Enhanced Supply Chain Agility

Extracted 27JUL2011 from http://www.3plnews.com/logistics-information-technology/manhattans-platform-t...

Manhattan Associates, Inc (NASDAQ: MANH), the global supply chain optimization provider, today announced the launch of its ‘Platform Thinking’ approach in key markets within Europe. In the face of growing complexity and the ever-increasing number of factors that affect a company’s ability to manage and optimize the supply chain, the breakthrough capabilities enabled by a platform-based approach allow customers to create flexible and agile supply chains at a lower cost of technology ownership...

The number of ‘impossible to predict’ supply chain scenarios range from anticipating consumer behavior in an on-line economy, understanding the full impact of social media on commerce, and responding to natural disasters that result in supply shocks and transportation failures. Additionally, the ‘difficult to predict’ supply chain impacts, such as future raw materials and fuel costs, government regulation, weather patterns or the success of a promotion all contribute to the clear need for agility and lower total cost. Before now, most supply chains were not designed to deal with the high levels of complexity and unpredictability...

Manhattan’s Supply Chain Process Platform harnesses information across all supply chain solutions of the Manhattan SCOPE portfolio to provide cross-functional awareness which ensures that changes in one function of the supply chain are transmitted, in real time, to other functions, allowing the entire supply chain to act in concert, as one... “Gartner finds an emerging best practice we call supply chain execution convergence,” said Dwight Klappich, vice president, Gartner. “SCE convergence is where multiple functions are on a common platform sharing a user interface (UI), data models, syntax and other logic, allowing users to more easily orchestrate and synchronise processes across what have traditionally been functional silos.”