Transportation Management

Orchestrate every carrier, rate, route, and load with Manhattan Active® Transportation Management, engineered to adapt and grow with your business needs.

Continuous Optimization 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 optimization, providing the ideal solve for every carrier, rate, route, mode, node, and load.

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 optimization engine ever created, enabling you to overcome obstacles along the supply chain journey and meet market demands profitably.

Manhattan TMS’s route optimization 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, standardizing and simplifying the bid collection and optimization 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 optimization 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.

Reconciliation (APC)

Automate processes and tailor transportation needs to your business with Freight Bill Auditing, Compliance and Documentation, and Carrier Selection and Management.

Fulfill 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 optimization
  • 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
  • Optimization and re-optimization 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 optimization

FAQs

What you’ll need to know about transportation management solutions.

Transportation management controls and oversees the movement of product or goods throughout an organization’s supply chain network, ensuring the methods of transport are running at peak efficiency. This is typically executed with a transportation management system.

The benefits of transportation management include the ability to modify last-minute adjustments or cancellations customers make to their order, maximizing capacity, and optimizing shipment routes to ensure product is delivered as quickly, cost-effectively, and sustainably as possible.

Modern transportation management functionalities include carrier management, shipment management, tracking and visibility, and optimization of routes.

Industries that use transportation management are grocery and food distributors, omnichannel, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retailers, manufacturers, wholesalers, logistic service providers and 3PLs, government agencies, trucking and carrier services, and medical and pharmaceutical organizations. 

Transportation management optimizes the physical movement of goods while logistics manages the planning and implementation of functions that enable product movement. 

Contact Us

How Can We Help?

Talk with an expert to learn more about Manhattan’s technology.

The 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.

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.

Manh TM logos