The ORI Story

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Founded on deep expertise
ORI was founded by Brant Slade, one of the most respected and accomplished supply chain executives in the country. Slade started his career as the supply chain director for a manufacturer and distributor of health supplements and a diverse range of consumer products. During his tenure the company became Oliver Wight Class A Certified and Brant received Fellow Certification with APICS (Now ASCM).

He went on to become one of the most successful consultants at Oliver Wight, where he led major supply chain management programs for Procter & Gamble, Apple, Sara Lee Corporation, Honeywell, PPG and many others. Slade became one of three Managing Principals and a member of the Board of Directors while helping his clients save hundreds of millions of dollars and achieve “Class A” certification.
Branching Out
In 2003, Slade decided to strike out on his own. He founded Operational Results Inc. (ORI) and secured Dial, E&J Gallo Winery and Schwan’s Company as initial clients.

Part of Slade’s consulting involved helping clients implement technology tools for planning and coordinating demand, supply, finance, and operations. Slade found these implementations to be unnecessarily clunky and inefficient, mostly because of structural gaps in data and analytics.
Getting Technical
By 2009, Slade hired a small team to build ORI’s first technology product. Initially integrated with popular off-the-shelf data visualization tools, ORI developed its first totally bespoke data and software platform in 2013 under the leadership of James Barlow. In 2026, ORI added agentic AI to its industry-best data engine, unlocking transformative value for ORI customers. Today, ORI boasts the only agentic intelligence purpose-built for S&OP and connected to the Kinetic Data Engine, which unlocks full AI context through real-time access to your company’s entire data stack. This technology layer is built on decades of industry success and is trusted by elite companies including some of the world’s largest beverage businesses and restaurant chains.

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