Why choose Oracle AI for SCM over SAP, Workday, Kinaxis, RELEX, Palantir, and Blue Yonder?

How Oracle AI for SCM stands out against the competition

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SAP

Section 1 – Leadership in SCM

1. Comprehensive Manufacturing Management & Execution – SAP S/4HANA is a product-centric ERP and the offering includes manufacturing management and execution - https://www.sap.com/uk/products/scm/manufacturing.html
2. While manufacturing has been historically a focus for SAP, its advanced capabilities continue to be delivered on-premise or via complementary partner solutions. https://www.sap.com/uk/products/scm/s4hana-manufacturing-solutions.html
3. SAP has historically offered EAM solutions - https://www.sap.com/uk/products/scm/asset-management-eam.html#enterprise-asset-management
4. SAP partners with Siemens for PLM in discrete manufacturing - https://www.sap.com/uk/products/scm/plm-integration.html
5. Native Contract Management – SAP CLM + Icertis investment -https://www.sap.com/products/spend-management/contract-management-software/what-is-clm.html - https://www.icertis.com/research/blog/sap-icertis-next-level/
6. Comprehensive Procurement & Sourcing– SAP acquired Ariba. SAP is a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites.
7. Under the Supply Chain Planning section, (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) refer to the Gartner use cases used in their Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report published on April 14, 2025. SAP is rated a Challenger in the Gartner MQ for SCP (Oracle is a leader) - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/.
    a. Demand Planning. “This use case applies when a company uses only the demand planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its demand plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use DP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated 4.22/5. This score is well ahead of SAP (3.89/5), another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Oracle offers native Demand Planning, while SAP IBP is a portfolio of SCP products developed on SAP Hana, independently of S/4HANA. Part of the solutions come from acquisition or partners
    b. Supply Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses only the supply planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its supply plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use SP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, ahead of SAP, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    c. E2E Enterprise Planning.“This use case applies when an enterprise uses both the demand and the supply planning modules of an SCP solution to create E2E demand and supply plans for its supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    d. E2E Multienterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise expands its demand and supply plans to its trading partners in a multienterprise supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    e. Digital Planning. “This use case involves some digitization of supply chain planning, with the enterprise applying more advanced analytics and automation to its planning decision making”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
8. Comprehensive Warehouse Management – SAP is a leader in the Gartner MQ for WMS - https://www.oracle.com/scm/logistics/warehouse-management/analyst-report/
9. Comprehensive Transportation Management – SAP is a leader in the Gartner MQ for TMS - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/logistics/transportation-management/report/
10. Advanced Analytics – https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/solutions.html#data-analytics
11. Native AI Assistants - https://research.aimultiple.com/sap-ai-agents/ and https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/generative-ai.html
12. SCM AI Agents - https://research.aimultiple.com/sap-ai-agents/ and https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/generative-ai.html

Section 2 – Leadership in AI for SCM

13. AI Agent Studio with Optimized Large Language Models Included at no Additional Fee - SAP LLM no charge https://www.sap.com/resources/what-is-large-language-model. But not for SCM: “In the future, an even deeper integration is planned with the inclusion of Large Language Models (LLMs), which will change the way how users will approach planning topics within systems. ”https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/discovering-sap-ibp-for-inventory-planning-and-optimization/understanding-key-differentiators-of-sap-integrated-business-planning-for-inventory
14. Agentic AI at no Additional Fee - https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/sap-business-ai-what-does-it-cost/ba-p/13960940
15. Single Security Model for AI and Applications - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-sap-cloud-security-why-2025-landmark-year-surabhi-purwaar-xge4c/ and https://www.sap.com/about/trust-center/security.html
16. Built-in Credential Store for External Data - https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/credential-store.html
17. Agentic AI Administrative Testing & Validation – One of the key challenges is how to make AI-powered capabilities work smoothly with SAP's current ecosystem, i.e. integration.
https://www.hcltech.com/blogs/agentic-ai-transforming-sap-for-the-future
18. Built-in Agentic AI Development Tools. The development tool is for Joule, SAP’s CoPilot. But a copilot is not an agent as copilots are not autonomous. https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence.html
19. Agentic AI Embedded Knowledge Store – SAP uses a separate AI data cloud and AI is not embedded in its transactional workflow https://www.coveo.com/blog/agentic-ai/ , https://learning.sap.com/products/business-data-cloud
20. Embedded GenAI - https://www.sap.com/products/artificial-intelligence/what-is-generative-ai.html, https://discovery-center.cloud.sap/missiondetail/4441/4727/
21. Requires Separate data cloud – it’s not one cloud, but many different ones. Applying AI to these transactional applications is too complex. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/todays-challenges-integrating-artificial-intelligence-wakankar-2410e/, https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/sap-s-pioneering-leap-in-artificial-intelligence-transforming-enterprise/ba-p/13987619, https://www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/data-management.html
22. AI agent data write-back integration. AI Agents & Agent Builder | SAP Architecture Center

Blue Yonder

Section 1 - Leadership in SCM

1. Comprehensive Manufacturing Management & Execution – BY has not historically offered manufacturing capabilities outside of planning, until its acquisition of small German player called Flexis - https://media.blueyonder.com/blue-yonder-acquires-flexis-a-leader-in-manufacturing-and-supply-chain-planning-technology/
2. While manufacturing has been a historical vertical for BY (primarily from the i2 Technologies acquisition for planning & scheduling in Hi Tech), it’s the Flexis acquisition that brought plant level functionality - https://media.blueyonder.com/blue-yonder-acquires-flexis-a-leader-in-manufacturing-and-supply-chain-planning-technology/
3. Enterprise Asset Management is not listed by BY on its list of solutions - https://blueyonder.com/solutions
4. Product Lifecycle Management is not listed by BY on its list of solutions - https://blueyonder.com/solutions
5. Native Contract Management – Blue Yonder doesn’t offer a native CLM solution
6. Comprehensive Procurement & Sourcing – Outside of retail and transportation, BY doesn’t offer procurement capabilities - https://blueyonder.com/solutions#q=procurement
7. Under the Supply Chain Planning section, (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) refer to the Gartner use cases used in their Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report published on April 14, 2025. Both Oracle and Blue Yonder are rated Leaders in the Gartner MQ for SCP (Oracle is a leader) - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/.
    a. Demand Planning. “This use case applies when a company uses only the demand planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its demand plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use DP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated 4.17/5. This score is just slightly below Blue Yonder (4.37/5), another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    b. Supply Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses only the supply planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its supply plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use SP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated above 4/5, an indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Blue Yonder gets the highest score in this use case (4.59/5).
    c. E2E Enterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses both the demand and the supply planning modules of an SCP solution to create E2E demand and supply plans for its supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5, an indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Blue Yonder gets a slightly higher score in this use case (4.39/5).
    d. E2E Multienterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise expands its demand and supply plans to its trading partners in a multienterprise supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5, an indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Blue Yonder gets a slightly higher score in this use case (4.35/5).
    e. Digital Planning.“This use case involves some digitization of supply chain planning, with the enterprise applying more advanced analytics and automation to its planning decision making”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5, an indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Blue Yonder gets a slightly higher score in this use case (4.34/5).
8. Comprehensive Warehouse Management – Blue Yonder acquired RedPrairie, a leading vendor which had consolidated multiple WMS vendors and has since been considered by industry analysts as one of the top WMS vendors, even though it has not completely rewritten its solution for the cloud. BY is a leader in the Gartner MQ for WMS - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/logistics/warehouse-management/analyst-report/
9. Comprehensive Transportation Management – With the acquisitions of i2 and Manugistics, Blue Yonder became a leading vendor in TMS. BY is a leader in the Gartner MQ for TMS - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/logistics/transportation-management/report/
10. Advanced Analytics. Besides its analytical and modeling capabilities at the product level, and its AI platform, Blue Yonder offers a Control Tower solution and what it calls its “AI-powered, platform-driven Cognitive Solutions” - https://blueyonder.com/solutions/network-and-control-tower
11. BY Native AI Assistants - https://blueyonder.com/why-blue-yonder/ai-and-machine-learning
12. SCM AI Agents - https://diginomica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/diginomica.com/blue-yonder-ceo-duncan-angove-journey-agentic-ai-supply-chain

Section 2 – Leadership in AI for SCM

13. Optimized Large Language Models Included at no Additional Fee. BY offers AI as additional solutions by industry or by product line resulting from its partnerships with Snowflake and Microsoft Azure e.g. Blue Yonder Orchestrator - https://blueyonder.com/resources/orchestrator and https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250505924588/en/Blue-Yonder-Transforms-Supply-Chain-Management-With-New-AI-Agents-and-Supply-Chain-Knowledge-Graph-at-ICON-2025
14. Agentic AI at no Additional Fee – These are new products for BY, not embedded capabilities within existing solutions - https://media.blueyonder.com/blue-yonder-unveils-advanced-ai-driven-cognitive-solutions-with-latest-product-release/
15. Single Security Model for AI and Applications – BY leverages partners like Snowflake and Microsoft Azure - https://media.blueyonder.com/blue-yonder-transforms-supply-chain-management-with-new-ai-agents/
16. Built-in Credential Store for External Data – BY leverages Snowflake and Microsoft Azure- https://blueyonder.com/why-blue-yonder/data-cloud-and-platform and https://blueyonder.com/media/2024/blue-yonder-recognized-as-a-finalist-of-the-2024-microsoft-global-retail-amp-consumer-goods-and
17. Agentic AI Administrative Testing & Validation – BY leverages Snowflake and Microsoft Azure- https://blueyonder.com/why-blue-yonder/data-cloud-and-platform
18. Separate data cloud unnecessary – BY offers a separate platform data cloud for BY AI https://blueyonder.com/why-blue-yonder/ai-and-machine-learning and https://blueyonder.com/why-blue-yonder/data-cloud-and-platform and https://blueyonder.com/resources/accelerate-informed-decisions-with-ai-built-for-supply-chain
19. Built-in Agentic AI Development Tools – BY has launched five AI agents, not built-in Agentic AI development tools within the BY platform - https://blueyonder.com/solutions/blue-yonder-platform
20. Agentic AI Embedded Knowledge Store – BY leverages Snowflake and Microsoft Azure- https://blueyonder.com/why-blue-yonder/data-cloud-and-platform
21. Embedded GenAI – https://blueyonder.com/resources/icon-2024-blue-yonder-live-taking-advantage-of-generative-ai-to-unlock-productivity-in-supply-chains
22. AI agent data write-back integration. Limited availability of agents across the portfolio. Blue Yonder Launches Five New AI Tools for Logistics and Warehousing - CargoClear

Kinaxis

Section 1 - Leadership in SCM

1. Comprehensive Manufacturing Management & Execution – While Kinaxis positions manufacturing has a historical vertical (primarily in Hi-Tech & Electronics and in Industrial Manufacturing), it does not offer any core manufacturing solution. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/industries
2. While manufacturing has been a historical vertical for Kinaxis, initially in particular High-Tech, the solution was built to complement ERP planning capabilities – primarily SAP - and thus never covered Smart Operations capabilities by itself. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/solutions
3. Enterprise Asset Management is not listed by Kinaxis on its list of solutions - https://www.kinaxis.com/en/solutions
4. Product Lifecycle Management is not listed by Kinaxis on its list of solutions - https://www.kinaxis.com/en/solutions
5. Native Contract Management – Kinaxis doesn’t offer a native CLM solution. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/solutions
6. Comprehensive Procurement & Sourcing – Kinaxis doesn’t offer procurement capabilities - https://www.kinaxis.com/en/solutions
7. Supply Chain Planning. Under the Supply Chain Planning section of the table, (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) refer to the Gartner use cases used in their Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report published on April 14, 2025.
    a. Demand Planning. “This use case applies when a company uses only the demand planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its demand plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use DP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated 4.22/5. This score is well ahead of SAP (3.89/5) and just slightly below Kinaxis (4.26/5) and RELEX (4.33/5), another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Oracle offers native Demand Planning, while SAP IBP is a portfolio of SCP products developed on SAP Hana, independently of S/4HANA. Part of the solutions come from acquisition or partners. It is rated a Challenger in the Gartner MQ for SCP (Oracle is a leader) - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/.
    b. Supply Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses only the supply planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its supply plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use SP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, ahead of SAP and slightly below Kinaxis and RELEX, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    c. E2E Enterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses both the demand and the supply planning modules of an SCP solution to create E2E demand and supply plans for its supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP and slightly below Kinaxis and RELEX, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    d. E2E Multienterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise expands its demand and supply plans to its trading partners in a multienterprise supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP. Oracle also scores higher than RELEX. And slightly below Kinaxis, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    e. Digital Planning. “This use case involves some digitization of supply chain planning, with the enterprise applying more advanced analytics and automation to its planning decision making”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP and RELEX, and slightly below Kinaxis, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
Kinaxis is a recognized leading vendor in SCP, in the leaders section of the Gartner MQ for SCP - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/ . However, Oracle scores higher in the Peer Insights reviews, both overall and for the last 12 months. https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/supply-chain-planning-solutions/compare/product/kinaxis-maestro-platform-vs-oracle-fusion-cloud-supply-chain-planning-vs-relex-platform
8. Comprehensive Warehouse Management – Kinaxis doesn’t offer a native WMS solution https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/logistics/warehouse-management/analyst-report/
9. Comprehensive Transportation Management – Kinaxis doesn’t offer a native TMS solution, it got some capabilities with the MPO acquisitions. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/solutions . Kinaxis claims it offers TMS capabilities since its acquisition of MPO, but it didn’t make the cut to be included in the Gartner MQ for TMS, even as a vendor in the Niche segment, an indication of its limited revenue in the segment - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/logistics/transportation-management/report/
10. Advanced Analytics. Kinaxis still offers limited analytical capabilities despite their claims, as illustrated in Peer Insights, from reference customers giving the solution the highest score elsewhere (“Configurable Supply Chain Tool Enables Visibility but Presents Analytical Limitations”). https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/supply-chain-planning-solutions/vendor/kinaxis/product/kinaxis-maestro-platform/review/view/6321510
11. Native AI Assistants – While Kinaxis pictures itself and its Maestro solution as “the only AI-infused end-to-end supply chain platform”, it often positions its scenario planning capabilities as AI. Moreover, it appears to be still struggling to integrate the different parts within the rebranded Maestro solution. Kinaxis has now announced a partnership with Databricks (like SAP two months earlier).
12. SCM AI Agents – Kinaxis has not announced a list of SCM AI Agents, and is still at the early pilot mode stage with select customers for AI, works on AI with academics, and talks the talk well at the high level. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/ai-supply-chain

Section 2 – Leadership in AI for SCM

13. AI Agent Studio with Optimized Large Language Models Included at no Additional Fee – Kinaxis has not formally announced an AI Agent Studio, claims are around the Maestro platform.
14. Agentic AI at no Additional Fee - Kinaxis says on its website that “Unlike typical AI tools, Maestro agents guide you through impacts, options, and outcomes, that can act on approved decisions, streamlining actions without toggling between screens. ”. However, a search for “Agentic AI” or “AI Agent” on the company’s website only return links to high level blog posts, with no direct relation with a specific solution from Kinaxis’ portfolio. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/search?search_api_fulltext=AI%20Agent
15. Single Security Model for AI and Applications – Kinaxis doesn’t mention security specifically as it relates to AI. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/security
16. Built-in Credential Store for External Data – While Kinaxis states that its AI capabilities can leverage both internal and external data, there is no mention of a credential store for external data.
17. Agentic AI Administrative Testing & Validation – One of the key challenges is how to make AI-powered capabilities work smoothly across the portfolio, i.e. integration. Kinaxis might be expecting a fix from the partnership with Databricks.
18. Built-in Agentic AI Development Tools. Kinaxis claims customers can use its Maestro platform and the Kinaxis Developer Studio to expand its solutions with innovative capabilities. But it has published no details about specific built-in Agentic AI development tools. https://www.kinaxis.com/en/developer-studio
19. Agentic AI Embedded Knowledge Store – Kinaxis has not publicly communicated about an Agentic AI embedded knowledge store.
20. Embedded GenAI - Kinaxis has not publicly communicated about Agentic AI, but occasionally mentions “agents” in its marketing material.
21. Requires Separate data cloud – It’s unclear. While SaaS revenue represents roughly three quarters of the company’s revenue every quarter, because it is sold as subscription-based, and most recent deployments are hosted, it’s the same solution that they still can also sell on-premise.
22. AI agent data write-back integration. Reach and availability are unclear beyond announcements. Kinaxis: A major force in agentic AI – Supply Chain Strategy

RELEX

Section 1 - Leadership in SCM

1. Comprehensive Manufacturing Management & Execution – While Finland-headquartered RELEX positions manufacturing has a strategic vertical since the acquisition of Optimity in 2024, it does not offer any core manufacturing solution and is not a manufacturing specialist. RELEX has historically focused on distribution-centric industries in Europe, primarily retail and CG, where it had most of its customers until the Optimity acquisition. Optimity was a small vendor (never covered by Gartner even for a short mention) originally founded in Australia (their former leader is now running RELEX in APAC) with its international headquarters in Sweden. RELEX is therefore not seen as a leading global vendor in manufacturing. https://www.relexsolutions.com/news/relex-solutions-acquires-optimity-for-unified-upstream-supply-chain-planning-and-optimization-capabilities/
2. RELEX describes itself as a “Supply Chain & Retail Planning Platform” and was built for retailers and thus never covered core manufacturing or manufacturing Smart Operations capabilities by itself, as it covers only planning. https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
3. Enterprise Asset Management is not listed by RELEX on its list of solutions - https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
4. Product Lifecycle Management is not listed by RELEX on its list of solutions - https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
5. Native Contract Management – RELEX doesn’t offer a native CLM solution. https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
6. Comprehensive Procurement & Sourcing – RELEX offers some procurement capabilities only for retail - https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
7. Supply Chain Planning. Under the Supply Chain Planning section of the table, (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) refer to the Gartner use cases used in their Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report published on April 14, 2025.
    a. Demand Planning. “This use case applies when a company uses only the demand planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its demand plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use DP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated 4.22/5. This score is well ahead of SAP (3.89/5) and just slightly below Kinaxis (4.26/5) and RELEX (4.33/5), another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications. Oracle offers native Demand Planning, while SAP IBP is a portfolio of SCP products developed on SAP Hana, independently of S/4HANA. Part of the solutions come from acquisition or partners. It is rated a Challenger in the Gartner MQ for SCP (Oracle is a leader) - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/.
    b. Supply Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses only the supply planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its supply plans. ”. Even though this use case applies only when a company decides to use SP as a stand-alone application, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, ahead of SAP and slightly below Kinaxis and RELEX, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when narrowly looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    c. E2E Enterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses both the demand and the supply planning modules of an SCP solution to create E2E demand and supply plans for its supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP and slightly below Kinaxis and RELEX, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    d. E2E Multienterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise expands its demand and supply plans to its trading partners in a multienterprise supply chain”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP. Oracle also scores higher than RELEX. And slightly below Kinaxis, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
    e. Digital Planning. “This use case involves some digitization of supply chain planning, with the enterprise applying more advanced analytics and automation to its planning decision making”. Here too, Oracle is rated above 4/5. Again, well ahead of SAP and RELEX, and slightly below Kinaxis, another indication of Oracle’s leadership even when just looking at the functional level and not looking also at the innovative technical capabilities of the Oracle SCM suite of applications.
RELEX is a recognized leading vendor in SCP, in the leaders section of the Gartner MQ for SCP - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/ . However, Oracle scores higher in the Peer Insights reviews, both overall and for the last 12 months. https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/supply-chain-planning-solutions/compare/product/kinaxis-maestro-platform-vs-oracle-fusion-cloud-supply-chain-planning-vs-relex-platform
8. Comprehensive Warehouse Management – RELEX doesn’t offer a native WMS solution https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
9. Comprehensive Transportation Management – RELEX doesn’t offer a native TMS solution https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions-overview/
10. Advanced Analytics. RELEX offers limited analytical capabilities and Analytics are not mentioned as a product within their portfolio. https://www.relexsolutions.com/platform-technology/ It’s also in retail that RELEX offers a solution it calls Diagnostics (“Pinpoint the root causes for stockouts, spoilage, and excess stock in stores and distribution centers. RELEX Diagnostics uses AI to analyze your data and deliver practical insights and recommendations to solve availability and waste problems, eliminating time-consuming manual analysis”). https://www.relexsolutions.com/solutions/diagnostics/
11. Native AI Assistants – While RELEX pictures itself as delivering “Innovation from day one with RELEX specialized, generative, and agentic AI”, claiming that “Machine learning and AI are nothing new to RELEX. Our platform and solutions have been using machine learning to forecast demand, optimize inventory levels, and improve supply chain efficiency for years”, it features Machine Learning, and a bot. https://www.relexsolutions.com/relex-and-ai/
12. SCM AI Agents – RELEX has not announced a list of SCM AI Agents across industries, but has pushed its Rebot in retail for some time and talks the talk well at the high level, particularly in retail. https://www.relexsolutions.com/resources/eliminating-ai-ambiguity-distinct-ai-approaches-to-three-top-business-concerns/
Section 2 – Leadership in AI for SCM
13. AI Agent Studio with Optimized Large Language Models Included at no Additional Fee – RELEX has not formally announced an AI Agent Studio, available across the industries it serves, but claims it offers a “multi-agent AI system” that customers can use to build agents, and that is “LLM agnostic”. https://www.relexsolutions.com/resources/relex-multi-agent-ai-system/ . RELEX positions AI as a key differentiator an growth driver https://www.relexsolutions.com/news/relex-delivers-strong-1h-2025-growth-with-ai-innovation-and-customer-expansion/
14. Agentic AI at no Additional Fee – RELEX says on its website that AI is fully part of its portfolio so it is unsure if there is an extra-charge for agents.https://www.kinaxis.com/en/search?search_api_fulltext=AI%20Agent
15. Single Security Model for AI and Applications – RELEX offers a specific Data Management module within its platform and mentions security specifically as it relates to AI, related to its retail customers. It is however unclear if the products coming from Optimity have been completely ported on the same platform. https://www.relexsolutions.com/platform-technology/
16. Built-in Credential Store for External Data – While RELEX states that its AI capabilities can leverage both internal and external data, there is no mention of a credential store for external data.
17. Agentic AI Administrative Testing & Validation – One of the key challenges is how to make AI-powered capabilities work smoothly across the portfolio, i.e. integration. RELEX is still in pilot mode regarding Agentic AI. https://www.relexsolutions.com/news/relex-delivers-strong-1h-2025-growth-with-ai-innovation-and-customer-expansion/
18. Built-in Agentic AI Development Tools. RELEX claims customers can use its solutions with innovative capabilities. But it has published no details about specific built-in Agentic AI development tools.
19. Agentic AI Embedded Knowledge Store – RELEX has not publicly communicated about an Agentic AI embedded knowledge store.
20. Embedded GenAI - RELEX has not publicly communicated about the number of AI Agents already available, but regularly mentions “agents” in its marketing material, including for Rebot. https://www.relexsolutions.com/news/relex-delivers-strong-1h-2025-growth-with-ai-innovation-and-customer-expansion/
21. Requires separate data cloud. It’s unclear. But likely not for retail capabilities as AI is embedded.
22. AI agent data write-back integration. Reach and availability are unclear beyond announcements. How the RELEX platform turns AI agents into experts | RELEX Solutions.

Workday

Section 1 – Leadership in SCM

1. While Workday positions manufacturing has a historical vertical, it does not offer any core manufacturing solution. Its SCM solutions are positioned for Healthcare only - https://www.workday.com/en-us/solutions/industries/manufacturing.html
2. Workday does not offer manufacturing operations capabilities or shop-floor control solutions as shown on the lists of products - https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/suite.html
3. Enterprise Asset Management is not listed by Workday on its list of products or industry solutions - https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/suite.html
4. Product Lifecycle Management is not listed by Workday on its list of solutions - https://www.workday.com/en-us/products/suite.html
5. Native Contract Management. Workday purchased Evisort for contract management: https://newsroom.workday.com/2024-09-17-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Evisort
6. Comprehensive Procurement. Workday purchased Scout, third party RFP solution: https://tracxn.com/d/acquisitions/acquisitions-by-workday/__DyUd78Xz8sWRW5Gcfx_gqRV-nj7mQEgalZQPr301Ha0 - Gartner Magic Quadrant Source to Pay doesn’t include Workday. Oracle is a Leader.
7. Supply Chain Planning. Under the Supply Chain Planning section of the table, (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) refer to the Gartner use cases used in their Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report published on April 14, 2025.
    a. Demand Planning. “This use case applies when a company uses only the demand planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its demand plans. ” Workday is not included in the Gartner MQ for SCP (Oracle is a leader) - https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/. Workday’s March, 2025 release included an Assistant for Planning (not SCM specific): https://securesites-prodapp.cec.ocp.oraclecloud.com/sa/assetPreview/CONT19E1ACFCD0BC4BADA537396EB04A1B67
    a. Supply Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses only the supply planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its supply plans. ”
    b. E2E Enterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses both the demand and the supply planning modules of an SCP solution to create E2E demand and supply plans for its supply chain. ”
    c. E2E Multienterprise Planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise expands its demand and supply plans to its trading partners in a multienterprise supply chain. ”
    d. Digital Planning. “This use case involves some digitization of supply chain planning, with the enterprise applying more advanced analytics and automation to its planning decision making. ”
8. Comprehensive Warehouse Management. Workday announced it is in development to a WMS solution today but currently partners with Tecsys when a client needs a warehouse solution: https://marketplace-setup.workday.com/en-US/apps/414693/tecsys-elite-healthcare-wms-for-workday-scm/overview
9. Comprehensive Transportation Management Workday partners with Cargoson for Transportation Management: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations/partners/workday
10. Advanced Analytics. Workday not included in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms – Oracle is rated a Visionary
11. Native AI Assistants. Workday’s two AI Agents are in HiredScore, an acquired solution: https://securesites-prodapp.cec.ocp.oraclecloud.com/sa/assetPreview/CONT19E1ACFCD0BC4BADA537396EB04A1B67
12. SCM AI Agents. Workday only offers SCM in healthcare, but no SCM-specific AI agents except around procurement and contract management https://itwire.com/guest-articles/company-news/workday-unveils-new-ai-agents-to-transform-hiring,-finance-and-frontline-operations.html

Section 2 - Leadership in AI for SCM

13. Optimized Large Language Models Included at no Additional Fee – Extra costs. Szkutak, Rebecca, “Workday Launches a Platform for Enterprises to Manage All of Their AI Agents in One Place,” TechCrunch, 11 February 2025, https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/workday-launches-a-platform-for-enterprises-to-manage-all-of-their-ai-agents-in-one-place/
14. Agentic AI at no Additional Fee. Extra cots. Szkutak, Rebecca, “Workday Launches a Platform for Enterprises to Manage All of Their AI Agents in One Place,” TechCrunch, 11 February 2025, https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/workday-launches-a-platform-for-enterprises-to-manage-all-of-their-ai-agents-in-one-place/
15. Single Security Model for AI and Applications Workday does not fully support Activity-based access control (ABAC) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/app-provisioning/workday-attribute-reference
16. Built-in Credential Store for External Data Workday Agent System of Record is Here,” Workday, Accessed 30 April 2025, https://www.workday.com/en-us/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai.html
17. Agentic AI Administrative Testing & Validation Ibid.
18. Separate data cloud unnecessary https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/enus-pln-da-workday-adaptive-planning-integration.pdf https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/workday-vndly-datasheet-vms.pdf
19. Built-in Agentic AI Development Tools Workday Agent System of Record is Here,” Workday, Accessed 30 April 2025, https://www.workday.com/en-us/artificial-intelligence/agentic-ai.html
20. Agentic AI Embedded Knowledge Store HiredScore,” Workday Marketplace, Accessed 30 April 2025, https://marketplace.workday.com/en-US/apps/421790/hiredscore/overview
21. Embedded GenAI. Limited SCM capabilities outside of healthcare.
22. AI agent data write-back integration. Not supported

Palantir

Section 1 – Leadership in SCM

1. Comprehensive manufacturing management and execution. Palantir is not seen by industry analysts as a provider of applications in SCM and is not currently a competitor we have often seen in apps in the past. However, we are seeing them offering their AIP capabilities on top of their custom development projects using Foundry, for use cases in manufacturing and logistics, including for building digital twins as illustrated with its tagline, “AI-Powered Automation for Every Decision. ” https://www.palantir.com/explore/foundry-for-manufacturing/
2. While government has been historically a focus for Palantir, manufacturing and supply chain management are strong areas of focus for the company’s commercial business. https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/
3. While not selling EAM per se, Palantir has historically offered decision-making solutions in asset-intensive environments. This is still a focus today, both for the military and in its commercial activities, including in utilities and energy production. https://www.palantir.com/impact/sonnedix/
4. Product lifecycle management. Palantir doesn’t list PLM as one of its existing use cases or offerings
5. Native contract management. Palantir lists CLM as one of its existing use cases or offerings within its procurement product. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/procurement/
6. Comprehensive procurement and sourcing. Palantir lists procurement as one of its existing use cases or offerings. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/procurement/. It does not offer however a standard application for procurement, and industry analysts, such as Gartner do not include Palantir in their procurement vendor landscape analysis. IDC, however, did include Palantir in its 2025 “MarketScape Worldwide AI-Enabled Procure-to-Pay Application Vendor Assessment,” and rated it a “Major Player,” but with the lowest score on the Capabilities axis of all vendors evaluated.
7. Under the Supply Chain Planning section, (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) refer to the Gartner use cases used in their Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Planning report published on April 14, 2025.
    a. Demand planning. “This use case applies when a company uses only the demand planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its demand plans. ” Palantir is not included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SCP. (Oracle is a Leader. ) https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/supply-chain-planning/gartner-magic-quadrant/. Palantir is active in optimization and decision-making. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/supply-chain/
    b. Supply planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses only the supply planning module of a vendor’s SCP solution to improve the quality of its supply plans. ” Palantir is not included or evaluated as a provider of standard SCP applications. Palantir is active in optimization and decision-making. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/supply-chain/
    c. E2E enterprise planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise uses both the demand and the supply planning modules of an SCP solution to create E2E demand and supply plans for its supply chain. ” Palantir is not evaluated as a provider of standard SCP applications. Palantir is active in optimization and decision-making. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/supply-chain/
    d. E2E multienterprise planning. “This use case applies when an enterprise expands its demand and supply plans to its trading partners in a multienterprise supply chain. ” Palantir is not evaluated as a provider of standard SCP applications. Palantir is active in optimization and decision-making. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/supply-chain/
    e. Digital planning. “This use case involves some digitization of supply chain planning, with the enterprise applying more advanced analytics and automation to its planning decision-making. ” Palantir is active in optimization and decision-making. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/supply-chain/.
8. Comprehensive warehouse management. Palantir does not offer WMS. https://www.oracle.com/scm/logistics/warehouse-management/analyst-report/. It does offer custom use cases around inventory levels optimization and allocation. https://www.palantir.com/explore/access-allocation-whitepaper/
9. Comprehensive transportation management. Palantir does not offer a TMS application and is not included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for TMS. https://www.oracle.com/uk/scm/logistics/transportation-management/report/
10. Advanced analytics. Palantir is, above all, a leader is decision-making and analytics solutions and is considered a leading player in real-time decision-making solutions. Foundry, the company’s core data integration platform that models the data landscape of an enterprise for the business to drive decisions, is now complemented with AIP. The Palantir vision is to become "the leading software provider for data-driven decision-making. ”
11. Native AI assistants. Included in the AIP offering. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/assist/overview/
12. SCM AI agents. Agents are specific to Palantir’s offerings and included in its SCM, manufacturing, and procurement specific projects for example. https://www.palantir.com/offerings/supply-chain/supply-chain-control-tower/

Section 2 – Leadership in AI for SCM

13. AI Agent Studio with optimized large language models included at no additional fee. Palantir doesn’t offer standard apps but consulting-heavy engagements to build highly customized offerings with Palantir’s platform (primarily in this segment, Foundry and AIP), specific to each customer. Palantir supports a large range of LLMs. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/aip/supported-llms/#supported-llms. The decisions are made at the project level.
14. Agentic AI at no additional fee. Palantir AIP comes with an agent studio, and the agents are built for each project. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/agent-studio/overview
15. Single security model for AI and applications. Palantir offers a shared security model and the customer’s built-in apps’ security are the responsibility of the customer. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/security/shared-security-responsibility-model/.
16. Built-in credential store for external data. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/data-connection/core-concepts.
17. Agentic AI administrative testing and validation. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/platform-overview/overview/.
18. Built-in agentic AI development tools. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/aip/overview/.
19. Agentic AI embedded knowledge store. No mention on the company’s websites of an agentic AI embedded knowledge store. This makes sense as the solutions are specific to each customer.
20. Embedded GenAI. Palantir AIP. https://www.palantir.com/docs/foundry/agent-studio/overview/.
21. Requires separate data cloud. Yes. It’s not one cloud for standard apps and AI, but can be many different ones as the solutions are specific use cases to each customer.