Manhattan Active Transportation Management

Manhattan Active Transportation Management (MATM) is the transportation management system within Manhattan Associates' Active Supply Chain platform. It covers the full transportation lifecycle for shippers and carriers, including strategic modeling, procurement, multi-modal planning and optimization, execution and dispatch, in-transit visibility, and freight audit, payment, and claims. The product targets enterprise and upper mid-market shippers, third-party logistics providers, and private fleet operators that move freight across truckload, less-than-truckload, parcel, ocean, rail, intermodal, and air.

The application is built entirely from microservices and is delivered as a cloud-native SaaS. Manhattan positions the architecture as "versionless": continuous updates are delivered (the vendor cites roughly every 90 days) without disruptive upgrade projects, and the platform is designed to be extended through APIs rather than customized through code forks. At the core is a multi-modal optimization engine that the vendor describes as self-configuring and self-tuning, automatically selecting route-generation techniques based on the problem being solved and supporting continuous optimization that re-solves shipment plans as conditions change.

MATM is commonly deployed alongside Manhattan's warehouse management and order management products, but it also integrates with third-party ERP and supply chain systems through an API-first integration framework. Typical buyers are organizations in grocery and food distribution, retail and ecommerce, manufacturing and wholesale, life sciences and pharmaceutical, apparel, and 3PL/carrier operations that need to reduce freight spend, improve service levels, and manage complex multi-leg networks. Public reviews note strong optimization and load-building capability alongside higher total cost and a learning curve for advanced features.