Realize the Promise of Flow-Through Distribution

Many businesses have adopted flow-through distribution to increase their ability to respond to changes in shipment and delivery schedules and keep inventory at a minimum. As a result, many retailers and wholesalers have increased productivity and flow-through volume at the warehouse level. But, they fail to achieve the full potential of the gains available to them because the the warehouse isn't fully aware of the constantly changing network demand, in-bound supply and network-wide inventory strategies being orchestrated by other parts of the organization.

To resolve this cross-functional challenge, Manhattan Associates' offers Flow Management. With this X-Suite solution, you can integrate your demand, supply and inventory strategies from planning through distribution. Flow Management provides a holistic perspective of your organization that produces greater flexibility, while simultaneously reducing required inventory levels and warehouse labor costs and preserving high levels of customer service.

Manhattan's unique combination of solutions and alignment of business policies enables you to:

• Set inventory policies once and achieve automatic alignment of allocations and execution processes
• Manage lead-times and lead-time variances as they change during a transition from a traditional put-away distribution model to a full, dynamic flow-through process
• Effortlessly adjust distributions to maximize customer service across all channels as supply and demand change

Maximize Network Profit from Forecast through Warehouse

Flow Management brings together components from many of Manhattan's core solutions and platform applications to expand flow distribution from a facility-based perspective to a holistic, network-based optimization. It aligns:

• Demand Forecasting: Keep it simple and accurate. Predict demand at the product and location level for replenishment across all demand channels. Use the same solution for your financial or assortment planning.
• Replenishment: Optimize your inventory strategies across all tiers and all channels within your supply chain. Turn over inventory faster by ensuring you have what you need, where you need it, when you need it.
• Supply Chain Visibility: See a single, consistent, real-time view of your entire global supply chain to increase inventory control, promote optimal fulfillment channels and reduce cycle time variability to lower safety stock levels.
• Distributed Order Management: Balance supply and demand profitably. A global view of inventory combines with cross-channel order fulfillment to deliver what your customers want, when they want it.
• Warehouse Management: Fine-tune your facility with a more efficient layout, well-utilized resources, streamlined inventory and flawless order fulfillment.

Solutions

• Planning and Forecasting
• Inventory Optimization
• Order Lifecycle Management
• Transportation Lifecycle Management
• Distribution Management
• Manhattan ILS™, built on Microsoft® .NET
• Platform Applications
• X-Suite Solutions
  • Flow Management
  • Extended Enterprise Management
• Supply Chain Process Platform