Infor Supply Chain Management vs. Manhattan Active® Supply Chain

For any company that creates purchase orders to receive parts, inventory, or any type of order, Lawson Supply Chain Management is a great tool to help automate the ability to approve and reject orders and allows users to be able to track orders much quicker. Typical types of customers that can benefit are hospitals, retail, and the public sector to name a few.

Incentivized

Its a good product and its easy to interconnect with any other product seamlessly for the product optimization. Using Manhattan Active Supply Chain will increase warehouse productivity and equipment efficiency. It has a flexible approach in which companies can take advantages of the new features that are released by the Manhattan. Manhattan also has a great support team to help customers.

Incentivized

• Automation approval flow is by far the best feature as it allows a user to set their own checkpoints and users to approve and reject orders.
• Being able to track and find orders in the system makes it a robust application to allow for quicker delivery and receipt of POs. At the same time it helps vendors get paid quicker since everything can be tracked quicker.
• User interface built for end users who do not go into Lawson everyday. This interface shows only what a requester would require to place an order similar to Amazon.

Incentivized

• This product offers great functionality to optimize a business's supply chain processes.
• I like that it is easy to use.
• Pretty much self explanatory once you get logged in.

Incentivized

• The User Interface that everyday SCM users access is out of date and needs updating. Luckily in version XI the entire user experience is being enhanced to fix this issue.
• Tracking of POs and Receipts and invoices are difficult for end users to research. They usually would require lawson access and/or need to get a buyer involved. Luckily there are third party companies that built add-ons for lawson to allow end users to track this info.
• Out of the box reporting doesn't have a great look to it. Many folks from finance do not like the appearance of the reports. Again Lawson has finally listened and now allows users to customize the look of those reports.

Incentivized

• I don't get very many orders that have to be routed through this portal.
• If it has been a while since logging in, I have to request that my account be unlocked.
• While there was great functionality, the ability to custom tailor the platform to a unique business process was limited.

Incentivized

Lawson SCM has been the leader in the space for a while. All of the new competitors don't have enough experience or enough customers to fully understand the needs of our company. Lawson continues to work with their customers for ideas on new enhancements and is evident in the latest offering with a redesign of how SCM makes it easier to track and automate the SCM part of the business

Incentivized

Manhattan Active Supply Chain is user friendly and easy to navigate. It's good with inventory management. Small variances in inventory
can have big repercussions in your supply chain and I prefer to use a stable product, so I feel the best choice is Manhattan Active Supply Chain. Also the tool's good with planning and forecasting, it provides sophisticated tools that anticipate demand.

Incentivized

• As a customer of the tool it allowed for quicker responses when issues came up. It allowed for quick feedback and issue resolution since everything could be tracked.
• The ability to add images into the application allows for better use of the tool as both buyers, vendors, and the AP Department can gain advantages from the built in imaging allowed for users.
• Approval flows allows for custom tailoring for what kind of expense goes to which people for approval. This makes getting orders approved easier and more concise.

Incentivized

• Supply-chain solutions have the power to help organizations understand and model consequences
• It was strategically designed
• Its a good product

Incentivized