Editions for Manhattan Active® Solutions: Supply Chain Software that Grows with You

Supply Chain Software Should Grow with Your Business

Growing a business brings enough complexity without adding a software decision that creates more of it.

With Editions for Manhattan Active® Solutions, growing businesses can choose supply chain capabilities that fit the operation they have today, with a path toward the operation they are building tomorrow.

Because you shouldn’t need a skyscraper-sized operation to start with a foundation that can support one.

Accessible Supply Chain Software Built for Enterprise-Level Complexity

For a long time, Manhattan has powered complex enterprise supply chain and commerce operations for large retailers, wholesalers, and distributors.

But sometimes, that enterprise-level reputation left some growing commercial companies scratching their heads and wondering:

• Is Manhattan built for a business of our size?
• Will we have to take on more software, infrastructure, or complexity than we need?
• What happens when our operations change?

While those are reasonable questions, supply chain software has a talent for making simple questions seem like you’re coordinating a moon landing. More often than not, it doesn’t have to be complicated.

Editions flips those questions into something more useful for a growing company: What do we need now, and how do we want to grow from here?

A growing retailer should have the perfect fulfillment path at every step of their journey. A distributor should be able to build a more resilient operation before complexity becomes the price of entry. And a business should be able to start with a focused scope and expand when the work calls for it.

That is the idea behind Editions.

What are Editions?

Editions provide a way to access Manhattan Active solutions based on your current needs and operating scope.

• Essentials for a focused operational starting point.
• Enterprise for broader requirements, networks, and workflows.
• Enterprise Premier for the broadest and most demanding operating models.

The right edition depends on what your operation needs now, and how much complexity you anticipate. You don’t have to buy the future all at once, but you do need a foundation that will not make the future harder.

Three Editions: Essentials, Enterprise, and Enterprise Premier Essentials: Start with What Matters Now

Essentials is the first rung of the ladder, built for growing commercial companies that need meaningful supply chain capabilities now, without taking on enterprise-scale infrastructure or IT overhead before they are ready.

It’s the best fit for an operation that has outgrown manual workflows or disconnected tools and wants to improve a focused area first, such as warehouse management, order management, store operations, or transportation.

Essentials gives growing businesses a durable platform that fits their current operation, while keeping the next rung of the ladder within reach. It’s a right-sized start, with real room to grow.

Enterprise: Add Room for More Complexity

Enterprise is the next step up, for organizations with broader operational requirements, more complex networks, or a need to coordinate across facilities, channels, markets, products, services, or customer commitments.

It’s the right edition for companies that need to connect decisions across functions and locations beyond the scope of their original operating model.

Enterprise helps growing operations add lanes to their road without needing to repave the entire highway. The business gets more room to handle complexity while protecting the value of the decisions it's already made.

Enterprise Premier: Support For the Largest and Most Demanding Operating Models

Enterprise Premier is designed for organizations managing significant scale, complexity, and change across their network.

It’s the top rung of the Editions path for companies that need more depth, more coordination, and more room to adapt.

Grow Into More Capability Without Losing the Foundation

It’s inevitable that your operation will change. New facilities will open, and your volumes will shift. Customer expectations will move the goalposts.

Your software should be able to match pace.

The Editions model is designed to let companies add capability as their operations grow, rather than treating growth as a reason to replace the software foundation underneath them.

The intended result is simple: start where you are, make progress, and keep building from there.

What Manhattan Solutions Are Available Through Editions

Editions are currently available across four solution families:

• ActiveWarehouse™ — warehouse management capabilities for organizations looking to improve the way inventory, people, and fulfillment move through their facilities.
• ActiveOrder™ for B2C — order management capabilities for retailers and brands working to coordinate orders, inventory, fulfillment, and customer expectations across channels.
• ActiveStore™ — store and point-of-sale capabilities that help connect store operations with broader commerce and fulfillment experiences.
• ActiveTransportation™ — transportation management capabilities that help organizations plan, execute, and manage the movement of goods.

You can start with the area that needs attention now, then add solution families as the operation evolves.

Supply Chain Software, Built for the Work You Do

Choosing supply chain and commerce software isn’t about the size of your business. It’s about the work you need to do, the complexity you need to manage, and the direction you are headed.

Start by asking:

• What part of the operation needs better control today?
• Where are the manual workarounds or disconnected tools slowing decisions down?
• Which capabilities will matter as the network, channels, or customer commitments grow?
• What does your team need to manage, and what should the software take off its plate?

The best starting point is the one that fits the work you’re doing now, and leaves room for what comes next.

The Question is No Longer “Are We Big Enough for Manhattan?”

For years, the question around Manhattan’s software has always been, “Are we big enough for this?”

Editions invite companies to ask , “What do we need now, and how do we want to grow from here?”

You shouldn’t need a skyscraper-sized operation to start with a foundation that can support one. Editions are built for the power to start, and a platform to grow.