Manhattan Active Warehouse Management vs SAP Extended Warehouse Management
Manhattan Active Warehouse Management and SAP Extended Warehouse Management are both warehouse management software. Manhattan Active Warehouse Management is a commercial product from Manhattan Associates. SAP Extended Warehouse Management is a commercial product from SAP SE.
Which to pick
- Pick Manhattan Active Warehouse Management when
- A large retailer, 3PL or distributor runs high-volume or automated warehouses and needs a top-tier WMS.
- Pick SAP Extended Warehouse Management when
- A company runs SAP S/4HANA and needs advanced warehouse control inside the same system.
Side by side
Enterprise cloud warehouse management system for large distribution centres, covering receiving, picking, labour, automation and continuous updates.
SAP's warehouse management module for high-volume and automated warehouses, embedded in S/4HANA or as a separate deployment.
Enterprise cost and long implementation.
It needs SAP specialists and only makes sense in an SAP landscape.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
ABAP
Closed source, sold by Manhattan Associates
Closed source, sold by SAP SE
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own (both)
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.