Spinnaker SCA, a Publicis Sapient company, announced today the launch of a supply chain modernization solution using Sapient Slingshot, Publicis Sapient’s award-winning AI software development and modernization platform. This solution is designed to help companies modernize the legacy technology ecosystems that run critical supply chain operations.
Powered by Sapient Slingshot, Spinnaker SCA is helping supply chain and IT leaders reduce technical debt, preserve critical business logic and accelerate the end-to-end software development lifecycle. Whether implementing a new supply chain platform or upgrading an existing one, Supply Chain System Modernization with Sapient Slingshot can be used across supply chain planning, order management, warehouse management, transportation management, advanced automation and custom applications.
"Legacy supply chain systems contain far more than old code," explains George Fowler III, CTO at Spinnaker SCA. "They contain years of business logic, fulfillment rules, parametric data, and customer histories. The challenge of modernization is not just updating code. It is ensuring you don’t lose the business context that keeps your supply chain moving and delivering along the way."
For example, for an industrial parts manufacturer, Spinnaker SCA halved the time needed to prepare to upgrade a heavily customized Blue Yonder environment, auditing roughly 55,000 lines of PL/SQL and 457 batch jobs with no consistent standards or documentation, preserving the context that mattered in less than 6 weeks.
Slingshot has driven measurable business outcomes across all industries, including up to 95% accuracy in business rule extraction and up to 5X increase in velocity for new feature releases after modernization. Slingshot is a cloud-agnostic, LLM-flexible platform that integrates with major AI models and supports over 80% of major programming languages and frameworks.
"AI can accelerate legacy modernization, but it cannot replace supply chain strategy and judgment," said John Sharkey, CEO of Spinnaker SCA and Global Supply Chain Lead for Publicis Sapient. "Our supply chain consultants bring the context that AI alone cannot provide to help companies decide what should be enhanced, preserved, redesigned or retired based on a client’s business strategy, environment, and goals."
To learn more about Spinnaker SCA's Supply Chain System Modernization with Slingshot solution, visit spinnakersca.com/slingshot-for-supply-chain.
About Spinnaker SCA
Spinnaker SCA, a Publicis Sapient company, specializes in helping companies design and build agile supply chains to meet the demands of a complex, ever-changing world. Our goal is to drive real, measurable supply chain improvements that get you closer to your business goals. But we don’t just advise—we build, implement, and get things done. From supply chain strategy and connected planning to warehouse automation and AI-driven data engineering, we help you fix what’s broken, innovate quickly and increase decision confidence. Learn more at spinnakersca.com.
About Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operate and serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world.
Our platforms Sapient Slingshot, Sapient Bodhi and Sapient Sustain use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help organizations modernize their legacy tech systems, build agentic solutions, and automate their IT operations.
The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers. Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide across 28 countries. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.
