AI in operations and supply chain: the vendors selling to ops leaders

Every part of an operations leader's job, from forecasting demand to moving freight, negotiating with suppliers, keeping machines running and processing the paperwork, now has vendors selling AI agents to do it. This piece covers those vendors, not the operations teams buying them.

We checked 48 companies against their own websites, and pricing pages where published, on 28 September 2026, and profile 45 of them here, grouped by the job each one does.

The short version

• →The work splits into six jobs: planning and forecasting; logistics and freight; procurement and sourcing; manufacturing and industrial operations; maintenance and field service; and back-office automation.
• →Industrial and software incumbents are buying. Autodesk completed its acquisition of MaintainX, Coupa acquired Rossum, Ingka Investments acquired Locus, and Blue Yonder acquired three companies in 2025. Schneider Electric and Bosch have announced deals for Cognite and Uptake that have not been announced as closed.
• →Where prices are published, the unit varies. Fiix, MaintainX and UpKeep publish per-user prices; Tulip charges per interface, Sensible per document, and Landing AI and Nanonets sell credits. Most other vendors here sell through a sales conversation.

Planning and forecasting

o9 Solutions, headquartered in Dallas, sells a planning platform, the o9 Digital Brain, which it says works "through AI-driven intelligence", to supply chain, commercial and finance leaders. Kinaxis, headquartered in Ottawa, says "Great outcomes start with great planning". Blue Yonder describes itself in its releases as "the AI company for supply chain", and in 2025 acquired Pledge, Inmar's post-purchase business and Optoro, closing the Optoro deal on 19 August 2025. ThroughPut sells supply chain analytics to industrial operations. Lokad promises "BETTER SUPPLY CHAIN DECISIONS AUTOMATED EVERYDAY" with an AI-powered platform and dedicated experts. Anaplan's purchase of Syrup Tech is covered in our ecommerce landscape.

Logistics and freight

The busiest job in our sample.

project44 sells supply chain visibility and decision tools to shippers, logistics providers and forwarders, and in April 2026 announced its acquisition of LunaPath.ai. FourKites, headquartered in Chicago, says "Your supply chain, running itself." Flexport sells "AI-powered logistics for the real world" alongside its forwarding and customs services, and sold its Convoy platform: Roper Technologies' quarterly filing records that Roper acquired it on 30 July 2025. Transfix sells freight software built for brokers. Loadsmart, headquartered in Chicago, says "One connected platform. Run by AI." Parade sells capacity management to freight brokerages and was acquired by Mudflap in April 2026.

Vooma sells AI agents to brokers and carriers. Pallet sells "AI systems that move the physical economy" and says customers "pay for what the agents deliver, not seats or licenses". HappyRobot sells autonomous AI workers, with logistics among its markets. Locus, headquartered in Bengaluru, sells "The Agentic TMS built for enterprise delivery" and in October 2025 was acquired by Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ingka Group. Shipsy, headquartered in Gurugram, says "AI that runs logistics." Pando sells an "AI-Powered TMS for Enterprises".

Procurement and sourcing

Zip describes itself as "The world's leading AI platform for procurement". Fairmarkit sells autonomous sourcing to enterprise procurement. Keelvar sells "Agentic Sourcing fine-tuned for you." Pactum describes its product as "Procurement AI agents that assist buyers and execute supplier negotiations at scale". Arkestro describes itself as "Predictive Procurement Built for the Enterprise." Globality, headquartered in Palo Alto, says "Sourcing for Scale."

Manufacturing and industrial operations

Augury sells "Industrial AI Agents That Work for You. From Uptime to Unstoppable.", built on its machine health monitoring. Sight Machine describes its product as "Agents that understand your plant and make it better, every shift." Instrumental sells manufacturing acceleration for complex electronics. Tulip sells "Production systems that evolve as fast as your operations do". Invisible AI sells visual intelligence for manufacturing to automakers and industrial engineers.

Cognite, which sells an industrial AI and data platform, is subject to an agreement to be acquired by Schneider Electric, announced in June 2026; we found no announcement that the deal has closed.

Maintenance and field service

ServiceTitan, which completed its public offering in December 2024, sells "AI software for commercial and residential trades". Aquant sells "Conversational AI for physical product support". Fiix, a Rockwell company, sells maintenance software with embedded AI tools. MaintainX sells "Intelligent maintenance and asset management", and Autodesk completed its acquisition on 3 August 2026, according to its quarterly filing. UpKeep sells maintenance management, with AI usage priced in Nova Credits. Xenia sells "AI-Powered Operations Software for Multi-Location Excellence". Uptake sells predictive maintenance for fleets, and Bosch announced plans to acquire it in March 2026; we found no announcement that the deal has closed.

Back-office automation

UiPath says "Your clear path to AI results", and closed its acquisition of WorkFusion in its first quarter of fiscal 2027. Automation Anywhere, headquartered in San Jose, calls itself "The #1 provider of agentic automation" and acquired Aisera in November 2025. Workato sells "The Platform to Govern & Scale Enterprise AI". Instabase, which its homepage says "is now SuperApp", sells "The Agentic Automation Platform". Hyperscience sells its Hypercell platform for intelligent document processing. Sensible and Landing AI sell document extraction. Nanonets says "Turn your business processes into AI agents". Rossum sells AI document processing for transactional paperwork, and in May 2026 Coupa announced it has acquired Rossum.

What to ask before you buy

1. 1.What does the agent do on its own, and what needs a person? In freight, procurement and the plant, an agent's mistake costs money in hours. Ask where the approval step sits.
2. 2.What unit are you paying for? Users, interfaces, documents, credits and delivered outcomes all behave differently as volume grows. Ask for the price at your next stage.
3. 3.Who will own this vendor next year? Several changed hands in the last year and two more deals are announced but not closed. Check the vendor's own newsroom and the acquirer's filings.
4. 4.Does it replace your system of record or sit on it? A transportation or maintenance system is a migration. An agent on top of your existing one is not.

If you sell one of these products, expect these questions in the first reply.

How we did this

We checked 48 companies against their own websites, and pricing pages where published, on 28 September 2026, and profile 45 of them here, described the way each describes itself. Where a phrase appears only in a page title or metadata rather than in visible copy, we describe rather than quote. Anaplan's purchase of Syrup Tech appears as a cross-reference. We left out Lily AI, which sells catalogue enrichment to retail marketing teams, and Tines, whose buyer is the security team rather than operations. Deals come from the companies' own announcements and from acquirers' filings, and we report each as announced or completed exactly as those sources state. The list covers the vendors we examined, not the whole market.

If something here is out of date or wrong about your company, tell us and we will correct it with the source.