OMP REAL 2025: Agentic AI, Decision-Centric Planning, and the Next Phase of Supply Chain Performance
Executives gathered in Miami on November 18-19 for OMP REAL 2025, a two-day forum on how agentic AI, decision-centric planning, and human-AI collaboration are changing supply chain performance. The headline announcement: UnisonIQ, OMP's AI orchestration framework built to help planners and leaders move faster with better signal-to-noise across global operations.
What happened
The event brought together leaders from Arxada, AstraZeneca, Beiersdorf, Eastman, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Heinz, Land O'Lakes, and Visy. Sessions focused on turning AI into measurable gains in service, cost, and resilience-without adding complexity for planners.
Real-world outcomes executives care about
- AstraZeneca scaled Unison Planning™ across global operations, using decision-centric planning to lift agility and decision confidence in volatile markets.
- Beiersdorf put AI-driven insights in front of planners, improving the quality and impact of day-to-day decisions.
- Eastman integrated sustainability directly into planning, balancing business performance with environmental goals.
- Leaders from Kraft Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, and Land O'Lakes called out the value of collaboration and shared innovation to build more adaptive supply chains.
Agentic AI moves from concept to workflow
Under the theme "REAL - Real expertise. Real solutions. Real results.", keynote speaker Kevin O'Marah of Zero100 laid out how agentic and autonomous AI are changing planner roles and improving resilience. In the Unison Plaza, OMP experts ran live demos of Unison Planning™, including UnisonIQ for AI orchestration and Unison Companion, the AI assistant.
Strategic partners-including Microsoft Azure, Rulex, Nulogy, EY, Deloitte, and Bluecrux-presented ecosystem innovations that speed up digital transformation across industries.
What UnisonIQ means in practice
- Orchestrates multiple AI capabilities to support planners with context-aware recommendations.
- Delivers always-on visibility and alerts across end-to-end supply chains.
- Improves response time by connecting data, intent, and decision logic in one flow.
Why this matters for executives
- Decision-centric planning is becoming the operating model-goals, constraints, and trade-offs are explicit, automated where possible, and auditable.
- Agentic AI shifts planners from data wrangling to decision stewardship. That changes org design, KPIs, and skill requirements.
- Ecosystems beat standalone tools. The partner network around Unison Planning™ accelerates integration and value realization.
- Sustainability is entering the planning loop, not sitting in a separate report. Expect tighter links between ESG targets and service/cost performance.
- Human-AI collaboration is the lever for resilience-clear roles for people and systems reduce delays and noise under stress.
A community focused on measurable impact
OMP leadership emphasized that customers are delivering concrete gains across efficiency, service, and resilience through human-AI synergy. The takeaway: AI is most effective when it is embedded in the decisions that run the business, not bolted on as analytics.
Next steps for leadership teams
- Assess where decision-centric planning can remove friction in your S&OP, supply, and production workflows.
- Define governance for human-in-the-loop AI so accountability, transparency, and speed improve together.
- Prioritize ecosystem integration to shorten time-to-value and reduce change fatigue for planners.
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About OMP
OMP helps companies with complex planning challenges grow by delivering digitized supply chain planning through Unison Planning™. Hundreds of customers across consumer goods, life sciences, chemicals, metals, and paper and packaging rely on the platform.
Contact
Philip Vervloesem
Chief Commercial & Markets Officer
pvervloesem@omp.com
+1-770-956-2723
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