Supply Chain Technology Vendors
Independent assessments of leading vendors across warehouse management, transportation, order management, point of sale, supply chain planning, and manufacturing execution.
Warehouse Management (WMS)
Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) optimize warehouse operations, inventory management, and fulfillment processes.
Manhattan Associates makes commerce-ready supply chains that bring all points of commerce together so you’re ready to sell and ready to execute. Across the store, through your network or from your fulfillment center, they design, build and deliver market-leading solutions that support both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability.
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands.
Infios (formerly Körber Supply Chain Software) provides warehouse management, warehouse execution, and transportation solutions spanning mid-market to enterprise operations. Rebranded in March 2025, the portfolio combines the former Körber WMS suite with MercuryGate TMS, acquired in October 2024, under a single supply chain software brand.
Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software) provides AI-driven supply chain solutions that help organizations transform their businesses. The Blue Yonder Platform and its cognitive solutions leverage AI/ML capabilities to drive autonomous supply chain planning and execution.
Tecsys provides supply chain management software for healthcare, retail distribution, and complex distribution environments. Their solutions are designed for organizations with demanding requirements for accuracy, compliance, and service levels.
Softeon is a WMS provider focused exclusively on optimizing warehouse and fulfillment operations. For over two decades, they have been helping customers succeed. Investing in R&D enables them to develop software to solve the most complex warehouse challenges.
Transportation Management (TMS)
Transportation Management Systems (TMS) plan, execute, and optimize the movement of goods across the supply chain.
e2open provides a connected supply chain software platform spanning planning, global trade, transportation, and channel management, linking a network of more than 400,000 trading partners. The company was acquired by WiseTech Global in August 2025 and now operates as part of the WiseTech portfolio.
Manhattan Active Transportation Management brings transportation planning and execution onto the same cloud-native platform as Manhattan’s warehouse and labor management. It continuously optimizes rating, routing, mode selection, and carrier collaboration, so transportation and distribution decisions are made together rather than in separate systems.
MercuryGate provides transportation management software that helps shippers, 3PLs, and carriers optimize their logistics operations. Acquired by Körber Supply Chain Software in October 2024, MercuryGate now operates as part of Infios. Its TMS platform handles complex multi-modal, multi-leg shipments with sophisticated optimization capabilities.
Alpega Group provides a comprehensive suite of transportation management solutions for shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers. Their modular platform covers planning, execution, visibility, and dock scheduling.
Pando is a modern logistics orchestration platform that uses AI to help enterprises optimize their transportation and fulfillment operations. Their platform provides real-time visibility and intelligent automation across the supply chain.
Order Management (OMS)
Order Management Systems (OMS) orchestrate order processing, fulfillment, and customer service across channels.
IBM Sterling Order Management provides comprehensive capabilities to orchestrate complex order fulfillment across all channels. As part of IBM’s supply chain portfolio, Sterling enables intelligent order promising, inventory visibility, and fulfillment optimization.
Manhattan Active Omni is a cloud-native order management platform that unifies order orchestration, enterprise inventory availability, and fulfillment optimization across every channel. It extends into customer service and store fulfillment, giving retailers a single view of orders and inventory from first click to final delivery.
Salesforce Order Management System brings order management to the Salesforce Customer 360 platform, connecting commerce, service, and fulfillment. Their solution leverages the Salesforce ecosystem for rapid deployment and integration.
KIBO provides a unified commerce platform that includes order management, personalization, and e-commerce capabilities. Their composable architecture allows retailers to adopt best-of-breed capabilities while maintaining a cohesive customer experience.

Fabric provides a modular commerce platform that includes OMS, storefront, and marketplace capabilities. Their headless architecture enables brands to create unique customer experiences while maintaining operational efficiency.
Supply Chain Planning (SCP)
Supply Chain Planning (SCP) solutions enable demand forecasting, S&OP, and network optimization.
SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and industries run better. Their supply chain planning solutions integrate seamlessly with SAP S/4HANA and other enterprise systems.
Oracle provides comprehensive cloud-based supply chain planning solutions that help organizations improve forecast accuracy, optimize inventory, and balance supply and demand. Their solutions leverage AI and machine learning for intelligent planning.
RELEX Solutions provides unified supply chain and retail planning solutions that leverage AI and machine learning. Their platform is designed for grocery, specialty retail, and consumer goods industries.
Kinaxis is a leading provider of cloud-based subscription software that enables customers to improve and accelerate analysis and decision-making across their supply chain operations. Their RapidResponse platform creates the foundation for managing multiple, interconnected supply chain processes.
Anaplan provides a cloud-native connected planning platform that helps organizations see, plan, and lead their businesses. Their supply chain planning solutions connect financial planning, sales planning, and operational planning.
Point of Sale (POS)
Point of Sale (POS) systems power retail transactions, inventory, and unified commerce experiences.
Cegid provides unified commerce solutions for specialty retail, fashion, and luxury brands. Their platform covers POS, clienteling, order management, and analytics in an integrated solution.

Aptos provides retail technology solutions including POS, merchandise management, and customer engagement. Their solutions are designed for retailers with complex requirements including multi-currency, multi-language, and sophisticated promotions.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce provides a comprehensive omnichannel solution for retail. The platform includes POS, e-commerce, call center, and back-office capabilities in an integrated solution.
LS Retail provides unified commerce solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics 365. Their platform serves retail, hospitality, and food service with POS, inventory, and customer engagement capabilities.
Sitoo provides a unified commerce platform that connects POS, inventory, and e-commerce. Their cloud-native solution is designed for retailers seeking agility and real-time capabilities across all channels.
Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Shopify POS extends the platform to brick-and-mortar retail with hardware and software for in-store transactions.
NewStore provides a mobile-first omnichannel platform designed for retail brands. Their solution enables store associates to deliver personalized experiences while managing inventory, fulfillment, and transactions from a single device.
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) manage and monitor production processes on the factory floor.
Siemens Opcenter is a portfolio of MES/MOM solutions that manage manufacturing operations. The platform includes execution, quality, intelligence, and planning capabilities for discrete, process, and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Dassault Systèmes DELMIA provides manufacturing operations management capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Their solutions enable digital twin-driven manufacturing with integrated planning, simulation, and execution.
Rockwell Automation, through its Plex acquisition, provides a comprehensive smart manufacturing platform. Plex delivers cloud-native MES capabilities that connect enterprise systems with shop floor operations.
AVEVA provides MES and manufacturing operations management solutions for process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturing. Their platform excels in industries like chemicals, food & beverage, and life sciences.
ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION
Robotics and automation vendors transforming warehouse operations, in-store retail, yard management, and transportation with autonomous mobile robots, goods-to-person systems, AI-powered fulfillment, and driverless vehicles.
Symbotic builds end-to-end AI-powered warehouse automation systems and is the technology behind Walmart's massive distribution center modernization. Their platform uses autonomous robots, AI software, and high-density storage to automate receiving, storage, picking, and palletization, with the SymMicro platform extending this capability into smaller in-store and near-store micro-fulfillment hubs. Symbotic's acquisition of Walmart's robotics unit (formerly Alert Innovation) positions them as a full-spectrum automation provider from the distribution center to the back of the store.

TGW Logistics is an Austrian intralogistics specialist that designs and builds fully integrated automated warehouse systems, from high-bay storage and conveyor networks to goods-to-person picking stations and shipping sorters. Their solutions serve major fashion, grocery, and general merchandise retailers with high-throughput operations that handle millions of items daily. TGW takes a lifecycle approach, offering design, implementation, and ongoing operational support as a single integrated partner.
Hai Robotics is the creator of the Autonomous Case-handling Robot (ACR) system, a category of warehouse robotics that retrieves and delivers individual cases and totes rather than entire shelving units. Their robots navigate dense storage environments, reaching heights up to 10 meters to retrieve specific inventory and bring it directly to pick stations. Hai Robotics' systems enable high-density storage with rapid throughput, making them especially effective for operations with large SKU assortments and fast-moving inventory.

Geek+ is a global leader in autonomous mobile robot solutions for smart logistics, offering goods-to-person, sorting, and moving systems for warehouse and distribution operations. Their robots handle everything from bin picking and pallet transport to high-density storage retrieval, supported by an AI-driven fleet management platform. Geek+ has deployed tens of thousands of robots worldwide for brands like Nike and Decathlon, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July 2025 as the first publicly traded AMR warehouse-robotics company.
Exotec builds the Skypod system, a goods-to-person robotic solution where autonomous robots travel both on the ground and up storage racks to retrieve and deliver products at high speed. The system supports picks up to five times faster than manual operations and scales easily by adding more robots rather than redesigning the warehouse layout. Exotec serves major brands across retail, grocery, and industrial distribution, with installations spanning multiple continents.
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AutoStore is the inventor of cube-based automated storage and retrieval, using robots that ride on top of a dense aluminum grid to retrieve bins and deliver them to workstations. The system maximizes storage density by up to four times compared to traditional shelving, making it ideal for operations with high SKU counts and limited floor space. AutoStore integrates with major WMS platforms via standardized APIs and supports a wide range of fulfillment models from e-commerce to micro-fulfillment.
Attabotics ceased operations in mid-2025 after entering creditor protection, and its system is no longer commercially available. The company had reimagined warehouse storage with a vertical, 3D robotic storage and retrieval system inspired by the structure of an ant colony, using shuttles that moved vertically and horizontally within a compact structure suited to urban micro-fulfillment. The profile is retained for reference; buyers should evaluate actively supported alternatives.
Locus Robotics is one of the most widely deployed AMR platforms in warehouse fulfillment, with collaborative robots that work alongside human pickers to dramatically increase throughput and reduce walking time. Their LocusBots direct workers through optimized pick paths and transport completed orders to pack stations autonomously, with reported productivity gains exceeding 200% in multiple deployments. Locus operates across the broadest partner ecosystem in the industry, with validated integrations across Manhattan Associates, Blue Yonder, and Koerber Supply Chain.

GreyOrange builds the GreyMatter fulfillment orchestration platform, which uses AI to coordinate robots, inventory, and workforce in real time across warehouse and store environments. Rather than just providing hardware, GreyOrange focuses on the decision-making layer that determines which robot does what, when, and where, dynamically adapting to demand changes throughout the day. Their approach allows operations to mix different robot types and automate fulfillment workflows from a single intelligence layer.
Fetch Robotics developed autonomous mobile robots for material movement, data collection, and warehouse transport, sold for several years as Zebra Technologies' AMR line following the 2021 acquisition. In late 2025 Zebra exited the robotics automation segment and sold the business to Skild AI. Prospective buyers should confirm current product roadmaps and support commitments before evaluating.
Carrybots provides compact mobile robotic solutions for intralogistics, designed to move goods efficiently within warehouses and production facilities. Their AGVs and AMRs handle transport tasks between workstations, picking zones, and shipping areas with minimal infrastructure changes. Carrybots focuses on ease of deployment and scalability, allowing operations to start small and expand their robotic fleet as volume grows.
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6 River Systems, part of the Ocado Group and today sold as the Ocado Mobile Robot System under the Ocado Intelligent Automation umbrella, builds collaborative mobile robots that work alongside warehouse associates to streamline picking, putaway, and sorting. Their "Chuck" robots guide workers through optimized pick paths, reducing training time and increasing throughput. The platform supports batch and discrete picking workflows and integrates with leading warehouse management systems.
RightHand Robotics specializes in autonomous robotic piece-picking for e-commerce and retail fulfillment, using AI-driven vision and adaptive grippers to handle tens of thousands of different products. Their RightPick platform learns and improves with every pick, enabling reliable automation of the each-pick workflows that have traditionally resisted robotic solutions. RightHand's systems integrate into goods-to-person stations and sort walls, turning the picking bottleneck into a consistent, data-driven operation.
Pickle Robot builds AI-powered robotic systems specifically designed to unload trailers and containers of non-palletized, floor-loaded freight. Their mobile robots drive into trailers, identify and pick individual boxes using computer vision, and place them onto conveyors at rates of 400 to 1,500 packages per hour. Already in production with UPS and handling over 35 million pounds of freight in 2025 alone, Pickle Robot targets the "last 50 feet" at the dock, one of the most physically demanding and high-turnover jobs in the supply chain.
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Kindred, acquired by Ocado in 2020 and now marketed under the Ocado Intelligent Automation umbrella, built its reputation on AI-powered robotic piece-picking systems that learn to handle a wide variety of products without item-level pre-programming. The technology combines reinforcement learning with teleoperation data, continuously improving grasping and sorting accuracy in the picking and sorting stages of fulfillment, where product variability makes traditional automation difficult.

Berkshire Grey combines AI and robotics to automate the most labor-intensive parts of fulfillment, including picking, sorting, and packing for retail and e-commerce operations. Their solutions handle diverse product assortments, from irregular items to polybags, and are designed for omnichannel and micro-fulfillment environments. Berkshire Grey was taken private by SoftBank Group in 2023 and continues to develop its platform, including the BG FLEX mobile robotic system, under SoftBank ownership.

Vecna Robotics provides autonomous mobile robots for pallet and case transport in warehouse and manufacturing environments, handling the heavy material movement tasks that create bottlenecks between receiving, storage, and shipping. Their robots navigate dynamically in mixed human-robot environments and integrate with WMS and WES platforms to receive and execute transport tasks in real time. Vecna focuses on the unglamorous but critical transport layer, ensuring materials flow continuously between workstations without manual intervention.
BALYO transforms standard forklift trucks into autonomous vehicles using its proprietary geoguidance navigation technology, which uses the existing warehouse structure as a map rather than requiring additional infrastructure like wires or reflectors. Their robotic forklifts handle pallet transport, put-away, and retrieval across distribution centers and manufacturing plants. BALYO offers a pragmatic entry point for operations looking to automate material handling without overhauling their existing fleet.
AGILOX manufactures intelligent autonomous mobile robots for material transport in warehouse and production environments. Their robots use decentralized swarm intelligence rather than a central fleet controller, allowing them to self-organize and adapt to changing layouts and demand patterns in real time. AGILOX systems handle pallet transport, tugger workflows, and cross-docking with minimal infrastructure requirements, making them a flexible option for operations looking to automate internal logistics.
Boston Dynamics brings its Stretch robot to warehouse operations, purpose-built for the autonomous unloading of floor-loaded trailers and shipping containers. Stretch uses advanced computer vision and a mobile arm to detect, grasp, and place boxes of varying sizes onto conveyors without human intervention inside the trailer. Deployed by companies like Gap and NFI, Stretch targets one of the most physically demanding and injury-prone tasks in inbound logistics, turning unpredictable trailer unloads into a consistent, automated process.
Agility Robotics is pioneering the use of humanoid robots in supply chain environments with Digit, a bipedal mobile manipulation robot designed to work in spaces built for people. Digit can handle totes, move inventory, and perform repetitive warehouse tasks alongside human workers without requiring facility redesign. Paired with the Agility Arc cloud fleet management platform, Digit represents a new category of general-purpose automation for distribution centers navigating persistent labor shortages.
Outrider is automating distribution yard operations with fully autonomous, electric yard trucks that move trailers between parking spots and dock doors without a human driver. Their system handles the entire sequence, including autonomous hitching, trailer positioning with centimeter-level precision, and glad-hand connections, in mixed-traffic yard environments. Validated by TUV SUD for functional safety, Outrider addresses one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in supply chain operations, where manual yard jockeying creates delays, safety risks, and inefficiency between the road and the dock.
Gatik is the first U.S. company to operate fully driverless trucks at commercial scale, focused on short-haul, fixed-route autonomous delivery between distribution centers and retail stores. Their Level 4 autonomous box trucks run daily revenue-generating middle-mile routes for Walmart, Kroger, and Loblaw across multiple states and Canadian provinces. With over $600 million in contracted revenue and 60,000+ driverless orders completed without incident, Gatik is proving that autonomous middle-mile freight is no longer a pilot program.
Aurora Innovation is building the Aurora Driver, a self-driving system for Class 8 trucks that is now operating commercially on highway corridors across the U.S. Sun Belt. The company surpassed 100,000 driverless miles with zero safety incidents attributed to the system and is scaling to hundreds of trucks by the end of 2026. Aurora's autonomous long-haul trucking addresses the driver shortage head-on, enabling 20+ hours of daily utilization on dedicated freight lanes between major logistics hubs.

Matthews Automation Solutions provides integrated material handling and automation systems, including conveyor systems, sortation, print-and-apply labeling, and warehouse execution technology. Their solutions connect picking, packing, and shipping workflows into a unified automated operation, with particular strength in high-volume fulfillment and distribution environments. Matthews combines hardware engineering with software intelligence to optimize throughput and accuracy across the entire outbound process.
EuroSort specializes in high-speed, modular sorting systems built around their Cross Tray Sorter technology, handling parcels, polybags, and irregularly shaped items with precision. Their systems are widely used in postal, courier, and e-commerce fulfillment operations where throughput and accuracy at scale are critical. Recent integrations with AI-powered robotic induction automate the loading process, further reducing manual touchpoints in the sort line.
Simbe Robotics deploys Tally, an autonomous in-store robot that continuously scans retail shelves to capture real-time data on inventory levels, pricing accuracy, planogram compliance, and out-of-stock conditions. Tally operates autonomously alongside shoppers during store hours, providing actionable intelligence that helps store teams prioritize restocking and identify lost sales opportunities. Deployed chainwide at BJ's Wholesale Club, SpartanNash, and other major retailers, Simbe is defining the category of store intelligence through physical AI.
Dexory combines autonomous robots with an AI-powered real-time visibility platform called DexoryView to deliver continuous, accurate warehouse inventory data. Their robots autonomously scan warehouses and provide a digital twin of operations, achieving up to 99.9% inventory accuracy without manual cycle counts. The platform gives operations teams actionable insights into space utilization, stock positioning, and workflow bottlenecks, turning warehouse data from a periodic snapshot into a live feed.

VCO Systems is an Atlanta-based supply chain consulting and technology firm founded in 2013 by former Manhattan Associates consultants. The company specializes in WMS implementation and light-directed warehouse automation — put walls, pick-to-light, and put-to-store systems — alongside labor management and omnichannel fulfillment services. As a longstanding Manhattan Associates consulting partner, VCO focuses on bridging the gap between WMS software and physical execution on the warehouse floor.
SVT Robotics builds the SOFTBOT platform, an integration middleware layer that dramatically accelerates the deployment of warehouse robotics by providing pre-built, certified connectors between robots and enterprise systems. Instead of months of custom integration work, SVT enables operations to connect new robot vendors to their WMS in weeks, supporting a multi-vendor approach without the traditional integration overhead. The platform acts as a universal translator between automation hardware and warehouse software, making it easier to add, swap, or scale robotic solutions.