Sessions

Manhattan is changing the way organizations think about creating sustainable, competitive supply chain strategy-by leveraging a platform of common thinking, elements and technologies to deliver business flexibility and total cost efficiency. Learn why the benefits of Platform Thinking™ are essential to optimize supply chains and supply chain ecosystems.

Platform Thinking gives organizations a unified view of their supply chains by replacing "siloed thinking" with Whole Chain Awareness™-a blend of insight and execution capabilities across supply chains and ecosystems that delivers advanced levels of visibility, agility, responsiveness and economy.

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Monday General Session Speakers

Join us Monday to hear Manhattan Associates' executives discuss how our long-term commitment to Platform Thinking™ creates uncommon advantages for our customers. Featured Speaker Charlie Chesnutt, Senior Vice President, Technology & Process Improvement, Genuine Parts Company, will share how GPC is transforming from a siloed organization to a platform-based shared services model.

Tuesday General Session Speakers

Tuesday, Jeff Lamoreaux, Vice President, Global IT Operations, the adidas Group, will discuss how this global sporting goods leader transformed its supply chain by standardizing technology and consolidating facilities in a massive rollout of supply chain execution systems worldwide. Share some laughs with Kevin Nealon—actor, comedian and former SNL cast member—and Bob Garner, mentalist and magician.

Planning and Forecasting (PF)

Are you keeping pace with industry pressures to improve your multi-channel retailing approach and incorporate greater agility and responsiveness into your merchandising and inventory management organization? Learn how planning and forecasting play an increasingly crucial role in initiating Whole Chain Awareness™ for your supply chain.

Inventory Optimization (IO)

Achieving target service goals with the most efficient level of inventory makes managing a complex multi-echelon, multi-channel inventory investment increasingly demanding. Learn how Manhattan Associates' Inventory Optimization solutions provide holistic replenishment strategies, intuitive dashboards and workbenches, unparalleled visibility and leading-edge cross-channel enablement to create sustainable supply chain advantage. Discover how IO benefits from Supply Chain Process Platform advantages such as single sign-on and a common, intuitive user interface.

Order Lifecycle Management (OLM)

Tackle the challenges of evolving into a "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere, return anywhere" cross-channel enterprise. Discover how Manhattan order management applications can serve as both a call center and an in-store order capture application, and learn best practices around payment card data security and fraud management. Find out how OLM continues to optimize sourcing and allocation processes, and hear how customer service and top line sales can be improved by automating and optimizing the reverse logistics/returns process.

Transportation Lifecycle Management (TLM): Shippers

Gain insights into how a large number of the most complex transportation operations use Manhattan Associates' comprehensive Transportation Lifecycle Management system to strengthen performance across global transportation networks. Learn how your organization can synchronize the processing of orders and shipments across transportation, warehouse and order lifecycle management-within one Supply Chain Process Platform-for a uniform view of distribution operations across the enterprise at a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Transportation Lifecycle Management (TLM): Carriers

Manhattan Carrier™ solutions give you the tools to maximize asset utilization, minimize costs and monitor quality of revenue in an ever-changing market. Learn about managing the lifecycle of a load from booking to planning to execution to valuation, all while balancing driver needs. Manhattan Carrier meets the specific needs of motor carriers so well, more than 125,000 trucks on the road depend on Manhattan Carrier every day.

Distribution Management: Warehouse Management Systems

The intense learning opportunity these sessions provide will enhance your performance by helping you get the most out of Manhattan Associates' Warehouse Management solutions. The knowledge you take away can be directly applied to your daily operations and your company's bottom line. Hear about value-extending capabilities such as dimensional put-away and replenishment.

Distribution Management: WMS Roundtables

The distribution management roundtables were so popular last year, we've created a Roundtable Track to provide you additional opportunities to share best practices with your peers, discuss current trends and learn from supply chain leaders. These roundtables provide a more intimate, participatory setting, so be prepared to ask the hard questions and give your feedback!

Distribution Management: Labor Management and Slotting Optimization

With many organizations carefully scrutinizing their capital expenditures, optimizing warehouse labor and space are two of the most cost-effective, near-term strategies companies can use to reduce expenses and enhance efficiencies. Learn how you can find even greater efficiencies with Manhattan's new platform approach that seamlessly integrates labor data with warehousing to produce real-time information to better forecast and schedule workers, and leverages labor in new ways. Hear how Slotting Optimization considers historical movement, forecasted demand and physical and ergonomic product attributes to allocate SKUs to pick locations.

Extended Enterprise Management (EEM), Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) and Total Cost to Serve (TCS)

With a global return to growth underway and the U.S. consumer expected to be an important part of that growth, are your supply chain applications ready to maximize the opportunity? Extend the value of your supply chain by leveraging one unified technology infrastructure that gathers and disseminates real-time visibility and event data across applications. Learn how to build a smarter operation through "Whole Chain Awareness." Find out how cross-functional insight and execution, offered in a single view, provide the flexibility to evaluate and act on critical processes across your supply chain to cost-efficiently exceed customer expectations.

Distribution Management: Manhattan SCALE™ (formally Manhattan ILS™)

Learn how Manhattan SCALE: Supply Chain Architected for Logistics Execution, provides the flexibility to scale up or down quickly and easily to address market fluctuations. Hear how Manhattan SCALE's single-platform approach offers real-time synchronization between processes such as warehouse, labor and trading partner management-all done at a very attractive cost. Discover how Manhattan SCALE is specifically architected to maximize speed-to-value by reducing IT complexity and deployment.

Technology in Practice

Discover how advanced solutions that share a single presentation platform, reporting framework, data services structure and user interface layer-set across all applications-can evolve your supply chain operations innovatively while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Learn how to implement, integrate and manage Manhattan Associates' solutions to become agile, adaptable and forward-thinking in this rapidly changing business climate. Find out how to build "responsible extensibility" into your supply chain to simplify maintenance and upgrades and eliminate the need to change core code.