Manhattan Associates

A new global study from Manhattan Associates reveals that companies are excited about leveraging AI to manage transportation, but many are still not ready. The report, based on a survey of 1,450 senior leaders across manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and food sectors, highlights big challenges—especially around data quality, system integration, and hiring skilled workers.

Data recently issued by Atlanta-based supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates, in its “2024 Supply Chain Confidence Survey,” gauged both confidence and concerns regarding the holiday season. Findings were based on feedback from 250 retail executives, 250 supply chain and logistics executives, and 500 consumers.

Apparel company Cutter & Buck’s deployment of a robotic cube storage and order picking solution delivered labor efficiencies and faster picking cycle times, while improving the flow of product for its custom items, and ultimately, supporting and enhancing service levels.

The “just-in-case” era is over, with operations looking to right-size inventory levels while avoiding stock outs. That may call for layers of technology, starting but not ending with WMS and effective data capture.

The days of LMS being used as a narrow measuring stick are over. Today’s warehouse labor management software is highly mobile and provides metrics to change performance as work unfolds. The integration of LMS and WES is nascent and may vary by solution specifics, but it is a frontier to watch.

Atlanta-based supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates said late last month that it has released a new transportation management (TMS) offering, entitled Manhattan Active Transportation Management. The company said that this cloud-native offering reduces the time and effort required to optimize very complex transportation networks and added that this is an industry-first self-configuring and self-tuning system with optimization speed with up to 80% faster solve times.

Supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates recently rolled out an updated release of its cloud-based Transportation Management System (TMS), entitled Manhattan TMS, which it said augments the offering’s modeling capabilities, as well as upgrades to its carrier connectivity, benchmark rating, and expanded global logistics support components.

Distributed order management suppliers and users tout its ability to strengthen the customer experience through better ties to store-level systems to improve buy-online/pickup-in-store efforts and to empower store associates.

WMS vendors are stepping up to the plate and developing functionalities and solutions that meet the complex needs of today’s companies. Our top analysts take a peek into these developments and discuss the DC of the future and the software that will support it.

To get the most out of a TMS investment, numerous parties across the organization should lend their expertise.

TMS and YMS expand on integration and supply chain visibility capabilities, gaining a better handle on warehouse constraints in the process.

For more than a decade, the fashion giant’s WMS has kept pace with several ERP integrations and the installation of a slew of materials handling equipment—all in an effort to keep the company on top of the fickle fashion world.