Warehouse management and supply chain optimization are never far from organizations’ minds, especially as recent geopolitical and economic challenges are still impacting operations globally.
Aptean, a mission-critical enterprise software company has announced the acquisition of Principal Logistics Technologies (PLT), adding new capabilities to its warehouse management and supply chain management offerings for wholesalers, importers, manufacturers, retailers and third-party logistics.
The Dublin, Ireland-found PLT brings industry expertise across the 3PL logistics, bulk commodities, chemicals, cold storage, grocery, pharmaceutical, wholesale/ distribution, manufacturing and retail industries.
The PLT platform is designed to manage operations across single-site and multi-site systems.
“The PLT platform delivers a robust suite of software solutions designed to manage complex warehouse and supply chain operations and is backed by a team of seasoned industry experts. We are thrilled to welcome the PLT team and customers to Aptean,” said Duane George, president of EMEA and APAC at Aptean.
Peter Flanagan, CEO and founder of PLT, also commented: “Together with Aptean, we are excited to offer our customers even more solutions to help manage and optimize their warehouse and supply chain operations,” as “Aptean’s purpose of helping customers and team members thrive aligns very closely with PLT’s customer and people-centric approach.”
Another vendor also advancing in the supply chain field is Epicor which recently unveiled its new Epicor Grow portfolio, an integrated suite of AI and business intelligence capabilities powered by a data platform for the needs of the make, move and sell industries.
The company is working on empowering users with an industry-centric data platform and no-code tools to create purpose-built data pipelines to help solve specific challenges.
SAP/">SAP also recently announced new AI advancements in its supply chain solutions, including leveraging AI-driven insights to streamline decision-making across the supply chain and the use of machine data and AI-driven visual inspection to automate production processes.
