Know the Moment Demand Moves
Manhattan senses shifts in real time and handles issues as they arise. That means everything’s in order before the next planning cycle even starts.
Supply Chain Planning Built for Agility, Awareness, and Accuracy
Where Planning and Execution Work as One.
ActivePlanning unifies demand forecasting, replenishment, and allocation on a single cloud-native platform, connecting planning with supply chain execution. Continuous planning helps teams respond as demand, inventory, and operational conditions change, while advanced AI forecasting and inventory optimization support more accurate decisions. Sightline’s configurable lenses give planners focused visibility into what changed and why, helping them keep plans aligned with the business.
Challenges
Manhattan Unifies Forecasting, Replenishment, and Allocation to Capture Every Detail
When demand shifts by the hour, communication is everything. With Manhattan, work faster and make fewer mistakes by taking manual reconciliation out of the equation.
Let the Plan Adjust Itself
Replenishment and allocation update automatically as the forecast changes, moving inventory to where demand actually is without re-running the numbers by hand.
Run Forecasting, Replenishment, and Allocation as One Plan
Forecasting, replenishment, and allocation run as concurrent planning on one cloud-native platform that your team can access anywhere, anytime. Real-time, end-to-end visibility means that any change shows up everywhere, with no exports or separate systems to check.
ActivePlanning in Action
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Warehouse Management Leadership
An 18-time Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems, recognized for a 100% microservice, cloud-native WMS.
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Order Management Leadership
Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Order Management Systems, Q1 2025.
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Transportation Management Leadership
Manhattan ActiveTransportation™ is the only cloud-native solution in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems.
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Google Cloud Partner of the Year
Named Google Cloud’s 2025 Business Applications Partner of the Year for Supply Chain and Logistics, citing Manhattan’s AI work across the Manhattan Active® suite.
Sightline™
The Plan Tells You What Will Happen. Sightline Tells You Why It Happened.
Most planning systems tell you what will happen, what your forecast is, what your orders look like, where your inventory should sit. They don’t tell you the reality of why things landed where they did. Sightline within ActivePlanning™ does.
ActiveAgents
Purpose-built agents work inside the platform, not beside it, monitoring live operations and acting on exceptions so your teams spend their time on decisions, not detection.
Agent Foundry
No-code tools to build and deploy agents that automate your own supply chain commerce processes, including any extension you have created with ProActive™.
Proactive
A low-code platform for extending logic, data, APIs, and UIs across Active solutions, so your own innovation is built into the platform rather than bolted alongside it.
Resources and Downloads
Solutions for Your Supply Chain Planning Challenges
One product family brings planning together across demand and inventory. ActivePlanning handles demand forecasting, allocation, and replenishment.
Demand Forecasting
Forecasting that combines statistical models with AI to produce a single number your whole team can plan against.
See a future with fewer surprises. Manhattan’s predictive analytics are built to hold up against new items, seasonal spikes, and one-off promotions, even without historical data.
Manhattan's demand sensing captures shifts immediately, keeping the forecast up to date so your team is always working from today's numbers. We keep an eye on signals like weather, promotions, and market shifts so your forecast adjusts as conditions change, cutting stockouts and other.
Our intelligent demand forecasting harnesses the power of AI and ML to automate and optimize the entire forecasting process. The system constantly refines its predictions, allowing your team to focus on managing only the exceptions that truly require human insight. With the ability to handle vast combinations of locations, products, and time horizons, our solution supports assortment, financial, and merchandise planning, as well as replenishment across multiple channels.
Replenishment & Allocation
Inventory automatically moves to where demand is as the forecast updates.
A slow-selling item and a runaway bestseller need two different inventory strategies. Now, a product’s lifecycle and demand patterns drive automatic allocation and replenishment, eliminating the need for manual reassignment.
Inventory placement weighs demand, margin opportunity, and a product's lifecycle stage, using the same supplier data, lead times, and vendor minimums already built into the plan. The result: full sell-through with fewer markdowns.
Replenishment and allocation plans are updated continuously as new real-time data on sales and demand come in, keeping shelves and DCs aligned with what's actually selling.
Sightline
Showcases why the plan changed, in seconds, without a spreadsheet.
Sightline traces a forecast, an order, or a safety-stock change back to the vendor minimums, lead times, or promotional effects that drove it.
Critical issues get flagged automatically, turning hours of off-system investigation and manual scenario planning into an answer in seconds.
Sightline’s configurable lenses bring the details that matter most into view. Whether focused on a planner’s role, a promotion, or a daily planning routine, each lens can be tailored to give planners the visibility they need when they need it.
“Implementing tools to provide best-in-class customer service is part of our digital transformation. Our goal is to become a next-generation distributor. Through forecasting and replenishment solutions, we can do just that.”
Raj Govindarajan
Senior Director, Supply Chain | KeHE Distributors
The Only Truly Unified Planning Solution
Making the Impossible Possible
Unified Business Planning brings planning and execution together in one connected platform, helping businesses respond to change with greater agility and precision.
Supply Chain
Frequently Asked Questions
Supply chain management is the umbrella term for procurement, planning, and execution; supply chain planning is the demand-and-supply planning layer within it. Buyers researching supply chain management software, supply chain planning solutions, or broader supply chain solutions are usually looking for the same layer to turn demand into an inventory plan before execution begins. ActivePlanning is one of several supply chain planning solutions built to work as one platform, inside a broader supply chain management software portfolio that also covers warehouse, labor, and transportation execution.
No. An ERP (enterprise resource planning) system runs your finance, orders, and transactions, while supply chain planning software forecasts demand and plans inventory movement on top of that data. ActivePlanning is built to connect to the ERP you already run, not replace it.
Demand forecasting is all about the numbers. It describes how much of a product you expect to sell, by location and time period. Demand planning is everything built on that number: the replenishment, allocation, and inventory decisions it drives. ActivePlanning treats both as a single continuous process rather than a forecast handed off to a separate planning step.
Not quite. S&OP and IBP are cross-functional processes that align sales, finance, and operations around one plan, usually on a monthly or quarterly cycle. ActivePlanning is the real-time engine underneath that process: the forecasting, replenishment, and allocation data an S&OP or IBP cycle actually runs on.
No. It plans demand and inventory. Procurement, supplier management, and order management stay in the systems you already run, and Manhattan is built to connect to them rather than replace them. The same is true of the ERP itself: ActivePlanning reads and writes to your ERP, so sourcing and purchasing decisions downstream of the forecast still happen where they do today.
Yes. It's built on an API-first, cloud-native platform designed to connect to the ERP, warehouse management, and transportation management systems you already run, and it also integrates natively with Manhattan's own Warehouse, Labor, and Transportation Management for a single real-time plan.
Advanced AI is Manhattan's hybrid AI forecasting method, combining proven statistical time-series models with machine learning in one unified model. Machine learning alone can struggle when data is sparse or low-quality. Advanced AI solves that by providing a statistical foundation that keeps the forecast reliable, while the machine-learning layer adapts it to real-time demand shifts.
Sightline is ActivePlanning’s decision intelligence layer, helping planners understand what changed, why it changed, and what needs attention. While a traditional reporting dashboard primarily displays metrics, Sightline uses live planning data and configurable lenses to connect outcomes with the factors driving them, bringing relevant insights directly into the planner’s workflow.