WHY DECISIONS STALL
Take an order that cannot ship. Four teams each hold part of the answer. Sales knows the customer need and planning knows the supply. Finance knows the economics and operations knows what can move. No single system holds the whole decision.
THE COORDINATION TAX
Teams settle these decisions by spreadsheet, email, and meeting. Auger calls this cost the Coordination Tax. Companies pay it in planner hours, extra inventory, expedited freight, and lost demand. Each day of delay removes options.
FROM VERTICAL FUNCTIONS TO HORIZONTAL FLOWS
Auger makes the decisions that cross functions. It builds one live model of the business from existing systems and operator knowledge. It then weighs each decision against the outcome the whole business tracks.
ONE DECISION ACROSS EVERY FUNCTION, WRITTEN BACK TO EXISTING SYSTEMS
HOW AUGER WORKS
01
CONNECT
Auger connects to existing systems and captures the know-how around them.
02
REASON
Auger weighs trade-offs and constraints across functions and picks the best decision.
03
EXECUTE
Auger writes each decision back into the systems the business already runs.
04
LEARN
Auger records each outcome and uses it to improve the next decision.
EACH COMPANY SETS THE LIMITS AUGER WORKS WITHIN. AUGER RECORDS EVERY ACTION FOR REVIEW.
THE WHOLE BUSINESS. MOVING AS ONE.
Gartner, Emerging Market Quadrant for Integrated Supply Chain AI Agents – Established Vendors, Tess Frenzel, Carlton Sapp, Vas Plessas, Snigdha Dewal, Amanda Moreno, Christian Titze, 28 October 2026. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.