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Supply Chain Management Software

Supply Chain Management

What is Supply Chain Management Software?

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is software that manages business processes, logistics, relationships with suppliers, and financial data across the supply chain. Successful Supply Chain Management enables businesses to control the lifespan of goods across the company and business. The SCM solution will consolidate all aspects of the supply chain into one solution that allows you to make intelligent decisions regarding your product and business relationships. An SCM software can benefit any business that has physical products to ensure a continuous level of stock with minimal interruption. Individuals in procurement, logistics, manufacturing and shipping will especially benefit from a robust SCM.

Common Features

  • Collaboration
  • Procurement Management
  • Supplier Management
  • Shipping Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Forecasting and Planning
  • Returns Management
  • Transportation Management
  • Warehouse Management
  • Order Management
  • Demand Planning
  • Customer Service
  • Manufacturing Planning and Production

Top Supply Chain Management Software

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Products: 8
Next Award: Jan 2025

Top Supply Chain Management Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Accelerate and optimize your end-to-end procure-to-pay process. Supply chain management products from SAP can enable you to integrate processes and enforce contract compliance for both supply-side and supplier-side requirements – throughout the extended supply chain as well as distribution.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Helps Innovate
  • Fair
Badge Winner
Badge Winner

IBM Sterling® Supply Chain Business Network is a trusted, scalable business-to-business network that helps automate and orchestrate your supply chain processes and partner collaboration on a single cloud-based platform.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Security Protects
  • Helps Innovate
Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

From the warehouse to the storefront, from the desktop to the driver’s cab, achieve new levels of supply chain responsiveness, performance and profitability.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Supply chains are facing a new era of uncertainty. To ensure that your products get to the people who need them, Luminate® Planning leverages a powerful digital twin foundation to intelligently predict potential problems and opportunities, offer machine learning-based recommendations for action, and pivot production, inventory, and labor plans to minimize risk and deliver with confidence.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
Badge Winner
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems help organizations manage their businesses with efficiency and flexibility—bringing together finance, manufacturing, retail, supply chain, warehouse, and inventory. Optimize your financials and operations to drive growth and make real-time, data-driven decisions at global scale—all with an intelligent, modern business application.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Trustworthy
  • Security Protects
  • Fair
Badge Winner
Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

Cloud computing is changing the way manufacturing and supply chain organizations consume and use IT services—providing timely solutions to address today’s business challenges.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Acts with Integrity

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Composite Score
7.1 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Delivered as a unified set of configurable applications, Kinaxis RapidResponse® provides supply chain planning and analytics capabilities that create the foundation for managing multiple, interconnected supply chain management and S&OP processes.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Inspires Innovation

Cons

  • Less Transparent
Arkieva

Arkieva

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

One of the most critical tasks for any manufacturing organization is balancing assets (e.g., capacity, materials, people) with demand. Planners must determine how best to meet the demand given (1) available assets, (2) the production and distribution network, and (3) business policies.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Caring
  • Acts with Integrity

Cons

  • Vendor Friendly Policies

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Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

SCM encompasses all business and logistical processes across your supply chain—from planning, sourcing and production to warehouse management, distribution and returns. In other words, it's the foundation upon which every business is built. Aptean provides the solutions and innovative technology to ensure your SCM is ready for any manufacturing environment.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

FuturMaster solutions support supply chain processes at strategic, tactical and operational levels. They cover the areas of forecasting, budgeting, distribution, production, procurement, and scheduling and they provide specially designed tools for efficient and effective supply chain management.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing