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The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems offers a comprehensive evaluation of leading transportation solution providers, analyzing key trends, emerging technologies, and providing actionable recommendations for optimizing transportation operations.

As the days of slow, invisible supply chains that “worked behind the scenes” continue to fade in the rearview mirror, companies are improving their demand forecasting, gaining real-time visibility across their networks and streamlining their operations—and its software that makes that all possible.

In this annual event, we’ve gathered four top supply chain technology analysts to discuss how some of the latest software, automation, and robotics innovations are being put to work to help logistics professionals streamline their operations to gain ground in 2024.

Logistics and supply chain leaders are keeping an eye on escalating tensions overseas, drought conditions in the Panama Canal, and emerging cybersecurity headaches. Here are a few proactive strategies for navigating an evolving supply chain landscape where new risks continue to lurk around every corner.

While this year may be a close copy of 2023 in terms of supply chain execution as it relates to e-commerce moves, forecasting is more precarious. The instability and conflict have no upside, only more disruption—which inevitably leads to service and cost impacts across the board.

Interest in supply chain management (SCM) software accelerates as more companies replace their legacy systems and look for new ways to offset ongoing supply chain challenges.

Our top supply chain software analysts share the TMS trends they believe shippers need to be paying attention to during the coming year.

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Gartner research finds that only 9% of supply chain organizations see revenue gains during periods of uncertainty.

Gartner research finds just 27% of firms are building digital twins of their customers.

With more companies focused on improving their supply chains, ERPs are playing a starring role in many of their supply chain management software implementations—and diving deeper into AI to improve decision-making and personalize the user experience.

Overall, women now make up 41% of the total supply chain workforce, Gartner survey finds.

According to Gartner, 94% of businesses are now using the cloud in some capacity. Whether your company is overhauling current approaches or rolling out completely different solutions, there’s little doubt that the cloud is playing a huge role in these changes—driving even more growth.

The latest robotics software trend is platforms that specialize in orchestrating interactions between different robotic systems and other “agents.” This multi-agent orchestration niche involves multiple players with varied approaches—but they all promise to smooth handoffs and speed up automation onboarding.

Companies of all sizes are leveraging labor management systems to detect workforce issues, improve asset utilization, and incentivize employees across a distributed network.