Manhattan Associates unveils new transport management solution

Atlanta-based supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates has unveiled its new Manhattan Active Transportation Management Solution, the industry’s first self-configuring and self-tuning system, with an optimisation speed of up to 80% solve times.

The cloud-native solution, which was introduced to Manhattan Associates’ Active Cloud Supply Chain suite, offers a unified distribution, transportation, labour and automation within a single application.

The unified solution is fused with Manhattan Active Warehouse Management to optimise inbound and outbound planning and execution.

“The emergence of all-microservices solutions, like Manhattan Active Supply Chain, can help an organisation achieve a more continuous and collaborative planning and execution environment. The result is a more agile and efficient supply chain,” said Steve Banker, Vice President, Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group.

Traditional supply chain suites typically have transportation and distribution planning and execution processes performed independently. According to Manhattan, unifying distribution and transportation has allowed a new level of agility and responsiveness within supply chain operations.

“Legacy supply chain applications make the management of these end-to-end processes nearly impossible because integrated applications are inherently limited in their scope and resiliency,” said Brian Kinsella, Senior Vice President of Product Management for Manhattan.

“Rather than integrating applications, Manhattan Active Supply Chain is a holistic collection of supply chain execution microservices, providing Manhattan and our customers with a comprehensive set of capabilities to compose end-to-end solutions,” Kinsella said.

“And because all of the microservices are versionless, our customers benefit from our growing list of unified use cases over time,” he concluded.

The application can drill into labour productivity and robotic performance, respond to real-time shipment alerts and re-broadcasting capacity needs and navigate through shipments or view the real-time status of an order.

As users comb through this data, they can to take action on this information because in-line operational analytics are built directly into the execution systems.

Source: Manhattan Associates