Impact: HighProbabilistic forecasting and service-driven inventory optimization2026-05-18· ToolsGroup
Atlas Copco moves to probability-based supply-chain planning with ToolsGroup
Atlas Copco is adopting ToolsGroup SO99+ to move from deterministic planning toward probabilistic forecasting and service-driven inventory optimization. The program aims to improve planning under demand uncertainty while balancing availability and stock investment.
The Dataleo angle
The affected decision is how Atlas Copco uses probabilistic forecasts to trade off inventory, service and risk. Value requires calibrated distributions, explicit error costs and validated service policies; the principal failure mode is replacing a point forecast with probabilities without changing the decision rules.