The Supply Chain Index: Most Innovative Tech Companies

It’s obvious, but worth reemphasising: supply chain executives and their teams need planning and management solutions they can trust. 

What’s more, supply chain leaders of today must ensure they have advanced AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities at their disposal to stay ahead of the curve.

Supply Chain Digital is this week introducing The Supply Chain Index, which, on a regular basis, will examine the industry-leading companies and platforms which are blazing a trail in the supply chain space. 

To kick things off, we’re taking a look at the most innovative supply chain technology companies. 

Blue Yonder

With CEO Duncan Angove at the helm, Blue Yonder is trusted by countless retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers to optimise and streamline their supply chains end to end.

This stretches from planning and fulfilment right the way through to delivery and returns. 

Driven by AI, the company’s supply chain platform and multi-enterprise, multi-tier network facilitate accurate forecasting and adaptable management of capacity, inventory and transportation.

In essence, Blue Yonder equips businesses to handle contemporary challenges and uncertainties with more resilient, sustainable operations, leading to increased customer satisfaction, improved profitability and smooth performance.

o9 Solutions

o9 Solutions is considered a leader in the supply chain technology space thanks to several key strengths.

The company leverages advanced AI and ML learning to provide a comprehensive, unified platform for supply chain planning, integrated business planning (IBP) and demand forecasting, allowing clients to harness data for more accurate decision-making and improved agility.

o9’s AI/ML demand forecasting solution, for example, brings actionable insights, easy collaboration and built-in models for new product introductions (NPIs), and can run numerous scenarios through ML-powered, driver-based forecasting.

The result is a reduction of 3-5% in lost sales and 5-15% in inventory, as well as five to 10 times more productivity.

Kinaxis 

Kinaxis is leading the charge with its integration of AI into supply chain planning and end-to-end orchestration, empowering organisations to effectively manage their digital supply chains. 

The company blends human expertise with AI, allowing supply chain professionals to rapidly detect critical data patterns, convert raw data into actionable insights and make informed decisions with confidence.

By automating routine processes and enhancing the strategic potential of planners, Kinaxis helps businesses boost the value of their planning teams while significantly shortening response times to supply chain disruptions and opportunities.

Logility

Logility abides by a policy of AI-first supply chain management. 

Its flagship Logility Decision Intelligence Platform – with built-in AI – is a fully-integrated, cloud-based solution suite that integrates planning and operations across the end-to-end supply chain.

Thanks to the immense power of generative AI (Gen AI), supply chain stakeholders have the information they need at their fingertips. Data is distilled into insights that drive better, faster decisions, resulting in truly transformational supply chain improvements.

Unsurprisingly, Logility is recognised as a leader in the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Magic Quadrant.

SAP

SAP has been busy harnessing the power of AI across its entire catalogue of supply chain cloud solutions.

So far, this has included integrating Gen AI tech with the SAP Ariba Category Management solution to help procurement professionals build comprehensive and effective category strategies at a faster pace.

Joule, SAP’s Gen AI copilot, continues to be embedded and will soon be able to look across a company’s supply chain data and propose solutions for supply chain challenges in simple, natural language. 

SAP’s unique access to data across a business’ supply chain enables Joule to provide an unmatched level of transparency and insight to address complex issues.

Oracle

With its suite of dozens of embedded Gen AI capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle enhances decision-making among supply chain, procurement and manufacturing professionals, while enhancing user experiences.

In Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), for example, generative AI supports item descriptions in Oracle Product Lifecycle Management. This means firms can save time, reduce errors and improve the overall quality of product descriptions to increase customer engagement and boost sales.

Ultimately, by infusing Gen AI across its cloud offerings, Oracle enables more intelligent, automated processes and data-driven insights.

OMP

With Unison Planning from OMP, organisations are handed the capabilities required to truly master their supply chains.

It enables firms to obtain complete visibility throughout their entire supply networks, while aligning stakeholders to work in unison for maximum efficiency and value.

At the heart of Unison Planning is faster, more confident decision-making powered by AI, helping leaders to turn market volatility into a strategic advantage and boost performance. 

Crucially, OMP combines this cutting-edge technology with expert advice based on its in-depth knowledge of various industries. 

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