Kinaxis

What is Kinaxis?

Kinaxis is a supply chain planning software company for large manufacturers and distributors, and its Maestro platform handles demand, supply and inventory planning with concurrent scenario modeling. The vendor positions Maestro as an AI-infused, end-to-end planning platform and also offers Kinaxis Planning One for growing teams.

Key features of Kinaxis

• Concurrency: synchronizes signals, plans and decisions to evaluate tradeoffs in real time.
• Composable AI: connects agents, workflows and machine learning models.
• Planning solutions: S&OP, demand, supply, inventory, scheduling, transportation and order management.
• Control tower: visibility and exception management across the chain.
• Solver Studio: a platform component for custom optimization.
• Forward Deployed Engineering: Kinaxis engineers co-build solutions with customers.

How Kinaxis works

Maestro ingests data from ERP and planning systems, models supply chain scenarios concurrently, and surfaces recommended actions. Planners compare outcomes and push approved decisions back into execution systems.

Who uses Kinaxis?

Kinaxis serves aerospace and defense, automotive, chemicals, consumer products, high-tech, industrial, life sciences and logistics companies. The vendor names Lockheed Martin, Unilever, Exxon Mobil, Siemens Healthineers and Bosch.

Kinaxis pricing

Kinaxis does not publish pricing, and prospects are directed to request a demo.

Kinaxis integrations

Kinaxis offers integration services and a dedicated offering for SAP customers, and runs a partner-finder program, without naming other specific systems on its homepage.

Kinaxis alternatives

Blue Yonder is a broad supply chain suite spanning planning and execution. o9 Solutions is another AI-driven planning platform with a graph data model. Logility is planning software with a mid-market focus, and NetSuite offers lighter built-in supply chain tools.