Kallikor has been named in the 2026 Gartner report, Coolest Vendor Innovations for Logistics and Fulfillment.

Most supply chain leaders we talk to are being asked to make step-change decisions — consolidating sites, investing in automation, redesigning a network — with tools built for a different job. Planning platforms optimise the plan you already have. Network-design tools can tell you a configuration looks efficient on paper. Neither tells you what actually happens when the decision meets a real warehouse, on a real Tuesday, under real demand variability.

Two gaps sit behind that. One is scope: most tools model the flow between sites but have no visibility into what happens inside them, so a change that looks fine at network level can quietly break at site level — and nobody finds out until after it’s built. The other is fidelity: even tools that do look inside a site typically rely on averages, which smooth away the queues, bottlenecks and knock-on delays that determine whether a decision actually holds up in practice.

Kallikor was built to close both. It connects network and site-level operations in a single model, so capacity and constraints get tested together rather than separately — and it does that testing using discrete-event simulation, so the result reflects how the operation actually behaves rather than a simplified average of it. Together, that’s what lets a leader see the second- and third-order consequences of a decision before capital is committed, not after.

It’s an approach already in use across some of the UK’s most complex supply chains, including Morrisons, Primark, B&M, Musgrave and Nisbets. At Morrisons, Kallikor was used to test a significant SKU reduction and identify multi-million-pound savings in weeks rather than months, with a shared, evidence-based view the whole business could align around.

Gartner, Coolest Vendor Innovations for Logistics and Fulfillment, 24 July 2026, Federica Stufano, Matthew Beckett, David Gonzalez, Vicky Forman, Simon Tunstall, Brian Whitlock.

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