Warehouse Management: Move from Managing Overhead to Creating a Competitive Advantage
Inside the walls of your warehouse, your utilization of every component—space, people, inventory and equipment—will impact your bottom line in profound ways over time. Warehouse Management enables you to analyze these components continually, so you can conserve effort, fill orders faster and more accurately, save space and reduce inventory.
Use Warehouse Management to optimize:
- Inventory: With our complete inventory management capabilities, track data on every unit utilizing the latest technologies. Improve the accuracy of every order and reduce safety stock.
- Labor: Make people more efficient by managing their tasks and improving their processes. Plan and balance workload and monitor activities with integration to Labor Management.
- Physical Space: Cross-docking and flow-through capabilities, plus integration with Yard Management, reduce the need for warehouse space. Improve warehouse layout for faster fulfillment and overhead reduction.
- Time: Automate picking, packing and shipping, and minimize the number of moves per order. Analyze every facet of order fulfillment to speed processing and improve customer service.
- Costs: Aggregate orders to reduce transportation and shipping costs. Eliminate annual physical counts. Reduce expenses on labor and storage.
Strengthen Your Warehouse By Breaking Down Its Walls
Your warehouse is one link in your supply chain. With visibility into processes that precede and follow that link, your warehouse will become an accelerator—not a roadblock—to drive greater profitability and customer satisfaction. Warehouse Management links robustly and easily with:
- Slotting Optimization: Shorten fulfillment cycles, reduce workforce hazards and use warehouse space more effectively.
- Distributed Order Management: Coordinate the entire order fulfillment cycle, inside and outside of the warehouse.
- Labor Management: Reduce labor costs and increase productivity of the warehouse workforce.
- Transportation Lifecycle Management: Manage all shipments coming to and going from the warehouse, as well as inventory in the yard.
- Supplier Enablement and Hub Management: Collaborate with suppliers, hubs and LSPs.
Explore the Distribution Management process - click the diagram below for an interactive approach to understanding Manhattan's solution.
- Giant Eagle Reduces Costs and Increases Customer Value with Supply Chain Solutions Giant Eagle was using outdated systems, which created barriers to achieving efficiency and cost reduction. After implementing Manhattan's Warehouse Management, Labor Management and Extended Enterprise Management solutions, Giant Eagle's inbound/outbound accuracy exceeds 99.9%, productivity has improved 8-10% in its health and beauty DC and 3-5% in other DCs. "Manhattan's solutions give us the capabilities we need while taking costs out of our supply chain."
- Distribution Management - Solution Brochure Managing complexity to yield organized optimization
- WMS Magic Quadrant, 2007
- 05/12/08Customers Take Center Stage at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2008 ConferenceMarket leaders to share strategies on creating and fulfilling brand promises through supply chain optimization
- 04/22/08Manhattan Associates Reports Record First Quarter 2008 Revenue and EarningsCompany Raises Full Year EPS Guidance
Contact Information: To learn more about Manhattan Associates' supply chain solutions, simply complete the information request form, and we will contact you. For North & South America, call +1 877.596.9208 or e-mail info_americas@manh.com. For global inquiries, call +44 (0)1344 318000 or e-mail info_global@manh.com.