Manhattan Active

Manhattan Active is the supply chain and commerce platform from Manhattan Associates. It covers planning, warehouse management, order management, and transportation in one connected system. Retailers and distributors use it to forecast demand, plan inventory, run warehouses, and manage store and online orders together. The platform is built as an evergreen cloud service on Google Cloud, and Manhattan pushes new features to every customer roughly every 90 days without any downtime. Newer AI agents, called ActiveAgents, handle tasks like reviewing exceptions or answering planner questions, and a tool called Agent Foundry lets a company build custom agents. The platform offers thousands of REST API endpoints for connecting to other systems like ERP or point-of-sale tools.

This fits a retailer, wholesaler, or 3PL replacing an older, on-premise warehouse or order system, and works well when a company wants planning, warehouse, and order management on one shared platform instead of separate tools that do not talk to each other. A common starting point is one module, such as warehouse management, before adding planning or order management. Manhattan Associates does not publish public prices; expect a custom quote tied to sites, order volume, and modules, and treat any number you find online as only a rough planning estimate. Rollouts often take several months and use Manhattan's own services team or a partner. The main risk is the cost and effort of migrating years of data and custom workflows off an older system.