Nulogy

Nulogy is a privately held Canadian enterprise software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. It builds cloud software for the external supply chain — the network of contract manufacturers, co-packers, value-added packaging and logistics service providers that produce and finish goods on behalf of brand owners. Its core offering, the Nulogy platform, combines production and shop-floor execution tools for the supplier side with a collaboration portal that lets brand owners plan, forecast, order and track work across their external manufacturing partners. Nulogy's product family is organized around two connected audiences. For contract manufacturers and co-packers, Nulogy provides modules for production scheduling, work-order execution, materials and inventory management, quality and traceability, and labour and performance analytics — functionality often described as manufacturing execution and supplier operations software tailored to fast-moving consumer goods supply chains. For brand owners, the platform offers a supplier collaboration layer for demand and supply planning, purchase-order management, project and packaging artwork workflows, and visibility into capacity and performance across a multi-tier supplier base. The company serves consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, health and beauty, household products and other fast-moving categories where outsourced production and packaging are common. Nulogy positions itself as a specialist in 'external supply chain' digitization, arguing that many brand owners run sophisticated internal ERP systems but manage their contract-manufacturing partners with spreadsheets and email. Its pitch is faster, more responsive and more transparent collaboration between brands and their supplier networks. Nulogy is privately held and venture-backed, with investors including Canadian and international venture capital firms. It has grown through product expansion and partnerships with enterprise software vendors and industry bodies, and it maintains a partner ecosystem that includes ERP and supply chain planning providers. The company is active in North America and serves customers internationally, and it is a recurring participant in industry events and research around contract manufacturing and co-packing.

Nulogy was founded in 2002 in Toronto, Canada, by a group of founders with backgrounds in engineering and supply chain operations, and it began as a provider of software for contract packaging and manufacturing operations. In its early years the company focused on the shop floor of co-packers and contract manufacturers, building tools for production scheduling, work-order execution and materials tracking in environments where manual, spreadsheet-driven processes were the norm. As consumer goods brands increasingly outsourced production and packaging to specialized suppliers, Nulogy expanded its scope from internal factory execution to collaboration between suppliers and their brand-owner customers. This led to the development of a supplier collaboration platform that lets brand owners share forecasts, issue purchase orders, manage packaging projects and monitor supplier capacity and performance across a network of external partners. The company has described this category as the 'external supply chain,' distinguishing it from the internal operations covered by ERP systems. Nulogy grew through venture financing and expanded its customer base among consumer packaged goods companies, food and beverage producers, and health and beauty brands, as well as the contract manufacturers and co-packers that serve them. It built partnerships with enterprise software vendors and industry organizations, and it has been an active voice in industry research and events concerning contract manufacturing, co-packing and supply chain digitization. The company remains privately held and headquartered in Toronto, serving customers in North America and internationally. Its platform continues to be positioned around supply chain collaboration, production execution and supplier performance visibility for outsourced manufacturing networks.

• 2002

  Nulogy founded in Toronto, Canada.

• Expanded from shop-floor execution software to a supplier collaboration platform for brand owners.

Specialist enterprise software for the external supply chain, connecting brand owners with contract manufacturers and co-packers.

• Nulogy platform

  Cloud software combining supplier collaboration for brand owners with production execution for contract manufacturers and co-packers.

1. 1Nulogy official websitenulogy.com
2. 2Nulogy Appoints Supply Chain Industry Veteran Hank Canitz as Vice President, Industry Solutionsprnewswire.com
3. 3Nulogy Launches Track and Trace Module for FSMA 204 Complianceperishablenews.com
4. 4Nulogy partners with MAJiK Systems to bolster supply chain operations with Industry 4.0 data automationprnewswire.com
5. 5Nulogy partners with Skjodt-Barrett Foods to improve manufacturing operationsfoodincanada.com