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FuturMaster and PlaniSense Join Forces

Posted on by Keith McKinley

A strategic merger in the supply chain software industry has been announced, between FuturMaster and PlaniSense. Three months after its acquisition by Sagard NewGen, FuturMaster, supplier of SaaS Supply Chain Planning and Revenue Growth Management, has acquired PlaniSense, a specialist in scheduling and production planning.

Thanks to this partnership, FuturMaster integrates PlaniSense’s advanced scheduling capabilities directly into its Bloom platform, offering a market solution that covers strategic planning, process optimization, and real-time scheduling. This combination delivers enhanced precision, increased responsiveness, and complete control over the supply chain, ensuring greater operational performance for manufacturers.

A Major Breakthrough for the Industrial Sector and Its Clients

This merger also embodies a shared vision. By bringing together artificial intelligence, digital twins, and algorithmic excellence, FuturMaster and PlaniSense aim to create a powerful ecosystem that pushes the boundaries of industrial optimization. Companies in the food, luxury, automotive, and distribution sectors could benefit from an integrated, scalable, and high-performance solution, enabling them to: reduce costs, anticipate disruptions, and maximize operational reliability.

Among the companies that use FuturMaster and PlaniSense are Heineken, L’Oréal, Forvia, LVMH, and Bel. The new platform is deployed in over 90 countries, providing businesses with a proven infrastructure tailored to today’s market challenges.

A Global Ambition Driven by Accelerated Growth

With nearly 40 employees and strong technological expertise, PlaniSense is now part of FuturMaster. This acquisition aligns with an ambitious growth strategy, strengthening the group’s presence in Europe, North America, and Asia. In 2024, FuturMaster and PlaniSense jointly welcomed 25 new clients, confirming a trajectory of continuous growth. Supported by Sagard NewGen, FuturMaster continues its international expansion while accelerating the development of innovative solutions.

By joining forces, FuturMaster and PlaniSense provide a more comprehensive response to planning and operational optimization challenges, giving businesses greater control over their supply chains.

Leaders Committed to a Shared Vision

Nazim Nachi, CEO of PlaniSense, states: “The alliance with FuturMaster represents a strategic and natural alignment between our complementary products and teams. We are confident that this collaboration will offer our clients an expanded range of solutions, allowing them to address their Supply Chain management needs even more effectively. Together, we aim to transform the industry by redefining performance and innovation standards.”

Yacine Zeroual, CEO of FuturMaster, adds: “We are very pleased to welcome Nazim and his team. The complementarity between the FuturMaster group and PlaniSense is even more evident as we know each other well and have already built a successful partnership. This merger is a decisive step in realizing our ambitions. We share a common value proposition: transforming complexity into a competitive advantage. Together, we provide businesses worldwide with an unparalleled offer in terms of performance, completeness, and agility.”

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Sagard NewGen acquires leading provider of SaaS solutions

Posted on by David Priestman

Sagard NewGen announces the acquisition of FuturMaster, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Supply Chain Planning and Revenue Growth Management solutions, from its founder and Cathay Capital. Sagard NewGen becomes the Group’s majority shareholder alongside the management team and Cathay Capital, who reinvest in the new transaction.

This acquisition aligns with recent trends in the SaaS and supply chain sectors, where private equity and investment firms target companies driving digital transformation. For instance, in December 2022, Thoma Bravo acquired Coupa, a leader in business spend management, to enhance its portfolio of cloud-based solutions supporting operational efficiencies for large enterprises. Similarly, in January 2022, Blackstone invested in Cloudreach, a cloud services provider, to strengthen its capabilities in digital and cloud-based transformation. These deals, like the acquisition of FuturMaster, underscore a strategic focus on leveraging technology to optimize complex, global operations amidst shifting market demands.

FuturMaster, with its Bloom platform, offers a comprehensive suite of SaaS-based solutions for the end-to-end supply chain planning and revenue optimisation of large enterprises and mid-sized companies worldwide. Thanks to cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twin modelling and operational research, FuturMaster enables its customers to better plan for demand, and adapt their operational response by optimising production, distribution and supply plans. This platform is used daily by many leading companies in all sectors, including Heineken, L’Oréal, TotalEnergies and SNCF, in over 90 countries. The group is profitable, with growth of c.30% per year, and generates over €30 million in revenue, over a third of which is generated outside France. It employs nearly 200 people in France, the UK, Singapore and China.

Yacine Zeroual, CEO of FuturMaster, said: ‘We are delighted to begin this new chapter with Sagard NewGen, which shares our ambition to become a global leader in Supply Chain Planning and Revenue Growth Management solutions. With the support of Sagard NewGen and Cathay Capital, and backed by a talented and committed team, we will accelerate our international expansion while continuing to offer our customers innovative solutions to transform their complexity into sustainable competitive advantage in a constantly changing world.’

Bérangère Barbe and Guillaume Lefebvre, Partners at Sagard NewGen, added: ‘We are delighted to support Yacine and his team in the next stages of FuturMaster’s development in Europe and beyond. This project, alongside the management team, is based above all on the continuity of the company’s strategy of product innovation and internationalisation. This transaction, which opens up the capital more widely to the company’s management team, is perfectly in line with Sagard NewGen’s Growth Buyout strategy.’

Jérémie Falzone, Partner at Cathay Capital, stated: ‘Since acquiring a stake in FuturMaster in 2020, we have been proud to support the company, which has successfully developed innovative SaaS-based supply chain management solutions and expanded its business with major companies that are leaders in their sectors. We are delighted to continue our partnership with Sagard NewGen and the company’s management to accelerate FuturMaster’s international growth.’

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Beauty Company scales up Demand Planning

Posted on by David Priestman

In the context of volatile demand and price increases, deploying a unique and common collaborative demand planning platform became a priority for Brand Evangelists for Beauty (Be for Beauty). The company, in order to scale, needed to maintain service levels and control costs and has gone through an exponential period of growth over the last couple of years.

Be for Beauty was created 5 years ago by Colette Laxton and Mark Curry. Over the last couple of years, the company has faced strong growth. Their main brand, The INKEY List, has created 4.5 million skin and hair recipes and now counts for over 5 million customer interactions and products being sold in 32 countries. With more than 40 awards and the number 1 followed skincare brand on TikTok, rapid global growth has led to an increase in product SKUs accelerating the need to build and share accurate sales forecasts to maintain service levels but also to control costs.

Be for Beauty was heavily reliant on spreadsheets to create, enrich and collaborate on the forecast. These became too complex to use and maintain, therefore they identified the need for a robust and scalable demand planning solution to secure and industrialize their sales forecasting process, thus enabling them to scale.

FuturMaster’s Bloom Demand Planning platform was selected to improve demand planning effectiveness and efficiency. It is a flexible solution that can support Be for Beauty on its global rapid growth journey. With FuturMaster’s comprehensive list of Health & Beauty clients, the software vendor has been recognized for its knowledge, skills, and expertise within the industry, and identified as the ideal long-term strategic partner to support Be for Beauty’s exponential growth.

Suzanne Coulton, Chief Operating Officer of Be for Beauty said, “We found the FuturMaster team really took the time to understand the challenges we were facing as a business and proposed a great best-fit solution that will both improve our forecasting accuracy and streamline our operations process through efficiencies.”

Matt Hughes, FuturMaster Sales Director, commented: “We are thrilled to have been selected as a demand planning partner by Be for Beauty. Working across so many territories with so many product lines, as they continue to grow The INKEY List and the other brands under their umbrella, Be for Beauty will require a comprehensive demand planning solution far beyond the remit of spreadsheet packages.”

“With FuturMaster’s scalable solution and our far-ranging experience of working with health and beauty clients, we will be able to provide Be for Beauty with the support they need as they continue their exponential growth.”

Created in 1994, FuturMaster is a software vendor focusing on Supply Chain Planning, Integrated Business Planning/S&OP and Trade Promotions X (Management and Optimization) solutions. Our mission today is to enable our customers to leverage complexity and hyper volatility to turn them into a competitive advantage. Our uniqueness lies in a combination of technology, data, and business expertise. We leverage our Bloom platform and build best-fit solutions with which our customers achieve success and get an edge over their competitors. More than 600 customers in 90 countries trust FuturMaster.

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