Manhattan Associates Inc., which is the global leader when it comes to native AI-empowered supply chain commerce solutions, on May 20, 2026, announced Sightline™. It is a new capability within ActivePlanning™ in order to provide the logic behind AI-driven forecasts, guidance, and inventory decisions in business language that’s understandable.
Apparently, Sightline puts the “why” behind projected outcomes right into the application, from just an individual order line to the overall network.
Interestingly, in addition to higher productivity in the supply chain, it also provides planners with forensic-level insight into what is driving forecasts and orders, as well as inventory positions, comprising forecast inputs, security supply decisions, vendor minimum requirements, lead times, promotional impacts, fulfillment shifts, and network shifts.
The fact is that for decades, planners have been forced to leave the system and use tools such as Microsoft Excel so as to comprehend the logic of planning decisions.
Sightline changes that through providing real-time, in-application evaluation that takes hours of off-system inquiry and delivers responses in seconds.
Planners can immediately see what caused a forecast to change, why a particular projection was high or low, or what went into a proposal.
The advanced AI forecasting often feels like a black box that calls for a data scientist to do the data analysis. AI changes forecasts. AI gives suggestions for replenishment and also pushes allocation decisions. Practitioners often have trouble comprehending exactly why it behaves as it does. But with Sightline they get immediate, in-application analysis that takes hours of investigation and turns it into answers in seconds.
According to the senior vice president and chief product officer at Manhattan, Brian Kinsella, “At Manhattan, we are committed to continuous innovation and simplification, which helps our customers work smarter and move faster. 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 in the supply chain.”
Sightline is redefining planning software by integrating explainability directly into the planning system so that it is possible for users to delve into options that lead to decisions.
