Infios named a leader in IDC transportation systems

Infios has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Transportation Management Systems 2026 Vendor Assessment, its second IDC MarketScape leader ranking in two months.

The assessment covers transportation management systems used by shippers, third-party logistics providers, freight brokers, and freight forwarders. The ranking reflects Infios's position in a market shaped by volatile freight rates, capacity constraints, and fragmented visibility across transport networks.

IDC highlighted the company's transportation management system, Infios TM, for linking planning and execution in real time. The analyst firm also pointed to its integration with vehicle routing and optimisation, as well as its use of agentic artificial intelligence.

The recognition comes as transport operations face growing pressure to respond quickly to disruptions across multimodal freight networks. Companies across the sector are dealing with swings in rates and available capacity, while disconnected systems can make it harder to identify and respond to problems.

Infios said its transportation management product sits alongside its warehouse and order management software as part of a single execution platform. IDC cited integration across warehousing, transportation, and order management as one of the company's strengths in the assessment.

The report included direct comments on the product's role in customer operations. According to the IDC MarketScape, "Infios TM elevates customer performance through transportation cost reduction, growth, and time savings by optimizing the movement of freight across global transportation networks."

It added, "Infios TM helps customers turn transportation challenges into opportunities so they can deliver, adapt, and thrive."

Market pressure

Transportation management systems have become more central to supply chain operations as businesses seek to connect planning with execution across orders, warehouses, and freight flows. For shippers and logistics groups, the focus has shifted from static planning to systems that can adjust as conditions change.

Simon Ellis, Group Vice President, Global Supply Chain Strategies at IDC, described the shift in operational terms.

"As global supply chains absorb constant disruption, from tariffs to capacity swings, a TMS that connects planning to execution in real time is no longer a differentiator, it's a requirement," said Ellis. "Infios TM's integration with vehicle routing and optimization, paired with its growing agentic AI capabilities, positions it well to help shippers and logistics providers turn disruption into an advantage."

The ranking follows a recent IDC MarketScape leader designation for Infios in AI-enabled order orchestration and fulfilment applications for B2B and manufacturing. Taken together, the two assessments place the company in analyst-led categories spanning both transport and order execution.

Infios is backed by more than 5,000 customers across 70 countries, according to company figures. The business is a joint venture between Körber and KKR.

Execution focus

Steve Blough, Chief Supply Chain Strategist at Infios, said transport teams are being asked to manage greater instability with tighter resources.

"Transportation teams are being asked to absorb more volatility, tariffs, capacity swings, rate shifts, with fewer people and less tolerance for delay," said Blough. "We built Infios TM so that decisions don't stop the moment a load is tendered. Our platform continuously senses what's changing across the network, adapts the plan, and connects that decision back to warehousing and order management, so customers can take action while protecting their margins and commitments at the same time. That is Intelligent Supply Chain Execution."

The transportation management market has drawn increased attention from buyers looking for software that can provide broader operational visibility rather than handle isolated tasks. Analyst assessments such as the IDC MarketScape are often used by corporate technology buyers to compare suppliers' product offerings, strategy, and market position.

In this case, the report placed weight on Infios's effort to combine transportation, warehouse, and order functions in one platform, a structure intended to support decision-making across different parts of the supply chain rather than within separate systems.

According to the IDC MarketScape, "Infios has integrated warehousing, transportation, and order management into a single intelligent execution platform."