Supply Chain Platform Applications: Managing Across the Entire Network for Optimal Performance

As you've invested in supply chain technology and processes, your business has become more streamlined and more competitive. But to squeeze the last bit of inefficiency out of your supply chain, you need to be able to see—and act—across your whole network, without risking unforeseen consequences.

Manhattan Associates' Supply Chain Platform Applications magnify the value of your supply chain investment. Whether integrated with your legacy systems or applied across several Manhattan solutions, the Supply Chain Platform Applications offer real-time insight and key analytics to enable you to manage your entire supply chain for optimum performance.

The platform applications enable you to:

• Receive and query notifications about key events and exceptions
• Auto-monitor critical milestone events to drive consistent inventory flow and on-time deliveries
• Track order, inventory and shipment visibility statuses and balances
• Monitor order fill rates, on-time deliveries, inventory carrying costs, inventory turns, safety stocks, throughput, stock-outs and lost sales
• Present key performance indicators in easy-to-understand graphical layouts
• Implement within the friendly confines of one business process platform that leverages integration optimizations across all Manhattan solutions, which would not be attainable without the platform

Pulling it All Together

Platform Applications operate across and unite key aspects of Manhattan's SCOPE - Supply Chain Optimization, Planning and Execution solutions. With a shared service oriented architecture-based platform, common databases and processes, Manhattan's Platform Applications amplify the benefits of the SCOPE solutions with:

• Total Cost to Serve: Calculate total landed cost and total cost to serve by location so you can optimize your supply chain.
• Supply Chain Intelligence: With easy-to-read reports presenting powerful analytics, you can monitor the performance of key elements of your supply chain network over time from one intuitive workbench.
• Supply Chain Visibility: See a single, consistent, real-time view of your entire global supply chain for greater inventory control, promote optimal fulfillment channels, and reduce cycle time variability to lower safety stock levels.
• Supply Chain Event Management: Track and monitor supply chain events real-time and respond immediately based upon alerts to critical exception events, which may threaten your ability to meet customer demand.