osapiens acquires the Nasdaq Metrio platform and customers and accelerates its U.S. expansion

18 September 2026By Niels BartelsNews
osapiens acquires the Nasdaq Metrio platform and customers and accelerates its U.S. expansion

osapiens supporting companies to reduce risks and improve supply chain visibility and performance, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Nasdaq Metrio platform and customers, an end-to-end non-financial reporting and carbon accounting software. Non-financial reporting and carbon accounting are core to the osapiens HUB, delivered through its disclosures & reporting and carbon accounting … Read More

ArrowXL reduces Fleet Mileage in Home Delivery Operations by 13% with Descartes

4 September 2026By Niels BartelsNews
ArrowXL reduces Fleet Mileage in Home Delivery Operations by 13% with Descartes

Descartes Systems Group announced that ArrowXL by JP Home has reduced its fleet mileage by approximately 13% using the route planning and execution capabilities within Descartes’ fleet performance management solution suite. By improving productivity and execution during planning and delivery, Descartes has helped ArrowXL by JP Home reduce operating costs and emissions while increasing delivery … Read More

King Jouet streamlines collaboration between its stores and transport partners with Hardis SC Network

2 September 2026By Niels BartelsNews
King Jouet streamlines collaboration between its stores and transport partners with Hardis SC Network

Hardis Supply Chain is deploying Hardis SC Network, its collaborative visibility platform, across King Jouet’s company-owned stores. Connected to Hardis WMS, which is used in the central warehouse, the solution enables stores to check delivery compliance, handle claims collaboratively with carriers and calculate the transport service level. Following a successful pilot phase, Hardis SC Network … Read More

Descartes introduces new AI-Powered Free Trade Intelligence (FTI) solution to help reduce trade costs

24 August 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Descartes introduces new AI-Powered Free Trade Intelligence (FTI) solution to help reduce trade costs

Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) introduced its new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Descartes Free Trade Intelligence™ (FTI) solution to help manufacturers, importers and exporters lower costs by making more informed sourcing and trade decisions. For organizations with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that lack comprehensive global trade management (GTM) capabilities, the solution helps qualify appropriate goods … Read More

John Galt Solutions accelerates the path from insight to action with new Atlas Planning platform enhancements

29 July 2026By Niels BartelsNews
John Galt Solutions accelerates the path from insight to action with new Atlas Planning platform enhancements

John Galt Solutions announced the latest enhancements to its Atlas Planning Platform focused on streamlined user experience, scenario planning, and trade promotion management, helping teams remove barriers to insight, improve planning agility, and drive more confident decision-making across the end-to-end supply chain. To bridge the gap between data, insights and decision-making, teams require tools that … Read More

McCoy expands its Supply Chain Planning portfolio through a strategic partnership with Sunstice

24 July 2026By Niels BartelsNews
McCoy expands its Supply Chain Planning portfolio through a strategic partnership with Sunstice

McCoy & Partners has entered into a strategic partnership with Sunstice, a provider of Supply Chain Planning (SCP) and Revenue Growth Management (RGM) solutions. Through this collaboration, McCoy expands its planning portfolio with a complementary solution alongside SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), enabling organizations to choose the planning approach that best fits their specific … Read More

Grünenfelder SA implements data-driven demand planning in its food and non-food distribution across Switzerland

24 July 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Grünenfelder SA implements data-driven demand planning in its food and non-food distribution across Switzerland

Grünenfelder SA decided to adopt Slimstock to make inventory management a competitive advantage through improved forecasting, availability and efficiency of its distribution processes. When a restaurant is creating a menu for the upcoming weekend, or a store is arranging its shelves, it assumes that the right products will be delivered, on time and complete. This … Read More

tms selects FourKites to ensure seamless global delivery of high-demand consumer goods

9 July 2026By Niels BartelsNews
tms selects FourKites to ensure seamless global delivery of high-demand consumer goods

FourKites® announces that tms — the technology, marketing and sourcing partner to global brands — has deployed FourKites to track global ocean shipments and U.S. rail movements of high-demand consumer products. With FourKites’ real-time network and a live digital twin of its shipments, tms is mitigating risk for a leading consumer brand, reducing manual work, … Read More

osapiens strengthens its platform for the carbon credit market

3 July 2026By Niels BartelsNews
osapiens strengthens its platform for the carbon credit market

osapiens, a leading German software provider for sustainability and transparency solutions, integrates the ClimateGrid Impact Manager of the German startup ClimateGrid into the osapiens HUB. ClimateGrid’s software solution supports companies in transparently assessing climate and environmental protection projects, as well as carbon credits, and in documenting them in a manner that is sound from a … Read More

AIMMS SAP IBP Connector cuts Network Design time from a month to hours

30 June 2026By Niels BartelsNews
AIMMS SAP IBP Connector cuts Network Design time from a month to hours

AIMMS SC Navigator now integrates with SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) for Supply Chain and delivers advanced Strategic Network Design capabilities to customers, helping to enable them to connect strategy, planning, and execution in one continuous decision flow. The SAP PartnerEdge® program provides the enablement tools, benefits, and support to facilitate building high-quality, disruptive … Read More

Manhattan Associates introduces Sightline, bringing decision intelligence to supply chain planning

29 June 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Manhattan Associates introduces Sightline, bringing decision intelligence to supply chain planning

Manhattan Associates Inc. unveiled Sightline, a new capability within ActivePlanning, to reveal the reasoning behind AI-driven forecasts, recommendations, and inventory decisions in plain business language. Sightline brings the “why” behind projected outcomes directly into the application, from a single order line to an entire network. It gives planners forensic-level understanding of the factors shaping forecasts, … Read More

Optilogic launches Ada, the first agentic AI system purpose-Built for supply chain design

29 June 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Optilogic launches Ada, the first agentic AI system purpose-Built for supply chain design

Optilogic announced the general availability of Ada, a breakthrough agentic AI system that fundamentally transforms how supply chains are modeled, analyzed, and continuously redesigned. Announced live to more than 300 customers, partners, and industry leaders today at the company’s annual user conference in Detroit, Ada marks a major industry milestone: shifting supply chain teams from … Read More

Slimstock and Mees van den Brink join forces for international optimisation of inventory management

11 June 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Slimstock and Mees van den Brink join forces for international optimisation of inventory management

To create greater efficiency and insight within forecasting and inventory processes, Mees van den Brink has chosen to collaborate with Slimstock. The supplier of hoses, couplings and accessories will implement the Slim4 supply chain platform, thereby opting for more central control, higher availability and a stronger data-driven supply chain approach. Through this collaboration, forecasting, inventory … Read More

Sunstice Introduces Helios™: Its new agentic AI layer to accelerate supply chain decision-making under permanent uncertainty

11 June 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Sunstice Introduces Helios™: Its new agentic AI layer to accelerate supply chain decision-making under permanent uncertainty

Sunstice announces Helios™, its latest addition to the supply chain planning and revenue growth management platform built for permanent uncertainty. This new agentic AI layer is designed to help planning teams reduce analysis effort, accelerate decision cycles, and improve decision quality when conditions never stabilize. In today’s operating environment, supply chain performance is no longer … Read More

Descartes expands AI innovation on the global logistics network with Fleet Data Intelligence Platform

9 June 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Descartes expands AI innovation on the global logistics network with Fleet Data Intelligence Platform

Descartes Systems Group announced expanded artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on its Global Logistics Network™ (GLN) with the introduction of the Descartes Fleet Data Intelligence™ platform. Built on the scale and real-world operational data of the GLN, the platform combines a new AI agent and machine learning (ML) capabilities to enhance on-time delivery, strengthen service level … Read More

nShift launches AI-powered delivery predictions with nShift ETA

11 May 2026By Niels BartelsNews
nShift launches AI-powered delivery predictions with nShift ETA

nShift announced nShift ETA (estimated time of arrival), a new AI-powered capability that helps retailers make more accurate delivery promises. As not all carriers provide ETAs, nShift ETA fills the gap by providing delivery time estimates when the carrier doesn’t. nShift ETA provides real-world delivery estimates combining real-time network signals with nShift delivery platform data, … Read More

FourKites bridges the gap between supply chain planning and execution with AI-powered inventory twin enhancements

8 May 2026By Niels BartelsNews
FourKites bridges the gap between supply chain planning and execution with AI-powered inventory twin enhancements

FourKites® announced significant enhancements to Inventory Twin, the inventory intelligence layer within the FourKites Intelligent Control Tower. The new capabilities close the disconnect between supply chain planning and execution, one of the most persistent gaps in enterprise supply chains. Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) teams plan in monthly and weekly cycles using demand forecasts, supply … Read More

Aera Technology introduces Agentic Reasoning for enterprise decisions, moving from situation to action in one conversation

8 May 2026By Niels BartelsNews
Aera Technology introduces Agentic Reasoning for enterprise decisions, moving from situation to action in one conversation

Aera Technology introduced new agentic reasoning capabilities for decision intelligence, enabling organizations to explore, analyze, reason, and act on complex business decisions across the value chain with full transparency and control — simply by asking. Aera extends its agentic decision intelligence with reasoning and action in a governed, auditable environment. The new capabilities identify the … Read More