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 114 vendors below are simply everyone the engines named.

Run 3 August 2026 Questions 44 Answers 88 Vendors named 114 Top-10 repeatability 9/10

Free to read, raw data included.

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Two conditions on every number below

These 44 questions are one family of phrasings — warehouse management system — and every number below is conditional on them. A differently worded family about the same products — a different size of buyer, a different budget, a different constraint — is a different measurement and can come back naming a different set of products. All 44 questions are printed in full below, so you can see exactly what was asked before you read what came back. We have measured how big that can get, on two of our own boards: SuiteCRM is named in 83 of the 132 answers on /c/crmctx/ and in none of the 132 on /c/crm/ — same products, same day, same extraction, asked differently.
The engine columns below are not one instrument. Perplexity (sonar) searches the web while it answers and returned the sources used beside every one of those 44 answers — that column is what gets retrieved. Gemini (gemini-flash-latest) was called through its API with no tools and the near-empty system prompt quoted in the method below, so it answers out of the model’s own weights — not one of those 44 answers came back with a source. That column is what the model already remembers. Both are worth counting and they are not the same measurement: a product can be named often by what the models remember and rarely by what they retrieve, or the reverse, and the totals in the Answers column add the two together.

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/#manhattan. Click a vendor's name to see which of the 44 questions named them, and click one of those to read the answer it was counted from, word for word.

#VendorAnswers ShareGeminiPerplexity
1Manhattan Active WMS#4450.0%2618
2Logiwa WMS#3539.8%2411
3SAP EWM#2730.7%1413
4NetSuite WMS#2629.5%1313
5Körber (formerly HighJump)#2528.4%196
6ShipHero#2528.4%187
7Blue Yonder WMS#1719.3%89
8Deposco#1618.2%97
9Infor WMS#1618.2%88
10Fishbowl Warehouse#1213.6%93
11Oracle WMS Cloud#1112.5%29
12Zoho Inventory#1112.5%56
13Fishbowl Inventory#910.2%54
14SkuVault#78.0%61
15Extensiv#
Named together with 3PL Central in 1 of the 9 answers that name either. Gemini’s answer to question 6 writes the two as one product renamed: “Extensiv (formerly 3PL Central)”. Counted as separate rows — how names are counted.
66.8%24
16Odoo Inventory#66.8%24
17Oracle WMS#66.8%42
18SAP ERP#66.8%60
19Softeon#66.8%51
20Datex Footprint WMS#55.7%23
21Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager#
Named together with 3PL Central in 3 of the 6 answers that name either. Gemini’s answer to question 4 writes the two as one product renamed: “**Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager** (formerly 3PL Central)”. Counted as separate rows — how names are counted.
55.7%41
22inFlow Inventory#55.7%23
23Infoplus#55.7%32
24Odoo#55.7%05
253PL Central#
Named together with Extensiv in 1 of the 9 answers that name either. Gemini’s answer to question 6 writes the two as one product renamed: “Extensiv (formerly 3PL Central)”. Named together with Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager in 3 of the 6 answers that name either. Gemini’s answer to question 4 writes the two as one product renamed: “**Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager** (formerly 3PL Central)”. Counted as separate rows — how names are counted.
44.5%40
26Cin7#44.5%04
27Sortly#44.5%40
28Made4net#33.4%03
29PackemWMS#33.4%03
30SAP S/4HANA#33.4%21
31Cin7 Core#22.3%11
32Da Vinci WMS#22.3%02
33Infios WMS#22.3%02
34Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management#22.3%11
35Mintsoft#22.3%02
36MRPeasy#22.3%02
37NorthStar WMS#22.3%02
38Oracle Fusion Cloud WMS#22.3%20
39PULPO WMS#22.3%02
40RF-Smart#22.3%20
41SnapFulfil#22.3%11
42Tecsys#22.3%11
43Access WMS#11.1%01
44AEB Cold Storage WMS#11.1%01
45Agiliron#11.1%01
46Aptean Food & Beverage ERP#11.1%01
47Aptean WMS#11.1%10
48Boltrics WMS#11.1%01
49Bright Warehouse#11.1%10
50Brightpearl#11.1%01
51C3 Solutions (C3 Yard / Dock & Yard Management)#11.1%01
52Camelot 3PL Software#11.1%10
53ChemicalSafety#11.1%01
54ChemInventory#11.1%01
55Clarus WMS#11.1%01
56ColdStoreApp#11.1%01
57Corvus Robotics#11.1%10
58Datacor ERP / WMS#11.1%10
59DataDocks#11.1%01
60Datex FootFootprint WMS#11.1%01
61Descarte s WMS#11.1%01
62Dexory#11.1%10
63Digit software#11.1%01
64Dynamics 365 SCM#11.1%01
65eColdStore#11.1%01
66Epicor (Vision / Prophet 21)#11.1%10
67Epicor Prophet 21#11.1%01
68Finale Inventory#11.1%01
69FourKites#11.1%01
70Frostbyte Pro#11.1%01
71Fulfil#11.1%01
72Gather AI#11.1%10
73GoRamp#11.1%01
74GSE-Web#11.1%01
75HandiFox#11.1%01
76Helm WMS#11.1%01
77Holded#11.1%01
78Increff#11.1%01
79iNECTA Distribution#11.1%01
80inFlow#11.1%10
81Intelligent Warehouse Management System (WMS) by HighJump#11.1%01
82JASCI Cloud#11.1%01
83JDA#11.1%10
84Katana#11.1%10
85Katana Cloud Manufacturing#11.1%10
86Klipboard#11.1%01
87Lanham WMS#11.1%10
88Luminate WMS#11.1%10
89Mecalux WMS with pallet-shuttle integration#11.1%01
90Mecalux’s WMS with pallet-shuttle integration#11.1%01
91Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central#11.1%10
92Microsoft Dynamics 365 SCM#11.1%01
93Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central#11.1%10
94MS Dynamics#11.1%10
95P4 Warehouse Cloud#11.1%01
96Packiyo#11.1%01
97Peoplevox/Descartes Peoplevox#11.1%01
98PowerHouse WMS#11.1%01
99Ramp Enterprise WMS#11.1%01
100RF-SMART for NetSuite#11.1%01
101Royal4 WISE Polar#11.1%01
102SafetyCulture#11.1%01
103SAP Business One#11.1%01
104SAP wholesale distribution solutions#11.1%01
105SKUsavvy#11.1%10
106Stacket#11.1%01
107SYSPRO WMS#11.1%01
108TBO4 WMS for Acumatica#11.1%01
109Unicommerce#11.1%01
110unleashed#11.1%01
111Uphance#11.1%01
112WareGo#11.1%01
113XoroWMS#11.1%01
114Zenventory#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 $29.99 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.

These 44 questions are one phrasing family, not every way this market gets asked about. The family is warehouse management system — that is the wording they were written from, and it is counted back against them here: 23 of them contain “warehouse”; 19 of them contain “management”; 10 of them contain “system”, and 27 of the 44 contain at least one. A different family about the same products — a different size of buyer, a different budget, a different constraint, different words — is a different measurement, and it can come back naming a different set of vendors. This board is this family, measured. It is not the whole market.
  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, and a trailing “by company” is dropped. This run collapsed 82 spellings onto 22 of the rows below: “Manhattan Active WMS”, “Manhattan Associates WMS” and “Manhattan Associates” are one row — the one the table prints as Manhattan Active WMS. An edition name is folded into its product when it is that product’s name followed by a further word, and the plain name is at least three times as common. This run folded 25 such names, among them “Manhattan Active WM” counts as Manhattan Active WMS and “SAP Extended Warehouse Management / SAP Yard Logistics” counts as SAP EWM. A name that merely begins with the same letters is a different product and keeps its own row. 12 further pairs were merged by hand, and they are the only place a human judgement touches the list — it merges duplicates, it never adds or removes a vendor:

Beyond those folds a product is counted as the engines spelled it, and two rows in the table are never merged into one. When a product has been renamed or acquired and the engines still answer with both names, both names keep their own row: this page carries no hand-maintained list of who is now who, because that list would be a human claim about a mechanical count and nothing here could check it. What it has instead is the answers. Where an answer itself writes two of the rows below as one product renamed — the construction “X (formerly Y)” — the line beside those rows quotes that sentence and gives the overlap and the total, so the union is on the page. Nothing else produces that line. Two rows being named in the same answers does not, however often: the engines answer in shortlists, so the leaders of a category are named together whatever they are called. 2 pairs of rows below carry that line in this run: Extensiv and 3PL Central, Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager and 3PL Central. What each one quotes is what an engine wrote, not a judgement of ours about who owns what.

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 Extensiv (10 in run B) took that place. by position, SAP EWM was 3 in run A and 5 in run B; Körber (formerly HighJump) was 5 in run A and 3 in run B; Fishbowl Warehouse was 10 in run A and 8 in run B. Run B named 101 vendors over 88 answers against run A's 114. 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 August 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.

What Perplexity was reading. It is the only one of these engines that returns a source list, and the markers in its answers above — [1], [2] — point into it. Every URL it cited, with the title, date and the excerpt it actually retrieved, one JSON object per answer: run A · run B. Join on index to the answers file, and read [n] as citations[n-1]. Perplexity returned a source list on 44 of its 44 answers. Gemini returned no sources at all — no citation, grounding or search-result field of any kind appears anywhere in its API response, on any of the 44 answers it gave. That is a fact about the engine, not a gap in this page.

The sources behind the answers

Run A's 44 Perplexity answers cited 839 URLs across 276 distinct domains. Below are the 62 that were cited in three or more separate answers. Citations counts every URL from that domain, so a domain cited three times in one answer counts three times; Answers is how many of the 44 answers cited it at all.

DomainCitationsAnswers
reddit.com6439
youtube.com4728
wifitalents.com3023
gitnux.org2825
gartner.com2625
metaoption.com1817
manh.com1616
explorewms.com1613
worldmetrics.org1413
erpsoftwareblog.com1411
cleverence.com1313
capterra.com1311
dvunified.com1310
digit-software.com1212
logiwa.com1211
theretailexec.com1210
finaleinventory.com1111
softwareconnect.com1111
warego.co1110
getapp.com99
myofficeapps.com99
deposco.com88
guideflow.com88
zipdo.co88
g2.com77
parabola.io77
balloonone.com66
supplychaindigital.com66
packemwms.com64
gestisoft.com55
logimaxwms.com55
monday.com55
made4net.com54
mecalux.com54
api2cart.com44
autostoresystem.com44
holidaylandmark.com44
mintsoft.com44
netsuite.com44
outvio.com44
sourceforge.net44
themarketingagency.ca44
xorosoft.com44
extensiv.com43
cartoncloud.com33
cin7.com33
claimlane.com33
claruswms.ai33
datexcorp.com33
descartes.com33
elementlogic.net33
flexsin.com33
helmwms.com33
hopstack.io33
info.wonolo.com33
leverx.com33
linkedin.com33
niblin.com33
pulpowms.com33
rfgen.com33
selecthub.com33
sortly.com33

A domain missing from this table was cited in fewer than three answers, or was never cited at all — the run A file linked above is the complete list either way, and it is the only way to tell those two apart. Cited is not endorsed: a page the engine retrieved is not a page that recommended anyone, and this counts what was read, not what it said.

The answer a vendor panel shows you is read straight out of the run A file linked above — the page fetches the one line it needs and displays it unaltered, so what you read there and what you get by downloading the file are the same bytes.

What one line of each file holds, and the terms you may re-use them under — the raw answers may be re-used in any medium, commercially and inside open-source software, with attribution.