Ecosystem

Haizol operates a custom manufacturing and industrial sourcing marketplace connecting buyers with verified factories across processes such as CNC machining, injection molding, sheet metal fabrication and other engineered manufacturing services.

Samir Saci is a Supply Chain engineer and data science practitioner who publishes practical tutorials on forecasting, logistics, inventory optimization, sustainability and AI-enabled operational workflows. His work focuses on translating analytical methods and Python models into applied Supply Chain use cases.

Miebach is a specialist Supply Chain consultancy operating across strategy, logistics engineering and digital solutions. Its work spans network and facility design, planning, automation and the implementation of operational Supply Chain systems.

Argon & Co is an international management consultancy specializing in operations strategy and transformation. Its Supply Chain capabilities include planning, manufacturing, logistics, procurement, operating-model design and performance improvement.

Vincent Cotte is an e-commerce and digital-transformation executive with more than 20 years of experience. His background includes consulting at Kearney and leadership roles at Amazon, La Redoute and Carrefour, with a focus on international growth, digital commerce and new business models. He publishes the E-Commerce 2.0 newsletter on AI, marketplaces, retail platforms and changing commerce operating models.

Koen Wijnen publishes research-oriented analysis on complex systems , multi-agent coordination and supply-chain decision architecture . His work examines how interacting decision agents can create instability when local objectives, feedback effects and system-wide constraints are not governed together.

Logistics Management is an industry publication covering transportation, warehousing, logistics technology and supply-chain operations.

LlamaIndex provides frameworks and services for connecting language models and agents to enterprise documents, knowledge and data. Its capabilities support enterprise RAG , document processing and knowledge-agent applications.

LangChain provides frameworks and tooling for building, orchestrating, evaluating and monitoring applications and agents based on language models. Its ecosystem includes LangGraph and LangSmith for agent engineering .

KPMG Supply Chain provides consulting and advisory services across supply-chain strategy, planning, procurement, operations, technology and risk.

Ken Chadwick is an analyst and commentator on Supply Chain Planning, technology markets and vendor capabilities.

Jonathon Karelse is a forecasting and demand-planning practitioner focused on forecast value, process design and organizational capability.

John Sicard is an executive voice on concurrent planning, orchestration and Supply Chain technology associated with Kinaxis.

Joannes Vermorel is the founder of Lokad and a public voice on probabilistic forecasting, quantitative Supply Chain and the limitations of conventional planning practices.

Jan C. Fransoo is an academic focused on operations planning, retail supply chains, urban logistics and emerging markets.

Jan Burian is an analyst at ARC Advisory Group focused on industrial software, digital twins, manufacturing operations and technology adoption across process and discrete industries. His work assesses industrial software and Industry 4.0 platforms.

ISM is a professional association providing education, certification, research, indexes and events for supply management and procurement professionals.

The Institute of Business Forecasting and Planning provides education, certification, research, events and job resources for forecasting, demand planning, S&OP and IBP.

INSEAD Technology and Operations Management conducts research and education across operations, technology, analytics, innovation and supply-chain management.

Henrik Christensen is the Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair of Robot Systems and a distinguished professor at UC San Diego. His work spans robot systems, manufacturing, autonomy, perception, policy and industrial integration. He studies industrial robotics as a complete technical and organizational system.

Helen Greiner is a robotics entrepreneur and co-founder of iRobot. Her career also includes founding CyPhy Works and leading ventures focused on consumer, aerial and field robotics. Her work spans robotics entrepreneurship , autonomous systems and product commercialization.

GS1 develops global identification, barcode, data-exchange and traceability standards used across supply chains.

Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute conducts research, education and industry collaboration across logistics, transportation, supply-chain design and operations.

Forrester provides research and advisory services covering enterprise technology, digital operations, data, AI and business transformation.

EyeOn is a forecasting and planning specialist providing consulting, implementation support, recurring planning services and training. Its areas of work include forecasting and demand management, S&OP and IBP, supply planning, inventory optimization, strategic scenario planning and digital supply-chain transformation. EyeOn also offers the Honeycomb forecasting platform and API.

Digital Supply Chain Institute is a nonprofit, member-led research organization focused on applied digital supply-chain practices, operating models and transformation.

DC Velocity is a logistics and distribution publication covering warehousing, transportation, automation, fulfilment and supply-chain operations.

CSCMP is a professional association providing research, education, events and community resources across logistics and supply-chain management.

Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management conducts research, executive education and industry collaboration across logistics, supply-chain strategy, resilience and operations.

Conor E. Doherty is a practitioner voice on lead-time forecasting, uncertainty and quantitative Supply Chain Planning.

CIPS is a professional body providing education, qualifications, standards, research and events for procurement and supply professionals.

Chakri Gottemukkala is the co-founder and CEO of o9 Solutions and a public voice on digital planning, enterprise knowledge models and AI-enabled decision-making.

Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing conducts research, education and industry collaboration across manufacturing strategy, digital operations, industrial systems and innovation.

Bram Desmet is a Supply Chain strategist and author focused on planning, financial alignment, S&OP and operating-model design.

Thomas Barciet is a Solution Architect at Intuiflow by Algo , specializing in demand-driven supply-chain planning for manufacturers and distributors. His work focuses on helping organizations move from reactive, forecast-dependent planning toward execution guided by actual consumption, inventory buffers and operational priorities. His areas of activity include material planning, production flow, scheduling and the practical application of Demand Driven methods. Barciet also communicates supply-chain concepts through accessible operational examples, including flow regulation, bottleneck management and the Theory of Constraints.

Mark Sawaya is a Partner and North America Operations Practice Lead at Porsche Consulting . He advises organizations on operations and supply-chain transformation across industrial, med-tech, aerospace and defense environments. His public work addresses supply-chain digitization, operational excellence, network optimization and the impact of AI on planning and execution. In the Reuters panel, he identified end-to-end network optimization as a major source of value and questioned whether traditional monthly S&OP cycles remain appropriate as decision latency decreases.

Prashant Gopalan is Director of System Modernization at Carpenter Technology Corporation . His work focuses on modernizing operational systems in a specialty-materials environment serving demanding and highly regulated industries. In the Reuters panel discussion, he compared autonomous-planning adoption with the gradual development of self-driving vehicles. His contribution emphasized retaining people in the decision loop while confidence, institutional knowledge and technical controls develop over time.

Chinmay Bhatt is Head of Global Planning and Execution at Philips . His work spans global planning, execution and S&OP in a complex healthcare-technology environment. His public perspective on AI adoption emphasizes that technology is only one part of transformation. He frames the implementation sequence as process, people, platform and then AI, with change management representing a larger challenge than tool selection alone.

Diego Faria is a supply-chain planning executive and Vice President of ETO North America Planning at Schneider Electric . His work covers planning in engineer-to-order environments, where customer commitments, configurable products, material availability and operational constraints must be coordinated across the network. His public contribution to the autonomous-planning discussion focuses on confidence-based adoption. Planners validate AI-generated recommendations over repeated cycles, allowing autonomy to increase only when the system demonstrates consistent performance.

Gregory Pitstick is a supply-chain and operations transformation leader and Managing Director at Huron . He works with manufacturers, distributors and other complex organizations on supply-chain strategy, operational improvement and technology-enabled transformation. He has more than 35 years of experience spanning digital transformation, global supply-chain design, planning, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution and operating-model modernization. His work connects operational performance with financial outcomes such as working capital, service, margin and revenue protection. Pitstick’s recent public analysis focuses on practical applications of supply-chain AI , including planning-parameter governance, inventory optimization, digital twins, disruption response and change management. He emphasizes improving existing processes and technology stacks before introducing greater automation.

Bob Ferrari is an analyst and commentator on Supply Chain strategy, planning technology and industry developments.

Bart De Muynck is an independent logistics and Supply Chain analyst with previous leadership and research roles at project44 and Gartner. His work covers transportation technology, visibility, digital transformation and logistics operating models. He focuses on how Supply Chain visibility and freight technology change operational decisions.

AWESOME is a professional network advancing women’s leadership in supply chain through research, events, mentoring and executive community programs.

ASCM is a professional association providing education, certification, standards, research and events across supply-chain planning and operations.

ARC Advisory Group provides market research and advisory services covering industrial automation, manufacturing, logistics and enterprise operations technology.

Anne Robinson is an operations-research and analytics leader with experience in Supply Chain, optimization and enterprise decision-making.

Andreas Wieland is an academic voice on Supply Chain resilience, risk, transformation and systems thinking.

ALICE , the Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe, coordinates research, innovation and collaboration across European logistics and supply-chain stakeholders.

Adde Jans is a practitioner voice on forecast accuracy, planning effectiveness and the connection between metrics and business decisions.

Alain Matar is a supply-chain practitioner and planning-system builder whose work covers Integrated Business Planning , demand and supply planning, inventory optimization, logistics and the practical use of AI coding tools in planning workflows. He works as a supply-chain manager at Messer Americas and has held operational and logistics roles across industrial, retail and consulting environments. His public work focuses on translating planning discipline into usable applications, including exception management, forecast-model selection, inventory visibility, executive review packs and planner workbenches. Matar holds a master’s degree in supply-chain management from the Schulich School of Business and the ASCM Certified Supply Chain Professional credential. His recent work examines how practitioners can use Claude and other AI development tools to prototype planning applications while maintaining appropriate controls around security, integration, testing and accountability.

Sucharita Kodali is a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester covering e-commerce, omnichannel retail, marketplaces, digital commerce technology, fulfilment and consumer behavior. Her work links digital commerce strategy with retail operations and technology investment.

Steve Dennis is President of SageBerry Consulting, a retail strategist, advisor and author, and a former senior executive at Neiman Marcus. His work focuses on customer relevance, retail transformation , growth strategy and operating-model change.

Paula Rosenblum is a retired retail analyst and co-founder of Retail Systems Research. Her work covered retail operations, technology investment, inventory, customer experience and the differences between high- and low-performing retailers. Her research linked retail benchmarking with persistent operating fundamentals.

Nikki Baird is a retail strategist and product executive at Aptos, with a background in retail research, technology strategy, product management and the modernization of store and commerce platforms. Her work connects retail strategy with product and platform roadmaps.

Deborah Weinswig is the founder and CEO of Coresight Research and an analyst of retail, technology, artificial intelligence, consumer behavior and global market trends. Her work connects retail research with technology and consumer-market intelligence.

Bryan Gildenberg is North American Managing Director at Retail Cities and founder of Confluencer Commerce. He analyzes retail, consumer goods, commerce media, category strategy and brand-retailer relationships. His work connects category management with shopper and channel economics.

Brian Kilcourse is a managing partner and retail-technology analyst at Retail Systems Research. His work covers retail systems, store operations, analytics, unified commerce and differences between leading and lagging retail practices. He connects retail technology with frontline operations and customer outcomes.

Simon Jacobson is a Vice President Analyst at Gartner covering Supply Chain operations, manufacturing strategy, autonomous operations and the connected industrial workforce. His work focuses on autonomous operations and industrial operating-model change.

Mike Guilfoyle is a vice president and lead analyst at ARC Advisory Group covering industrial digital transformation, manufacturing, energy, industrial IoT and operational technology. His work connects operational technology with enterprise and industrial architecture.

Marco Macchi is a full professor at Politecnico di Milano whose work covers asset lifecycle management, maintenance, smart manufacturing, digital twins and industrial technology management. His research connects asset lifecycle management with operational performance.

Jay Lee is a distinguished professor and director of the Industrial AI Center at the University of Maryland. His work covers industrial artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance, intelligent manufacturing and machine-data-driven reliability. He connects industrial AI with asset performance and manufacturing decisions.

Jagjit Singh Srai is a professor at the University of Cambridge leading research on digital Supply Chains, network design, industrial systems and resilience. His work covers supply network design in complex manufacturing and healthcare value chains.

Fei Tao is a professor at Beihang University and a leading researcher in digital twins, smart manufacturing, cloud manufacturing and lifecycle data integration. His work advances digital twins for industrial systems.

Bob Parker is a senior research executive at IDC whose work covers enterprise applications, industry transformation, data, analytics and technology investment across industrial and service sectors. He connects industry transformation with enterprise technology strategy.

Roberto Michel is a veteran and recently retired editor specializing in materials handling, warehouse automation, manufacturing and Supply Chain technology. His reporting tracked how automation adoption moves from pilot projects to operational deployment.

Raffaello D’Andrea is a professor at ETH Zurich, founder of Verity and a co-founder of Kiva Systems. His work combines autonomous systems, distributed control, warehouse robotics and drone fleets. He focuses on multi-robot systems and large-scale robotic orchestration.

Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-founder of Covariant. His research includes reinforcement learning, robot learning and manipulation. His work advances robot learning and generalizable robotic intelligence.

Melonee Wise is a robotics executive and entrepreneur known for founding and leading Fetch Robotics and for later product leadership at Agility Robotics. Her work focuses on commercializing autonomous mobile robots and industrial robotic systems.

Ken Goldberg is a professor and distinguished chair at UC Berkeley and Chief Scientist at Ambi Robotics. His research covers robot learning, manipulation, grasping, automation and logistics robotics. His work advances robotic manipulation under real-world variability.

Eugene Demaitre is Editorial Director of The Robot Report and covers industrial, warehouse, mobile and service robotics, including deployments, investment and technology commercialization. His reporting tracks warehouse robotics from demonstration to operational adoption.

Simon Evenett is Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD and a leading analyst of trade policy, industrial subsidies, protectionism and government intervention in cross-border commerce. His work includes Global Trade Alert monitoring and geoeconomic analysis.

Emily Rees is President and CEO of CropLife International and a specialist in international trade, regulation, agriculture and policy conditions affecting crop inputs and food systems. Her work connects agri-food Supply Chains with trade and regulatory policy.

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow and author specializing in resilience, hybrid and grey-zone threats, economic security and vulnerabilities in globally connected infrastructure and Supply Chains. Her work connects economic security with corporate and public-sector resilience.

Tomer Gamlielle-Druyan is a business-operations and technology executive at Cybereason, a LevelBlue company, with experience spanning global operations, procurement, finance and enterprise technology. His profile connects business operations with supplier and technology governance.

Remko van Hoek is a professor of practice at the University of Arkansas and Executive Director of the CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Fame. His work connects procurement, Supply Chain transformation , innovation and practitioner capability development.

Pierre Mitchell is Chief Research Officer at Spend Matters and a specialist in digital procurement, sourcing, procurement solution markets and enterprise purchasing technologies. His work provides structured solution evaluation for procurement platforms and capabilities.

Jon Hansen is the founder and Chief Editor of Procurement Insights and a long-standing commentator on procurement transformation, public purchasing, technology adoption and supplier relationships. His work examines how procurement transformation changes behaviors and supplier outcomes.

Jason Busch is a procurement-technology analyst and entrepreneur who founded Spend Matters and works across procurement software, market intelligence, corporate development and strategic partnerships. His work covers procurement technology markets and enterprise software evaluation.

Elouise Epstein is a partner at Kearney and a specialist in digital procurement, procurement operating models, technology transformation and the impact of generative and agentic AI on purchasing organizations. Her work connects agentic procurement with organizational and process redesign.

Edmund Zagorin is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Arkestro, applying predictive procurement and machine learning to supplier negotiations, sourcing events and commercial decision support. His work focuses on predictive procurement and technology-enabled supplier engagement.

Bertrand Maltaverne is a procurement digitalization specialist and analyst covering procurement technology, supplier management, sourcing, data foundations and operating-model change. His work examines how digital procurement changes processes, roles and decision quality.

Zac Rogers is an associate professor of operations and Supply Chain management at Colorado State University and a co-creator of the Logistics Managers’ Index. His work connects logistics economics , inventory, transportation, warehousing and macroeconomic signals.

Wolfgang Lehmacher is an independent global Supply Chain and technology strategist and advisor. His work spans logistics, digitalization, resilience, geopolitics, sustainability and the transformation of global production and trade networks. He connects Supply Chain resilience with strategic network and technology choices.

Peter Sand is Chief Analyst at Xeneta and a specialist in ocean and air freight markets. His analysis covers rates, capacity, carrier behavior, demand cycles and the use of benchmarks in procurement and budgeting. He interprets freight benchmarking for commercial and market decisions.

Marco Prüglmeier is a warehouse-automation and logistics-innovation specialist with experience in automotive logistics, intralogistics and technology deployment. His work connects warehouse automation with process design, storage and fulfilment operations.

Lars Jensen is CEO of Vespucci Maritime and a specialist in container shipping, carrier strategy, schedule reliability, freight markets and maritime-network dynamics. His analysis connects container shipping market structure with operational and procurement decisions.

Jason Miller is the Eli Broad Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. His research covers trucking economics, freight pricing, employment, productivity, safety and transportation-market statistics. He is known for translating transportation data into evidence on capacity and freight-market conditions.

Chris Rogers leads Supply Chain research at S&P Global Market Intelligence. His work covers international trade policy, shipping flows, logistics networks and the use of trade data to identify disruption and sourcing risks. He connects international trade indicators with corporate Supply Chain exposure.

Cathy Roberson is the founder of Logistics Trends & Insights and an analyst of freight, e-commerce logistics, parcel markets and reverse logistics. Her work tracks how customer expectations and transport economics reshape logistics networks .

Brittain Ladd is an independent retail, logistics and Supply Chain strategist known for analyzing fulfilment networks, grocery operations, automation, e-commerce and large-scale corporate strategy. His work links network design with retail service models and logistics economics.

Adrian Gonzalez is the founder and president of Adelante SCM and the founder of Talking Logistics and Indago. He analyzes logistics technology, transportation management, third-party logistics, global trade and practitioner-led Supply Chain transformation. His work connects market analysis with logistics technology adoption and operating-model change.

Thomas H. Davenport is a professor at Babson College and a long-standing researcher and author on analytics, artificial intelligence, knowledge management and process innovation. His work examines how organizations redesign management practices and operating models around enterprise AI and data-driven decision making.

Pascal Van Hentenryck is the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization and large-scale decision systems. His research includes mobility, energy, logistics and resilient infrastructure. His work connects operations research with deployable decision-support systems under uncertainty.

Cassie Kozyrkov is CEO of Kozyr, a decision-intelligence specialist and former first Chief Decision Scientist at Google. Her work focuses on decision quality, applied statistics, responsible AI adoption and the organizational conditions required to turn data into action. She is known for framing decision intelligence as the discipline of connecting objectives, evidence, uncertainty and accountable human judgment.

WERC is a professional association focused on warehousing, distribution and fulfilment through education, research, benchmarking and community programs.

NC State Supply Chain Resource Cooperative connects academic research, education and industry collaboration across supply-chain management, sourcing, logistics and analytics.

MIT Data Science Lab conducts research in data science, machine learning, optimization and decision-making with applications across complex operational systems.

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics conducts research, education and industry collaboration across logistics, transportation, supply-chain design, planning and resilience.

MHI is an industry association providing research, education, events and community resources across material handling, logistics and supply-chain technology.

ETH Zurich conducts research and education across engineering, data science, robotics, operations, manufacturing and mobility.

Eindhoven University of Technology conducts research and education in industrial engineering, operations management, data science, logistics and manufacturing systems.

The Robot Report covers robotics companies, industrial and warehouse automation, autonomous systems and investment activity.

The Loadstar provides news and analysis on air freight, ocean freight, forwarding, logistics and global trade.

Supply Chain Dive is an industry publication covering logistics, procurement, planning, manufacturing and supply-chain technology.

Spend Matters provides procurement-technology research, vendor analysis and market intelligence covering sourcing, spend management and supplier management.

S&P Global Market Intelligence provides company, market, trade, financial and sector intelligence used for strategic and operational analysis.

Robotics 24/7 covers warehouse robotics, automation, autonomous mobile robots and industrial deployment news.

Procurement Leaders provides research, events and executive networks focused on procurement, supplier management, digital transformation and operating models.

Modern Materials Handling covers warehousing, material handling, automation, robotics and distribution operations.

Lloyd’s List provides maritime news, intelligence and analysis covering shipping, ports, regulation, trade and vessel markets.

Journal of Commerce provides news and analysis on container shipping, ports, freight, logistics and international trade.

Interact Analysis provides market intelligence on automation, robotics, warehouse technology, manufacturing and commercial vehicles.

FreightWaves provides freight-market news, data, analysis and events covering trucking, logistics, transportation technology and supply-chain operations.

ABI Research provides technology-market research and advisory services covering industrial, logistics, automation, AI and supply-chain technologies.

UPS Supply Chain Solutions provides freight forwarding, contract logistics, warehousing, distribution and transportation-management services.

Ryder Supply Chain Solutions provides dedicated transportation, warehousing, distribution, fulfilment and transportation-management services.

Rhenus Logistics provides contract logistics, freight forwarding, road transport, warehousing and supply-chain services.

Radial provides ecommerce fulfilment, order management, customer care and returns services for retailers and consumer brands.

Penske Logistics provides dedicated transportation, distribution-centre management, transportation management and supply-chain services.

Nippon Express provides global freight forwarding, contract logistics, warehousing and supply-chain services.

NFI Industries provides dedicated transportation, warehousing, distribution, port drayage and brokerage services.

Maersk provides ocean transportation, inland logistics, warehousing, fulfilment and integrated supply-chain services.

Kuehne+Nagel provides sea and air logistics, road transportation, contract logistics and integrated supply-chain services.

Kenco Group provides contract logistics, warehousing, transportation management, material handling and distribution services.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services provides intermodal, dedicated contract carriage, truckload, final-mile and managed transportation services.

ID Logistics provides contract logistics, warehousing, ecommerce fulfilment and transport services.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics provides freight forwarding, contract logistics, road and rail transport and supply-chain services.

GXO Logistics provides contract logistics, warehousing, fulfilment, reverse logistics and automation-enabled supply-chain services.

GEODIS provides contract logistics, freight forwarding, distribution and transportation-management services.

FM Logistic provides contract logistics, warehousing, transport and omnichannel fulfilment services.

FedEx Supply Chain provides warehousing, fulfilment, transportation management and reverse-logistics services within the FedEx network.

Expeditors provides global freight forwarding, customs, warehousing and supply-chain services.

DSV provides air and sea freight, road transport, contract logistics and supply-chain services. DB Schenker is treated as an acquired legacy brand within DSV.

DHL Supply Chain provides contract logistics, warehousing, fulfilment, transport management and supply-chain services across major industries.

CEVA Logistics provides contract logistics, freight management, automotive and ecommerce supply-chain services. Bolloré Logistics is treated as an acquired legacy brand within CEVA.

C.H. Robinson provides freight transportation, managed transportation, brokerage and supply-chain services supported by its Navisphere technology platform.

Bleckmann provides contract logistics, omnichannel fulfilment, warehousing and returns management, with a strong focus on fashion and lifestyle supply chains.

Arvato Supply Chain Solutions provides contract logistics, ecommerce fulfilment, warehousing, transportation management and supply-chain services across sectors including consumer products, healthcare and technology.

Wiliot provides an Ambient IoT platform using battery-free sensing tags to track products, assets and environmental conditions. Its technology supports Supply Chain visibility , traceability and inventory tracking.

Weights & Biases provides tools for experiment tracking, model evaluation, application monitoring and AI development workflows. The company is part of CoreWeave and supports machine-learning operations .

VusionGroup provides connected-commerce technologies combining electronic shelf labels, retail IoT, store data and shelf automation. Its platform supports connected commerce and store-execution workflows.

UiPath provides agentic automation and orchestration combining software robots, AI agents, workflows and human review. Its platform supports agentic automation across enterprise processes.

Trimble provides transportation, geospatial, agriculture and construction technologies that connect digital plans with physical operations. The group profile complements the existing Trimble Transportation entry.

Trax Retail provides computer-vision and analytics capabilities for retail execution, shelf conditions and product availability. Its platform supports on-shelf availability and store-compliance workflows.

SymphonyAI provides vertical AI platforms for retail, consumer goods, industrial and other enterprise sectors. The group profile complements existing entries for SymphonyAI Retail and SymphonyAI Industrial.

Starburst provides an open-lakehouse and distributed-query platform based on Trino for governed access to data across multiple systems. Its platform supports distributed query , analytics and AI data access.

Scandit provides smart-data-capture capabilities using mobile devices, scanners and computer vision for retail, logistics and field operations. Its technology supports inventory accuracy and operational data capture.

RetailNext provides in-store analytics combining traffic measurement, IoT data and operational insights for physical retail. The platform supports in-store analytics for store operations and merchandising.

OneTrust provides privacy, data-governance, risk-management and AI-governance capabilities for enterprise compliance programs. The platform supports data privacy , consent and governance workflows.

Ocado Group develops automation, robotics, AI and end-to-end technology for online grocery and fulfilment operations. Its portfolio includes the Ocado Smart Platform for fulfilment and commerce workflows.

NVIDIA provides accelerated computing, enterprise AI software, simulation, digital-twin and robotics technologies. Its portfolio supports Physical AI and large-scale optimization across industrial and Supply Chain use cases.

Monte Carlo provides data and agent observability capabilities for detecting, diagnosing and preventing failures in production data and AI systems. The platform supports data observability across pipelines, products and analytical workflows.

Microsoft provides cloud, data, enterprise applications, automation and AI technologies through Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The group profile complements existing entries for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Azure AI Foundry.

Mad Street Den develops enterprise-AI capabilities, including Vue.ai solutions for retail computer vision, product intelligence and merchandising automation. Its retail portfolio supports Retail AI use cases across product and commerce workflows.

Körber is a technology group whose Supply Chain activities include software, warehouse automation and logistics-execution capabilities. The group profile complements the existing Körber Supply Chain entry.

Intelligence Node provides retail competitive intelligence for pricing, promotions, assortment, availability and product matching. The company is part of Omnicom and supports price intelligence across digital retail markets.

Informatica provides data integration, quality, catalog, governance and master-data capabilities for enterprise and AI programs. The company is part of Salesforce and supports data management across heterogeneous systems.

Immuta provides data-access governance, security-policy enforcement and activity monitoring across data platforms. The platform supports data access governance for sensitive analytics and AI workloads.

IBM provides hybrid-cloud, data, AI, automation and governance technologies for enterprise and industrial use. The group profile complements existing entries for IBM watsonx and IBM Supply Chain Intelligence.

Holistic AI provides lifecycle governance, risk assessment and audit capabilities for AI systems. The platform supports AI governance , regulatory readiness and model-risk workflows.

Google DeepMind is Google’s AI research and development organization, working on foundation models, science, robotics and advanced AI systems. Its work includes foundation models and technologies that can influence enterprise and physical-world applications.

Google provides cloud, data, analytics and AI technologies through products including Google Cloud, Gemini and BigQuery. The group profile complements existing entries for Google Cloud Supply Chain and Google Gemini Enterprise.

Fivetran provides automated data movement and integration capabilities across operational applications, databases and analytical platforms. The company has combined with dbt Labs, linking ingestion with data transformation .

First Insight provides consumer-feedback and decision-support capabilities for product development, assortment, pricing and planning. The platform uses Voice of Customer evidence to inform commercial decisions.

Fiddler AI provides observability, evaluation, explainability and security capabilities for AI models and agents in production. The platform supports AI observability and model-risk workflows.

EDITED provides retail intelligence covering market trends, assortment, pricing, digital merchandising and competitor activity. The platform supports competitive intelligence for retail planning and commercial decisions.

Denodo provides logical data-management and data-virtualization capabilities for governed access to distributed data sources. The platform supports data virtualization , integration and data-fabric architectures.

dbt Labs develops analytics-engineering technology for transforming, testing and documenting data in governed workflows. The company has combined with Fivetran, while the dbt brand continues to support data transformation .

Databricks provides a data intelligence platform covering data engineering, analytics, governance and AI on a lakehouse architecture. The group profile complements the existing Databricks Mosaic AI entry.

Daisy Intelligence provides AI-supported decision capabilities for retail merchandising, promotions, pricing and planning. Its positioning includes optimization methods applied to merchandise planning decisions.

Crisp provides a retail data and AI platform connecting brands, distributors and retailers around shared operational information. Its capabilities support retail data , demand visibility and collaborative commerce workflows.

Credo AI provides governance, risk and compliance capabilities for inventorying, assessing and supervising AI systems. The platform supports Responsible AI controls across models, applications and agents.

Confluent provides a data-streaming platform built around Apache Kafka for real-time data movement and event-driven applications. The company is part of IBM and supports data streaming across enterprise systems.

Collibra provides data intelligence capabilities spanning governance, catalog, quality, privacy and AI governance. The platform supports shared definitions, ownership and controls across data governance programs.

Centric Software provides product-lifecycle, retail planning, pricing and inventory-optimization software for consumer-product and retail organizations. The company is part of Dassault Systèmes and supports retail planning from product development through commercial execution.

Bluecore provides retail customer-engagement and personalization capabilities using behavioral, product and transaction data. The brand operates within Insider One and supports Retail AI use cases across marketing and customer lifecycle decisions.

BigID provides data discovery, classification, privacy, security and governance capabilities across enterprise data and AI environments. Its scope includes sensitive-data management and AI governance .

Automation Anywhere provides agentic process automation combining robotic automation, AI agents, APIs and document-processing capabilities. The platform targets repeatable enterprise workflows through agentic automation and orchestration.

Atlan provides an active-metadata platform for data discovery, cataloging, governance and collaboration across data and AI teams. It positions metadata as a shared context layer for data governance and analytics workflows.

Arize AI provides evaluation and observability capabilities for machine-learning models, generative-AI applications and agents. Its tools support AI observability , tracing, evaluation and investigation across development and production.

Amazon Web Services provides cloud infrastructure, data, analytics, AI and machine-learning services used to build enterprise and Supply Chain applications. The group profile complements the existing AWS Supply Chain product entry.

Alation provides a data intelligence platform combining data catalog, governance, lineage and quality capabilities for data and AI programs. Its role is to make trusted data, ownership and context discoverable across analytics and data governance workflows.

Afresh provides AI-supported forecasting, ordering, production and inventory capabilities for grocery retailers, with a particular focus on fresh-food operations. The platform applies demand forecasting and replenishment logic to short-life products where availability, waste and store execution must be balanced.

Tanguy Caillet

Expert

Tanguy Caillet is Chief Revenue Officer at Xeneta , where he leads Marketing, Sales and Customer Success. He has more than 20 years of experience in supply-chain transformation across consulting, industry and technology leadership, with a strong focus on planning, digital enablement and operational excellence. His background includes leadership roles at Genpact and o9 Solutions. His published work covers Supply Chain Planning , Integrated Business Planning, AI-supported orchestration, freight intelligence and operating-model transformation.

Matthew Spooner is a practitioner and commentator on Supply Chain Planning technology, operating models and transformation.

Stefan de Kok is a practitioner voice on inventory optimization, planning analytics and service-level decisions.

Eric Wilson is a forecasting and IBP practitioner focused on predictive analytics, demand planning and planning performance.

Patrick Bower is an S&OP and IBP practitioner focused on planning process, governance and organizational alignment.

Vanessa Clemendot is a Supply Chain executive and public voice on global operations, planning leadership and transformation.

Preeti Jain is a practitioner voice on Supply Chain Planning transformation, benefits realization and operating-model change.

Steve Banker is an analyst and writer focused on Supply Chain technology, applications and market developments.

Dwight Klappich is an analyst focused on Supply Chain technology, applications and market developments.

Marty Resnick is an analyst and public voice on enterprise AI, emerging technology and Supply Chain applications.

Tom Raftery is a public commentator and podcast host focused on digital Supply Chain, sustainability and enterprise technology.

Willy Shih is an academic and public commentator on manufacturing strategy, global Supply Chains and technology.

Nada Sanders is an academic and author focused on forecasting, operations, Supply Chain management and AI.

Rami Goldratt is a Theory of Constraints practitioner and speaker focused on flow, bottlenecks and operational decision-making.

Oliver Wight provides Integrated Business Planning and S&OP consulting, education and maturity frameworks.

Spinnaker SCA provides Supply Chain Planning transformation and technology consulting, including SAP IBP services.

Solventure provides Supply Chain Planning advisory, S&OP and implementation services.