BlueYonder

MAY 5, 2025

We believe that combining GXOs global scale and logistics expertise coupled with Blue Yonders state-of-the-art supply chain technology stack will provide unmatched services and capabilities to our customers and support the growth of both of our companies. But there was a gap that needed filling.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2025

In todays world, companies will not generate market share without a well thought out and activated network effect strategy. If a companys business strategy does not include a move into an industry-based network, its market share will erode over time, along with its ability to leverage lower costs and logistics on a global basis.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Many virtual attendees were also present, with representatives from across logistics, procurement, manufacturing, IT and sustainability not only learning from the esteemed speakers presenting, but also sharing their expertise and experiences. Interested in where you can meet with Blue Yonder?

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For us, this recognition underscores our unwavering commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that drive efficiency and innovation in warehouse management. Seedcom Logistics implemented Blue Yonder Warehouse Management to streamline their processes and optimize inventory management.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2025

Our warehouse management solutions have been instrumental in enhancing operational efficiency and inventory accuracy across various industries by offering real-time visibility and automation capabilities. Implementing Blue Yonders warehouse management solution is a key component of that strategy.

Gartner

BlueYonder

APRIL 14, 2025

They must find faster, more efficient strategies to surgically and profitably match supply with fluctuating demand and ensure operational excellence across their value chain. Product expiration dates, as well as temperature control and other special handling requirements, add to the challenge of accurately matching inventory to market needs.

Inventory Reduction

BlueYonder

JANUARY 27, 2025

While crafting strategies for operational efficiency, executives face the single most unpredictable challenge: consumer behavior. Complicated logistics routes or unexpected defects can create a domino of issues for warehouse and logistic efficiency. The result is reduced risk, enhanced efficiency, and optimized performance.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2025

Powered by the Blue Yonder platform, the demand and inventory planning solutions evaluate and integrate evolving demand trends and supply availability, enabling a collaborative balance of planning for optimal efficiency, high service levels and increased resilience.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We’ve seen seismic shifts in the global logistics landscape over the past few years, including a transition to omni-channel commerce, increasing demand variability and growing customer expectations. Perhaps no one has benefitted more from this growing complexity than the world’s logistics services providers (LSPs).

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 19, 2025

In a mainstage session at the Symposium—“PepsiCo’s Control Tower Strategy—Innovating E2E Process Flows”—Raphael Cyjon, Vice President of Strategy and Transformation, Transportation & Fleet, discussed the success PepsiCo has achieved with Blue Yonder Supply Chain Command Center.

Gartner

BlueYonder

MAY 12, 2025

Whether its an inventory management system, order processing or supplier communication, these point-to-point connections create informational gaps and inefficiencies. Imagine a network where every party, grocers, suppliers and logistics partners all operate with shared, real-time visibility, communication, and context.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2025

That means fashion retailers must get returned products back in stores, or back into online inventories, as quickly as possible to capture the fleeting resale opportunity. Fashion retailers like Zara, H&M and ASOS are now charging returns fees to customers to discourage hauls and offset the costs of reverse logistics.

Purchasing Skills

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Intelligent APS solutions transform massive amounts of data into smart plans aimed at meeting production deadlines and delivery dates, optimizing materials and finished inventory, and reducing operational costs across the manufacturing network. Looking for an APS? A cloud delivery model is essential here, as well.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 13, 2025

In mid-July last year, McDonalds Australia made an unexpected move: It cut breakfast hours by 90 minutes because it couldnt get enough eggs due to a bird flu outbreak. Two months later, Malaysia Airlines reduced its flight capacity by 20%, citing labor shortages and a lack of spare parts.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 17, 2024

3 rd -Party Marketplaces Are Great for Growth Third-party marketplaces are a great way for retailers to expand the range of their product offerings and can help to drive growth and customer acquisition without taking on the burden of all that new inventory directly. 40% of their online sales. So how to avoid these return-related pitfalls?

Retail

BlueYonder

JUNE 18, 2025

And how do you create a self-learning, self-healing environment in which change informs both future plans so they’re more feasibly constrained, and future execution to reduce firefighting? With user-specific context, network-wide awareness enables detection of meaningful change, reducing latency in generating insights.

Real-time Visibility

BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2025

In the course of the show, AI agents turned up embedded in software solutions from merchandising to inventory, and in more standalone roles like sales assistant, store assistant for associates, or managing returns and refunds with customers. Network design, and the flow of inventory through that networkthats where a lot of the push is.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Manufacturers and retailers must create accurate demand forecasts, get the right inventory in the right place, and line up labor, trucks and other assets. Achieving profitable, dynamic inventory optimization Huge holiday order volumes are fantastic.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

MARCH 20, 2025

In response, the automotive industry is pivoting away from its traditional push-based or make-to-stock (MTS) approach characterized by a flood the zone production model, where dealers maintain 60 to 80 days of inventory. Instead, theyre moving to a hybrid push- and pull-based, configure-to-order (CTO) model with lower inventories.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 10, 2025

The Trump administration has introduced a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports, a 10% tariff on Chinese goods, and additional duties aimed at the European Union, India and Japan under a “reciprocal tariff” strategy. If enacted, these tariffs could increase the cost of new vehicle models by $4,000 to $10,000. As Ford Motor Co.

Modeling

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As the logistics industry watches and waits, the stakes are high. Delivering consistent results amid uncertainty Obviously, logistics service providers (LSPs) will also have to make dramatic changes over the coming months, pivoting strategically along with their customers. While the new administration conducts a review of U.S.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. So, the parking spots are getting more and more occupied with drop trailers, meaning lot capacity shrinks while finding the trailer with the highest-priority inventory becomes even harder. Yes, yards are hard.

Expense Reduction

The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 9, 2023

Dan Gilmore is a recognized thought leader in WMS, with experience prior to his role at Softeon as the founder of Supply Chain Digest, CMO at RedPrairie (now BlueYonder) and as lead WMS analyst at META Group (later acquired by Gartner). Provide real-time, granular inventory and order visibility across an extended network.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 21, 2024

The key is implementing an efficient returns strategy that ties into the business’s wider goals. A returns strategy is much more than just the policy on the website, although that policy is crucial. The Returns Philosophy The returns philosophy acts as the foundation for your returns strategy.

Cost Reduction Strategies

BlueYonder

AUGUST 26, 2024

Driving down costs across the supply chain is a key goal for third-party logistics (3PL) businesses, particularly during inflationary pressure and labor market shortages. Sophisticated returns processes provide LSPs with immediate cost-saving benefits by freeing staff time, reducing transportation costs, and boosting warehouse efficiency.

Waste Reduction

BlueYonder

MAY 10, 2024

Here are the trends our Blue Yonder Industry Strategy team sees for the upcoming quarter: Supply Chain and Technology Supply chains will remain volatile with escalating disruptions as a result of extreme weather effects and unrest across the globe. Speak to one of our Industry Strategy leaders today! Reach out at blueyonder.com.

Vendor Strategies

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Logistics service providers (LSPs) face unprecedented challenges in today’s fast-paced market. Trend 1: Industry consolidation The logistics industry is experiencing a wave of consolidation. DHL made several major acquisitions in 2022, including an Australian logistics company and a Mexico-based health care logistics company.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

To stay competitive, automotive companies must adopt this approach, continuously delivering cutting-edge features and functionalities. This results in longer lead times, reduced fulfillment levels, and declines in quality standards and customer satisfaction. As we heard at the conference, the vehicle logistics industry is responding.

Conference

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 6, 2023

” – Sir Winston Churchill Having just returned from the 2023 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Global conference in Detroit, these words are very fitting to encapsulate the essence of the event. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Short-term visibility at the Purchase Order/ASN level is insufficient.

Waste Reduction

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This blog has been adapted from a talk given at the Leaders in Logistics: Last Mile event. This shift has drastically reduced the uncertainties involved in meeting up. The role of uncertainty in consumer experience Consumer expectations have evolved, and reducing uncertainty is key to meeting them.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 5, 2023

How do you prepare your supply chain and logistics operations for a new tomorrow? During a recent “Logistics New Tomorrow” Blue Yonder Live, I spoke with Roy Bridgland, Senior Industry Strategy Director, and Brad Revell, VP of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) Industry for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2015

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. New distribution channels and increased logistics complexity. Cost reduction pressure. How to adopt customer-centric practices from retailers.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But what do these terms mean for the logistics industry? At Blue Yonder, we believe every logistics stakeholder should be excited about advanced technologies like AI. So, let’s take a few minutes to define some of the most common terms related to managing logistics via advanced technology. What exactly is a data cloud?

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 2015

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. Logistics costs become a key area of concern, as they eat into the company’s profit margins, and service becomes a measurable KPI.

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

To navigate the new normal, here are three strategies supply chain planners should consider: 1. For example, safety stock calculations will need to be scrubbed to reflect the wild swings and short-term anomalies caused by the virus, otherwise, it can lead to excess inventory. [4]. Consider External Variables at Scale.

Inventory Reduction

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In a previous Blue Yonder blog post , we defined some of the advanced technologies that are impacting the logistics industry today and provided an overview of how they’re improving companies’ cost and service outcomes. Improved sustainability is directly linked to logistics optimization.

Las Vegas

BlueYonder

APRIL 21, 2022

They need to ensure product availability for shoppers walking in the store, those using click and collect, and those choosing home delivery — all of which require inventory accuracy. And last, they need to provide more experiences while finding ways to reduce the cost-to-serve. Omni-Channel Inventory Management.

Inventory Reduction