Rainforest Distribution selects Manhattan platform to upgrade supply chain planning
Key takeaways
- Rainforest Distribution adopted Manhattan Active SCP to unify demand planning, forecasting, and replenishment on a single cloud platform.
- AI-driven forecasting and real-time visibility help food and beverage distributors balance inventory, service levels, and capacity.
- Unified planning tools can help cold chain fleets respond faster to demand shifts across refrigerated distribution and transport.
Rainforest Distribution, a full-service food and beverage distributor, has selected Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning (SCP) to unify its cold chain planning and transform end-to-end operations. Manhattan will enable Rainforest to modernize demand planning, forecasting, and replenishment for temperature-controlled inventory on a single cloud-native platform.
The solution will provide real-time visibility across Rainforest’s network, helping the company balance service levels, cost, and capacity while responding quickly to changing demand in cold storage and refrigerated transport.
"As our business continues to scale, the complexity of our supply chain has increased exponentially," Alexander Ridings, CEO of Rainforest Distribution, stated. "We needed a modern planning solution that could keep pace with that growth, give our teams a single, trusted view of demand and inventory, and help us serve customers with greater reliability. Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning gives us the unified, intelligent platform we were looking for to align our planners, our operations, and our strategic growth ambitions."
Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning aligns planning and execution around a shared strategy, eliminating operational silos and enabling enterprise-wide decision-making. The platform adapts in real time to shifts in demand, labor, orders, and capacity, linking planning functions with execution across refrigerated distribution, cold storage, and transportation operations.
