Our Take on ketteQ’s Oslo Release

Every supply chain leader we work with is asking some version of the same question: How do we plan with confidence when everything around us is changing faster than our processes, systems, and organizations can keep up?

It is a fair question, and one that is driving a wave of investment in adaptive planning capabilities. But the truth is this: technology alone does not create resilience. Innovation only matters when it directly strengthens the decisions teams make every day.

Between the two of us, we have worked with almost every major supply chain planning system over the past two decades. We have seen hundreds of releases. Many were helpful.  

Most were incremental. Nearly all were shaped by the same constraints: rigid models, fixed assumptions, and architectures that struggle to keep up with real-world volatility. This history is precisely why the ketteQ Oslo Release stands out. It is not another feature patch or surface-level enhancement. It represents a meaningful leap in how organizations can sense, model, and respond to uncertainty, something traditional systems were never built to do.

That is the lens through which we apply the Oslo Release. For us, the story is not simply about new features. It is about how those features expand what is possible for planning teams and how they can unlock new levels of adaptability, insight, and alignment. Real value comes from what the technology empowers people to achieve. Capturing that value requires a strategic approach, a coordinated integration strategy, and disciplined change leadership.

Why Oslo Arrives at the Right Moment

Across the industries we advise, the same themes continue to surface. Decision cycles are speeding up. Variability is increasing. Teams are more stretched than ever. Data is expanding faster than legacy systems can keep up with. These pressures expose the gap between planning and execution, making it harder for planning organizations to stay proactive.

In many companies, planners still rely on outdated assumptions, manually collected data, or single-pass solves that cannot keep pace with shifting conditions. The Oslo Release addresses these realities with improvements that strengthen adaptability, intelligence, and usability.

Several advancements stand out from a consulting and implementation perspective:

• Better scenario agility that allows teams to evaluate and compare multiple planning outcomes in seconds rather than hours.

• More connected data that makes it easier to design, deploy, and scale real-time integrations, resulting in a more complete picture of supply, demand, and constraints.

• Improved user experience that reduces friction and supports adoption by planners, sales teams, and operational leaders.

• Support for larger data volumes and more complex models without slowing performance, which is essential for multinational organizations.

These improvements are meaningful. The real impact comes when they are combined with disciplined implementation and cross-functional alignment.

Where Organizations Unlock Real Value

Companies that extract the most value from innovation are those that utilize new capabilities to rethink how decisions are made. Oslo creates an opportunity to elevate the planning process in several important ways.

1. Shifting from firefighting to forward-looking planning

Faster scenario execution and real-time signals allow teams to explore a range of futures rather than reacting to yesterday’s disruptions.

2. Strengthening cross-functional alignment

Oslo makes it easier for sales, finance, operations, and supply chain to plan together using shared, current data rather than outdated or siloed information.

3. Creating more reliable and repeatable workflows

Usability improvements support consistent decision paths, transparent governance, and collaboration routines across teams and business units.

4. Scaling adaptive planning globally

For organizations operating across multiple regions, Oslo’s performance enhancements provide a clear path to unifying planning without overwhelming local teams.

These outcomes do not appear automatically. They require thoughtful design, coordinated execution, and sustained operational governance. This is the work that many organizations underestimate.

How Implementation Turns Innovation into Impact

One lesson we have learned throughout our careers is this: technology creates potential, and implementation turns potential into results.

Oslo raises the ceiling on what planning teams can do. Realizing that opportunity depends on several organizational disciplines.

• Process clarity that defines decision rights, handoffs, and KPIs before deploying new capabilities. Without clarity, advanced tools simply automate old confusion.

• Data readiness that ensures the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness needed for adaptive planning to succeed.

• Change leadership that drives user adoption through effective communication, targeted training, and ongoing reinforcement.

• Cross-functional design that brings planning, sales, finance, and operations into the solution design early, not as an afterthought.

This is where a consulting and integration partner becomes essential. The organizations that accelerate value from Oslo will be the ones that combine strong technology with structured transformation.

De cara al futuro

The Oslo Release represents more than a new set of features. It marks an important step toward a more adaptive, integrated, and resilient model of supply chain planning. It reflects where planning is heading: faster cycles, smarter modeling, closer cross-functional alignment, and planning that adjusts automatically as conditions change.

Innovation becomes powerful only when it is implemented with a purpose. As we help clients adopt Oslo, our goal is clear. We aim to ensure that the technology enhances execution, mitigates risk, and delivers measurable and lasting business impact.

That is what innovation in motion truly looks like.

Explore What Oslo Can Do

If you would like a deeper look at the capabilities we discussed here, we invite you to explore the ketteQ Oslo Release page. It provides an overview of the advancements, use cases, and practical applications that can help your planning organization take the next step toward adaptive decision-making.