Hub Management: Connect Your Hubs for End-to-End Optimization
No matter how well your suppliers and warehouses are automated, hubs and smaller third-party logistics companies can become roadblocks in your supply chain when they lack similar capabilities. To optimize your supply chain, your hubs and 3PLs must be able to provide you with visibility into their receipts and shipments, and generate ASNs, shipping labels and other documentation.
Hub Management provides web-based technology to easily and inexpensively enable your hubs to create ASNs and labels, and provide receiving, cross docking and load building services. They can even consolidate shipments directly to stores and customers, bypassing warehouses altogether.
Benefits of Hub Management include:
- More accurate Yard Management, resulting in faster order cycles and reduced stock-outs.
- Direct-to-store and direct-to-customer shipments that reduce transportation, labor and storage costs while shortening order fulfillment times.
- Standardized labels and shipping documentation through the entire supply chain for more accurate receiving.
- Dramatically increased visibility, which reduces inventory levels and order cycle time.
Connect Hubs with Suppliers: The Added Power of Supplier Enablement
The benefits of Hub Management increase exponentially when combined with Manhattan Associates' Supplier Enablement. The result is a unified and integrated supply chain. Together, these modules enable global visibility: shipping from anywhere to anywhere with traceability and accountability at all times. With the full benefit of collaboration with hubs and suppliers, you can maximize cross-dock and flow-through for direct-to-store delivery, thus reducing inventory, speeding orders to market, and dramatically cutting transportation, storage and labor costs.
Explore the Distribution Management process - click the diagram below for an interactive approach to understanding Manhattan's solution.
Contact Information: To learn more about Manhattan Associates' supply chain solutions, simply complete the information request form, and we will contact you. For North & South America, call +1 877.596.9208 or e-mail info_americas@manh.com. For global inquiries, call +44 (0)1344 318000 or e-mail info_global@manh.com.