Enter Manhattan Associates. The company has been around for about 20 years and is a leader in providing warehouse management software, Chai says. It allows retailers to see their products flow in and out of different warehouses, and it partners with companies that can analyze this data in real time.
“Retailers are realizing that they can’t do this on their own,” Chai says. So Manhattan Associates is going to benefit from the revamp of the supply chain, she adds.
Trimble
Trimble started out as a GPS hardware company. But over time, it’s become a software company as well, says David Kalis, a partner and portfolio manager at The Future Fund.
Here’s just one example of how it’s used: A trucking company can use the software to know where all its trucks are, what their load is, what their mileage is — all part of managing the supply chain for a trucking company.
Kalis is bullish on Trimble, which he expects to come out of the supply chain crisis as a winner as companies realize the need for this type of software.
Splunk
For companies that have hundreds of stores, thousands of products and suppliers around multiple countries, collecting and analyzing data is a huge challenge. The software company Splunk takes its customers’ raw data and puts it into a format that is actually readable, so that those retailers can see patterns related to pricing, and where products are, Kalis says.
