Unified Distribution Control
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Warehouse Management
Control demand, supply, labor, and automation across your entire network with Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management. The leading cloud-native, evergreen, and extensible WMS in the industry.
Future-Proof Efficiency and Agility for Modern Warehousing
Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management is a cloud-native, microservices WMS designed to unify and optimize warehouse operations with real-time visibility, intelligent automation, and a versionless architecture that eliminates costly upgrades. Manhattan Active Warehouse Management seamlessly orchestrates workflows across labor, robotics, and transportation, maximizing efficiency and minimizing risks. With quarterly updates and AI-driven insights, Manhattan Active Warehouse Management dynamically adapts to evolving needs, delivering a future-proof platform that enhances productivity, lowers costs, and supports sustainable growth.
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What are Your Warehouse Management Challenges?
Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management is a cloud-native WMS built on microservices that unifies distribution operations—including demand, labor, automation, and transportation—on a single platform. Designed for today’s complex supply chains, it delivers the flexibility, scalability, and adaptability to be the last WMS companies will ever need.
Its modular architecture allows for seamless scaling and customization without disruptions or costly upgrades. With an embedded Warehouse Execution System (WES), it coordinates human labor and robotics to boost productivity and enable real-time decisions. Quarterly updates ensure continuous innovation with zero downtime, keeping operations efficient, agile, and future-ready.
Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management offers real-time, end-to-end visibility across the supply chain, allowing managers to track inventory from inbound to outbound in a single interface. This visibility ensures accurate stock levels, reduces stockouts, and enables informed decision-making.
► Case Study: Increasing inventory accuracy 100%.
► Case Study: Enhanced visibility within distribution centers.
Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management’s built-in Warehouse Execution System (WES) unifies automation and robotics management within the WMS, enabling seamless orchestration of automated tasks. This vendor-agnostic system allows managers to easily onboard new technology, reducing the need for extensive IT resources.
► Video: New Distribution Center Capabilities With Manhattan
► Feature: Warehouse Execution System inside a Warehouse Management System
Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management’s unified Order Streaming capability enables simultaneous processing of wholesale, retail, and direct orders, enhancing flexibility and throughput across channels. This allows warehouse managers to meet complex omnichannel demands without manual reconfiguration.
► Feature: Order Streaming - Take a More Intelligent Approach to Orchestration Logic
With the Manhattan Active® Labor Management module, Manhattan Active Warehouse Management applies gamification to motivate employees, provides real-time task prioritization, and helps improve labor productivity by up to 20%. This enhances workforce engagement and minimizes turnover by creating a rewarding work environment.
► Feature: Inspire and Motivate Your Workforce
► Case Study: Crocs and Manhattan Find The Perfect Fit
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What is a Warehouse Management System (WMS)?
A Warehouse Management System (WMS) is essential supply chain software that optimizes the management, planning, and execution of warehouse operations.
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Progress & Results
Discover how WSI leverages Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management to drive efficiency, support growth, and enhance customer fulfillment.
Key take-aways:
- Improved Inventory Accuracy
- Enhanced Picking Efficiency
- On-Time Shipping Performance
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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.
Transportation Management
Manage every carrier, rate, route, and load with Manhattan Active® Transportation Management.
Labor Management
Empower employees to be more productive—and happier with their work—using Manhattan Active® Labor Management’s AI-enabled software.
Order Management
Manhattan Active® Order Management provides stores with visibility into available inventory held anywhere, supporting endless aisle selling.
FAQs
What you’ll need to know about Warehouse Management Systems.
A warehouse management system (WMS) is software to help organize warehouse operations.
A WMS is designed to control movement and storage of materials, track inventory, manage stock, and optimize picking and packing of orders. A WMS can also be integrated with other software—such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transportation management systems (TMS)—to offer an end-to-end view of the supply chain. Learn more in our article, What is a Warehouse Management System (WMS).
Because a cloud-native warehouse management system (WMS) is designed to run on cloud infrastructure—rather than on-premises servers—it offers:
- Scalability—reducing costs and improving efficiency by scaling up or down to meet changing needs.
- Flexibility—accessible anyplace with an internet connection, to manage distribution from unlimited locations.
- Cost savings—eliminating expensive hardware, IT infrastructure, and downtime for system upgrades
- Automatic updates—ensuring access to security updates and the latest version of software.
- Data security—protecting sensitive data with features such as data encryption and multi-factor authentication.
- Collaboration—enabling multiple users to work simultaneously to improve productivity.
- Integration—syncing with systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transportation management systems (TMS) to provide a comprehensive view of the entire supply chain.
Unlike most cloud solutions, the Manhattan Active WM is engineered to be extensible—allowing users to add their own logic, integrations, and customizations without negatively affecting updates.
Both are software solutions to manage warehouse operations. Each has a different focus.
A WMS manages inventory by tracking inventory, stock locations, and stock movements, and can also be used to optimize picking and packing, while providing real-time visibility of warehouse operations.
A WES optimizes warehouse processes such as receiving, picking, packing, and shipping, often via advanced automation or robotics. It increases efficiency by automating repetitive tasks and reducing manual labor, while providing features such as real-time task tracking, work optimization, and automated replenishment.
WMS and WES can be used together to improve visibility and efficiency.
AI and machine learning assist with tasks too time-consuming to perform manually. Some examples:
- Inventory management—Algorithms predict demand and optimize inventory levels—reducing both stock-outs and surpluses.
- Automating tasks—Receiving, picking, packing, and shipping can be automated to increase efficiency.
- Actionable insights—Real-time visibility, helping to identify bottlenecks and make adjustments.
- Work optimization—Arranging work assignments to reducing labor costs and increase productivity.
- Personalization—Providing recommendations based on past interactions.
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 and new services. To make it even easier, we’ve already integrated Manhattan Active Solutions to industry leading solutions for everything from inventory visibility and autonomous mobile robots to payments, fraud and search engine shopping, just to name a few. It’s your supply chain commerce ecosystem. Unified.
Manhattan Active® Platform
A cloud-native, evergreen, and extensible foundation engineered to handle the most complex supply chain networks in the world. Learn More.
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 customization 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.