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Having just implemented a two year program to inject artificial intelligence smarts across Pernod Ricard’s global winemaking processes, Adelaide tech firm Complexica now has its sights on an ASX listing for next year. The company, headed up by managing director Matthew Michalewicz, will be looking to raise $25-$50 million to help drive further growth and market recognition of the firm, founded seven years ago.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that Pernod Ricard Winemakers has achieved its first go-live with Complexica’s Decision Cloud® software platform in Marlborough, New Zealand in what is Pernod Ricard Winemakers’ largest global technology project. The deployment will support the company to digitalise processes, as well as optimise planning and scheduling activities. Pernod Ricard Winemakers plans further go-lives in Australia for finished goods planning and production scheduling, followed by Australian and Church Road winery operations, which forms part of a wider program of activity to enable the business to utilize technology to work faster, smarter and safer.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that it has signed a contract with DuluxGroup to deploy Complexica's Customer Opportunity Profiler (COP) into the Powder & Industrial Coatings business unit for national use by account managers.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that Arnott’s Group has selected Complexica's Decision Cloud® software platform for trade promotion optimisation – which will include AI-based forecasting capability – to be implemented in 2021. Complexica’s Promotional Campaign Manager (PCM), and Larry, the Digital Analyst® – which are part of the Decision Cloud® software platform – will provide Arnott’s with advanced capabilities for optimising the value of future promotions based on volume, margin, and net price realization, as well as generating what-if scenarios for different price points, promoted package groups, promotional mechanics, frequencies, and other variables and KPI objectives.

Bringing merchandising, loyalty and marketing strategies and insights ever-closer together to improve customer service is the name of the game for West Australia’s Liquor Barons liquor retailer as it brings on a fresh promotional planning platform. Liquor Barons is a WA-only retail co-operative with 80 liquor stores split into two brands: Liquor Barons (64 branded stores); and Bucks Off. The business has signed an agreement with Complexica for its Promotional Campaign Manager (PCM) product to help automate and streamline promotional planning and supplier portal functionality. Project scoping commences in January through to March and the intention is to go live with the platform from mid-2021.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that Liquor Barons in WA has selected Complexica's Promotional Campaign Manager (PCM) as its product of choice for promotional planning and supplier portal functionality. The project will begin with a scoping and specification phase in early January.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that it has expanded its relationship with DuluxGroup into the area of retail execution. DuluxGroup has been a strategic customer of Complexica since 2016, and this new contract will see DuluxGroup extend its use of Complexica’s Customer Opportunity Profiler (COP) and Larry, the Digital Analyst® – which are part of the Decision Cloud® software platform – into the Dulux Retail business unit.

DuluxGroup has stepped up its artificial intelligence (AI) investment to further improve its retail execution game. The paint retailer has again expanded its investment into Complexica’s marketing and sales platforms, extending the use of the vendor’s Customer Opportunity Profiler and  Larry, the Digital Analyst®, across its retail business unit. The two AI-powered offerings are part of Complexica’s Decision Cloud platform.

DuluxGroup first signed up to Complexica in 2016, initially rolling out Customer Opportunity Profiler (COP) system for its trade paints, texture coatings and protective coatings business. In 2018, DuluxGroup then extended usage to its group digital capability team, integrating COP with the Adobe Campaign Platform to drive more personalised campaigns.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that Bunzl has gone live with Complexica's CRM for in-field sales reps and account managers. Bunzl's deployment of Complexica's CRM augments earlier deployments of Complexica’s Order Management System (OMS) and Customer Opportunity Profiler (COP), all powered by Artificial Intelligence to provide sales reps with advanced capabilities for intelligent quoting, order processing, and guided selling.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimization, announced today that it has signed a contract with PFD Food Services for the deployment of its Decision Cloud® software platform for automating and optimising demand planning and replenishment activities. Under the contract, PFD will deploy Complexica’s Decision Cloud® – powered by Complexica’s award-winning Artificial Intelligence engine, Larry, the Digital Analyst® – across its national operation to optimize the replenishment of tens of thousands of products across 70 warehouses. The deployment will allow PFD to replace its legacy Demand & Replenishment Planning system and extend its use of Complexica’s software and Artificial Intelligence engine across the business.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimization, announced today that its Artificial Intelligence platform – Decision Cloud® – has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner in The Australian Business Awards 2020 for Business Innovation and Digital Transformation categories. The award was based on Complexica's innovative use of multiple, self-selecting algorithms to automatically access a vast array of data sources (both structured and unstructured, such as internet data scraped from relevant websites), analyse these datasets along with internal customer data, and provide optimised recommendations for sales, marketing, & supply chain staff on a fully automated basis.

Now in their fifteenth year, The Australian Business Awards (ABA) program provides an opportunity for high-performing organisations which implement world-class business initiatives and develop innovative products and services to be acknowledged and honoured for their achievements both nationally and internationally. The national winners are benchmarked in the international chapter of the program at The World Business Awards whereby participants are provided with the unique opportunity to benchmark themselves against the top performers globally.

Complexica Pty Ltd, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, announced today that the company's Chief Scientist, Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz, has been named one of Australia's 50 Leading Researchers for his work in Evolutionary Computation. Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz was also recently honoured with IEEE Lifetime Achievement Award for Artificial Intelligence Research, and named winner of the 2018 Science Excellence Awards in the category of STEM Professional (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).