Founded in 1990 and based in Atlanta Georgia, Manhattan Associates (“Manhattan”) (NASDAQ: MANH) is a leader in supply sequence execution computer software. The company has concentrated almost exclusively on helping companies streamline personal supply chains to attain financial savings. To steadfastly keep up their leadership condition, the Manhattan Science Advisory Board includes their particular PhDs and supply string administration (SCM) experts with industry idea leaders and worldwide scientists from outstanding scholastic institutions, eg MIT, Columbia University and Georgia Tech, to go over improvements inside main science, target brand new financial developments and identify fruitful regions of research.
New york’s first warehouse administration (WM) product, in the beginning referred to as PkMS, propelled the organization into being a Warehouse Management program (WMS) market frontrunner. Ones Warehouse Management software goods is now called (bring your pick) WM for IBMi, Warehouse Management for iSeries or WMi, and runs on IBM’s iSeries systems, catering to customers seeking IBM hardware and management infrastructure. Since then the business has actually added two additional Warehouse control computer software services and products. One is situated for the small to method size business (SMB) and it is section of their SCALE services and products constructed on Microsoft.net technologies. Warehouse Management Open techniques (WMoS) is the leading WMS, addressing the requirements of bigger, much more sophisticated clients. WMoS current version is created on Manhattan’s RANGE technology system that also includes a transportation management offering.
New york’s WMoS nearest competition is RedPrairie’s WM/D, and both are in the top their particular game utilizing the largest and deepest of Warehouse Management computer software functionality. Both continue steadily to advance their particular choices, addressing the functions needed because of the largest and most complex customers.
With the purchase of Logistic.com, Manhattan acquired a transport control program (TMS) answer labeled as transport Lifecycle control. Evant ended up being obtained in 2005, expanding Manhattan’s supply chain administration solutions into preparing, forecasting and stock optimization. Despite these two acquisitions, Manhattan is much more willing to operate a vehicle innovations in-house, unlike other warehouse administration system (WMS) sellers that opt to develop through purchase.
In 2010, New york Associates spent over $40 million in product study and development. Their 2010 revenues were $297 million together with 2011 guidance range is $325 to $334 million. For the last 36 months, their profits have now been below their particular highest revenues of $338 million in 2007. New york has remained lucrative with a very good balance sheet. Practically all 2, 000 workers work straight with Manhattan’s 1, 200 consumers through study and development, instruction, execution and ongoing assistance.
