Kinaxis Maestro

Kinaxis Inc. was founded in June 1984 as Cadence Computer Corporation and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada; it took the Kinaxis name in 2005 and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2014. It helps complex manufacturers and distributors anticipate disruptions and keep plans synchronized when demand, supply or capacity change. Kinaxis Asia serves Asia-Pacific Japan from offices in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and India.

Maestro, formerly RapidResponse, is an AI-powered supply chain planning and decisioning platform built on an in-memory concurrency engine that propagates every change across plans in real time. It covers S&OP, demand sensing and forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, production scheduling, control tower, order management, spare parts and transportation, plus Maestro agents, composable AI and Solver Studio. Customers include Schneider Electric, Ansaldo Energia and Sterlite Technologies.

• S&OP: aligns functions and financial targets in one plan.
• Demand: AI-powered demand sensing and forecasting for consensus demand plans.
• Supply and inventory: scenario-based supply planning and inventory placement with event simulation.
• Scheduling: plant scheduling decisions connected to the enterprise plan.
• Maestro agents and composable AI: agents, workflows and ML models combined into intelligent processes.
• Control tower and orchestration: real-time signals turned into coordinated action across the network.

• An electronics assembler in northern Vietnam can replan supply and production when a component supplier is delayed.
• An industrial equipment maker can run S&OP scenarios linking demand, capacity and financial targets.
• A distributor can optimise spare parts inventory across warehouses in the region.

• Concurrent planning shows the impact of each change on suppliers, inventory, production and customers immediately.
• What-if scenarios and consequence analysis let planners compare responses to disruptions before acting.
• AI demand sensing produces consensus demand plans closer to actual orders.
• Planning One offers mid-market teams a lower-risk path to modern planning.

Tariff changes and supply shocks make static monthly planning too slow, and manufacturers are moving to concurrent, scenario-driven planning with AI agents. Electronics, automotive and industrial supply chains that run through Asia, including Vietnam, need faster replanning when suppliers or routes change.

Founded June 1984 in Ottawa as Cadence Computer Corporation, renamed Kinaxis in 2005, listed on the TSX (KXS) in 2014. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions. Razat Gaurav was appointed CEO. Kinexions 2026 events were held in Mumbai and Barcelona.