From Plateau to Breakthrough: How Leading Enterprises Unlock New ROI Without Replacing Their Planning System

Every supply chain leader knows the moment when progress stops feeling like progress.
The planning system that once delivered efficiency and structure now feels rigid. Planners spend more time fixing plans than executing them. Adoption drops. ROI plateaus.

The instinct is to replace what’s there — but transformation doesn’t have to mean disruption. Across industries, companies are proving that the fastest way to regain momentum is to enhance the system they already have, not rebuild it.

When Great Systems Hit Their Limits

Platforms like Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, and o9 have long been the backbone of enterprise planning. They provide visibility, standardization, and discipline. However, as volatility increases, the limitations of deterministic planning become apparent.

Traditional systems were built for a world of predictable demand and linear processes. Today’s reality is anything but. Demand shifts overnight. Lead times stretch unexpectedly. Planners need answers in minutes, not hours.

When the system can’t keep up, they turn to Excel. Over time, your advanced planning system becomes an expensive database — a solid one, but underutilized.

This isn’t failure. It’s a signal that your business has outgrown the system’s original design.

A Proven Example: A Global Pet-Food Manufacturer’s Fast Track to ROI

One of Europe’s largest pet-food manufacturers was running a well-known tier-1 planning platform. It was stable, but rigid. Capacity utilization stalled at 88%, and production agility lagged behind market demand.

Instead of ripping out their core system, they layered ketteQ’s PolymatiQ™ AI Engine on top — using their existing platform as the system of record, and ketteQ as the intelligence and optimization layer.

Our customers using tier-1 planning platforms (including Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, and others) follow a similar pattern:

• Keep the core system in place

• Use ketteQ + PolymatiQ™ as the optimization and decision engine on top

• Unlock double-digit gains in capacity utilization and waste reduction — without reimplementation

No downtime. No retraining. No reimplementation. Just better outcomes — proving you don’t have to replace your planning system to achieve breakthrough results. You just have to remove its limits.

How It Works: Adaptive Intelligence, Zero Disruption

PolymatiQ™ doesn’t replace your platform — it enhances it.

The AI engine runs silently in the background, continuously executing thousands of multi-pass, probabilistic solves. It evaluates trade-offs in real time, learning from new data to deliver faster and more accurate outcomes.

All of this happens in memory, without touching the database or slowing performance. Planners stay in the same interface they already know, whether it’s Blue Yonder or another system. From their perspective, nothing changes except the speed and quality of results.

This is what adaptive enhancement looks like — a smarter, faster, more flexible version of the system you already trust.

Proof Across Industries and Platforms

PPF’s story is not an isolated case. Companies across manufacturing, distribution, and service industries are using PolymatiQ™ to drive measurable value from existing planning platforms — including Blue Yonder.

• Alliance Consumer Group (ACG): Automated promise dates and eliminated fire drills.

• NCR Voyix: Improved delivery accuracy and customer satisfaction.

• Johnson Controls & Carrier: Enhanced service-parts planning and global visibility.

• Cosmetica Labs & Trimble: Improved forecast precision and agility.

Different systems. Different challenges. One result: measurable ROI in weeks, not years.

Why Enhancement Outpaces Replacement

Rip-and-replace projects are risky. They take years, cost millions, and disrupt teams. Enhancement, by contrast, delivers immediate results with minimal IT lift.

With PolymatiQ™ layered on top of Blue Yonder:

• You retain your existing workflows and integrations.

• You add adaptive, real-time intelligence that continuously improves planning accuracy.

• You see measurable ROI fast — without pausing your business to re-implement.

In short: you keep the system your teams already know and trust, while gaining the agility today’s supply chain demands.

From Plateau to Breakthrough

Performance plateaus are inevitable — but they aren’t permanent.

As PPF and others have proven, legacy planning systems can deliver new levels of value when paired with adaptive intelligence. The next leap in ROI doesn’t require replacing what’s working. It requires enhancing it with technology built for volatility, speed, and continuous learning.

Blue Yonder gave you structure. PolymatiQ™ gives it adaptability. Together, they create a planning environment that’s faster, smarter, and more resilient than ever before.

Learn More

Download the complete guide: “Breaking the Limits of Blue Yonder Value with ketteQ’s PolymatiQ™ AI Engine.”

Discover how you can enhance your Blue Yonder environment to achieve measurable financial and operational value in weeks — without the disruption of replacement.

Don’t rebuild.

Enhance.

And see how quickly your system can move from plateau to breakthrough.