Manhattan Associates announces "breakthrough" for supply chains

The company has combined distribution, transportation, labor and automation into a single, cloud-native application based on Manhattan Active technology. Manhattan Active Transportation Management has been merged with Manhattan Active Warehouse Management to streamline inbound and outbound planning and execution.

"A true convergence of supply chain execution systems has always been a tantalizing opportunity to significantly improve efficiency, productivity and agility. Unfortunately, technology limitations have made this impossible until now," says Steve Banker, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group. "All-microservices solutions, like Manhattan Active Supply Chain, can help an organization achieve a more continuous and collaborative planning and execution environment. The result is a more agile and efficient supply chain."

In traditional supply chain suites, the planning and execution processes for transportation and distribution are carried out independently of each other. By unifying distribution and transportation, Manhattan enables a new level of agility and responsiveness within the supply chain. Manhattan Active Supply Chain provides unified visibility and control of all supply chain operations, accelerates delivery to customers, increases employee productivity, improves warehouse throughput and ensures on-time deliveries.

Manhattan Active Supply Chain provides a unified user experience for all supply chain functions. In a single application, users can review labor productivity and robot performance, respond to shipment alerts in real time and resubmit their capacity needs to quickly and easily switch carriers. They can seamlessly navigate through shipments or view the real-time status of an order. As they comb through this data, they are able to take action based on this information as operational analytics are integrated directly into the execution systems.

"For years, our customers have expressed a desire to stop running WMS and TMS independently and instead optimize and manage their inbound and outbound flows as a whole. Legacy supply chain applications make managing these end-to-end processes nearly impossible, as integrated applications are inherently limited in their scope and resiliency. Rather than integrating applications, Manhattan Active Supply Chain is a holistic collection of microservices for supply chain execution that provides Manhattan and our customers with a comprehensive set of capabilities to assemble end-to-end solutions. And because all microservices are versionless, our customers benefit from a growing list of consistent use cases over time," said Brian Kinsella, senior vice president of product management at Manhattan.