Today, Sunstice announces Helios™, its latest addition to the supply chain planning and revenue growth management platform built for permanent uncertainty.  

This new agentic AI layer is designed to help planning teams reduce analysis effort, accelerate decision cycles, and improve decision quality when conditions never stabilize.

In today’s operating environment, supply chain performance is no longer only constrained by lack of data. It is constrained by the time required to turn data into decisions. Planning teams must investigate disruptions, evaluate trade-offs, align stakeholders, and execute actions across increasingly compressed timelines.

Despite advances in analytics, many planning cycles remain sequential and slow, particularly in S&OP processes where demand, supply, and executive alignment are still managed through time-intensive review steps. The result is delayed action in environments where responsiveness has become a critical performance driver.

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Reducing the friction between insight and decision

Sunstice Helios™ addresses this challenge by introducing an agentic AI layer that streamlines complex analytical work and structures decision workflows across planning processes.

Rather than replacing planners, Sunstice Helios™ is designed to remove the analytical bottlenecks that slow them down, enabling faster movement from issue detection to decision and execution, while maintaining full human control.

Built on the Sunstice Structured Agility® operating framework, Helios™ strengthens the ability of organizations to combine structured decision processes with the agility required to respond to continuous disruption.

From sequential planning to continuous decision-making

As volatility increases across supply networks, organizations can no longer rely on linear planning cycles. The ability to continuously assess, decide, and act is becoming a core performance differentiator.

Sunstice Helios™ supports this shift by embedding intelligence directly into planning workflows.  

This helps planning teams move from insight to action faster, with more consistent decisions across functions.

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AI agents designed for real planning complexity

At the core of Helios™ are specialized AI agents designed to support high-frequency planning tasks. These agents assist planners by automating and structuring analytical work such as:

• Diagnosis of supply and demand imbalances  

• Root cause analysis of disruptions and performance gaps  

• Identification of key drivers affecting service and cost outcomes  

• Evaluation of scenarios and trade-offs based on business constraints  

This enables planning teams to shift focus from manual investigation to decision quality, coordination, and execution readiness. ‍

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Combining standardization with adaptability

Sunstice Helios™ brings together two complementary capabilities.

First, it provides a set of expert agents designed for recurring, cross-industry planning use cases, including scenario evaluation, forecast performance analysis, and disruption diagnosis.

Second, Helios™ Agent Builder enables organizations to configure or extend agent behavior to reflect their own planning logic, constraints, and decision structures.

This combination allows enterprises to benefit immediately from proven planning intelligence, while progressively adapting it to their specific operational context.

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Accelerating Structured Agility™ in planning operations

“In a world of permanent uncertainty, planning has become a strategic performance lever. Companies need to assess, decide, and act faster without losing control. Sunstice Helios™ is an important step in that direction, helping organizations shorten decision cycles and accelerate the journey towards Structured Agility™ in everyday operations,” said Yacine Zeroual, CEO of Sunstice.

“The challenge we set out to solve with Sunstice Helios™ was clear: decision-making is still too slow because analysis takes too long. Helios uses AI agents to automate complex analytical tasks, surface relevant insights, and support next-best actions, so planners can focus less on investigation and more on decision and action,” said Gilles Lefebvre, Chief Product & R&D Officer at Sunstice.

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About Sunstice

Sunstice provides a unified platform for Supply Chain Planning (SCP) and Revenue Growth Management (RGM), designed to deliver sustained performance under permanent uncertainty.

Built on the Sunstice Structured Agility® operating framework, the platform enables organizations to combine structure and agility in planning, supporting faster, more resilient, and more informed decision-making across global operations.