Lyric named as an Example Vendor in the 2026 Gartner® Market Overview for Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms

Sara Hoormann
Aug 6, 2026
3min

Lyric has been included as an Example Vendor in the Gartner Market Overview for Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms. Lyric is listed among the AI-native platforms in the report. In our view, the report describes a shift many supply chain teams are already working through. The question is moving from what happened to what should happen next, and how quickly a team can act on it.

Supply Chain Orchestration is becoming a defined market

Gartner published its Market Overview for Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms on 16 July 2026. The report describes what AI-native platforms in this market are built to do:

“AI-native supply chain orchestration platforms empower CSCOs to consistently achieve organizational objectives. They do this by continuously adapting decisions to various potential scenarios, thereby enabling objectives to be fulfilled even amid business uncertainties. Furthermore, these platforms enable CSCOs to align operational supply chain decisions with strategic supply chain objectives. They do so by continuously analyzing the impact of such decisions and instantaneously initiating appropriate remedial actions to ensure consistent effect on organizational outcomes.”
Gartner, Market Overview for Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms, Balaji Abbabatulla, Christian Titze, 16 July 2026

In our view, the significance is not that supply chain teams need another category of software. Most have already invested in planning, execution, integration and analytics, and that investment built the data foundation orchestration depends on. The next step is coordination. Orchestration is the layer where a decision is shaped, tested against tradeoffs, and carried into operations, sitting above the systems teams already run.

The step from insight to decision

We are glad to be included in this Market Overview. In our view it reflects the work our customers are doing rather than anything we have said about ourselves.

Our view is that the last decade of supply chain technology did something genuinely hard. It made operations legible. Dashboards improved, alerts became timely, and visibility is now a solved problem in many large enterprises. The opportunity in front of the industry is the step that follows, turning that visibility into a decision quickly and consistently.

We believe orchestration is where that step happens, and that it works best when the platform can hold the real constraints of the business at once. Cost, service, capacity, shelf life, labor, carbon. Those tradeoffs are the substance of the decision.

What this looks like in Lyric Studio

• Composable by design. Teams assemble decision logic from building blocks and change it as the business changes. In our view this is what lets a model survive a re-organization.
• Optimization, not just prediction. A forecast tells you what is likely. An optimization tells you what to do about it under the constraints you actually have.
• Built for the people who own the decision. Supply chain teams build and change models themselves. We believe adoption fails when the model lives somewhere the business cannot reach.
• One semantic layer underneath. Products, locations, constraints and costs are defined once and read by every model and every agent. In our view this is what stops each team optimizing against its own version of the truth. ‍

Learn more about the Lyric Studio

We are grateful to our customers, partners and team. In our view the orchestration category will be defined by what teams are able to decide and act on. That is the problem we come to work on.

Attribution and disclaimer

Gartner, Market Overview for Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms, Balaji Abbabatulla, Christian Titze, 16 July 2026.

Gartner, Cool Vendors in Cross-Functional Supply Chain Technology, By Caleb Thomson, Leonard Ammerer, August 2025.

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