S P O N S O R E D C O N T E N T
SOLVED Supply Chain Challenge?
Manhattan Active WMS for a Leading USA Retailer
A major retailer sought to modernize their supply chain operations with a cloud warehouse management system and turned to ITOrizon as their system integrator. The result was a seamless integration.
on-prem and cloud products such as JDA, Oracle RMS, Manhattan Distributed Order Management (DOM), Manhattan Integration Framework (MIF), and Manhattan Extended Enterprise (EEM). THE CHALLENGES 1. Retro tting existing integrations with new cloud WMS software • Leverage existing integrations across their SCM ecosystems and bring the new WMS (MA Active) as a “plug and play” with minimal time and effort • Design the new WMS – MHE integrations by repurposing the old MHE integration code • Lack of technical subject matter experts for in-house legacy SCM
ITOrizon analyzed the existing ware- house processes and the end-to-end business processes across all SCM systems to get the complete picture before estab- lishing the new processes or proposing any con gurations in WMS. Our team went the extra mile to carefully review and cross-verify con gu- rations to detect the gaps and bugs ahead of schedule. One such situation occurred in PIX design where existing integrations could not scale up for the new WMS PIX features. The ITOrizon team proposed an alternative design without impacting the project schedule. We spent extensive time developing SCI to present the receiving, shipping, allocation, packing, inventory analy- sis, and inventory reconciliation statistics to build customer con dence in the new WMS. ITOrizon’s cloud expertise, speci - cally with Google Virtual Private Cloud, was used to set up the replica copy of the production WMS DB. This allowed us to access the PROD (live) data, analyze the operations process, and troubleshoot data inconsistencies to take proac- tive measures.
THE GOAL The customer had an all-encompass- ing goal to modernize their supply chain operations on a cloud platform while expanding their warehouse throughput to their retail stores and delivering an authentic omnichannel experience with initiatives such as BOPIS. The warehouse management solu- tion got identi ed as the rst application for the supply chain transformation jour- ney. The customer chose Manhattan WM Active as their new WMS solution with a strategy of phased deployment by warehouse and selling channel. Overall, 4 phases were planned, starting with their West Coast DC operations. The DC is a 600,000-square-foot facil- ity split between retail and e-commerce channels. It is a fully automated ware- house equipped with: 1. Put-to-light stations 2. Print and apply machines 3. Case sealers 4. Fluid loading lanes 5. Conveyors with routing capabilities
applications and cloud WMS implementation specializations
2. Designing and implementing exist- ing warehouse business use cases to a new system • Con guration and setup were
drastically different than that of the old WMS. On top of that, the look and feel of the new WMS was also different
THE SOLUTIONS As the customer’s prime system inte- grator, ITOrizon got a blanket contract to establish the new warehouse operations, implement the new WMS and required integrations, and ensure fully functional systems as part of their commitment.
To learnmore: Dennis.Aronson@itorizon.com www.itorizon.com 770-769-0829
Their existing supply chain ecosys- tem is very rich and supported by a mix of
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