circumstances.

The key benefits of using ketteQ’s AI-powered PolymatiQ™ solver include:

• Real-Time Decision Making: PolymatiQ™ processes real-time data, allowing for timely updates and a more complete understanding of your supply chain relative to changing conditions.
• Predictive Analytics: It leverages AI and machine learning to plan relative to projected future needs, trends, disruptions, and opportunities, enabling proactive decision-making.
• Adaptive Scenario Planning: PolymatiQ™ automatically runs and tests thousands of “what-if” simulations, helping businesses understand how and when their supply chain will respond to multiple outcomes and make more informed decisions ahead of when a disruption actually occurs.
• Continuous Learning: The solver automatically adjusts its models and parameters based on new data inputs, ensuring accurate and up-to-date planning.
• Holistic Data Integration: It integrates out-of-the-box economic indicators alongside internal data, providing a comprehensive view of the supply chain.
• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: By synchronizing data from sales, operations, and finance, PolymatiQ ensures that decisions are aligned across the organization.
  

These features enable businesses to enhance agility, minimize risks, and optimize overall operational efficiency.

ketteQ handles real-time data and decision-making by seamlessly integrating live data from across the organization—such as sales, operations, and finance—while also incorporating out-of-the-box economic indicators like inflation rates, GDP trends, new housing starts and market conditions. These external insights are automatically factored into the PolymatiQ™ solver’s scenario analyses, ensuring businesses make more holistic, informed decisions.

Using AI and machine learning, ketteQ processes both internal and external data to update forecasts, inventory levels, and demand plans when required. This enables timely, data-driven decision-making, allowing businesses to run real-time simulations and adjust plans how and when required.

By accounting for both operational data and broader economic factors, ketteQ empowers businesses to understand how and when to adapt to disruptions, market changes, and economic shifts, ensuring decisions are always based on the most current and accurate information.

PolymatiQ™ is ketteQ’s patent-pending advanced supply chain planning solver, designed to revolutionize supply chain planning with automatic scenario analysis, adaptive tuning, and predictive analytics. Unlike legacy systems that rely on static settings and outdated assumptions, PolymatiQ™ tests and learns, adjusting supply chain planning parameters automatically based on new data inputs. This ensures businesses can adapt quickly to changing market conditions, supply chain disruptions, or fluctuating demand.

PolymatiQ™ automatically runs and tests thousands of simulations, enabling businesses to understand how their supply chain will respond against a backdrop of multiple “what-if” scenarios and make proactive, data-driven decisions. Its AI-powered predictive analytics go beyond reacting to disruptions, forecasting potential challenges, and opportunities before they occur. This capability gives companies a critical edge in minimizing risks and capitalizing on emerging trends.

Key features include high-speed processing for rapid scenario testing and analysis, seamless cross-departmental collaboration, and learning from historical and real-time data. PolymatiQ™ enhances a business's understanding of the boundaries of what their supply can withstand, boosts agility, and helps businesses performance by reducing nervousness, firefighting inefficiencies and improving overall supply chain resilience.

By leveraging advanced machine learning and AI, PolymatiQ™ enables companies to shift from manual, reactive planning to automated, adaptive proactive planning—empowering them to stay ahead in today’s fast-changing business landscape.

ketteQ’s revolutionary PolymatiQ™ delivers immense value by transforming traditional supply chain planning into a proactive, adaptive process. Its ability to automatically run and test thousands of simulations in parallel helps businesses explore multiple “what-if” scenarios, giving them a clearer view of potential outcomes and enabling more informed, confident decision-making. This reduces risk and helps companies stay agile, particularly in the face of market volatility or supply chain disruptions.

PolymatiQ's™ testing and learning capability ensures that planning parameters are always up-to-date, automatically adjusting how and when is required. This enhances the understanding of the boundaries of the supply chain, allowing companies to better plan through disruptive events and reduce excess inventory, stockouts, and operational costs from reactive daily firefighting. Its predictive analytics empower businesses to anticipate challenges and opportunities by seeking out disruptions and weak spots in the supply chain, providing a significant advantage by enabling action before disruptions occur.

Additionally, PolymatiQ™ promotes collaboration across departments by integrating real-time data from sales, operations, and finance. This ensures that every decision is aligned with business objectives, enhancing overall performance.

In essence, PolymatiQ™ delivers value through increased flexibility, improved adaptability, and business performance. By enabling timely, more accurate decision-making, it empowers businesses to know how and when to adapt to certain event conditions, ensuring long-term resilience and operational efficiency in an increasingly dynamic market.

Yes, ketteQ can integrate seamlessly with your existing ERP systems. Its flexible architecture is designed to easily connect with various data sources, including ERP systems, CRMs, and other enterprise platforms. ketteQ leverages API connections and ETL data integration capabilities to ensure that both batch and real-time information flow bi-directionally between your ERP and ketteQ’s adaptive supply chain planning solution. This integration allows for more accurate, up-to-date insights and enhances decision-making across your supply chain operations. Plus, the implementation process is designed to be efficient, typically taking only 3-6 months, ensuring a faster time to value compared to traditional systems. ketteQ offers out-of-the-box templates for integrations with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle EBS, Netsuite, JDE, Microsoft D365, Microsoft NAV, Microsoft AX, and Microsoft GP.

PolymatiQ™ differs from traditional supply chain solvers in its adaptive, real-time capabilities. Traditional systems rely on static parameters with outdated assumptions often made at the time of an implementation, making them next to impossible to efficiently respond to changing market conditions and disruptive events. PolymatiQ™, on the other hand, tests and learns from new data and automatically adjusts its models and parameters, ensuring that planning remains accurate and up-to-date.

While legacy solvers often perform limited manual scenario analysis, PolymatiQ™ automatically runs and evaluates thousands of simulations in parallel, allowing businesses to understand and benefit from multiple “what-if” scenarios and make proactive decisions. This flexibility helps companies mitigate risks and adapt quickly to shifts in demand or supply chain disruptions.

PolymatiQ also leverages AI and machine learning to deliver predictive insights, forecasting potential challenges and opportunities before they occur. In contrast, traditional solvers are primarily reactive, providing solutions only after issues arise. Moreover, PolymatiQ integrates seamlessly with real-time data from across departments, promoting collaboration and alignment. Legacy systems typically operate in silos, leading to fragmented decision-making and delayed responses.

PolymatiQ offers real-time adaptability, predictive analytics, and cross-functional collaboration, making it a far more flexible, responsive, and forward-thinking solution compared to traditional supply chain solvers.

The name PolymatiQ /paa.lee.madik/ noun comes from a blend of Greek and Latin linguistic roots, reflecting the solver's capabilities.

• Poly: Derived from the Greek word "polys," meaning "many" or "much." PolymatiQ™ runs thousands of tests, evaluating multiple outcomes, which allows for comprehensive analysis and decision-making.
• Matic: This comes from the Greek suffix "-matikos," meaning "willing" or "able to." In modern usage, "-matic" often suggests something that operates automatically. PolymatiQ™ automatically conducts scenario analysis, adaptive tuning, and predictive analytics, enabling proactive supply chain adjustments.
• Solver: From the Latin word "solvere," meaning "to loosen" or "to solve." In this context, it refers to advanced algorithms designed to solve complex supply chain problems, leveraging AI and machine learning to predict outcomes and explore every possibility.
  

Together, PolymatiQ™ encapsulates the solver's power to automatically handle complex supply chain scenarios, providing dynamic, intelligent planning.

Probabilistic modeling is about planning with flexibility by evaluating a range of possible outcomes rather than anchoring on a single, often inaccurate prediction. Instead of assuming demand or lead times will follow a predictable pattern, probabilistic models leverage data to estimate multiple potential outcomes—helping you understand the best and worst-case scenarios. Think of it like planning a road trip. You could take the shortest route and hope for smooth sailing, but a probabilistic approach would factor in possible traffic jams, detours, and weather conditions. This way, you have multiple route options, ensuring you reach your destination even if the unexpected happens.

In supply chain terms, probabilistic modeling works the same way. Instead of saying, “We will definitely need 1,000 units next month,” it might suggest, “There’s a 60% chance we’ll need between 900 and 1,100 units, but we should also prepare for a more extreme possibility.” This methodology helps supply chain teams avoid being caught off guard by demand fluctuations, transportation delays, or supply shortages, ensuring they're ready for any potential outcome—whether it’s business as usual or significant disruption.

With ketteQ’s PolymatiQ™, you’re not just reacting and firefighting—you’re anticipating and adapting. PolymatiQ™ dynamically evaluates thousands of possible scenarios in parallel, automatically identifying the most optimal and stable plans. It helps companies stay ahead by ensuring they are not only prepared for the average scenario but also prepared for unexpected extremes.

ketteQ prioritizes data security by implementing comprehensive encryption measures for both data in transit and at rest, while also ensuring data isolation through a multi-tenant architecture. For data in motion, our solutions utilizes HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or higher, ensuring secure communication channels between clients and servers. This protocol provides strong encryption, authentication, and integrity protection for all data transmitted over the network. For data at rest, ketteQ employs AES-256 encryption, widely recognized as one of the most secure encryption standards available. This military-grade encryption algorithm safeguards stored data from unauthorized access, even in the unlikely event of a breach.

Additionally, ketteQ implements a multi-tenant data storage system, where each customers data is stored in a separate, isolated tenant. This approach ensures data segregation, prevents unauthorized access between customers , enhances security by limiting the potential impact of any single breach, and allows for customized security policies and compliance measures per tenant. To further validate its security measures, ketteQ undergoes regular penetration testing by independent third-party experts, identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities proactively. Moreover, ketteQ has achieved SOC 2 Type II certification, demonstrating its compliance with rigorous industry standards for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. By leveraging these industry-standard encryption technologies, a secure multi-tenant architecture, and adhering to strict security practices and certifications, ketteQ demonstrates its unwavering commitment to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and isolation of sensitive information throughout its lifecycle within the system.

Our SaaS subscription model offers comprehensive pricing that includes all necessary software licenses, regular updates, ongoing maintenance, and dedicated customer support. The subscription fee covers cloud hosting, data storage, and security measures, ensuring a hassle-free experience with predictable costs. For seamless adoption, we offer professional services for implementation, integration, and configuration, which are priced separately based on your specific needs and project scope. Training and additional consulting services are also available to maximize your return on investment. We provide flexible pricing tiers to accommodate businesses of various sizes and complexities, with the option to scale as your needs grow.

ketteQ offers a range of professional services to ensure successful implementation, integration, and use of our solutions. These services are priced separately from our SaaS subscriptions, allowing for a customized approach tailored to each client's specific needs and project scope. Our professional services pricing model is based on the following principles:

• Time and Materials Basis: We price our services according to the time invested and resources utilized, ensuring transparency and fairness in billing.
• Skill-Based Pricing: Rates are determined by the expertise level required for each task, matching the appropriate skill set to the work requirements. This may include junior consultants, senior consultants, solution architects, and specialized experts.
• Project Scoping: Before commencing work, we conduct a thorough assessment to define the project scope, estimated timeline, and required resources. This helps in providing accurate cost estimates and avoiding unexpected expenses.
• Flexible Engagement Models: We offer various engagement options, including: some text
  • Full-time on-site consultation
  • Remote support
  • Hybrid models combining on-site and remote work
  • Fixed-price packages for well-defined, standard implementations
• Phased Approach: For larger projects, we often recommend a phased implementation approach, allowing for better budget management and iterative improvements.
• Knowledge Transfer: Our pricing includes comprehensive knowledge transfer sessions, ensuring your team can effectively manage and utilize the system post-implementation.
• Post-Implementation Hypercare Support: We offer additional support packages for after the initial implementation, including system health checks, optimization services, and ongoing training.
• Custom Solution Development: For clients requiring unique features or integrations, we provide custom development services priced based on the complexity and scope of the work.
• Travel and Expenses: Any required travel expenses are typically billed separately, in accordance with our travel policy and your company's guidelines.
• Transparent Billing: We provide detailed invoices that clearly break down the services provided, hours worked, and resources utilized.

Our goal is to provide value-driven professional services that ensure the successful adoption and utilization of ketteQ's solutions while maintaining cost-effectiveness and alignment with your business objectives. We work closely with each client to develop a service plan that fits their budget, timeline, and specific requirements.

ketteQ offers flexible subscription options to suit various business needs and budgets. Our primary model is based on annual subscriptions, providing customers with continuous access to our full suite of supply chain planning modules. While we offer the flexibility of year-to-year commitments, the majority of our customers opt for three-year subscription agreements. This longer-term commitment comes with significant advantages:

• Substantial cost savings: Multi-year subscriptions are offered at discounted rates compared to annual renewals.
• Price protection: Locking in a three-year term shields customers from potential price increases.
• Strategic planning: Longer subscriptions align with medium-term business planning cycles, facilitating better resource allocation and ROI projections.
• We offer scaling provisions within multi-year contracts to accommodate business growth.

All subscriptions include regular software updates, maintenance, and our standard support package. We're committed to working with each customer to find the subscription model that best fits their unique requirements and maximizes their investment in ketteQ's solutions.

ketteQ was founded by a team of seasoned supply chain professionals—Mike Landry, Karim Barkawi, Christopher Amet, and Andrey Kornienko—who had extensive experience designing, configuring, and implementing traditional legacy supply chain systems. Through their hands-on work, they gained firsthand knowledge of the significant limitations and risks posed by these systems, including their rigidity, need for custom coding, reliance on outdated assumptions, and static parameters and inability to adapt to changing business needs.  This deep understanding led to a crucial insight: supply chain planning demanded a more agile and responsive approach, one where the system could automatically adapt to changing conditions rather than becoming obsolete shortly after or even during implementation. This realization drove them to create ketteQ, a platform focused on leveraging AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to deliver adaptive, real-time supply chain solutions that address the challenges legacy systems could not solve.

Since its founding, the ketteQ team has expanded into a global network of seasoned professionals with deep expertise in legacy supply chain planning systems. These experts bring decades of experience across various industries, sharing the original founders’ passion for transforming supply chain planning into a more adaptive and responsive process. United by this vision, the expanded team continues to challenge conventional thinking to push the boundaries of what’s possible, working to create the next generation of AI-powered, real-time solutions that address the complexities and challenges legacy systems were never built to handle.

Imagine having the ability to explore thousands of potential futures for your business—how would that change the decisions you make today?

This question drove us to create a groundbreaking new supply chain planning solution: Adaptive Supply Chain Planning. Our open, self-tuning, and highly adaptive solution, powered by the revolutionary PolymatiQ™ solver, enables you to plan every possibility by automatically running thousands of scenarios simultaneously, harnessing the full power of the cloud. PolymatiQ™ doesn't just deliver a single answer based on outdated parameters and assumptions; it generates planning results from a set of solutions designed to be more resilient to disruptions, ensuring you’re prepared for every possibility.

The ketteQ team has the unique experience of spending decades developing, implementing and maintaining legacy supply chain planning solutions and seeing their limitations and deficiencies firsthand. This deep understanding enabled our team to develop something fundamentally different—a more adaptive, efficient, precise, and resilient planning solution.  

No matter where you are in your supply chain transformation, ketteQ is ready to propel you forward. We help you plan every possibility and build a supply chain that is not only adaptive and resilient but also on the path to your specific journey toward supply chain autonomy.

We address the key planning requirements for all operating models, manufacturing, distribution and service in one solution built on an open architecture.  ketteQ is efficient, fast, and precise.

• Vision: Make the world's supply chain better for all.
• Mission: To deliver adaptive and autonomous supply chain planning technology that has a uniquely positive and lasting impact on our customer's supply chain performance, as well as the lives of everyone involved.

At ketteQ, our company values aren’t just words on a website or lines in a handbook—they are the bedrock of our culture and the guiding principles for everything we do. We don’t just talk the talk; we live our values every day, ensuring they shape every decision and action we take:‍

• Innovation: We look beyond the status quo with a thirst for new and creative ways of doing things.‍
• Humility: We consider others more important than ourselves, valuing the needs and differences of each person and business we serve.‍
• Customer-centric: Delivering value and success to our customers is the passion of our team, the lifeblood of our company, and our hard work.‍
• Integrity: We honor our word and commitment to our customers, partners, vendors and people, even when no one is watching.‍
• Fun: We create an encouraging environment, enjoying the journey with our teammates as well as with whom we work and serve.

A rapidly growing list of companies across diverse industries, from mid-market organizations to industry giants, are making the strategic decision to select ketteQ over legacy supply chain planning systems for several key reasons:
This combination of real-time adaptability, advanced AI-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration gives ketteQ a distinct advantage over outdated legacy systems.

• Flexibility and Adaptability: Unlike legacy systems that are rigid and slow to adapt, ketteQ’s solutions are designed to be highly flexible, enabling businesses to respond dynamically to real-time changes in market conditions.
• PolymatiQ™ Solver: At the heart of ketteQ’s system is the PolymatiQ™ solver, which leverages AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to continuously evolve and proactively address potential challenges before they disrupt operations.
• End-to-End Visibility: ketteQ integrates real-time data across departments, providing businesses with complete visibility into their supply chain operations and improving collaboration across teams.
• Scalability: ketteQ is built to scale with businesses, from small enterprises to global corporations, adapting to growth without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or system overhauls.
• Proactive Scenario Planning: With automatic scenario tuning, ketteQ explores multiple outcomes, empowering companies to make more informed, resilient decisions instead of reacting to outdated data or assumptions.
• Seamless Integration: Running on Salesforce, ketteQ seamlessly integrates with existing CRM and enterprise systems, allowing businesses to leverage familiar platforms while improving supply chain operations.

This combination of real-time adaptability, advanced AI-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration gives ketteQ a distinct advantage over outdated legacy systems.

Forward-leading companies across diverse industries are choosing ketteQ over legacy planning solutions because they are tired of the risks and inefficiencies that come with these rigid, inefficient and outdated systems. These companies range from mid-market leaders like quip, MobilityWorks, and Cosmetica to global giants such as Coca-Cola, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and NCR. They value ketteQ’s ability to provide flexibility, adaptability, and proactive scenario planning, which help them stay ahead in an increasingly dynamic and fast-changing business environment.