Overview
Optimact offers software solutions for demand forecasting, inventory management, distribution & production planning, scheduling, and sales & operations planning. The platform uses artificial intelligence to help companies plan smarter, work faster, and avoid stockouts and overstocks through forecasting what customers will need.
In the news
- Your forecast was wrong again last month. And the month before that. If you're planning production based on numbers that keep missing reality, you already know the cost: too much stock on the wrong SKUs, not enough on the ones that matter, and a planning team firefighting instead of steering. AI and Machine Learning promise to fix this. But here's the honest part: 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲. 🤖 The real question isn't "which algorithm is newest?" It's: where
- 𝟱 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗽𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 Summer means quieter production lines for many companies. The perfect moment to step back and ask: is our planning actually working at its best? Here's what to look out for: 1️⃣ 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹 and mostly in one person's head. 2️⃣ 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 instead of a structured response. 3️⃣ 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱
- 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦&𝗢𝗣 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲? Trick question. In one company it's the supply chain manager, in another the demand planner. The title shifts, but the job underneath doesn't. And that job isn't making the 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. Sales owns the demand assumptions, operations owns capacity, finance owns the numbers. What this role owns is the 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: the cadence, the data, the trade-offs on the table. Get that wrong and the cycle breaks. Either one person tries to decide everything and the rest
- When we talk about inventory management in food, the conversation almost always turns to shelf life. Fresh produce, tight expiry dates, racing the clock. But there's a less obvious challenge hiding on the other end of the spectrum: long shelf life. Ingredients that keep for months or years feel "safe" to stock. So you buy big, especially when spices and raw materials have to travel from far away. The result? Overstock, rented warehouse space, and capital locked in inventory that quietly erodes your liquidity. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲
- When the Strait of Hormuz closed, the effects reached European manufacturers within days: delayed inbound materials, higher energy costs, and production lines waiting on shipments that didn't arrive. A waterway thousands of kilometres away, carrying roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil, had shut down, and a US–Iran agreement has only now been signed to reopen it, with shipping cautiously resuming. It's tempting to move on. But the real takeaway isn't about Hormuz. It's about how exposed many companies were, and how few were
- Most players asked us to radically change our processes. We didn't want to do that." That single sentence — from Globachem's Head of Supply Chain — captures something often overlooked in supply chain projects. The best solution isn't the one that forces you to fit the tool. It's the one that fits how you actually work. Globachem is an international crop protection company: ~€200M turnover, around 15,000 references, a supply network spanning fifteen European production sites. For years, forecasting ran on a maze of Excel
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