
“It’s interesting because some of the vendors that have adopted Cloud are still not able to grow as fast as others,” he explains, “while vendors like Coupa have just been going crazy and growing at 30% to 40% year on year.” Key market driversĬrediting Cloud as a key driver of SCM revenues last year, Abbabatulla says not all “Cloud-dominant” suppliers experienced significant growth.

Cumulatively, 2019’s top 10 vendors posted $8.70 billion in SCM software revenues, up from $7.89 billion in 2018. Rounding out this year’s list was Descartes, with $282.3 million in SCM revenues WiseTech Global at $261.1 million Jaggaer with $260.7 million and Manhattan Associates, which took the 10th spot with $244.9 million in annual SCM revenues. According to Gartner, the company’s revenues increased from $168.5 million in 2018 to $287.2 million in 2019. The sixth spot went to E2open, which made a significant jump from its eleventh-place finish in 2018. Taking the fifth spot on the Top 10 list, Infor posted an SCM revenue increase from $322.3 million in 2018 to $333.1 million last year. The company leapfrogged both Descartes Systems and Infor Global Solutions to claim the fourth spot on Gartner’s 2019 ranking. One of 2019’s biggest movers in the SCM space was Coupa, whose revenues jumped from $226.4 million to $334.8 million.

SAP took the top spot with $4.12 billion in SCM revenues (up from $3.79 billion in 2018), followed by Oracle at $1.73 billion, and Blue Yonder (previously JDA Software) with $835.8 million in revenues. “As a result, we thought focusing on the top 10 would give us a good representation of the various growth drivers and strategies that are enabling these vendors to grow quickly the supply chain market.”įor 2019, the top spots on Gartner’s list were occupied by the sector’s biggest players, all of which saw their SCM revenues increase last year. “In terms of distinct growth strategies, there are few vendors outside of the top 10 that had unique strategies that helped them achieve rapid growth,” Abbabatulla continues. “The top 10 vendors account for a huge amount of market share,” says Balaji Abbabatulla, Gartner UK’s senior director of product management research for SCM software. This year, Gartner reduced its list to 10 vendors (versus a previous 20) to focus in more closely on this software sector’s top growth drivers and strategies. These and other revelations were unveiled in the research firm’s Supply Chain Software Top 10 list, which highlights the leading SCM vendors.

According to Gartner, Cloud software revenue grew 2.5 times faster than the overall market, accounting for nearly 34% of the market as all leading vendors took their new product strategies into the Cloud.

The supply chain management (SCM) software market grew at an 8.6% clip in 2019, exceeding $15 billion in vendor revenue by helping companies automate and manage their domestic and global supply networks.
