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Through this new partnership, EY and paretos combine deep process and transformation expertise with state-of-the-art AI agents to significantly accelerate decision-making in demand, supply chain, and production planning. This enables companies to intelligently enhance existing systems such as SAP IBP, OMP, or Kinaxis allowing them to plan faster, more precisely, and more resiliently.
Heidelberg / Frankfurt, December 3, 2025 – Slow decisions cost real money. Across European enterprises, demand forecasting, inventory management and production planning still rely on manual processes, siloed data and gut instinct rather than real-time intelligence.
EY and AI platform paretos are joining forces to change that. Their partnership brings together EY's deep transformation and process expertise with paretos' AI-agent technology for forecasting, planning and supply chain – an approach both companies call Agentic Decision Intelligence.
paretos' platform sits on top of existing ERP and planning systems such as SAP S/4Hana, SAP IBP, OMP, or Kinaxis. Its AI agents sharpen forecasts, run scenarios, and flag risks early – freeing planning teams to focus on the decisions that matter while cutting stockouts and overproduction. EY provides the organizational muscle to embed these capabilities at scale, helping companies respond faster to shifting markets and become measurably more productive.
"Germany's productivity crisis is, at its core, a decision-making crisis," says Thorsten Heilig, CEO and Co-Founder of paretos. "Solving it in complex, fast-moving environments takes a fundamentally different approach. With EY, we help companies move from analysis paralysis back to action."
Heiko Kahrels, Partner Consulting at EY, adds: "AI is rewriting the rules of planning. With paretos, we can offer our European clients a partner that makes planning transparent and accessible even in highly complex organizations – as a lean, intelligent layer on top of their existing systems. And all of it: made in Germany."
The partnership launches with a one-year evaluation phase. Initial joint projects are already in preparation, with the aim of developing concrete use cases that demonstrate how Agentic Decision Intelligence can boost productivity and competitiveness across Europe.
paretos (https://paretos.com/de/) is Europe's leading Agentic Decision Intelligence platform for forecasting and inventory planning. Mid-sized and large enterprises across industries rely on paretos' AI agents to make their planning, supply chain and production more efficient and resilient – among them Otto Group, EDEKA, HelloFresh, Faller Packaging and AAA-Pharma. paretos' proprietary AI approach combines deep learning, machine learning and additional models to deliver automated, individually tailored solutions with high adoption and direct business impact.
Founded in Heidelberg in 2020 by Thorsten Heilig (CEO) and Fabian Rang (CTO), paretos pursues a clear vision: every company should be able to make the best possible decision at any given moment. International research firm Gartner lists paretos as one of only nine representative European Decision Intelligence vendors (out of 30 worldwide).
paretos is a co-initiator of the trade/off Summit industry conference. Founder Thorsten Heilig is co-author of the standard reference work Decision Intelligence (Wiley), published in German and English.
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