Updated on: April 17, 2026
Previously, we discussed the importance of supply chain visibility and briefly mentioned solutions that help to improve transparency and data exchange in supply chains. This article digs deeper into the top software, platforms, and services helping companies to improve supply chain processes and overcome the visibility issue.
Specifically, we walk you through each of the following solutions:
Given that the needs of companies looking for better visibility might vary from case to case, we advise you to consider this list as a guideline helping you and your team navigate your own research and evaluation process. Also, it's important to mention that we do not endorse one vendor over another nor list solutions in a specific order from the best to the worst or vice-versa.
Let’s dive into the details.
FourKites is a global supply chain visibility platform trusted by world-leading brands and now positions itself more broadly as an AI-powered supply chain orchestration and control tower platform. The company's main goal is to support freight and logistics management processes by providing transportation (multi-modal coverage), yard, ocean, and inbound visibility. With those elements incorporated together, platform users can enable end-to-end visibility in their supply chains.
FourKites continues to emphasize its real-time visibility network, predictive ETAs, and supply chain control tower capabilities
To make it easy to connect the solution with customers' core business systems, the company provides out-of-the-box integration for certain TMS, ERP, etc. However, if your system is not part of the list, you might need to build the integration in-house. This might be critical for many, as in-house integrations always lead to additional investments and possible risks.The FourKites platform is a kind of Swiss knife visibility solution allowing users to unlock improvements across their business, from better customer service and OTIF (on time in full) compliance to improved planning and better stakeholder collaboration.
Learn more about FourKites: https://www.fourkites.com/
project44 is another real-time transportation visibility platform that now positions its core offering as a Decision Intelligence Platform for supply chains, turning fragmented data into actionable insights with Supply Chain AI.
The platform delivers visibility for the full shipment lifecycle for all modes of transportation, extended visibility (Yard, Supplier, Order and Inventory, Condition monitoring), and workflow automation capabilities. With all those features, companies can improve operational efficiency and supply chain management.
Relying on the platform, users can expect:
All these make project44 one of the world's leading visibility platforms for shippers and logistics service providers.
More information about the platform: https://www.project44.com/
Shippeo is a globally recognized provider of real-time multi-modal transportation visibility. The company helps major shippers and logistics service providers leverage live transportation data to deliver exceptional customer service and achieve operational excellence.
Instant access to real-time delivery tracking, automation of inefficient manual processes, and unmatched ETA accuracy is what the Shippeo platform brings to the table. Shippeo provides tracking visibility for all modes of transportation.
The platform can collect accurate real-time data from leading TMS, Telematics, AIS, Parcel APIs, and IoT devices to surface that in the platform of clients' choice, ensuring predictive visibility for the most complex supply chains.
Today, Shippeo also highlights AI-powered orchestration, risk and exception management, performance insights, detention and demurrage support, carbon visibility, and eCMR/ePOD capabilities.
Global market-leading companies like Coca-Cola HBC, Carrefour, Schneider Electric, Total, Faurecia, Saint-Gobain, and Eckes Granini, rely on Shippeo to improve customer satisfaction, achieve operational excellence, and boost productivity through better visibility in their supply chains visibility.
For more details, please visit https://www.shippeo.com/
Infor Nexus provides end-to-end supply chain orchestration through a solution designed for enterprise-level organizations operating across a wide range of industries, including Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Industrial Machinery & Equipment.
As the world's only single-instance business network, Infor Nexus allows many of the world's most complex supply chains to drive efficiency and agility by optimizing the flow of goods, information, and capital from source to delivery to pay. Specifically, Infor Nexus' solutions help organizations improve on-time delivery and customer service, reduce the cost of operations and improve business partner relationships through eliminating data silos internally and with suppliers, business partners, and customers.
Key applications include supply management, procure-to-pay automation, global transportation management, supply chain finance, and supply chain visibility.
Infor Nexus now also emphasizes AI- and machine-learning-supported delivery projections, real-time partner updates, and working-capital improvements through better visibility.
For more details, please visit https://www.infor.com/
e2open allows planning and executing the movement of goods anywhere in the world with the agility and resiliency to respond rapidly to changes.
The company offers a single platform providing incomparable planning, booking, shipping, and real-time track and trace capabilities across all transport modes (ocean, air, rail, road, and parcel). With its help, organizations can access an extensive global carrier network and enjoy centralized and standardized processes to manage every aspect of their business, including transportation planning, optimization, booking, shipment tracking, and payments.
Today, e2open positions this offering specifically as a proven transportation management system for shippers, freight forwarders, carriers, and logistics service providers.
More details at https://www.e2open.com/
Descartes MacroPoint is a global freight visibility platform and carrier capacity network for logistics-intensive businesses. The platform was built to provide end-to-end visibility through every stage of the transportation journey. The real-time data Descartes MacroPoint allows users to view, analyze, predict, and communicate the status of any shipment in real time using multi-modal visibility, predictive analytics, and an automated communication platform enabling "Manage by Exception" capabilities.
The solution is cloud-based and integrated with a wide range of TMS platforms. It can also automate and accelerate the carrier sourcing process with AI-driven capacity matching.
Today, Descartes MacroPoint also emphasizes intelligent shipment monitoring, automated carrier communication, and AI-enhanced freight visibility workflows.
Complete visibility and control at every step of the supply chain are what Descartes MacroPoint solution offers.
For more details, please visit https://www.macropoint.com/
Gravity is an end-to-end software solution helping to optimize supply chain operations, mitigate risks, and control costs. Designed to connect all stakeholders from the first to the last mile, Gravity delivers the control and visibility you need by bringing every element of your production and shipping journey into one place. Whether you need sourcing products, managing your orders, or tracking your deliveries, Gravity gives you the power of control.
Gravity still appears to be an active solution and currently positions itself as a comprehensive platform for end-to-end supply chain management, visibility, risk reduction, and cost control for shippers, retailers, and logistics providers.
The solution implies integrations with your existing ERP system. The company offers pre-built integrations for all major platforms and file formats to facilitate integration. You will need to develop custom integrations in-house if you use a system or data format not supported by Gravity. otive, Fashion, and Retail.
More details at https://gravitysupplychain.com/
Coneksion is a provider of fully managed data connectivity solutions for logistics and the global supply chain.
Although the company is not a visibility platform provider per se, it is well known within the domain as a data connectivity provider that helps enable end-to-end visibility across complex supply chains by connecting shippers, carriers, forwarders, logistics technology providers, and other stakeholders.
The strength of Coneksion’s proprietary integration platform, combined with an ecosystem of ready-made integrations with leading TMS platforms, carriers, and logistics partners across ocean, air, road, and rail, allows the company to support a wide range of execution and visibility data flows — from booking requests and transport documents to sailing schedules, tracking events, and invoices.
Coneksion’s solutions are iPaaS-based and provided as a fully managed service. While the iPaaS element guarantees flexibility, the fully managed approach means the work — from solution design to implementation and maintenance — is handled by Coneksion’s team.
Another benefit is that businesses do not need to manage yet another interface or standalone visibility platform to access critical supply chain data. Instead, the data can be delivered directly into the customer’s primary business system in real time and in the required format.
Coneksion provides tailored solutions for manufacturers, exporters, retailers, wholesalers, logistics service providers, carriers, and logistics technology providers. So, whether the goal is to establish connectivity with specific stakeholders or support broader end-to-end supply chain visibility, Coneksion is a relevant option.
Learn more: https://www.coneksion.com/
Wakeo is a provider of real-time visibility solutions for global transportation. The company now positions itself as an AI-powered supply chain advisor in addition to being a multimodal real-time transport visibility platform.
The company leverages machine learning to provide a unique customer experience. Among the solutions Wakeo provides are Real-time tracking (multimodal), ETAs prediction, Intelligent analytics, and Carbon footprint calculator.
Wakeo now also emphasizes trusted routes, disruption alerts, route optimization, and door-to-door multimodal tracking across sea, air, road, rail, and parcel.Shippers, Freight Forwarders, and Carriers are the main users of the platform.
Learn more: https://wakeo.co/
Now, when you understand what benefits you can expect from the above solutions, it is time to look at their cons and what to consider when choosing one for your business.
Whichever option you choose for your business, you will get improved visibility in your supply chain. However, the question is, to what extent? As a clear understanding of additional efforts and investments needed to get full end-to-end visibility is crucial, we could not skip an overview of the most common drawbacks visibility platforms and software might have.
The main issue is the lack of customization and flexibility. Often, platforms offer a number of out-of-the-box dashboards /reports/ use cases you can leverage. And they are not 100 percent what you need. Some of the solutions imply a sort of customization, but most likely, those will allow rather small adjustments than deep solution tailoring. Thus, be prepared to get quite a rigid product that cannot be customized as much as your business needs. Also, remember that, in such a case, achieving 100 percent of your goals and needs in terms of improved supply chain visibility might require having more than one solution in your IT/visibility stack.
Another issue is that visibility solutions are typically focused on transportation or execution visibility. Or, if it is claimed to cover both, it will most likely be efficient for one mode of transportation only. Meaning if you are looking for multi-modal end-to-end visibility, you again need to have more than one solution in your set-up.
And last but not least is the quality and reliability of data you can expect. As a rule, vendors try to provide as much information as possible. So, they source information from various systems, often helped by web scraping, which is an ok-ish approach, but direct connectivity with stakeholders is much more reliable and guarantees real-time data updates. Plus, due to different data formats in use, to combine the data and make it universally digestible for all platform users, vendors tend to partially provide data via its API or even populate missing parts of a message with zero values. Such messages can cause a system error. Thus, it is vital to know in advance with which data formats solution works and which it doesn't.
If you wonder why these issues exist, the answer is simple. While lack of customization and rigidness results from vendors' attempt to be a universal solution for the market ("needs to be relevant for the masses"), a narrow focus on niche use cases, or better to say, a vendor's specialty and data quality issue, results from vendor's limited technical capabilities and skills.
These issues are common for most visibility platforms existing on the market today, so some of the listed above are no exceptions. Since it might be critical for your case, always ask a vendor for all the details before signing a contract. Otherwise, be prepared that sooner or later, some issues will arise. To be 100 percent sure that the solution will match your goals fully, you better shift your attention towards solution providers such as Coneksion.
If you have any questions or need more information on end-to-end visibility solutions Coneksion offers, you can contact the company at talktous@coneksion.com.