From Manhattan Associates in Bracknell, UK is Manhattan Associates Integrated Logistics

 

Manhattan Associates‘ Integrated Logistics Solutions is defined for those who are steeped in logistics. It allows for the opportunity to tie together all your processes and systems with Manhattan ILS, and realise the full power of your supply chain. In order to fine-tune your facility with a more efficient layout, well utilised resources, streamlined inventory and flawless order fulfilment. Within the logistics sector it is now possible to do many become more involved in the more practical sectors of an end user such as improving the flow of goods within the end users supply chain.

 

By using sophisticated optimisation techniques, the solutions manage the logistics of getting your products from their original source to your various delivery points. The add-on does start from a stand point that the end user does have a sophisticated and structured supply chain, including a transportation process that is central to the end user organisation. Within the add-on it is possible to view all of the transportation activities with a view to building a coordinated schedule.

 

It is entirely possible to change and improve the schedules that the end user works with. The prospect of being able to eliminate the inefficient movement of goods within the supply chain and in the internal business processes and also allowing the end user to eliminate redundant effort and excess inventory and as a result producing improved inventory accuracy. The add-on is also an excellent way in which to deliver the advantages based around Trading Partner Management.

 

The possibility to take advantage of an ordered methodology to run through this it is therefore possible to facilitate the flow of information between trading partners; it is after all this information that within the supply chain provides a real-time exchange of business information. This information has been critical for businesses across all sectors and it is now possible to expedite the time to market of new products and new services.

 

The add-on also allows for a large amount of performance management which takes the raw data into strategic, actionable information in order to identify and monitor business trends. It is the higher level of information that is available from the add-on that makes the add-on different, it allows for vast delivery of reporting and analysis of information that is available but unlikely to be delivered without the add-on.

 

It is a complex add-on which goes to a deep level within the logistics and supply chain within the end user and is complex to learn, but the advantages of understanding outweigh the pain of learning a new add-on.