Transforming Supply Chain Planning for Today's Challenges
- October 8, 2024
The launch of Manhattan Active® Supply Chain Planning is the culmination of our company’s multi-decade journey to deliver a supply chain commerce ecosystem that helps businesses learn, plan, execute and adapt faster than ever before. By unifying supply chain planning with supply chain execution on a single cloud-native platform, Manhattan has enabled unified business planning with unprecedented levels of speed, flexibility and efficiency.
Why Now?
For decades, our industry’s objectives have remained consistent: improving efficiencies to reduce costs and providing better experiences to drive revenue. However, as the rate of change in the industry has accelerated over the years, achieving these goals has become increasingly difficult. Modern consumer demands for faster, cheaper, and more personalized shopping experiences are putting incredible pressure on the supply chain, and this doesn’t just affect direct-to-consumer retailers. If you're a consumer brand, consumer goods company, 3PL, or distributor, you feel it too—surging up the supply chain at an unstoppable pace.
Every day at a breakneck pace, companies that use Manhattan’s solutions for sales, distribution, transportation, labor and automation are doing an amazing job of keeping up. But at some point, no matter how fast and efficient these omnichannel and supply chain execution systems are, they need inventory in the right place and at the right time to feed them.
Manhattan understood that eventually the industry would need to create the same level of inventory speed and agility that we’ve optimized for execution, compressing planning cycles to the point they are effectively continuous. There’s just no time for anything else.
The Only Solution
Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning is the latest addition to the Manhattan Active solution family. Unbound from traditional planning processes and legacy system architectures, Manhattan Active SCP unlocks new possibilities for inventory optimization and unified business planning.
Manhattan Active SCP is the only solution with bi-directional collaboration across OMS, TMS and WMS. It continuously optimizes and re-optimizes inventory, labor and transportation into a single plan. This aligns all resources and systems to a common enterprise goal.
It is also the only solution to combine demand forecasting, replenishment and allocation on a single, cloud-native platform. With the ability to simply “flip the switch” from push allocation to ongoing replenishment and back again as market trends dictate.
Many outside forces – from social influencer posts to port closings – can affect demand or cause supply constraints. Manhattan Active SCP is also the only solution to seamlessly combine external trends with internal patterns. The solution uses modern AI computing techniques to listen to unstructured external data sources, automatically adjust lead times and safety stock and help planners find alternate procurement and logistics paths in advance.
The launch of our new solution represents an important leap forward for inventory planning and our vision for unified supply chain commerce. So, whether you are a retailer, distributor or manufacturer, if you move goods, groceries, pharmaceuticals or beverages, we cannot wait to see how you use this extraordinary technology to make the impossible possible for your customers.