Extended Enterprise Management: Collaborate to Maximize Efficiency and Minimize Costs

Not knowing when your inventory will arrive pushes up labor costs at your warehouse. Delayed shipments may cause stock outs at your stores. Increased globalization makes tracking your inventory more difficult than ever. You can solve these issues one at a time or you can implement one solution that addresses them all—and provides better results through complete integration.

Manhattan Associates' Extended Enterprise Management X-Suite Solution connects you with trading partners and provides the overarching visibility and event management capabilities required to successfully manage inventory through global supply chains. By collaborating more effectively with partners anywhere in the world, you can ensure goods flow dynamically through the optimal channels on time to your customers. Whether you choose to centralize the purchase ordering process, generate EAN/UCC128 compliant case labels upstream, create advanced shipment notifications or leverage the global visibility and event management capabilities to track and control inventory, Extended Enterprise Management unites the critical functions that enable you to accomplish your trading partner goals.

With Extended Enterprise Management, you can:

• Manage global collaborative commerce with one centralized solution.
• Increase on-time delivery rate by 10-20%.
• Reduce warehouse receiving time by 20% to 40%.
• Increase order fill rate by 5% to 15%.
• Remove 3-5 days of inventory from your supply chain.
• Decrease cycle-time variability by 2-4 days.
• Lower inventory safety stock levels 5-15%.
• Reduce overall inventory carrying, transportation and labor costs.

Integrate Applications for Amplified Results

Extended Enterprise Management integrates the following Manhattan platform applications and components:

• Supplier Enablement: Extend powerful supply chain capabilities to your suppliers to manage order fulfillment and automate communications all via a centralized browser-based solution.
• Hub Management: Enable hubs and 3PL providers to provide instant visibility of orders, shipments and inventory. Streamline transport and inventory by managing partner-to-partner shipping and enable hubs to complete direct fulfillment.
• Logistics Gateway: Acknowledge order ready-to-ship to initiate transportation optimization and share critical data in real-time to keep all your transportation partners working together to eliminate empty miles and wasted fuel by filling every truck.
• Store/Customer Gateway: Let customers and stores track and receive their orders and shipments via one centralized portal and provide receipt of delivery and inventory on-hand.
• Supply Chain Visibility: See a single, consistent, real-time view of your entire global supply chain for greater inventory control, promote optimal fulfillment channels, and reduce cycle time variability to lower safety stock levels.
• Supply Chain Event Management: Track and monitor supply chain events in real time and respond immediately based on alerts to critical exception events, which may threaten your ability to meet customer demand.