Modern automotive manufacturing line
Tier 1 Automotive Supply Chain Planning

Your planners spend days doing what takes us minutes.

Ceres is the AI planning engine that sits between your ERP and your critical decisions, reconciling OEM forecasts with supplier reality in real-time.

Clients
Bosch
Alps Alpine
The Challenge

Manual reconciliation doesn't scale across dozens of OEMs.

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Manual Reconciliation

Drowning in spreadsheets across thousands of line items from multiple OEM portals.

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Catching Exceptions

Identifying demand spikes or supply drops shouldn't take a week of analysis.

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Forecast Accuracy

OEM forecasts are notoriously volatile. Without algorithmic reconciliation, your production schedules can be error prone.

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Inventory Risk

Over-stocking components for uncertain orders or stock-outs. Both kill the bottom line for Tier 1 suppliers.

Architectural Advantage

Four layers that SAP and Excel don't give you.

System Health: Optimal
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Data Vault

AI-driven reliability and continuous data reconciliation. We ingest noisy OEM data and unify it into a single, immutable source of truth that your ERP can actually trust.

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Exception Management

Signaling anomalies before damage occurs. Our engine constantly monitors for deviations in lead times, order volumes, and shipping delays, surfacing only the signals that matter.

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AI Forecasting

Every single grain gets a forecast. AI reconciles bottom-up SKU demand with top-down product-group totals, ensuring financial targets and operational plans are aligned.

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What-If Scenarios

Stress-test plans against real-world drivers. Instantly see the impact of new tariffs, raw material price shifts, or energy shortages on your Tier 1 margin.

System Compatibility

An intelligence layer that works alongside your stack

SAP S/4HANA
SAP IBP
o9 Solutions
Kinaxis
Blue Yonder
Palantir
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Zero Rip-and-Replace

Ceres doesn't replace your ERP. It fixes the messy data and complex forecasting logic that lives in spreadsheets, then feeds the optimized plan back into your system of record.

See how Ceres replaces the spreadsheet layer in 20 minutes.

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