Kinaxis reports faster supply chain planning with GPU acceleration

Kinaxis Inc. says it has achieved a new milestone in large-scale supply chain optimization by integrating GPU acceleration into its Maestro platform.

The company said the enhancement uses NVIDIA’s cuOpt technology and AI infrastructure to improve processing speeds for complex global supply chain models.

Kinaxis said that as supply chains grow more complex, planning systems must handle tens of millions of variables and billions of potential decisions, increasing computational demands and slowing iteration.

In testing on a semiconductor planning model with nearly 50 million decision variables, the company reported up to a 12-fold reduction in total calculation time. Planning cycles were shortened from more than three hours to about 17 minutes, while core optimization solve times improved 23-fold, cutting compute time by more than 95 per cent.

The company said the improvements allow organizations to move from batch processing to more interactive scenario planning, enabling faster decision-making.

“This milestone demonstrates how accelerated computing can change the way large-scale planning problems are solved,” said Gelu Ticala, chief technology officer at Kinaxis. “When optimization shifts from hours to minutes, organizations gain the ability to iterate more frequently and evaluate more alternatives. That iterative speed is essential to enabling concurrent supply chain orchestration and advancing our agent-driven strategy.”

Kinaxis said it supports more than 400 global enterprises and helps manage more than $200 billion in inventory across its customer base, generating more than 250,000 scenarios each month.

The company said faster optimization also supports its broader strategy around agent-driven orchestration, where automated workflows rely on rapid scenario testing to evaluate alternatives.

“The increasing complexity of global supply chains demands a fundamental shift to accelerated decision-making,” said Alex Fender, director of decision intelligence at NVIDIA. “By integrating NVIDIA cuOpt into its Maestro platform, Kinaxis is empowering customers to achieve planning agility and scenario iteration to help navigate rapid change.”