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KINAXIS INTRODUCES FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERING TO HELP ENTERPRISES TURN DECISIONS INTO OUTCOMES

Kinaxis Inc. today introduced Forward Deployed Eengineering (FDE), a new engagement model designed to help enterprises operationalize AI (artificial intelligence) and translate decisions into measurable business outcomes. FDE reflects the broader Kinaxis vision for operational orchestration, an approach that co-ordinates signals, decisions, actions and learnings across the business fast enough to change outcomes.

The opening keynote at Kinexions, the company's global customer conference, delivered by chief executive officer Razat Gaurav will be live-streamed globally on June 2 at 11:30 a.m. ET via LinkedIn Live.

This approach combines a unified data foundation with semantic intelligence that understands the relationships, dependencies and trade-offs that shape enterprise operations. Together, these capabilities help organizations move beyond isolated decision-making to co-ordinated execution, connecting data, systems, teams and actions across the enterprise.

Traditional planning operating models were built around isolated functions, fragmented decisions and disconnected workflows. Concurrent planning introduced new principles of synchronized, cross-functional decision making across supply chain planning processes. Operational orchestration extends those principles across enterprise operations, connecting planning, decision making, and execution both within and beyond the supply chain to create adaptive organizations that continuously align, respond and improve.

"The challenge companies face is no longer simply making better decisions faster, it's ensuring those decisions drive real outcomes," said Razat Gaurav, chief executive officer, Kinaxis. "A supply chain decision only matters when it changes what the business can do. The next shift is ensuring decisions translate into co-ordinated action across the business. That only happens when AI is grounded in the physics of enterprise operations, understanding the constraints, dependencies and trade-offs that define how work gets done. With that context, organizations can move from isolated decisions to continuous execution at scale."

As organizations face increasing volatility, interdependencies and scale, the challenge is no longer simply making better decisions. It is ensuring those decisions propagate across systems and processes in ways that reflect real-world constraints and deliver meaningful results. Kinaxis believes these same conditions now create the opportunity for AI to generate value, but only when it is grounded in the physics of enterprise operations.

Kinaxis addresses this challenge with composable, extensible capabilities across its platform. Kinaxis is embedding agentic AI directly into operational workflows, enabling new ways of working where teams collaborate with AI to continuously sense, reason, decide and act within the context of the business. Built on a mature supply chain planning foundation, Kinaxis helps organizations move beyond isolated copilot toward co-ordinated, scalable execution grounded in their data, constraints and operating realities.

To support this shift, Kinaxis is expanding beyond traditional software delivery into a model built on interoperable, composable building blocks. These capabilities, spanning data, semantic intelligence, decisioning, AI and orchestration, can be assembled within Maestro to enhance planning or applied through the FDE motion to support broader operational orchestration across systems, workflows and enterprise processes.

This shifts the engagement model:

• From features to outcomes, focusing on business impact rather than predefined requirements;
• From project to product, building solutions that can scale and continuously improve;
• From go-live to ownership, prioritizing sustained adoption and long-term value.

Over time, the initial solutions developed through the FDE engagement establish the operational and intelligence foundation for enterprise AI within the customer's environment. Built on real business context, data, workflows and decision flows, this foundation enables customers and partners to continuously extend and scale additional agentic capabilities over time.

The result is a more mature operating model where humans and AI agents work seamlessly together across enterprise processes, co-ordinating decisions, actions, and execution across the flows of materials, resources and operations that drive the business.

FDE will be available through Kinaxis account teams for selected customer engagements beginning at Kinexions. Kinaxis also announced a customer and partner hackathon focused on accelerating the development of AI-driven solutions aligned to real-world business challenges.

About Kinaxis Inc.

Kinaxis is a leader in modern supply chain planning and orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. The company's powerful, AI-infused supply chain orchestration platform, Maestro, combines proprietary technologies and techniques that provide full transparency and agility across the entire supply chain -- from multiyear strategic planning to last-mile delivery. The company is trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today's volatility and disruption.

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