Manhattan Associates Inc. unveiled Sightline, a new capability within ActivePlanning, to reveal the reasoning behind AI-driven forecasts, recommendations, and inventory decisions in plain business language.
“At Manhattan, we are committed to continuous innovation and simplification, which helps our customers work smarter and move faster,” says Brian Kinsella, SVP, chief product officer at Manhattan. “With Sightline, we’re giving planning teams a powerful new way to understand the drivers behind every outcome, accelerate decision-making, and drive higher productivity across the supply chain.”
Key takeaways:
· Sightline brings the “why” behind projected outcomes directly into the application, from a single order line to an entire network. It gives planners forensic-level understanding of the factors shaping forecasts, orders, and inventory positions, including forecast inputs, safety stock decisions, vendor minimums, lead times, promotional effects, fulfillment shifts, and network movements.
· Sightline delivers real-time, in-application analysis that turns off-system investigation into answers in seconds. Planners can quickly understand why a forecast changed, why a projection ran high or low, or what factors drove a recommendation.
· Sightline also introduces dynamic, configurable views built around how planners actually work, whether by role, promotion, activity, or a combination of those perspectives. These views across forecasts, order projections, and planned inventory levels are enabled through a new configurable workspace for planners, reducing time spent answering routine “why” questions and eliminating the need for third-party business intelligence tools or Excel.
