Labor Management
Empower employees to be more productive—and happier with their work—using Manhattan Active® Labor Management’s intelligence software that integrates gamification, incentives, and task planning.
Inspire and Incentivize
Data Driven Gamification
Engage with your workforce like never before with gamification based on self-determination theory research that prioritizes metrics that are important to them.
Real-Time Digital Communication
Provide valuable feedback to employees in a more timely and automated manner.
Automatic Rewards Programs
Unify associates’ daily work tasks with dynamic performance recognition, challenges, feedback, and rewards.
Access Real-Time Performance Data
Measure real-time employee performance data against engineered and dynamic labor standards.
Leverage Machine Learning
Intelligent task-time scheduling and estimation ensure the system is continuously re-optimizing the changing priorities and order variety within the distribution center.
Ensure Seamless Control and Demand
Mobile, enterprise command and control puts the supervisor on the floor of the distribution center.
Measure What's Important
Optimize metrics like recognition, feedback, happiness, personal growth, satisfaction, wellness, ambassadorship, relationships with managers, relationships with co-workers, and alignment with the company.
Empower Your Workforce
Deliver an employee engagement program that gives workers a sense of accomplishment and empowerment, and as performance increases, so does worker satisfaction and retention.
Instill Desire to Improve
Challenges for performance, throughput, tardiness, and utilization can be combined with badges for milestone achievements.
Combine All Management Systems
Unite labor management across the enterprise with Manhattan Active® Labor Management integrated with Warehouse Management, Slotting Optimization, and Transportation Management.
Enable More Visibility
Gain visibility into shipment arrivals and departures with available ETA data to better understand where work is needed by adding Manhattan Active® Transportation Management.
Unify Capabilities
Integrate all labor management within modern, mobile-touch experiences that seamlessly unify the daily task workflow for activities — picking, packing, and slotting — with embedded gamification to help achieve new records.
Integrate Workforce Planning
Manhattan’s labor management system equips warehouse and operations managers with the most innovative workforce optimization solution in the industry.
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Balance Supply and Demand
Model labor scenarios to see which will work best.
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Gain Visibility
See scheduled shifts and time off to gauge upcoming needs.
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Monitor Performance
Oversee employee performance with ease with an integrated perspective dashboard.
Go Beyond Traditional Training
Drive higher levels of job satisfaction with an app that delivers ongoing performance feedback, recognition, and rewards.
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Mobile Employee Dashboard
Reinforce a sense of accomplishment with a dashboard that lets associates see the details of their own performances and their progress toward goals.
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Gamified Challenges
Provide coaching to help employees accomplish or exceed their goals and deliver rewards for them once they do.
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Flexible Incentives
Adapt incentives and create custom combinations for pay-for-performance, recognition, and rewards.
Set Goals Based on Data
Plan your next goals, while measuring current performance and productivity.
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Labor Monitoring
Manage actual performance against standards in real time.
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Labor Reporting
Gain access to reports on performance, efficiency, quality, and time tracking.
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Time Tracking
Track all daily activities end-to-end, including employee clock-in and clock-out, tardiness, and absences.
Add Bonuses
Define your own variables to calculate pay with the pay-for-performance program.
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Pay for Performance
Quick calculations of additional pay based on associate performance.
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Integrate Incentives
Calculate incentive payments and integrate them into your payroll.
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Reward Quality
Factor variables—safety, quality, tardiness, absences—into recognition and reward programs.
Manhattan Active® Platform
A cloud-native, evergreen, and extensible foundation engineered to handle the most complex supply chain networks in the world. Learn More.
Composable Microservices
API-first architecture with automated scalability, resiliency, and availability. Every component is part of a shared application platform.
Innovation Independence
Our low code, no code, your code development strategy means you pick what method of configuration and customization works best for you—with as much support as you want or need.
Continuous Updates
Every 90 days, all Manhattan Active solutions automatically receive new features and enhancements.
Manhattan’s WMS Leads the Gartner Magic Quadrant
A Recognized Leader
Recognized as a leader for the 16th time by Gartner, Manhattan is the only vendor in the Leader Quadrant to offer a 100% microservice cloud-native WMS.
See How DHL Harnessed The Cloud-Native Agility of Manhattan’s WMS
DHL, one of the largest logistics companies in the world, is breaking the upgrade cycle with the cloud-native agility of Manhattan’s WMS.
Everything Works Better With Manhattan Solutions
Manhattan offers a complete breadth of solutions that when unified, provides total coverage for your supply chain commerce needs.
Warehouse Management
Control demand, supply, labor, and automation across your entire network with Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management.
Transportation Management
Manage every carrier, rate, route, and load with Manhattan Active® Transportation Management.
Order Management
Manhattan Active® Order Management provides stores with visibility into available inventory held anywhere, supporting endless aisle selling.
Faster and Easier Than Ever to Connect
Manhattan Active® Platform technology makes it faster and easier than ever to connect to existing systems, valued partners and new services. To make it even easier, we’ve already integrated Manhattan Active Solutions to industry leading solutions for everything from inventory visibility and autonomous mobile robots to payments, fraud and search engine shopping, just to name a few. It’s your supply chain commerce ecosystem. Unified.
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FAQs
What you’ll need to know about Labor Management Systems.
LMS is software that helps companies with their workforce, especially with scheduling, time tracking, and payroll. It may also automate various human resources and administrative tasks.
SDT is a theory that suggests three innate needs— autonomy, competence, and relatedness —drive most behaviors.
Applying SDT, fulfilling those needs will then lead to greater intrinsic motivation, satisfaction, and well-being.
Gamification incorporates elements of video design—such as points or badges—into a work environment to increase engagement and motivation.
Gamification can motivate people to engage in activities that they might otherwise find boring or unappealing, and can help them stay motivated over time.
Gamification makes employee performance more self-determined—and more fun.
Employees can see the impact of their work—such as how they compare to colleagues—and receive instant feedback.
Manhattan Active Warehouse Management is the only commercially available WMS that integrates gamification across all tasks and activities.