Global Supply & Demand: Key Vendors in Supply Chain Planning

In the context of global supply and demand, several key vendors stand out from the crowd when it comes to supply chain planning software. 

These vendors continue to offer comprehensive solutions that help businesses manage and optimise their supply chain operations effectively. 

Here, Supply Chain Digital takes a look at some of the leading vendors.

Blue Yonder

Headquarters: Scottsdale, Arizona
CEO: Duncan Angove
Key clients: Driscoll’s, Microsoft, PepsiCo

Blue Yonder provides 3,000 of the world’s leading brands with the ability to utilise the full power of their data to integrate, process and take action at scale across supply chains.

Its supply chain data cloud provides a single, end-to-end view, allowing businesses to plan proactively, execute flawlessly and deliver world-class experiences to customers.

Clearly, during this ongoing era of uncertainty, companies need to future proof their operations. 

Enter Luminate, a leading supply chain management solution known for its capabilities in real-time visibility, demand management and lifecycle pricing. 

This intelligence-enriched, integrated technology platform spans supply chain, retail planning, logistics and delivery, leveraging machine learning to predict and resolve supply chain disruptions. 

Blue Yonder was recently named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for supply chain planning solutions. 

o9 Solutions

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas
CEO: Chakri Gottemukkala
Key clients: ABInBev, Amazon, Toyota​​​​​​​

o9’s Supply Chain Master Planning is designed to make supply chains more cost-effective in responding to market demand. 

It means clients can leverage advanced data management, high performance supply/demand match solvers and rapid what-if scenario planning capabilities:

• Data-backed planning: Poor quality of master data related to supply chain network, lead times, constraints and costs leads to poor plans. The o9 Solutions platform can level up planning using data-backed insights
• Synchronised plans: Avoid siloed plans across distribution, manufacturing and procurement resulting in excess inventory and costs when demand changes.
• Rapid what-ifs: o9 provides real-time supportability and cost-to-serve answers to different demand and supply scenarios.

Kinaxis Maestro

Headquarters: Ottawa, Canada
CEO: John Sicard
Key clients: HCLTech, IBM, Smith+Nephew

Kinaxis Maestro – formerly known as RapidResponse – fuses numerous proprietary analytical technologies and techniques, empowering businesses with the answers they’re seeking exactly when they need them. 

The ultimate aim is to help users operate with both agility and efficiency regardless of the situation.

AI truly is at the heart of the Maestro platform. Its AI-powered user experience boosts productivity by helping users quickly learn from documentation and best practices, allowing for faster onboarding and more efficient work. 

Maestro also has the capacity to generate dashboards, scenarios and much more, making it simple for users to explore and interact with data in intuitive new ways.

Oracle

Headquarters: Austin, Texas
CEO: Safra Catz
Key clients: Apollo Tyres, GE Power, Zebra ​​​​​​​

Oracle pledges “better results faster” for customers who manage their supply chain planning solution end-to-end in the cloud. 

Those harnessing the power of Oracle Fusion Cloud can effortlessly combine demand insights, supply constraints and stakeholder input, while applying built-in machine learning (ML), to improve profitability and accelerate customer service.

Oracle’s supply chain planning software offers numerous game-changing capabilities, including in the areas of demand management, S&OP planning and production scheduling. 

When it comes to the former, the platform uses ML to generate more accurate forecasts, while measuring and tracking the root cause of forecast error.

SAP

Headquarters: Walldorf, Germany
CEO: Christian Klein
Key clients: DMK Group, Hyundai MOBIS, ZF Group

SAP Integrated Business Planning for supply chain allows firms to plan for a sustainable, risk-resilient future.

Powered by SAP HANA, the cloud-based solution combines S&OP, forecasting and demand, response and supply, demand-driven replenishment and inventory planning.

Ultimately, users can enjoy the following benefits: 

• Automated, tightly coordinated supply chain planning processes
• Advanced machine learning algorithms and planning capabilities
• Native integration with SAP Supply Chain Control Tower and other solutions

Thanks to AI-powered algorithms, customers stand to improve their short- to long-term forecast accuracy, while empowering planners with multi-level supply planning.

e2open

Headquarters: Austin, Texas
CEO: Andrew Appel
Key clients: Avon, Barilla, Smurfit Kappa​​​​​​​

Today’s complex problems call for a strategic approach using a connected, collaborative, high-performance planning solution.

With e2open’s connected planning, customers can reap the benefits from a platform that combines agility and breadth – meeting both immediate and long-term needs.

The planning application suite features demand planning, allowing firms to understand, anticipate and shape demand using automation and ML algorithms, and supply planning, which quickly delivers feasible and profitable plans while enabling users to easily identify and address supply bottlenecks.

Coupa

Headquarters: San Mateo, California
CEO: Leagh Turner
Key clients: Groupon, Nestlé, Unilever

Coupa’s AI-driven optimisation platform leaves clients well placed to outmanoeuvre disruptions, confidently balance trade-offs and multiply margins in their physical supply chains.

Key capabilities include the demand modeller, designed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of demand modelling, forecasting and planning. By combining internal and industry data while applying AI, companies can achieve richer context and enhanced demand predictions for the future. 

Meanwhile, the supply chain modeller uses AI to optimise wider networks, inventory and transportation routes. 

Anaplan

Headquarters: Miami, Florida
CEO: Charlie Gottdiener
Key clients: Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, Sonos, Tata Steel ​​​​​​​

Disruption, in the words of Anaplan, is “no match for connected supply chain planning”. 

With its supply chain management platform, clients stand to unlock true, end-to-end supply chain visibility.

Anaplan for S&OP unites sales and operations planning efforts, enabling users to make faster, more profitable decisions. In the demand planning space, enhanced agility and data-driven insights mean firms can better anticipate customer expectations and understand demand.

Procurement-wise, Anaplan drives collaboration with suppliers to improve the economics of direct materials sourcing.

Logility

Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia
CEO: Allan Dow
Key clients: Big Lots, Fender, Hasbro​​​​​​​

Logility’s industry-leading digital supply chain platform provides optimised demand, inventory, manufacturing and supply plans – giving leaders the confidence and control to increase margins and service levels, while delivering sustainable supply chains.

Designed with speed and agility in mind, the cloud-based platform harnesses the power of generative AI (Gen AI), ML and advanced, AI-driven algorithms to help deliver integrated planning and operations across the end-to-end supply chain. 

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These vendors are recognised for their innovative use of technology, including AI, machine learning and real-time data analytics, to enhance supply chain planning and management.

Their solutions cater to various industries, helping businesses improve efficiency, reduce costs and better respond to market demands.

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