Flow Management

Manhattan Associates’ Flow Management solution optimises flow-through distribution, increases responsiveness to changes in shipment and delivery schedules, and minimises required on-hand inventory. More importantly, it helps retailers and wholesalers realise the full potential of flow-through distribution by aligning network demand, in-bound supply, and inventory strategies orchestrated by other parts of the supply chain right up to the point goods are received at the warehouse.

Flow Management provides a holistic perspective of your supply chain and enhanced visibility into key performance indicators of flow-through distribution. This facilitates greater flexibility to react to change, reduces required inventory levels and warehouse labour costs, and maintains high levels of customer service.

Flow Management’s unique combination of solutions and alignment of business policies enables you to:

• Dynamically adjust inbound inventory allocations based on changes in supply, demand and inventory policy
• Manage inventory policies once and achieve automatic alignment of allocations and warehouse execution processes
• Manage seasonal lead times and lead-time variances as they change during a transition from traditional putaway distribution models to a full, dynamic flow-through process
• Effortlessly adjust distributions to maximise customer service across all channels as supply and demand change

Flow Management brings together components from many of Manhattan's core solutions and platform applications. The combination of capabilities expands flow-through distribution from a facility-based perspective to holistic, network-based optimisation. It aligns:

• Demand Forecasting: Optimise demand prediction at the product and location level for replenishment across all demand channels using the same solution that provides financial or assortment planning.

• Replenishment: Optimise inventory strategies across all tiers and channels and turn inventory faster by ensuring you have what you need, where you need it, when you need it.
• Supply Chain Visibility: See a single, consistent, real-time view of your entire global supply chain to increase inventory control, promote optimal fulfilment channels and reduce cycle time variability to lower safety stock levels.
• Distributed Order Management: Balance supply and demand profitably by combining a global view of inventory with cross-channel order fulfilment to enhance responsiveness to customer demand.
• Warehouse Management: Fine-tune your facility with a more efficient layout, well-utilised resources, streamlined inventory and optimised execution of order fulfilment tasks

Contact a Manhattan representative to find out more about how Flow Management’s holistic perspective can enhance your flow-through distribution capabilities.