Manhattan Associates Unveils LEMA platform
published: cw 20, 2005 in Supply Chain SoftwareManhattan Associates, unveiled that it has developed and begun delivering all of its solutions on its Logistics Event Management Architecture (LEMA application platform. The company is the first in the supply chain industry to develop and implement this type of strategic platform for logistics as a leveraged basis for supply chain and logistics operations, which includes the breadth and depth of its Integrated Logistics Solutions LEMA leverages Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and business process orchestration as part of a common application platform and data model for these source-to-consumption supply chain solutions and enables Manhattan Associates’ customers to benefit from enhanced integration, lower total cost of ownership and reduced upgrade time and cost.
LEMA will provide companies with a comprehensive services-oriented supply chain platform that delivers database independence, a common data model, single sign-on functionality across solutions and an event-driven, long-running transaction processing environment critical to effective management of supply chain and logistics operations. When combined with Manhattan Associates’ Integrated Logistics Solutions, which manages business processes from source to consumption, this architecture provides companies with a comprehensive, technology-agnostic platform for logistics.
Manhattan Associates claims continues leadership by being first in the Supply Chain Industry to move all solutions to single platform and common data model. LEMA-based solutions have been implemented at clients including Armstrong Worldwide Industries, Coles Myer Ltd., Honeywell, PPG, Revlon and RiteAid.









