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Transportation Management
Orchestrate every carrier, rate, route, and load with Manhattan Active® Transportation Management, engineered to adapt and grow with your business needs.
Continuous Optimisation Makes Everything Easier
Modern transportation needs are more complex than ever. Frequent order changes and resulting shipment planning strategy adjustments can be a headache for transportation managers. Manhattan Active Transportation Management is the industry’s fastest shipment planning engine, equipped with advanced multi-modal, self-configuring, and self-tuning intelligence, and continuous optimisation, providing the ideal solve for every carrier, rate, route, mode, node, and load.
Trusted By World-Class Brands to Deliver
Hundreds of brands trust Manhattan solutions to power their global commerce. See their Customer Success Stories in the Insights section.
What is Your Biggest TMS Challenge?
Manhattan Active Transportation Management is engineered to solve modern logistics challenges and designed to adapt and grow with your business needs. With industry-leading technology capabilities and a vast network and partner ecosystem, Manhattan Active TM users can meet operational goals to reduce travel and cost and improve visibility and service levels, all while remaining sustainable and reducing their overall carbon footprint.
Thanks to modern microservices architecture, Manhattan Active TM empowers logistics operations with the most intelligent optimisation engine ever created, enabling you to overcome obstacles along the supply chain journey and meet market demands profitably.
Manhattan TMS’s route optimisation picks routes that are not only shorter but also devoid of congestion and potential delays, ensuring maximum fuel efficiency. It also combines inbound, outbound, interfacility, and backhauls to reduce the number of miles spent on the road.
► Giant Eagle Finds a Route to Greater Efficiency With Manhattan TMS
► How John Christner Trucking reduced deadhead miles and boosted seated truck count by more than 8%
► Delivering ROI to CPG with Manhattan Active TM
Capacity sourcing and procurement features like 'what if' scenario management and the ability to execute incremental bids ensure spend visibility and accountability, standardising and simplifying the bid collection and optimisation process.
► Epes Transport Boosts Profits Via Data-Powered Decision-Making With Manhattan
► Key Capabilities of Transportation Procurement Technology
► Driving Supply Chain ROI with Manhattan’s TMS
Users get end-to-end comprehensive visibility throughout the shipment process. From initial planning to final delivery, stakeholders gain access to real-time data, enabling proactive management and decision-making. With global multi-modal support, users can track shipments throughout the entire transportation lifecycle, a critical variable for maintaining timely deliveries and high service levels.
► Goya Foods Feasts on Supply Chain Unification With Manhattan
► Continuous Transportation Optimization
► Enhance Outbound Performance With Better Inbound Logistics
Manhattan’s TMS masterfully merges shipments, reducing the carbon footprint of logistics. Multi-compartment shipment planning and dynamic cross-docking help to increase consolidation opportunities and reduce the number of shipments. Its load optimisation feature provides maximum load capacity, which reduces not just the number of trips but also the accompanying emissions.
► Carhartt Drives Out Costs, Drives Up Value With Cloud-based TMS
► Factoring Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Transportation
► Supply Chain Sustainability. Better for Business. Better for the Planet.
Resources and Downloads
What is a Transportation Management System (TMS)?
Optimise logistics with our guide to Transportation Management Systems (TMS). Learn to streamline your supply chain for efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced performance.
About Manhattan - eBook
At Manhattan, we provide more than just supply chain solutions. We are a team of experienced industry experts dedicated to equipping our partners with the tools needed to navigate the supply chain commerce world effectively.
DownloadService & Support - eBook
Manhattan provides the expert support and services team transportation leaders and managers need to ensure success and optimise your solution investment at every touch point.
DownloadTransportation Management Features
Progress & results
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Manhattan TMS helped Giant Eagle:
- Reduce empty miles by 8%
- Reduce total miles by 7.7% through optimised delivery schedules
- Improve cube by 7%
- Fill available capacity with backhauls, which improved load utilisation and lowered inbound costs.
Fulfil your potential with Manhattan
Logistics Manager
Manhattan Active Transportation Management provides logistics managers with complete control of logistics from one central area. Drive solutions more efficiently and effectively with:
- Fleet management
- Modeling optimisation
- Procurement
- Carrier management
VP of Logistics
Manhattan Active Transportation Management enables VPs of Logistics to secure better business performance and leverage agile transportation solutions, with capabilities that include:
- Unified modeling, capacity and digital freight broker
- Optimisation and re-optimisation of plans based on changes
- Unified logistics command and control
- Improved service levels and visibility
Director of IT
Manhattan Active Transportation Management is cloud-native, built entirely from microservices and never needs upgrading. It was engineered to be extended, so you can add your innovation to ours without ever impacting those future updates.
Leverage capabilities that include:
- Cloud native architecture that never needs upgrading
- Unified visibility, improved reporting and access to innovation
- Continuous optimisation
Everything Works Better With Manhattan Solutions
Manhattan offers a complete breadth of solutions that when unified, provides total coverage for your supply chain commerce needs.
Warehouse management
Control demand, supply, labour and automation across your entire network with Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management.
Labour management
Empower employees to be more productive—and happier with their work—using Manhattan Active® Labour Management’s AI-enabled software.
Order management
Unlock unprecedented precision, inventory visibility and promising with Manhattan Active® Order Management’s cloud-native architecture.
FAQs
What you’ll need to know about transportation management systems.
TMS software can plan routes, track shipments and manage costs. It helps companies optimise their logistics—such as finding cost-effective shipping or identifying ways to reduce emissions—and can be combined with other software, such as warehouse management systems and enterprise resource planning systems, to give a more complete view of supply chain execution.
Having a TMS and WMS on the same platform can:
- Improve data visibility—two systems on the same platform can provide a more comprehensive view of supply chain execution.
- Increase efficiency—by automating and streamlining inventory tracking, order fulfilment and shipping.
- Improve Communication—WMS and TMS share components for different parts of the supply chain, such order, customer, item and shipment.
- Support real-time data—reducing delays, overhead and errors caused by legacy integrations, allowing for quicker response to changes in demand or other disruptions.
- Save money—by helping companies identify and eliminate inefficiencies, leading to savings in inventory management, transportation and logistics.
AI and machine learning assist with tasks too time-consuming to perform manually. Some examples:
- Predictive analytics, where ML can analyse historical data and make predictions about future demand, shipping routes and other transportation-related factors.
- Automated planning, where ML can identify the most cost-effective options and reduce delivery times.
- Real-time optimisation, where ML can analyse data in real-time and adjust routes, delivery schedules and other logistics-related factors.
- Self-learning, where ML algorithms can process data to continually adapt and improve processes.
- Scalability, where ML can process huge amounts of data and provide insights.
Faster And Easier Than Ever to Connect
Manhattan Active Platform technology makes it faster and easier than ever to connect to existing systems, valued partners,industry-leading and new services. To make it even easier, we’ve already integrated Manhattan Active Solutions into industry leading solutions for everything from inventory visibility and autonomous mobile robots to payments, fraud,industry-leading and search engine shopping, just to name a few. It’s your supply chain commerce ecosystem. Unified.
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Manhattan Active® Platform
A cloud-native, evergreen and extensible foundation engineered to handle the most complex supply chain networks in the world.
Composable microservices
API-first architecture with automated scalability, resiliency and availability. Every component is part of a shared application platform.
Innovation independence
Our low code, no code, your code development strategy means you pick what method of configuration and customisation works best for you—with as much support as you want or need.
Continuous updates
Every 90 days, all Manhattan Active solutions automatically receive new features and enhancements.