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Manhattan Wins Kesko Mandate as Nordic Retail Giant Bets on Cloud-Native, AI-Driven Warehousing

$MANHPress releaseOct 13, 2026, 3:00 AM ETRead the release

Manhattan Associates won a mandate from Finnish retail group Kesko to replace Kesko's legacy grocery warehouse management system with Manhattan's cloud-native ActiveWarehouse solution. The deployment will initially cover five distribution centres plus terminal hub operations, with a greenfield site to follow in 2029-30, and will leverage agentic AI via ActiveAgents and Agent Foundry, including Wave Coordinator, Labour, and Warehouse Associate Agents.

Key figures

Initial distribution centres
5
Kesko grocery net sales 2025
EUR 6.5 billion
Kesko grocery operating profit 2025
EUR 418 million

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