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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"ToolsGroup: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/toolsgroup/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/toolsgroup/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/toolsgroup.md",
  "title": "ToolsGroup: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "ToolsGroup is on the AI supply chain planning software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated May 27, 2026.",
  "period": "Dec. 2, 2025 to May 27, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "id": "CEX91M6",
    "slug": "toolsgroup",
    "name": "ToolsGroup",
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    "site": "https://www.toolsgroup.com/",
    "summary": "\"Don't Just Plan Your Supply Chain. Steer It.\" ToolsGroup sells probabilistic demand and inventory planning to manufacturers, distributors, retailers and aftermarket parts businesses. Decion is its always-on agentic decision platform, and Decy is the AI assistant inside it that surfaces risk and explains recommendations.",
    "founded": 1993,
    "categories": [
      "demand-inv"
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    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Demand forecasting and inventory"
    ]
  },
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  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Don't Just Plan Your Supply Chain. Steer It.\" ToolsGroup sells probabilistic demand and inventory planning to manufacturers, distributors, retailers and aftermarket parts businesses. Decion is its always-on agentic decision platform, and Decy is the AI assistant inside it that surfaces risk and explains recommendations.",
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      "map": "supply-chain-planning-software",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/supply-chain-planning-software/#co-toolsgroup",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "ToolsGroup",
      "site": "https://www.toolsgroup.com/",
      "category": "Demand forecasting and inventory",
      "what": "\"Don't Just Plan Your Supply Chain. Steer It.\" ToolsGroup sells probabilistic demand and inventory planning to manufacturers, distributors, retailers and aftermarket parts businesses. Decion is its always-on agentic decision platform, and Decy is the AI assistant inside it that surfaces risk and explains recommendations.",
      "what_source": {
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      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
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          "Named agent",
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          "AI demand forecasting",
          "Inventory optimization",
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          "Disruption sensing",
          "Scenario planning",
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          "S&OP and IBP",
          "Supply planning"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (400+ customers in 45+ countries per ToolsGroup's About page; named in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries; backed by private equity firm Accel-KKR)",
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/toolsgroup/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-05-27",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "ToolsGroup launches Decion, an agentic AI platform",
      "summary": "ToolsGroup launched Decion at its Engage conference in Milan. It continuously monitors supply chain conditions, evaluates risk, recommends corrective actions and executes approved actions within human-defined guardrails.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI supply chain planning software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/supply-chain-planning-software/#co-toolsgroup"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.toolsgroup.com/news/toolsgroup-introduces-new-era-of-ai-powered-self-steering-supply-chains/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/toolsgroup/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-12-02",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "ToolsGroup joins SO99+ planning with PriceAI",
      "summary": "ToolsGroup integrated its SO99+ demand planning with its AI-driven PriceAI platform, so pricing and allocation follow supply. It calls this the first inventory-aware demand shaping solution, shown at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit.",
      "kind": "Launch",
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      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://www.toolsgroup.com/news/toolsgroup-to-debut-the-first-inventory-aware-demand-shaping-solution/"
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