Supply chain and logistics

Supply chain and logistics is the software that decides what to make and stock, and then moves it. It plans supply against demand months ahead, runs the warehouse and the robots inside it, plans the trucks and finds a truck for a load, shows where a shipment is, handles the last mile to the customer's door, clears goods through ports and customs, and runs delivery networks built around software. This Industry Vertical holds the companies that build all of it.

Bengaluru leads, through Blue Yonder, a large supply-chain planning company, and Hyderabad follows through Blue Yonder's second centre and GHX. Pune holds QAD and TraceLink, Chennai holds Kaleris and Platform Science, and Delhi NCR holds the warehouse-robot maker GreyOrange and Pitney Bowes. India also builds logistics for itself, through delivery networks like Delhivery and DTDC, the truck-booking app Porter, the trucking platform Zinka Logistics Solutions and the route planner Locus.

For an engineer, this is enterprise software for big shippers. Java engineers are far more common here than at a typical product company, with cloud, .NET and test engineers behind them, and the warehouse robots bring rarer work in firmware, C/C++ and Python on machines that move.

Supply chain and logistics is one of the Industry Verticals of Domain VII, E-commerce, travel and logistics. Every company named on this page has posted software engineering jobs in India.

The seven Market Segments

The Market Segments follow goods from the plan, through the warehouse and the truck, to tracking, the last mile, the port and the delivery network.

Supply chain planning software

Planning what to make and stock comes from companies like Blue Yonder, QAD, o9 Solutions and Kinaxis, and hospital supplies are planned through GHX.

Warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse robotics

Warehouse software from companies like Manhattan Associates, Unicommerce and Infios sits beside robot makers like GreyOrange, Rapyuta Robotics and Ati Motors.

Transportation management (TMS) and digital freight marketplaces

Fleet planning from companies like Kaleris, Platform Science, Locus and Samsara sits beside freight marketplaces that find a truck for a load, like Uber Freight, Porter and Zinka Logistics Solutions.

Shipment tracking and supply chain visibility platforms

Knowing where a shipment is comes from companies like project44, FourKites, TraceLink and GoComet.

Last-mile delivery and shipping software

Software for the last mile and the parcel comes from companies like Pitney Bowes, LogiNext, ClickPost and Shipway.

Freight forwarding, customs and trade platforms

Moving goods across the ocean and through customs runs on companies like Flexport, CrimsonLogic, OEC, KlearNow.AI and Kale Logistics Solutions.

Courier and parcel delivery networks

Delivery networks run with software at their core include Delhivery, DTDC, Ninja Van, Locad and LoadShare Networks.

Who they hire

What supply chain and logistics companies hire software engineers for, and which roles they hire, is on the Supply chain and logistics hiring page.

That is Supply chain and logistics, where a forecast becomes stock on a shelf and a parcel at a door.