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Posted by David Sexton
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5 January, 2026
WISETECH has announced that it and subsidiary BluJay Solutions have “voluntarily agreed” with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to sell Expedient Software.
Expedient is a BluJay subsidiary.
According to a WiseTech stock exchange statement, Expedient was described as forming “a small and immaterial component of the business operations of E2open Parent Holdings, which WiseTech acquired in August 2025 and was not part of the investment rationale for the acquisition”.
“Expedient employs less than 30 staff, generates annual revenue of less than 0.4% of WiseTech’s FY26 revenue guidance and primarily operates only in Australia and New Zealand,” the company stated.
WiseTech chief executive Zubin Appoo said while WiseTech maintained that its ownership of Expedient did not lessen competition in any Australian market, “we have voluntarily agreed to enter an enforceable undertaking with the ACCC to sell this business, to address the ACCC’s competition concerns”.
“This voluntary agreement does not impact the significant benefits of our e2open acquisition,” Mr Appoo said.
“The rationale for our acquisition was to expand WiseTech’s reach into Global Trade Management and Supply Chain Management.
“E2open remains a significant step toward achieving this objective as well as our broader vision to be the operating system for global trade and logistics.”
He said their decision to enter the voluntary undertaking would ensure they remained focused on the timely and successful integration of e2open and the extraction of the long-term benefits and value.
IFCBAA chief executive Scott Carson welcomed the development.
He said since the announcement by WiseTech in May 2025 that it had acquired e2Open’s global business, IFCBAA had received "a relatively large number of concerns and complaints" from members.
"The key concern for IFCBAA with this global acquisition, was that an existing Australian owned international logistics services software provider in Expedient, may have ultimately 'folded' into the WiseTech Group’s existing software offering Cargowise at some stage in the future, with the latter already having dominant market share in Australia for these services," Mr Carson said.
"While we did seek (and receive) direct assurances from WiseTech that Expedient would continue to operate as stand alone software product and that it’s pricing models would remain stable, business situations often change following business acquisitions," Mr Carson said.
"Moving forward and in the absence of a binding, practical, ACCC based undertaking that would guarantee that the complete independence of Expedient in this market, we elected to continue to engage with the ACCC and encourage their continuance of their investigation into this acquisition."
Mr Carson said he and the IFCBAA board executive had several meetings with the ACCC during the past six months , expressing "significant concerns" in relation to the Expedient component of the acquisition and "the negative effects that we considered that it would have on the international logistics services software market in Australia".
He offered some words of praise for WiseTech.
"While there has been at times widespread criticism of Wisetech Global over the past 12 months, particularly regarding the new Cargowise pricing model, it is also important for us as an industry to recall that Wisetech Global has provided to date what largely has been regarded as the premium product available in this software space," Mr Carson said.
