Kinaxis Inc., a leader in AI-driven supply chain orchestration, and Workday have announced a new partnership to integrate an AI-enabled, agentic framework across Kinaxis Maestro® and Workday Adaptive Planning, aiming to provide customers with a consolidated view of operational, financial, and people data for enhanced decision-making.
Business leaders today confront increasing disruption and uncertainty, yet critical functions often operate in isolation. Supply chain, finance, and human resources typically work on separate timelines, leaving executives with outdated or incomplete information. This disconnected approach can result in heightened risk, delayed responses, and inaccurate targets, leading to missed opportunities for more informed decisions.
The new partnership between Kinaxis and Workday aims to address these challenges by creating a connected solution. By integrating an AI-enabled, agentic framework between Kinaxis Maestro® and Workday Adaptive Planning, the collaboration will provide organizations with a unified view of their operational, financial, and people data. This integration is designed to enable faster, more confident decision-making.
The connected solution will allow organizations to see the financial and workforce impacts of supply chain events in real time. For instance, if demand spikes, leaders can quickly assess margin impact, labor requirements, and production options to make profitable growth decisions within minutes, rather than weeks. Similarly, if a supplier experiences an outage, executives can model alternative scenarios and immediately understand the revenue, cost, and staffing implications. This cross-functional scenario planning is intended to support faster pivots and build stronger resilience within organizations.
Robert Courteau, executive chair at Kinaxis, commented on the collaboration, stating, “For the first time, supply chain realities, financial forecasts, and workforce strategies move together. With an agentic framework connecting Kinaxis and Workday, executives can act in minutes with confidence, protecting margins, keeping customer commitments, and building resilience through connected scenario planning. With hundreds of joint customers already using both platforms, this partnership builds on that foundation to deliver greater value.”
Rob Enslin, president and chief commercial officer at Workday, added, “Today’s rapidly evolving business environment means leaders need to make critical decisions faster than ever, but often struggle with disconnected data. This partnership with Kinaxis will provide our customers with a unified view of their people, finance, and supply chain data, empowering them to respond with agility and drive profitable growth.”
The companies highlight several benefits for customers through this connected solution, including the ability to make faster, better decisions through AI-enabled modeling across supply, finance, and HR. It also aims to facilitate stronger financial targets grounded in operational and workforce reality, and achieve workforce agility by directly factoring contingent labor, overtime, and hiring needs into planning. Joint offerings are planned for specific industries such as consumer goods, life sciences, high-tech, automotive, and healthcare.
Kinaxis Inc., headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, is known for its AI-infused supply chain orchestration platform, Maestro™, which provides transparency and agility across complex global supply chains from strategic planning to last-mile delivery.
