Transportation Planning & Execution: Linking Your Carriers to Your Shipments

Once carriers have been selected, Manhattan Associates' Transportation Planning & Execution supports the dynamic optimization and execution of shipments. For organizations of any size, this solution provides advanced logistics with end-to-end visibility into all shipping activities.

From strategic capacity planning to managing day-to-day operations, this Web-based solution links your carriers' capacity and capabilities to actual shipments. Transportation Planning & Execution facilitates coordination with your transportation partners. This means traffic managers can quickly secure capacity across multiple transportation modes that best meet your specific requirements for quality and cost.

Now you can optimize the full range of transportation events—domestic or international; inbound or outbound; single carrier or multi-modal; common carrier or private, dedicated fleet. Transportation Planning & Execution drives results for you in these critical areas:

• Shipment planning. Create the best routes based on the order pool, origin, destination and service requirements
• Resource assignment. After creating the best routes, determine the best carrier to move freight
• Track and trace. Provide visibility and event management into all aspects of the transportation supply chain
• Financial management. Maintain end-to-end financial control of the transportation lifecycle by integrating Transportation Planning & Execution with Audit, Payment & Claims

Pilots Perform Best With Unlimited Visibility. So Do Transportation Executives

Here are key benefits you can expect from Transportation Planning & Execution:

• Reduce the number of empty miles and trips through visibility and consolidation strategies
• Identify trends, anomalies and events that may impact the supply chain
• Gain greater control of transportation spend
• Achieve better on-time performance
• Procure transportation dynamically
• Maximize the value of carriers' contract commitments
• Manage compliance with suppliers and customer transportation requirements
• Manage the entire transportation network with a single system

Together with Logistics Gateway, Transportation Planning & Execution can use real-time shipment information from carriers and suppliers to deliver even more benefits:

• Dynamically adapt to transportation events and find alternative shipping methods for affected shipments
• Provide suggested resolutions to transportation managers
• Offer tool for suppliers to release orders to ship (ready to ship/ASN)
• Equip carriers and suppliers with a real-time communications tool

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.