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Simplify supply chain commerce integration

Connect Manhattan Active solutions to anything and everything with the APIs of Manhattan Active® Platform.

Key Takeaways

  • Engineered for Integration: Manhattan Active Platform is designed for seamless integration with microservices that publish integration-ready REST API endpoints.
  • Connect Everything: Create a seamless supply chain ecosystem by connecting Manhattan Active solutions with network systems and partners, enterprise systems, and automation solutions.  
  • Integration Builder: Manhattan ProActive™, a low-code, visual and declarative toolkit, streamlines the creation and management of integrations using REST APIs.
  • Comprehensive API Documentation: Swagger documentation offers detailed information on API usage and references to assist with integration efforts.
  • Synchronous or Asynchronous: Manhattan Active Platform supports integration for inbound and outbound traffic through HTTP (synchronous) and messaging (asynchronous) invocations.

Plug in any system, partner, or automation

Seamless integration is vital in supply chain commerce, as it unites systems, processes, partners, and automation equipment into a cohesive ecosystem that achieves desired outcomes.

Simplifying integration for greater efficiency and collaboration

Effective integration facilitates end-to-end visibility, enables faster data sharing, and fosters greater collaboration among processes, organizations, suppliers, distributors, and more. The benefits of successful integration are significant: it leads to reduced costs through automation, minimizes errors caused by manual handoffs, enhances process accuracy, and creates the agility to respond swiftly to market changes—ultimately driving higher efficiency, resilience, revenue, and customer satisfaction.

Manhattan Active Platform excels in enabling seamless integration of Manhattan Active solutions with enterprise systems, supply chain partner systems, and automation solutions, such as material handling systems and equipment. This results in a unified supply chain ecosystem that delivers exceptional outcomes.

“We were impressed with Manhattan’s technology to integrate smoothly with our existing Material Handling Equipment (MHE) plus an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS).”


Zhang Zhenlin
Logistics Director
Semir

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Features that simplify integration

The architecture for seamless integration

Manhattan Active Platform is cloud-native, microservices-based, and API-first. Each microservice within the platform publishes a REST API that handles virtually every business function and supports CRUD operations. The platform exposes REST API endpoints, which are the instruments for integrating with systems and equipment.

Employing these REST API endpoints, Manhattan Active Platform facilitates external integration for inbound and outbound traffic through both HTTP (synchronous) and messaging (asynchronous) invocations.

Synchronous REST integration method

For synchronous integration, all Manhattan Active Platform APIs apply a consistent calling mechanism and communicate uniformly using JSON payloads. These APIs are accessed via secure HTTPS REST endpoints. An authenticated user (the calling system) can directly call any API endpoint. With REST-based integration, feedback to the calling system is immediate. However, the calling system must be equipped with the necessary infrastructure to handle potential failures and scale its requests to achieve the required throughput.

Asynchronous queue integration method

Queue-based integration with Manhattan Active Platform employs a consistent integration pattern across all interfaces. This method utilizes Google Pub/Sub for asynchronous integration and provides a variety of integration options, including Pub/Sub APIs and numerous client libraries.

When messages are posted to a dedicated Google Pub/Sub queue, Manhattan Active Platform’s messaging infrastructure retrieves and routes these messages to the target endpoints supported by a comprehensive message queue management system, ensuring effective message delivery. With asynchronous queue integration, Manhattan Active Platform dynamically scales queue processors up or down to accommodate high message inflows, adjusting based on the response times of the target API endpoints.

Streamline integration with Manhattan ProActive

Simplify and speed up the creation and maintenance of integrations with Manhattan Active solutions using Manhattan ProActive’s low-code, visual, and declarative toolkit. Developers benefit from comprehensive API documentation that enhances learning and quality.

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