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Integrate your Manhattan Active Solution with common third party services such as parcel. Additional capabilities beyond what is available in the existing apps can be addressed by the services project team.
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Manhattan Active Warehouse Management includes the industry’s first WES built into a WMS, which coordinates all resources within the distribution center to ensure each asset - automation, robotics, and people work together. This often includes integrating with advanced material handling solutions (MHE) to ensure maximum throughput within the distribution center. Manhattan has made it easy to add new automation through the Manhattan Automation Network, consisting of best practice integration and industry-leading providers. Together, they create an ecosystem that helps get automation initiatives up and running faster than ever before. MHE integration opportunities include:
Grey Orange specializes in robotic fulfillment solutions. Their core offerings include autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and a cloud-based software platform called GreyMatter. These systems work together to automate material movement, order picking, and inventory management within warehouses.
Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solutions provide clients with direct integration with Grey Orange for picking, putaway, and inventory management flows. This integration enables REST communication between Grey Orange and Manhattan Active Warehouse Management with messages in standard JSON format.
After orders are cubed into optimal shipping containers, MAWM is responsible for releasing work to the floor for order fulfillment considering the availability of resources. Upon release MAWM exchanges picking details with Locus. Locus optimization assigns the picking details to carts for execution. During the picking process Locus sends necessary data back to MAWM for picking confirmation. This process supports both pick direct to shipping container and pick to tote flows. Messages included are:
After inventory is received, MAWM is responsible for releasing work to the floor for putaway considering the availability of resources and storage locations within a warehouse. Upon allocation to Grey Orange managed locations, MAWM exchanges allocation details with Grey Orange. Grey Orange optimization assigns the allocation details to Grey Orange storage locations for execution. During the putaway process, Grey Orange sends necessary data back to MAWM for putaway confirmation. Messages included are:
MAWM needs to keep track of inventory levels in Grey Orange managed locations. This is achieved by requesting inventory sync from Grey Orange. Additionally, inventory adjustments occurring due to processes such as counting are fed back to MAWM by Grey Orange.
Locus is a warehouse automation company with multiple solutions including directed robotic picking and restocking. Their directed robots optimize worker productivity and accuracy in the warehouse by pairing travel optimization with a clear user interface to assist the putaway and picking processes.
Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solutions provides clients with direct integration with Locus for cart picking and cart putaway flows. This integration enables REST communication between Locus and Manhattan Active Warehouse Management with messages in standard JSON format.
After orders are cubed into optimal shipping containers, MAWM is responsible for releasing work to the floor for order fulfillment considering the availability of resources. Upon release MAWM exchanges picking details with Locus. Locus optimization assigns the picking details to carts for execution. During the picking process Locus sends necessary data back to MAWM for picking confirmation. This process supports both pick direct to shipping container and pick to tote flows. Messages included are:
After inventory is received, iLPNs can be scanned in MAWM Make Putaway Cart process to build a tote array. Once built the arrays can be inducted onto Locus Carts. During the putaway execution process Locus communicates putaway details and exceptions. Messages included are:
Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solutions provides clients the ability to integrate with external parcel providers for flexible rate shopping, shipping label generation, manifest assignment. Use cases include:
Optional rules-based Rate Shop Group determination by MAWM.
Rate shop request at package generation for optimal carrier & service level assignment which meets customer service level agreement.
Flexible tracking number generation timing to fit various business requirements.
Carrier compliant references that provide additional information on shipping labels.
Shipping label document storage in MAWM for real time or delayed printing requirements.
Real time manifest assignment or delayed assignment using Ship to Hold functionality.
Simple ‘End of Day’ process to request closure of carrier manifests from MAWM to ship packages.
Manifest documentation provided by EPI and printed by MAWM at the time of End of Day.
MetaPack is a leading provider of eCommerce delivery management technology to enterprise retailers and brands. The MetaPack platform integrates over 470 carriers and 5,500 delivery services to ensure that retailers and brands can offer delivery options and convenience for their customers.
Manhattan Active Warehouse Management solutions provides clients with direct integration with one of the leading eCommerce delivery management systems, MetaPack. This integration enables communication with MetaPack Manager 5.x from Manhattan Active Warehouse Management “MAWM” for:
Rate Shopping allows MetaPack to compare carriers and service levels that meet the expected commitment date and ultimately choose the lowest-cost method to ship the package or order based on the business rules set up in MetaPack. If enabled - a rateshop group is sent to MetaPack that corresponds to a Service Group on the MetaPack Side, which allows MetaPack to perform rate shopping amongst similar shipping methods.
When a user completes a package, a ship request is generated that communicates the service level, ship from, ship to address and other relevant package information to MetaPack. The base ship request from the Parcel API is updated to allow integration with MetaPack. A shipment call is sent in MetaPack’s required format, where MetaPack creates the consignment for visibility to the carrier’s open manifest, and a shipping label is returned from this call.
After the packing process is completed and the consignment is created in MetaPack, the MAO/MAWM MetaPack App sends a request to MetaPack to provide the additional customs documentation (if required).
A user may wish to change the shipping method or undo the packing due to reasons such as damage to the package or order cancelation. If a consignment was created in MetaPack and now the tracking number will not be used, MetaPack requires a Void request to remove or invalidate the package from a carrier’s open manifest.
The MAO/MAWM MetaPack App runs a scheduled job to send a manifest request to MetaPack to mark the open consignments as ready to manifest. Alternatively, the base End of Day UI can be utilized to generate the EOD request per carrier. The actual manifesting is handled by Metapack through Delivery Manager and is not communicated back to MAO/MAWM.