o9, a leading software company that is powering enterprise planning and decisioning models across 30-plus industry verticals with its groundbreaking, AI-powered Digital Brain platform, today announced the release of its ESG Report 2026, detailing the company’s environmental, social, and governance activities and results during the 2025 calendar year. The report outlines progress across emissions reduction, supplier engagement, cybersecurity, governance, and responsible AI, while highlighting how o9 continues to integrate sustainability considerations into operational planning and decision-making across the business.
Some of the highlights from the ESG Report 2026 include:
- EcoVadis Platinum recognition: In 2025, o9 earned the EcoVadis Platinum Medal, improving its EcoVadis score from 80 to 89 and placing the company among the top 1% of organizations assessed globally for sustainability performance.
- Emissions reduction and renewable electricity transition: o9 increased renewable electricity coverage from 96% in 2024 to nearly 100% in 2025. The company also reduced total market-based emissions by 14.3% year over year, including its first reduction in Scope 3 emissions since establishing its 2022 baseline.
- Supplier engagement expansion: During 2025, o9 expanded its Supplier Engagement Plan from pilot phase to active implementation, engaging suppliers representing 54% of emissions tied to purchased goods and services as part of its target to reach 90% supplier science-based target alignment by 2028.
- Cybersecurity and governance oversight: o9 achieved a CyberVadis Platinum rating in 2025 and maintained 100% ISO 27001-certified operational coverage globally.
- Responsible AI governance: In 2025, o9 identified Responsible AI as a material ESG topic and initiated development of a cross-functional governance framework focused on transparency, accountability, security, and regulatory readiness.
- Community and employee initiatives: During 2025, o9 contributed more than $249,000 in total donations, recorded 3,248 volunteer hours across global community programs, and expanded the o9 Forest initiative to more than 55,000 cumulative trees planted since 2021.
The report also outlines how o9 uses its own platform internally to support ESG reporting, emissions tracking, and operational planning. In addition, the company continues to help organizations incorporate sustainability considerations into planning processes to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste, strengthen supplier collaboration, and evaluate sustainability trade-offs within day-to-day operations.
“At o9, we believe the next era of supply chain performance will be defined by the ability to make better, faster, and more responsible decisions at scale,” said Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-founder and CEO of o9. “Sustainability is closely tied to resilience, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation. We remain focused on helping organizations integrate sustainability considerations more directly into planning and execution across their operations and supply chains.”
The ESG Report 2026 was prepared using globally recognized sustainability frameworks, including GRI, SASB, ESRS, UNGC, CDP, and the GHG Protocol. For the fourth consecutive year, o9 also obtained third-party limited assurance on selected ESG indicators from SGS United Kingdom Ltd.
To read the full report, please visit https://o9solutions.com/resources/o9-esg-report-2026.
About o9 Solutions
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence. For more information, please visit www.o9solutions.com.
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