Vishal Puri

Manufacturers today need efficient, accurate, and flexible integrated planning across supply, demand, and finance. A leading industrial manufacturer is pursuing a competitive edge in Integrated Business Planning through data and AI.Their strategy: a connected, real-time data foundation with democratized access across silos. Using Databricks, we’re building business-centric data products to enable near real-time, collaborative decisions and scaled AI. Unity Catalog ensures data reliability and adoption. Increased data visibility is driving better on-time delivery, inventory optimization, and forecasting,resulting in measurable financial impact. In this session, we’ll share our journey to the north star of “driving from the windshield, not the rearview,” including key data, organization, and process challenges in enabling data democratization; architectural choices for Integrated Business Planning as a data product; and core capabilities delivered with Tiger’s Accelerator.