Manhattan Active® is a supply chain and omnichannel commerce platform developed by Manhattan Associates. The platform integrates multiple solutions and applications, including warehouse management, transportation management, order management, and labor management. Manhattan Active is built on a microservices architecture, allowing for easy scalability, agility, and flexibility. It also incorporates advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to optimize supply chain operations and enhance the customer experience. The platform uses innovative design, cutting-edge technology, engineering expertise, and modern software development practices.
Manhattan Active is always current, seamlessly connected, and runs anywhere. The solutions enable a single view of the customer and orders and a single view of inventory with a standard integration model enterprise-wide. In this way, stores, customer service, and distribution don't require separate platforms or point solutions that are disconnected from one another to achieve their business goals.
To understand how the Manhattan Active platform works, you must be familiar with technologies such as Java, Spring framework, Docker, and Kubernetes. The platform leverages modern open-source technologies and cloud-native architecture to make it multilingual and pluggable to various computer vendors. The REST API endpoints for business interfaces and data operations are documented extensively and used for custom integration and user interfaces.
Manhattan Active is built on a cloud-native microservices architecture. By definition, it's an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of independently deployable services, loosely coupled, organized around business capabilities, and owned by a small team. The microservice architecture enables an organization to deliver large, complex applications rapidly, frequently, reliably, and sustainably - a necessity for competing and winning today.
In contrast, monolithic architecture applications have multiple tiers that are tightly coupled and usually developed as a single large process with a shared state across the entire process. The functional modules are tightly coupled, and the shared state makes it challenging and costly to scale, update or upgrade the applications.
