Guac vs SAP Integrated Business Planning
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US YC AI grocery demand forecasting at 0.95 MAE with 38% food waste reduction for 300-location chain; $2.3M seed Dec 2023 1984/YC/Collaborative/Instacart angels using sports betting odds and weather for inventory competing with Afresh.
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Guac is a United States-based AI demand forecasting platform for grocery retailers — backed by Y Combinator with $2.3 million in seed funding in December 2023 from 1984 Ventures, Y Combinator, Collaborative Fund, and angel investors from Instacart, Roblox, Jane Street, and Citadel Securities — providing grocery chains, delivery companies, and supermarkets across North America, Europe, and the Middle East with machine learning-powered daily sales predictions that achieve 0.95 unit mean absolute error (MAE) average forecast accuracy, delivering 38% food waste reduction for a 300-location supermarket chain customer. Founded by Euro Wang and Jack Solomon, Guac applies unconventional data signals (sports betting odds, weather forecasts, local event calendars) to grocery demand prediction where traditional moving-average forecasting fails.
SAP (NYSE: SAP) cloud supply chain planning with demand sensing, inventory optimization, and S&OP for enterprise manufacturers; competing with Kinaxis and o9 Solutions as the native planning layer for SAP ERP customers.
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SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) is SAP's (NYSE: SAP) cloud-native supply chain planning platform providing demand sensing, inventory optimization, sales and operations planning (S&OP), supply planning, and response management for enterprise supply chains — replacing legacy SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) as the next-generation SAP planning platform running on SAP HANA in-memory database for real-time multi-echelon supply chain analysis. Part of SAP's $36 billion annual revenue portfolio, IBP serves manufacturers and distributors with complex, multi-tier global supply chains requiring coordinated demand-supply planning across hundreds of facilities and SKUs.
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