News

4flow named a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools* for the third consecutive year

Recognition for 4flow vista® – software for network optimization and transportation planning

4flow has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools. The report states, “As complex global supply chain networks require redesigning to operate under more-dynamic conditions, optimizing them requires the use of analytical tools. Supply chain leaders can leverage this research when evaluating the market for supply chain network design tools to support these analytics.”

This is the third year in a row that 4flow has been listed in this Market Guide for 4flow vista® – software for network optimization and transportation planning. The report states, “The vendors in this research provide the core functionality required by a network design tool: the ability to evaluate open and close decisions for facilities while minimizing transportation cost. Additionally, they cover the breadth of the common functionality and ways of working.”

“4flow provides standard software to support global businesses of all sizes to solve diverse challenges in supply chain network and transportation optimization,” said Kai Althoff, CEO of 4flow. “We believe, being listed as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools for the third consecutive year underscores the success we continue to share with our customers.”

4flow vista® is modular and covers use cases from the strategic to the tactical level. Our end-to-end planning approach spans from the optimization of network structures for the long-term to the optimization of transportation capacities for the short-term. Planning results can also be integrated into existing IT systems. Algorithms and heuristics developed in-house for network design and supply chain planning reflect more than 20 years of development.

Find out more about 4flow vista® and other 4flow software products.

*Gartner, Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools, Vicky Forman, Pia Orup Lund, February 15, 2024

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s Research & Advisory organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.