Transportation Management
Orchestrate every carrier, rate, route, and load with Manhattan Active® Transportation Management, engineered to adapt and grow with your business needs.
Continuous Optimization Makes Everything Easier
Stress-Free Logistics Planning
Multi-Modal Optimization
Supports all modes of transportation globally, providing flexibility and scalability for businesses expanding their operations or diversifying their logistics strategies.
Network Modeling
Design an optimal transportation network by analyzing transportation policies and performance, enabling cost savings and efficiency.
Capacity Sourcing
Manhattan Active® Transportation Management (TM) allows businesses to source transportation capacity efficiently, managing both contractual and spot market rates to leverage the best shipping costs.
End-to-End Global Shipment Visibility
Get actionable insights and intelligence across all supply chain solutions, enabling real-time visibility into capacity, traffic, market rates, and tracked shipments throughout the transportation lifecycle.
Command & Control
Gain access to a wealth of data, including carrier rates and service information, enabling faster and more informed decision-making on the fly.
Universal Shipment Execution
Unified Shipment Execution represents a holistic approach to managing the end-to-end process of shipping goods, from order placement to final delivery, ensuring synchronization, and optimizing efficiency and service levels.
Inbound Shipments
Effective management of inbound logistics ensures a smooth supply and adequate stock of high-demand items, optimizing the production process and minimizing disruptions.
Unified Shipment Planning
Utilizes mathematical models for improved routing and scheduling, identifies the most efficient transport modes and carriers, and optimizes cargo arrangements with enhanced load planning—leading to better space utilization and reduced damage risk.
Dispatch & Fleet Management
Provides a driver-centric view to quickly see the work assigned to a driver within a driver's scheduled shift. Shipment assignment can also be executed through multiple avenues: drag-and-drop, assigned resources action, or via in-line editing on the shipment grid view.
Dynamic Planning
Utilize automatic shipment variance detection and resolution to reduce dead space in the trailer.
Route Optimization
Increased efficiency per unit of distance traveled results in lowered energy consumption and emissions. Combine inbound, outbound, interfacility, and backhauls to reduce the number of miles traveled.
Load Optimization
Increased weight and volume utilization of transportation assets also contribute to lowered energy consumption and emissions.
Planning
Plan seamlessly and effectively with Manhattan Transportation Modeling, Procurement, Planning Optimization, and Global Multi-Modal Support capabilities.
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Modeling
Manhattan Transportation Modeling offers advanced tools and capabilities that support complex logistical analysis, enabling organizations to transcend the traditional, reactive emphasis on mere execution and shifting the planners' role to a proactive stance based on data-driven insights.
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Procurement
Automates contract management and reduces transportation costs for all modes of transportation. The ‘what if' scenario management feature enables the execution of incremental bids, ensuring spend visibility and accountability, as well as standardization of simplifying the bid collection and optimization process.
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Planning Optimization
Built entirely on a modern microservices architecture, Manhattan Active TM empowers logistics operations with the most intelligent optimization engine ever created.
Execution
Execute precisely with Unified Logistics Control, Continuous Optimization, Appointment Scheduling, and Dispatch & Fleet Management.
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Unified Logistics Control
Manhattan Active TM’s shipment planning engine is used to create, edit, or cancel shipments and can be set up to execute shipments automatically or by directed planning through the Unified Logistics Control.
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Continuous Optimization
Continuous optimization maximizes efficiency automatically, in real time. Get solves up to 10x times faster with the industry’s most advanced optimization engines.
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Appointment Scheduling
Appointment scheduling offers improved decision-making, planning, visibility, and efficiency with real-time information flow across business functions. It streamlines dock scheduling, improving load and unload efficiency and reducing wait times.
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Dispatch & Fleet Management
Send dispatch documents or instructions to and from drivers. Simplify the coordination of routes and deliveries by automating routing and scheduling processes between the TMS and mobile applications.
Reconciliation (APC)
Automate processes and tailor transportation needs to your business with Freight Bill Auditing, Compliance and Documentation, and Carrier Selection and Management.
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Freight Bill Auditing
Transportation management ensures that carriers' invoices reflect agreed-upon rates and services, automating the auditing process.
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Compliance & Documentation
Manhattan's transportation management solution simplifies compliance with global trade regulations, automating documentation processes and ensuring that all shipments adhere to the necessary standards.
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Carrier Selection & Management
Users gain sophisticated tools for selecting carriers based on a variety of performance metrics, ensuring optimal carrier choice and enhanced performance monitoring. This empowers you to handpick carriers using a range of criteria including cost, speed, dependability, and capacity, ensuring a tailored fit for transportation needs.
The Manhattan Active® Platform
A cloud-native, evergreen, and extensible foundation engineered to handle the most complex supply chain networks in the world.
Composable Microservices
API-first architecture with automated scalability, resiliency, and availability. Every component is part of a shared application platform.
Innovation Independence
Our low code, no code, your code development strategy means you pick what method of configuration and customization works best for you—with as much support as you want or need.
Continuous Updates
Every 90 days, all Manhattan Active solutions automatically receive new features and enhancements.
Fulfill Your Potential With Manhattan
Logistics Manager
Manhattan Active Transportation Management provides logistics managers with complete control of logistics from one central area. Drive solutions more efficiently and effectively with:
- Fleet management
- Modeling optimization
- Procurement
- Carrier management
VP of Logistics
Manhattan Active Transportation Management enables VPs of Logistics to secure better business performance and leverage agile transportation solutions, with capabilities that include:
- Unified modeling, capacity, and digital freight broker
- Optimization and re-optimization of plans based on changes
- Unified logistics command and control
- Improved service levels and visibility
Director of IT
Manhattan Active Transportation Management is cloud-native, built entirely from microservices, and never needs upgrading. It was engineered to be extended, so you can add your innovation to ours without ever impacting those future updates. Leverage capabilities that include:
- Cloud native architecture that never needs upgrading
- Unified visibility, improved reporting, and access to innovation
- Continuous optimization
Manhattan Leads the Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for TMS
A Recognized Leader
Manhattan is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems and Manhattan Active Transportation Management (TM) is the only cloud-native solution in the Leader Quadrant. Manhattan Active TM ranked among the three highest-rated solutions in Level 3, Level 4, and Level 5 complexity use cases in the accompanying Critical Capabilities report.
Everything Works Better With Manhattan Solutions
Manhattan offers a complete breadth of solutions that when unified, provides total coverage for your supply chain commerce needs.
Warehouse Management
Control demand, supply, labor, and automation across your entire network with Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management.
Labor Management
Empower employees to be more productive—and happier with their work—using Manhattan Active® Labor Management’s AI-enabled software.
Order Management
Manhattan Active® Order Management provides stores with visibility into available inventory held anywhere, supporting endless aisle selling.
FAQs
What you’ll need to know about transportation management solutions.
Transportation management controls and oversees the movement of product or goods throughout an organization’s supply chain network, ensuring the methods of transport are running at peak efficiency. This is typically executed with a transportation management system.
The benefits of transportation management include the ability to modify last-minute adjustments or cancellations customers make to their order, maximizing capacity, and optimizing shipment routes to ensure product is delivered as quickly, cost-effectively, and sustainably as possible.
Modern transportation management functionalities include carrier management, shipment management, tracking and visibility, and optimization of routes.
Industries that use transportation management are grocery and food distributors, omnichannel, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, logistic service providers and 3PLs, government agencies, trucking and carrier services, and medical and pharmaceutical organizations.
Transportation management optimizes the physical movement of goods while logistics manages the planning and implementation of functions that enable product movement.
Faster And Easier Than Ever to Connect
Manhattan Active Platform technology makes it faster and easier than ever to connect to existing systems, valued partners,industry-leading and new services. To make it even easier, we’ve already integrated Manhattan Active Solutions into industry leading solutions for everything from inventory visibility and autonomous mobile robots to payments, fraud,industry-leading and search engine shopping, just to name a few. It’s your supply chain commerce ecosystem. Unified.