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Manhattan SCALE WMS: Modernize Your Path Forward

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Manhattan Associates is shifting focus away from its SCALE WMS, leaving you on unstable ground with limited options. Choose Deposco for a modern cloud fulfillment platform without the premium price tag or complex migration.
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Why Manhattan SCALE Users Move to Deposco

Whether you're using the public cloud version or the aging on-premise platform, Manhattan SCALE WMS requires significant IT infrastructure and complex maintenance. Deposco, on the other hand, offers a true cloud-native platform with automatic updates, minimal IT requirements, and elastic scalability to handle your seasonal peaks with ease.

While SCALE WMS offers limited real-time visibility and basic order routing, Deposco provides a modern, comprehensive suite that includes warehouse management, order management, planning, and intelligence capabilities.

  • Real-time cross-channel inventory visibility
  • AI-powered demand forecasting
  • Intelligent order routing and splitting
  • Shipping management solutions
  • Automated exception handling

Historically, Manhattan SCALE WMS implementations could take 6 to 12 months, and upgrades typically lasted 4 to 6 months. With Deposco's proven migration methodology, you can achieve results in just 60-90 days with minimal business disruption!

Migrating from SCALE WMS to Deposco accelerates your growth journey. We're a partner who understands your ambitions and what it takes to get you there, helping you realize value in record time. Deposco also facilitates lightning-fast third-party integrations with 150+ pre-built software connectors, significantly reducing costs and implementation time.

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Manhattan SCALE WMS customers have historically borne the burden of inefficiencies in a dated platform architecture. Monolithic applications demand more support hours, extensive implementations, and more invasive customizations. All of this translates to an increased Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) that SCALE customers have to absorb.

Furthermore, if you've reached SCALE End of Life, you're not only facing maintenance costs to maintain a path to upgrade, but all support hours are also billable at increased hourly rates. Deposco’s cloud-native platform offers a more streamlined approach to implementations and ongoing support, ensuring a significantly lower TCO to further enable your growth.

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Customers using SCALE WMS are increasingly concerned about the long-term viability and supportability of their solution. As other Manhattan Active products gain momentum, SCALE’s future appears uncertain. While paths have been presented to migrate to these Manhattan Active solutions, they often come with a heavy price tag for features you may not even use.

Deposco’s flagship WMS and OMS is our premier solution, benefiting from our expansive roadmap and forming the core of our strategy. With Deposco, your future is bright.

THE DEPOSCO DIFFERENCE

Manhattan SCALE vs. Deposco: The Scalability Gap Costing You Growth

While Manhattan SCALE struggles with outdated architecture and limited cloud capabilities, Deposco delivers 100% scalability across every critical function. See how the right platform can transform your warehouse operations from reactive to predictive.

Capability
Manhattan SCALE
Deposco
Platform Architecture On-premise with optional public cloud deployment. Complex upgrade processes. Requires significant IT infrastructure. True cloud-native architecture. Automatic updates. Minimal IT infrastructure needed.
Implementation Timeline 6-12 months. Complex training requirements. High professional services needs. < 90 Days. Intuitive interface. Minimal professional services. 15-minute user onboarding.
Inventory Management Basic inventory tracking. Limited real-time visibility. Separate systems for channels. Manual reconciliation. Real-time cross-channel visibility. AI-powered demand forecasting. Unified inventory view. Automated reconciliation.
Labor Management Basic labor management. AI-powered labor optimization.
Mobile Capabilities Limited mobile capabilities. Modern mobile-first interface.
Analytics & Reporting Standard reporting tools. Basic dashboards. Batch processing. Limited customization. Advanced analytics. Real-time dashboards. Predictive analytics. Customizable views.
Predictive Analytics (Not explicitly mentioned, implied limited by "Basic dashboards" and "Limited customization") Predictive analytics.
Innovation & Updates Annual updates. Disruptive upgrade process. Limited new features. Continuous updates. Non-disruptive upgrades. Regular new features.
ASSESSMENT

10‑Point SCALE Fulfillment Assessment For Warehouse Management Leaders

Warehouse leaders face pressure balancing daily operations with strategic initiatives like streamlining, team empowerment, and tech adoption, especially as customer needs evolve. This assessment offers 10 questions to gauge your readiness to meet evolving WMS demands. Score each category 1 (urgent opportunity) to 5 (best-in-class) to pinpoint areas for improvement.

1. How well does WMS support current workflows?

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MANHATTAN TO DEPOSCO

The Migration Journey

Our structured five-step approach ensures a smooth and efficient migration from Manhattan SCALE to Deposco. We prioritize your business continuity, from initial assessment and customized planning to precise configuration, rigorous testing, and comprehensive go-live support with training.

1

Assessment

Our team analyzes your current SCALE environment and identifies migration priorities

2

Planning

We develop a customized migration plan aligned with your business requirements

3

Configuration

Deposco is configured to your specific needs with minimal disruption

4

Testing

Thorough testing ensures business continuity during transition

5

Go-Live & Training

Smooth cutover with comprehensive support and training

MADE FOR YOU

Amplify Your Capabilities with the Best Manhattan SCALE Alternative

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Executive Sponsor

For Executive Sponsors:
Unlock Your Business Advantage with a Manhattan SCALE Alternative

Facing strategic uncertainty with Manhattan SCALE? Discover how modern cloud-native platforms transform your warehouse from a cost center into a strategic business enabler. Achieve 30-40% TCO reduction, accelerate ROI in 8-12 months, and gain crucial competitive differentiation for long-term growth.

5 Ways Deposco is the Best Manhattan SCALE Alternative

  • Cost Optimization
  • Business Agility
  • Risk & Continuity
  • Competitive Advantage
  • Strategic Performance & BI
Operations Leader

For Operations Leaders:
Accelerate Your Warehouse Operations with a Manhattan SCALE Migration

Transform aging Manhattan SCALE operations to meet modern demands. Our AI-powered WMS and OMS solutions drive 300-500% fulfillment efficiency gains, 99.9% inventory accuracy, and 80% manual task elimination—all with zero business disruption during migration.

5 Ways Deposco Accelerates Operations Transformation

  • Operational Intelligence
  • Workforce Productivity
  • Process Automation
  • Peak Demand Scalability
  • Data-Driven Improvement
IT Decision Maker

For IT Decision Makers:
Your Strategic Advantage with Manhattan SCALE Cloud Migration

Facing IT challenges with Manhattan SCALE? Migrate to a modern cloud-native WMS to eliminate 100% on-premise overhead, achieve 60-80% infrastructure cost reduction, and gain SOC 2 compliance. Ensure 100% data integrity and zero downtime during transition, freeing IT for strategic initiatives.

5 Ways SCALE Cloud Migration to Deposco Accelerates IT Success

  • Infrastructure Modernization
  • Intelligent Integrations
  • Data Migration & Reliability
  • Security & Compliance
  • Strategic IT Enablement
KNOWLEDGE BASE

Your Essential Manhattan SCALE
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Modern omnichannel businesses using Manhattan SCALE struggle with fragmented inventory visibility, leading to issues like overselling and stockouts. Adopting a unified Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Order Management System (OMS) provides real-time, global inventory visibility, improving accuracy, enhancing customer experience, and reducing operational complexities.

B2B wholesalers using Manhattan SCALE struggle with reactive demand planning, leading to stockouts or excess inventory that harms key customer relationships. Migrating to a unified WMS/OMS with integrated demand planning offers predictive capabilities, improving inventory accuracy, boosting fill rates, and enhancing customer loyalty.

For 3PLs, order resilience—the WMS's ability to adapt to disruptions—is crucial for maintaining service quality amidst volatile supply chains, a capability that legacy systems like Manhattan SCALE lack. Modern WMS platforms offer features like real-time replanning, dynamic order reallocation, and carrier flexibility, enabling 3PLs to proactively manage changes and gain a competitive edge.

FAQs

Why Manhattan SCALE Users
Need Deposco's WMS

Our proven migration methodology delivers results in 60-90 days with minimal business disruption. Unlike traditional SCALE WMS implementations that take 6-12 months, our streamlined approach includes assessment, planning, configuration, testing, and go-live phases designed specifically for SCALE migrations. We've completed dozens of successful SCALE migrations, with most customers seeing productivity improvements within the first 90 days. Take a 10-Point SCALE Fulfillment Assessment to understand your unique migration requirements.

Our migration specialists conduct a comprehensive analysis of your existing SCALE environment, including all customizations, workflows, and integrations. We map every process to ensure nothing is lost during the transition. Deposco's flexible platform accommodates your business logic while often simplifying complex customizations through native functionality. Our 150+ pre-built software integrations (Sockets) also accelerate third-party integrations that may have required custom development in SCALE.

Our SCALE ROI calculator reveals the complete financial picture across all options. While staying on current SCALE seems cheaper upfront, you'll face escalating costs from billable end-of-life support, security auditing, and ongoing downtime losses. Upgrading SCALE on-premise requires substantial infrastructure investment and extended IT maintenance costs. Manhattan Active typically costs 3x more than Deposco over three years due to premium licensing fees and complex implementations. Most customers find Deposco delivers the lowest TCO while providing superior warehouse efficiency gains, scalability benefits, and innovation enablement that actually generate positive ROI rather than just maintaining status quo.

No. Minimal disruption is a core principle of our migration methodology. We conduct thorough testing in parallel environments, maintain your current operations during configuration, and execute a smooth cutover with comprehensive support. Most customers experience less downtime during migration than they would with a typical SCALE upgrade. Our team provides 24/7 support during the transition period.

Deposco's modern, intuitive interface is designed to be user-friendly from Day One. Most customers report increased productivity within weeks because our user-intuitive design and simplified workflows reduce training time. We provide comprehensive training programs, documentation, and ongoing support. Many SCALE users find Deposco easier to use than their previous system, with customers reporting 35% productivity increases within three months or faster.

Deposco is built as a true cloud-native cloud platform, eliminating the heavy IT infrastructure requirements of SCALE. You'll no longer need to manage servers, handle complex maintenance, or worry about scalability during peak seasons. Our platform automatically updates without disruption, provides elastic scalability during peak seasons, and requires minimal IT resources to maintain – a significant advantage over both on-premise and public cloud versions of SCALE.

Unlike SCALE, which is being de-emphasized in favor of Manhattan Active, Deposco's WMS and OMS platform is our flagship solution and the core of our strategy. We're continuously investing in development, with regular feature updates and an expansive roadmap – all developed on a single codebase (not through acquisitions). Our entire business model is driven by the success of this platform, ensuring you have a long-term partner committed to your growth rather than a vendor shifting focus to other products.

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