ABSTRACT
There are many software vendors release multiple software versions per year. Buyers of supply chain visibility software are at a significant disadvantage in the marketplace. Unlike ERP, order management, CRM, Business Intelligence, or other mature enterprise software markets there is little or no analyst coverage. Technology analyst organizations like Forrester and Gartner are not actively publishing about supply chain visibility as a class of software. One notable exception is a study conducted in 2012 by Cap Gemini which reviewed a fairly large set of supply chain visibility technology vendors. The software market for supply chain visibility solutions shows medium-maturity in terms of market share consolidation. Manhattan Associates, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a vendor of supply chain management solutions. They made a strategic decision to converge their individual software solutions into a single business process platform called SCOPE. GT Nexus may be the best option if large portions of their trading partners are already active in the GT Nexus platform.
