Zeus Goes Live with ketteQ and Verito, Turning Decision Latency into Decision Speed

A structured transformation of people, process, and technology brings S&OP, demand, and supply planning onto a single platform, replacing multiple spreadsheets with faster forecasting and constraint-based capacity planning capabilities.

ATLANTA, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ketteQ, the supply chain orchestration company powered by Quintus™ Free-Range AI™, today announced that Zeus, a precision polymer extrusion and catheter manufacturer serving the medical, aerospace, energy, and automotive industries, has successfully gone live on the ketteQ planning platform with the assistance of implementation partner Verito Group. The solution brings Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), demand and supply planning, including constraint-based capacity planning, onto a single platform. Zeus is also piloting Quintus™ as the next step in its planning transformation.

For decades, Zeus has built its reputation on precision engineering and dependable service in industries where reliability is non-negotiable. That reputation was tested during COVID, when demand signals were highly variable and arriving too late to translate into solid production decisions, while lead times extended well beyond what Zeus's customers had come to expect. Rebuilding trust and building a supply chain planning foundation sturdy enough for a business planning to double in size over the next several years meant Zeus could no longer run its operations on Excel and planning tools that had reached their limits.

"Constraint-based planning is already making our planning process more efficient and helping our planners make better decisions that deliver immediate business value," said Tony Balliro, Vice President of Global Supply Chain, Zeus. "ketteQ is giving us the speed and visibility to act faster and make better decisions, and Verito helped us build the discipline to use it well. Together, that is what allows us to keep our promises to customers as we work to double our business."

Zeus's planning team had been managing forecasting and supply planning decisions across multiple spreadsheets. This process resulted in monthly reforecasting and planning that took a matter of weeks, not days. Zeus set out to replace that process with a single, governed platform and to treat the technology change as one part of a larger transformation of people and processes, not a standalone software swap. Before introducing new technology, Zeus reorganized its supply chain end to end, centralized its supply planning roles, and strengthened governance, so its people and processes were ready for the platform that followed.

"The technology only works if the organization is ready to use it. Our job at Verito was to make sure Zeus's team and processes could absorb what ketteQ made possible," said Shannon Crespin, Co-Founder, Verito Group.

Verito led the business requirements definition and the Solution Design Document behind the implementation and worked alongside Zeus's planning team to change how the organization made decisions, not just which system it used to make them. One recurring practice from that work: before treating any issue as a platform question, the team first asked whether it was a data issue, then a process issue, then a design gap, a discipline Zeus credits with keeping a complex change effort from turning into finger-pointing between teams.

With ketteQ live, Zeus's planners can now reforecast in hours rather than weeks and can justify manufacturing decisions with real time demand data instead of manual estimates. As a largely make-to-order manufacturer, Zeus depends on how well it uses production capacity. With constraint-based planning powered by PolymatiQ™, ketteQ's agentic solver, planners can test multiple what-if scenarios across capacity, sequencing, and customer commitments before committing resources, which has already made Zeus's planning process more efficient and its decisions stronger. Together, these changes free the team up to focus on the judgment calls only people can make, rather than the manual work of assembling the numbers behind them.

Building on that foundation, Zeus is now piloting Quintus™, ketteQ's Free-Range AI™, and taking a deliberate, measured approach. The pilot starts with planners collaborating across the end-to-end supply chain and making decisions informed by insights from Quintus™, with Zeus already seeing potential benefits across both demand and supply planning as the work progresses.

"Zeus set out to build a planning foundation for a business built to double in size, and this go-live is proof of what that vision looks like in practice. ketteQ and Verito are proud to have helped make it possible," said Mike Landry, CEO, ketteQ.

About ketteQ
ketteQ is the supply chain orchestration company powered by Free-Range AI™. Quintus™, its AI intelligence, is the only supply chain agent that reasons over any question, executes any action, and addresses any use case, unscripted, unconstrained, and fully governed, across Planning Solutions and Execution Solutions, above any ERP or planning platform the customer already runs. Powered by PolymatiQ™, ketteQ's patent-pending agentic solvers that explore the entire solution space and return the optimal answer in seconds, Quintus™ deploys in four to eight weeks with no rip-and-replace. ketteQ was founded in 2018 and has been running AI-native supply chain planning and orchestration in production before the category had a name. For more information, visit ketteQ.com.

About Zeus
Headquartered in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Zeus is the world's leading polymer extrusion and catheter design manufacturer. With over 60 years of experience, the company serves the medical, aerospace, energy, automotive, and fiber optics industries. Zeus leverages its advanced material science expertise to provide mission-critical solutions, enable customer innovation, and enhance lives. The company employs over 2,200 people worldwide. It operates manufacturing and technical facilities across South Carolina, New Jersey, Tennessee, California, Minnesota, China, and Ireland.

About Verito
Verito is a trusted consulting and implementation partner specializing in supply chain transformation and enterprise planning. With deep expertise in integration, operational strategy, and system deployment, Verito empowers organizations to turn complexity into competitive advantage. For more information, visit veritogroup.com.

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