Which warehouse management systems do AI answer engines actually recommend?

When an SMB buyer asks an AI assistant which WMS to buy, a shortlist comes back. We asked 44 different phrasings of that question across 2 engines, 88 answers in total, and counted every product named. This is the result. Nobody paid to be on it, and no vendor list was written in advance — the 121 vendors below are simply everyone the engines named.

Run 3 Aug 2026 Questions 44 Answers 88 Vendors named 121 Top-10 repeatability 9/10

Free to read, raw data included. What is for sale — $9.99/mo monitoring for a single vendor.

The leaderboard

“Answers” is how many of the 88 answers named that product. Share is the same number as a percentage. The two right-hand columns split it by engine. Every row has its own link — the # beside a vendor name gives you something like connexion.me/c/wms/#logiwa.

#VendorAnswers ShareGeminiPerplexity
1Logiwa WMS#3539.8%2411
2Manhattan Active WMS#2629.5%1313
3ShipHero#2528.4%187
4SAP EWM#2427.3%1311
5Körber (formerly HighJump)#2123.9%183
6NetSuite WMS#2022.7%713
7Blue Yonder WMS#1719.3%89
8Deposco#1618.2%97
9Infor WMS#1618.2%88
10Manhattan Associates WMS#1618.2%124
11Fishbowl Warehouse#1213.6%93
12Oracle NetSuite WMS#1213.6%93
13Oracle WMS Cloud#1112.5%29
14Zoho Inventory#1112.5%56
15Fishbowl Inventory#910.2%54
16SAP Extended Warehouse Management#910.2%36
17HighJump#89.1%53
18SkuVault#78.0%61
19Extensiv#66.8%24
20Odoo Inventory#66.8%24
21SAP ERP#66.8%60
22Softeon#66.8%51
23Datex Footprint WMS#55.7%23
24Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager#55.7%41
25inFlow Inventory#55.7%23
26Infoplus#55.7%32
27Manhattan#55.7%23
28Odoo#55.7%05
29Oracle WMS#55.7%32
303PL Central#44.5%40
31Cin7#44.5%04
32Sortly#44.5%40
33Made4net#33.4%03
34PackemWMS#33.4%03
35SAP S/4HANA#33.4%21
36Cin7 Core#22.3%11
37Da Vinci WMS#22.3%02
38Extended Warehouse Management#22.3%20
39Infios WMS#22.3%02
40Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management#22.3%11
41Mintsoft#22.3%02
42MRPeasy#22.3%02
43NorthStar WMS#22.3%02
44Oracle Fusion Cloud WMS#22.3%20
45PULPO WMS#22.3%02
46RF-Smart#22.3%20
47SnapFulfil#22.3%11
48Tecsys#22.3%11
49Access WMS#11.1%01
50AEB Cold Storage WMS#11.1%01
51Agiliron#11.1%01
52Aptean Food & Beverage ERP#11.1%01
53Aptean WMS#11.1%10
54Boltrics WMS#11.1%01
55Bright Warehouse#11.1%10
56Brightpearl#11.1%01
57C3 Solutions (C3 Yard / Dock & Yard Management)#11.1%01
58Camelot 3PL Software#11.1%10
59ChemicalSafety#11.1%01
60ChemInventory#11.1%01
61Clarus WMS#11.1%01
62ColdStoreApp#11.1%01
63Corvus Robotics#11.1%10
64Datacor ERP / WMS#11.1%10
65DataDocks#11.1%01
66Datex FootFootprint WMS#11.1%01
67Descarte s WMS#11.1%01
68Dexory#11.1%10
69Digit software#11.1%01
70Dynamics 365 SCM#11.1%01
71eColdStore#11.1%01
72Epicor (Vision / Prophet 21)#11.1%10
73Epicor Prophet 21#11.1%01
74Finale Inventory#11.1%01
75FourKites#11.1%01
76Frostbyte Pro#11.1%01
77Fulfil#11.1%01
78Gather AI#11.1%10
79GoRamp#11.1%01
80GSE-Web#11.1%01
81HandiFox#11.1%01
82Helm WMS#11.1%01
83Holded#11.1%01
84Increff#11.1%01
85iNECTA Distribution#11.1%01
86inFlow#11.1%10
87Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage#11.1%10
88Intelligent Warehouse Management System (WMS) by HighJump#11.1%01
89JASCI Cloud#11.1%01
90JDA#11.1%10
91Katana#11.1%10
92Katana Cloud Manufacturing#11.1%10
93Klipboard#11.1%01
94Lanham WMS#11.1%10
95Luminate WMS#11.1%10
96Mecalux WMS with pallet-shuttle integration#11.1%01
97Mecalux’s WMS with pallet-shuttle integration#11.1%01
98Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central#11.1%10
99Microsoft Dynamics 365 SCM#11.1%01
100Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central#11.1%10
101MS Dynamics#11.1%10
102P4 Warehouse Cloud#11.1%01
103Packiyo#11.1%01
104Peoplevox/Descartes Peoplevox#11.1%01
105PowerHouse WMS#11.1%01
106Ramp Enterprise WMS#11.1%01
107RF-SMART for NetSuite#11.1%01
108Royal4 WISE Polar#11.1%01
109SafetyCulture#11.1%01
110SAP Business One#11.1%01
111SAP wholesale distribution solutions#11.1%01
112SKUsavvy#11.1%10
113Stacket#11.1%01
114SYSPRO WMS#11.1%01
115TBO4 WMS for Acumatica#11.1%01
116Unicommerce#11.1%01
117unleashed#11.1%01
118Uphance#11.1%01
119WareGo#11.1%01
120XoroWMS#11.1%01
121Zenventory#11.1%01

What is free, and what is for sale

Everything above is free and stays free — the leaderboard, the method, all 88 raw answers and the machine-readable ranking, published in full at the bottom of this page. No vendor paid to be listed, no vendor can pay to move, and nothing here goes behind a login later.

What is for sale is one vendor's row, watched: $9.99 a month to be told when your rank moves, who took your mentions, and which phrasings started or stopped naming you — the board is re-run monthly and you get what changed. A one-off $199 deep report on a single row is the other option. What is in each →

Method

Every claim on this page is reproducible from the files linked at the bottom.

The engines

Gemini (gemini-flash-latest), Perplexity (sonar). Each was called through its public API with a near-empty system prompt — “answer the user's question directly and concisely” — and nothing else. The engines were not asked to produce a list, rank anything, or name vendors. Steering them toward a list would have manufactured the thing being measured.

The questions

44 distinct phrasings of one purchase decision, written before any measurement was run. No vendor name appears in any of them.

  1. What is the best warehouse management system for a small business?
  2. Best WMS software for high-volume e-commerce fulfillment
  3. We have a 50,000 sq ft warehouse and inventory tracking in Excel is failing. What WMS should we buy?
  4. Recommend a warehouse management system for a 3PL logistics provider.
  5. affordable WMS software with barcode scanning for small warehouse
  6. What WMS software do mid-sized distribution centers actually use?
  7. What is the best WMS for a food and beverage distributor with lot tracking and expiration dates?
  8. Best warehouse management software for a wholesale distributor with multiple locations
  9. We are scaling past 500 orders a day and need real-time bin location tracking. What software should we get?
  10. Top rated WMS for enterprise supply chain operations
  11. Which warehouse management system has the best e-commerce platform integrations?
  12. What WMS is recommended for an apparel brand with high SKU counts and matrix variants?
  13. Best cloud-based WMS software for small to midsize warehouses
  14. We run a 3PL with 10 clients and need automated client billing and portal access. What WMS do you recommend?
  15. Compare top warehouse management software for cold storage and refrigerated facilities
  16. What is the most user-friendly WMS for warehouse workers using handheld barcode scanners?
  17. Best warehouse management system for manufacturing raw materials and finished goods tracking
  18. We need a WMS with wave picking, batch picking, and zone picking capabilities. What should we buy?
  19. affordable cloud warehouse management system for e-commerce brand
  20. What warehouse management system should a growing D2C brand switch to after outgrowing basic inventory software?
  21. Recommend a WMS software that integrates natively with popular accounting software.
  22. Best WMS for automated order fulfillment and conveyor integration
  23. We operate two distribution centers and need cross-docking software. What WMS should we choose?
  24. What WMS platforms offer strong yard management and dock scheduling?
  25. Best warehouse management software for automotive parts distribution
  26. We have 15 warehouse staff and frequent mispicks. What warehouse management software will help reduce errors?
  27. What is the best enterprise WMS for multi-warehouse global supply chains?
  28. Best budget WMS software for a 10,000 sq ft warehouse
  29. Recommend a warehouse management platform with kitting and assembly capabilities.
  30. What warehouse management software is best for medical device distribution with strict compliance rules?
  31. Best WMS for omnichannel retail order picking and packing
  32. We need a WMS that supports mobile RF scanners and pick-to-light systems. What options should we consider?
  33. What WMS software is recommended for electronics distributor serial number tracking?
  34. Best cloud WMS for fast deployment without massive IT infrastructure
  35. We are opening our first dedicated fulfillment center. What warehouse management system should we implement?
  36. What is the best 3PL warehouse management system for multi-tenant inventory control?
  37. Best WMS with built-in labor management and productivity tracking
  38. What warehouse management software handles returns processing and reverse logistics best?
  39. We need a WMS that connects to our ERP and handles LPN tracking. What software should we buy?
  40. Best warehouse management system for B2B wholesale order fulfillment
  41. What WMS software do fast-growing e-commerce fulfillment centers rely on?
  42. Which WMS is best for high-density pallet rack storage management?
  43. Recommend an affordable WMS for a small chemical or hazmat storage facility.
  44. What software should a warehouse buy to automate inventory cycle counting?

How the vendor list was built

Each of the 88 answers was read back and every named product extracted. The vendor list is discovered: a product appears here if and only if an engine named it. Counted are warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse inventory control platforms, and broader ERP or supply chain suites whose warehouse management module was named. Excluded, even when named: standalone shipping label tools, transportation management systems (TMS), order management systems (OMS) without warehouse bin tracking, basic retail inventory tools, generic ERP and accounting software without explicit WMS capabilities, 3PL fulfillment services, hardware-only products, asset management tools, and companies named only as an example warehouse or brand.

Spelling variants of one product are folded together — “Manhattan WMS”, “Manhattan Associates” and “Manhattan Active WMS” are one row, and a trailing “by company” is dropped. An edition name is folded into its product when the plain name is at least three times as common, so “Logiwa WMS Enterprise” counts as Logiwa and “Fishbowl Warehouse Advanced” counts as Fishbowl. No pair was merged by hand in this category: every fold above is the rule applied mechanically, with no human judgement about who is who.

A product is counted once per answer, however many times that answer mentions it.

Is this stable, or is it noise?

The entire run was repeated a second time, same 44 questions, same engines, independent calls. The top ten came back 9/10 identical. What moved: Deposco (8 in run A) dropped out of run B's ten and Fishbowl Warehouse (9 in run B) took that place. by position, Manhattan Active WMS was 2 in run A and 4 in run B; ShipHero was 3 in run A and 5 in run B; SAP EWM was 4 in run A and 2 in run B; Körber (formerly HighJump) was 5 in run A and 3 in run B; Blue Yonder WMS was 7 in run A and 8 in run B; Infor WMS was 9 in run A and 10 in run B; Manhattan Associates WMS was 10 in run A and 7 in run B. Run B named 107 vendors over 88 answers against run A's 121. The tail moves; the head does not.

A leaderboard whose top ten reshuffles between runs would not be worth publishing, so this check was run before the page was, and the page ships only because it passed.

What this is not

This measures what two answer engines said on 3 Aug 2026, in response to these questions, through their APIs. It is not a quality ranking, not a review, and not advice on which WMS to buy. A product can be excellent and rank low here — that gap is the point.

The raw data

All 88 answers, verbatim, one JSON object per line: run A · run B. The per-answer extracted product names: run A · run B. Machine-readable ranking: ranking.json.