7 Exhibitors, 7 Different Buys on the CSCMP EDGE 2026 Floor
CSCMP EDGE 2026 is the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ annual conference and exhibition, held October 4–7 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville. The exhibit hall, the Supply Chain Exchange, runs October 5–6. Organizer materials put the floor at more than 75 exhibitors, alongside keynotes, industry sessions, and an innovation program. The audience is supply-chain operators and executives, with carriers, 3PLs, software firms, and automation vendors on the floor. Penske Logistics is the premier sponsor.
Slip Robotics told The Supply Chainer, through Matt Condon, Head of Account Management, that visitors can see why Fortune 500 companies use it to automate dock loading and unloading, and discuss doing the same at their own docks. The company uses automated loading robots to load and unload a trailer in five minutes, at any dock and in any trailer, with no Wi-Fi change or added infrastructure. Operators decide what moves and when. The robots enter and exit the trailer. Slip said customers have recorded an 89 percent cut in driver and trailer dwell, 50 percent less dock forklift traffic, up to nine times the throughput, and a 70 percent reduction in labor cost. Slip moves palletized loads on slip sheets rather than picking individual cases. Boston Dynamics Stretch and Pickle Robot compete in trailer and container unloading with case-handling robots. Ancra competes in mechanized trailer loading.
Attabotics told The Supply Chainer, through Art Eldred, Senior Vice President, Sales & Software, that visitors can meet its leadership and technical staff, see the Atta robot, compare its latest storage bins, and review case studies and demonstrations aimed at fulfillment performance. The company is showing robotic storage and retrieval, including a metal bin it says improves fire protection, supports liquid storage, and lowers shipping cost at deployment. It said warehouse space and labor are the constraints that make the case for dense automated storage, which raises inventory capacity and labor productivity inside the same footprint. Attabotics builds a three-dimensional goods-to-person system in which robots travel inside a storage structure. AutoStore is the established competitor in cube storage. Exotec’s Skypod is a prominent goods-to-person alternative.
Avatar Robotics is listed as an exhibitor with humanoid robots for picking, kitting, and sorting. The company combines on-site robots with remote operators and AI autonomy, and describes the offer as flexible labor that can run around the clock in existing workflows. It is an early-stage firm. Agility Robotics, with Digit, and Figure are the better-known humanoid competitors.
Wes Downie, CEO of CIMS WMS, in a written response told The Supply Chainer that visitors can see how the system turns orders into a fulfillment workflow, whether the floor is manual, robotic, or both. Downie said built-in AI reads order demand and groups similar orders across zones. Visitors will see the system evaluate orders and travel paths, then assign and sequence work to cut unnecessary movement. He said configurable wave types cover wholesale, retail, and e-commerce, so teams can change waving and batching without custom development, and can add robotics on the same base rather than replacing it. CIMS is a warehouse management system. Manhattan Associates and Blue Yonder are the prominent competitors in that category.
Dronetiks is exhibiting autonomous drones and edge computing for warehouse inventory counts. Its listing says the system combines RFID and high-resolution vision for aisle-level mapping, processes data on site, and connects to a WMS or ERP. Verity and Gather AI are the prominent competitors in drone-based inventory scanning. Corvus Robotics is another.
LoadProof by Smart Gladiator was welcomed by CSCMP EDGE as an exhibitor. It sells a cloud system for photo and video records of shipping and receiving, aimed at warehouses, 3PLs, manufacturers, and shippers, with retrieval in seconds. It sits next to electronic proof-of-delivery tools rather than warehouse robotics. Carrier visibility platforms such as project44 and FourKites cover the adjacent shipment-status problem, not the same photo archive.
Körber is exhibiting an end-to-end supply-chain portfolio spanning warehouse software, automation, robotics, and material handling. It is a large industrial supplier, not a single-product startup. Manhattan Associates and Blue Yonder are the main software competitors. Dematic and Swisslog compete with it in warehouse automation.
The two on-record responses are useful because they tie a booth claim to a named executive and a measurable operating problem: dock dwell at Slip, space and labor at Attabotics. The other four are on the exhibitor list, but their floor message is still the company’s own description, not an independent result. Operators walking the hall next week should separate a five-minute load cycle, a denser storage cube, a humanoid picker, an inventory drone, a photo record, and a full automation stack. Those are different purchases, with different incumbents already in the building.
