OPTANO, a Kearney company, has been helping companies improve their planning processes since 2009. OPTANO brings unparalleled competitive advantage to your operations by translating operations business problems such as network optimization challenges into mathematical models to find the best solution based on our AI/prescriptive analytics platform.

OPTANO’s highly flexible platform applies machine learning and predictive analytics to make highly accurate predictions from existing data. Then, it takes planning to the next level by using prescriptive analytics to develop recommendations against various “what if?” scenarios that consider a range of trade-offs for a wide range of operations use cases, including network design, transportation optimization, routing, and production planning.

The OPTANO platform isn’t just flexible—it’s fast! Where traditional implementation time for a new platform was literally measured in years, the power of software-as-a-service (SaaS) allows OPTANO’s users to achieve results in a matter of weeks. Over time, as the business grows more experienced in its use, even more and deeper benefits can be achieved.

Kearney + OPTANO = next-level operations consulting

Kearney is the world leader in operations consulting. Our clients engage us to design and build supply chains to support their growth, cost, resilience, and sustainability goals. Because the complexity of supply chain assets and interconnections has increased exponentially, deep AI and analytics capabilities are needed to design and build next-generation supply chains. In conjunction with Kearney Analytics, OPTANO offers critical AI-powered modeling and planning capability to optimize the cost, resilience, and sustainability of end-to-end supply chains.

The power of Kearney + OPTANO is especially amplified on major improvement efforts such as end-to-end supply chain design and large-scale operations transformations. The more complex an industry, the greater the cross-dependencies among functions and to the extended enterprise, the deeper the results from Kearney + OPTANO will be. To date, we’ve already helped to make significant improvement for automotive, consumer, energy, and retail clients.

Kearney’s purchase of OPTANO in late 2022 followed four years of successful collaborations on Kearney client projects. This “dating period” showed us just how complementary our two firms are, and our clients concurred that we achieved even more than they’d expected. Kearney and OPTANO people pride ourselves on building transparent, open, and constructively honest relationships. We are highly collaborative, working alongside clients through implementation to help them succeed and deepen the benefits of their work long after a project ends.