SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 13, 2026 – Bristlecone, a Mahindra Group company and the industry’s largest pure-play supply chain services provider, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain SAP Ecosystem Services 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment (#US53932725, December 2025). We believe this recognition further strengthens Bristlecone’s position as a trusted partner for global enterprises seeking to modernize and digitize their supply chains.
The IDC MarketScape evaluates service providers that support organizations across the SAP supply chain ecosystem — spanning advisory, implementation, integration, and managed services — helping enterprises modernize operations, harness digital technologies, and unlock end-to-end visibility and resiliency. Vendors are assessed on both current capabilities and long-term strategies as supply chains accelerate toward digitization, data-driven decision-making, and intelligent operating models.
“Bristlecone has been supporting supply chain clients for nearly thirty years. In that time, the company has built a client base of more than 1,000 companies and a deep talent pool of over 2,000 manufacturing-focused employees, along with nearly a thousand more supporting enterprise functions,” said Eric Thompson, IDC Research Director, Global Supply Chain Planning, and author of the report. “This depth and specialization position Bristlecone as a Leader in the SAP modernization ecosystem. Bristlecone’s approach brings a combination of technical and industry focus and a deep bench of former supply chain practitioners, adding experience to client engagements.”
In addition to this recognition, Bristlecone is also positioned in the Leaders category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain All Other Ecosystems Services 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment (#US53933125, December 2025). We believe this second recognition reflects Bristlecone’s breadth of expertise with a wide range of supply chain platforms, including partners such as Kinaxis and Blue Yonder, reinforcing its role as a strategic transformation partner across multiple technology stacks and maturity levels.
“Driving end-to-end supply chain digitization requires systems, people, and processes working in harmony to deliver operational excellence and continuous improvement,” said Ramji Mani, VP, Supply Chain Platforms Studio, Bristlecone. “We believe the IDC MarketScape’s recognition validates our work in enabling supply chain command centers that elevate visibility from the operations floor to the C-suite — empowering proactive risk management, new opportunity identification, and better responsiveness in an increasingly volatile environment.”
“We believe this recognition from IDC MarketScape underscores the strength of our consulting-led approach and our sustained commitment to delivering measurable value for our clients,” added Jennifer Chew, VP, Solutions and Consulting, Bristlecone. “By uniting human ingenuity, intelligent processes, contextualized data, and advanced technology, we help enterprises modernize their supply chains faster and operate smarter.”
Key Strengths Highlighted by IDC MarketScape for Supply Chain SAP Ecosystem Services:
“Bristlecone’s approach brings a combination of technical and industry focus and a deep bench of former supply chain practitioners, adding experience to client engagements. With a significant percentage of employees focused on vendor applications, its technical expertise means clients can be assured the company has depth of knowledge about the vendors it supports and about technical architecture.” “Bristlecone supports a long list of technical vendors, meaning it is a potential partner for almost all supply chain vendor application implementations, including in areas such as decision intelligence, data, and analytics.” “Deep partnerships with multiple vendors position it as a key player with certain vendors in IDC’s view, and this is true with SAP. As a pure-play supply chain service provider, Bristlecone prides itself on its focus on end-to-end operations and as a potential partner for supply chain transformations.”
SAP-specific strengths include:
- Recognized by SAP as a top-level partner with more than 25 years of SAP partnership
- SAP-specific advisory, assessment, business case development, transition, and road mapping, along with implementation, rollout, and support
- SAP-specific accelerators, including functions beyond supply chain to optimize finances, spend, and supply chain integration
Industry presence and market reach
Bristlecone’s large and diverse customer base spans automotive, industrial equipment, high-tech, consumer products, life sciences, logistics, and transportation. Nearly two-thirds of clients are headquartered in North America, with the remainder across Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The company supports mid-sized through large enterprises, with a notable presence among Global 2000 organizations.
About Bristlecone
Bristlecone is the industry’s largest pure-play supply chain services provider. As the trusted partner for AI-first supply chain transformations, we specialize in empowering customers with tech-enabled solutions for planning, sourcing, and logistics. Through our consulting, platforms, and supply chain build and enablement expertise, we help Global 2000 organizations in the life sciences, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, and high-tech industries drive visibility, resiliency, and efficiency across their supply chain. Guided by a consulting-led approach, we serve as strategic partners to our customers throughout their supply chain transformation journey. With comprehensive advisory and implementation capabilities, we offer high-value consulting spanning domains, processes, and change management, ensuring tailored solutions that drive meaningful outcomes for each customer. Bristlecone is headquartered in San Jose, California, with locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. It is part of the Mahindra Group. Learn more at www.bristlecone.com.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.
