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
Modern transportation needs are more complex than ever. Frequent order changes and resulting shipment planning strategy adjustments can be a headache for transportation managers. Manhattan Active Transportation Management is the industry’s fastest shipment planning engine, equipped with advanced multi-modal, self-configuring, and self-tuning intelligence, and continuous optimization, providing the ideal solve for every carrier, rate, route, mode, node, and load.
What is Your Biggest TMS Challenge?
Manhattan Active Transportation Management is engineered to solve modern logistics challenges and designed to adapt and grow with your business needs. With industry-leading technology capabilities and a vast network and partner ecosystem, Manhattan Active TM users can meet operational goals to reduce travel and cost and improve visibility and service levels, all while remaining sustainable and reducing their overall carbon footprint.
Thanks to modern microservices architecture, Manhattan Active TM empowers logistics operations with the most intelligent optimization engine ever created, enabling you to overcome obstacles along the supply chain journey and meet market demands profitably.
Manhattan TMS’s route optimization picks routes that are not only shorter but also devoid of congestion and potential delays, ensuring maximum fuel efficiency. It also combines inbound, outbound, interfacility, and backhauls to reduce the number of miles spent on the road.
► Giant Eagle Finds a Route to Greater Efficiency With Manhattan TMS
► How John Christner Trucking reduced deadhead miles and boosted seated truck count by more than 8%
► Delivering ROI to CPG with Manhattan Active TM
Capacity sourcing and procurement features like 'what if' scenario management and the ability to execute incremental bids ensure spend visibility and accountability, standardizing and simplifying the bid collection and optimization process.
► Epes Transport Boosts Profits Via Data-Powered Decision-Making With Manhattan
► Key Capabilities of Transportation Procurement Technology
► Driving Supply Chain ROI with Manhattan’s TMS
Users get end-to-end comprehensive visibility throughout the shipment process. From initial planning to final delivery, stakeholders gain access to real-time data, enabling proactive management and decision-making. With global multi-modal support, users can track shipments throughout the entire transportation lifecycle, a critical variable for maintaining timely deliveries and high service levels.
► Goya Foods Feasts on Supply Chain Unification With Manhattan
► Continuous Transportation Optimization
► Enhance Outbound Performance With Better Inbound Logistics
Manhattan’s TMS masterfully merges shipments, reducing the carbon footprint of logistics. Multi-compartment shipment planning and dynamic cross-docking help to increase consolidation opportunities and reduce the number of shipments. Its load optimization feature provides maximum load capacity, which reduces not just the number of trips but also the accompanying emissions.
► Carhartt Drives Out Costs, Drives Up Value With Cloud-based TMS
► Factoring Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Transportation
► Supply Chain Sustainability. Better for Business. Better for the Planet.
Resources and Downloads
What is a Transportation Management System (TMS)?
Optimize logistics with our guide to Transportation Management Systems (TMS). Learn to streamline your supply chain for efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced performance.
About Manhattan - eBook
At Manhattan, we provide more than just supply chain solutions. We are a team of experienced industry experts dedicated to equipping our partners with the tools needed to navigate the supply chain commerce world effectively.
Service & Support - eBook
Manhattan provides the expert support and services team transportation leaders and managers need to ensure success and optimize your solution investment at every touch point.
Transportation Management Features
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.
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
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.
The Manhattan Active® Platform
A cloud-native, evergreen, and extensible foundation engineered to handle the most complex supply chain networks in the world. Learn More.
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.
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.