Planning in a Box: Your Enterprise AI Accelerator

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In today’s fast-paced business landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a luxury but a necessity. To stay competitive, organizations must leverage AI to optimize operations, improve decision-making, and drive innovation. Planning in a Box, is a powerful AI platform that empowers businesses to do just that.

AI platforms provide the essential infrastructure and tools for building and implementing AI applications. To ensure these applications are reliable and effective, a strong data foundation is crucial. This foundation consists of high-quality, well-organized data that can be used to train and improve AI models.

To build a robust data foundation, organizations must address challenges such as complex integrations, disorganized data, and poor insights. This often involves migrating data to the cloud and creating a unified data repository.

AI agents, designed to automate specific tasks or processes, rely on this data foundation for their insights and recommendations. By leveraging the capabilities of AI platforms and the well-structured data, these agents can help human teams work more efficiently and make better decisions, ultimately driving business value.

The Enterprise AI Dilemma: Buy vs. Build for Platforms

When it comes to implementing AI solutions, enterprises often face a crucial decision: buy or build? Buying pre-built solutions offers speed and convenience but can limit customization and continuous enhancements and adaptation that is critical for AI systems. Building from scratch provides complete control but requires significant time, resources, and expertise.

Planning in a Box offers the best of both worlds. It acts as an accelerator for your enterprise AI journey, providing pre-built solutions while allowing for customization and flexibility. This approach helps businesses avoid the pitfalls of both buying and building, enabling them to quickly realize the benefits of AI.

Understanding Planning in a Box AI Platform

At its core, Planning in a Box consists of three key components:

1. Information Ingestion Framework (IIF): This component enables seamless data ingestion from various sources, including internal data (structured time series data, legacy ERP data, text, video, images, audio) and external data (Google Trends, News, and 250+ other data sources).
2. Master Ledger: This central data model acts as the brain of your enterprise AI, storing, processing, and transforming raw data into valuable insights.
3. Insights & Actions Recommender (IAR): This component leverages generative AI, including conversational AI agents like Pi Agent, to deliver actionable insights and recommendations in real-time.

Together, these components mirror human intelligence, gathering information, processing it, and acting on the insights.

Meet Pi Agent: Your AI Planning Assistant

Pi Agent, short for Planning Intelligence Agent, is a generative AI assistant within Planning in a Box. It empowers planners to become “curators” rather than “creators” of forecasts, providing 10x faster and more accurate insights for better planning decisions. Key features of Pi Agent include:

• Real-time analytics
• Conversational data interaction
• Proactive trend identification
• Automated insights
• Customizable views
• Secure data governance

The Building Blocks of Planning in a Box

Planning in a Box offers solutions across three primary modules:

• SCM Krystal Module: Optimizes supply chain operations with solutions such as demand forecasting, inventory visibility, supply chain control tower, and S&OP.
• CX Sense Module: Enhances customer-facing operations with solutions such as demand sensing, marketing analytics, customer 360, and personalization and recommendation.
• Konnect Manufacturing Module: Streamlines manufacturing processes with solutions such as defect detection, predictive maintenance, warehouse inventory optimization, and real-time logistics optimization.

Key Benefits of Planning in a Box AI Platform

Planning in a Box offers a compelling value proposition for businesses seeking to leverage AI for growth and optimization:

• Speed and Efficiency: Faster implementation, 10x faster insights, and streamlined AI adoption.
• Scalability and Security: Built on Google Cloud and equipped with robust data governance.
• User-Friendliness: Intuitive interface and generative AI capabilities.
• Seamless Integration: Integrates with existing ERP systems.
• Focus on Critical Use Cases: Prioritizes supply chain-related use cases.
• Transparency: Provides transparency through the ‘Glassbox Methodology,’ with code visible and running in your tenant.
• Cost Savings: Minimal upfront investment and rapid ROI.

Empowering Planners for the Future

As the role of planners evolves, Planning in a Box empowers them to become “curators” of forecasts rather than “creators.” By providing tools for centralizing data, gaining real-time insights, and automating tasks, Planning in a Box helps planners focus on strategic decision-making.

Planning in a Box is more than just a platform solution; it’s a strategic partner in your AI journey. With its comprehensive suite of features, pre-built accelerators, and user-friendly interface, Planning in a Box AI Platform empowers businesses to harness the power of AI and drive impactful business outcomes.

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