BlueYonder

JUNE 23, 2025

Consumers want real-time answers, so logistics teams are left chasing down answers with disconnected processes and tribal knowledge of silos. Your biggest clients demand real-time updates that you cannot provide. It is their ability to orchestrate complex networks with precision and foresight in real-time as a disruption occurs.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

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. Why is intelligent production planning so essential? In fact, 43.6% In fact, 43.6% billion by 2033.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

As well as adapting to a global pandemic, the supply chain has faced a seemingly relentless barrage of ‘unprecedented times: The Suez Canal blockage, devastating wildfires, the war in Ukraine, escalating Red Sea tensions, persistent chip shortages, crippling labor shortages, and the looming specter of new tariffs The list goes on.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The upshots of misjudging inventory levels range from delaying production cycles, to risking availability to the end customer, to creating waste and damaging both capacity and environmental targets, to simply harming profits. Blue Yonder was one such company tasked with presenting its views on transformation and supply chain optimization.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

JANUARY 7, 2025

Surveyed organizations also highlighted the need for real-time, inventory data with nearly 70% stating that they were concerned with out stocks, overstocks and markdowns. What are your top inventory availability concerns? What are your top three inventory availability concerns?

Inventory Reduction

BlueYonder

JUNE 18, 2025

But visibility is just the first step. This is in part due to organizational limitations; it’s not enough to have real-time visibility without real-time decision-making processes.” Like their namesake, they offered the promise of 360 ° views, monitoring potential risks and chokepoints in flows. How do you respond?

Real-time Visibility

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. While just 10% of in-store purchases are returned, the return rate rises to 26.4% Clothing trends and product seasons come and go with increasing speed today.

Purchasing Skills

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

At the same time, Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are also feeling pressure. Acting as a single point of contact for supply chain management means they must establish near real-time visibility, connectivity and tracking. While market growth is exciting, it’s typically accompanied by growing pains.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 19, 2025

Agentic AI has become a catchphrase and discussion point for logistics teams in just about every industry today, as well as logistics service providers (LSPs). Success depends on the ability of logistics teams to adapt to real-time changes and make informed decisions at both the strategic and operational levels.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

MAY 12, 2025

Today, more than ever, grocery retailers need a network that goes beyond just visibility a network thats intelligent, collaborative and ready to adapt to disruption. This approach limits their ability to anticipate demand, respond to disruptions or optimize operations in real time. A simple point-to-point model isnt enough.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

MAY 9, 2025

Getting shoppers from just looking at products to hitting that “Buy” button is both art and science. Getting shoppers from just looking at products to hitting that “Buy” button is both art and science. But thats just one piece of the puzzle. Customers expect information in real time. No big deal!

Inventory Reduction

BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2025

Cognitive Solutions: speed and precision together The new Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions arent just designed to go fast, Wayne explains. Cognitive Solutions: speed and precision together The new Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions arent just designed to go fast, Wayne explains.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2025

Businesses are embracing resilient supply chain networks to mitigate the chaos they experienced over the past few years, from customer demand and supply variability coupled with lengthy information and physical lead times. The key is to create an end-to-end network which runs seamlessly from planning through execution on a real time basis.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2025

This Magic Quadrant also marks the twelfth consecutive time Blue Yonder has been named a Leader since the report started in 2010 2. This Magic Quadrant also marks the twelfth consecutive time Blue Yonder has been named a Leader since the report started in 2010 2. Blue Yonder is a long-time, strategic partner to Amway.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 17, 2025

Despite these enormous challenges, retailers and consumers still depend on CPG companies to get the right product to the right place, at the right time, at the right price. Most CPG companies struggle with siloed systems, scattered data and a lack of real-time connectivity. But end-to-end networks are rarely connected in real time.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 19, 2025

In attending presentations and having discussions with supply chain executives, we heard a clear call to action: Companies need to build supply chain resilience through geographic and partner diversity, while also creating real-time connectivity and collaboration across the network.An The event theme—“Disruption Ready. Future-Focused.

Gartner

BlueYonder

JANUARY 30, 2025

According to the Project Management Institute, between 70-80% of AI initiatives end in failure , highlighting just how difficult it can be to plug existing general AI and machine learning (ML) tools and tech into industry contexts. One of the biggest barriers is in technical architecture.

Modeling

BlueYonder

MARCH 13, 2025

Legacy IT systems, which were not designed for real-time data sharing, force production, procurement and logistics to run on separate, disconnected systems. We work better together when we dont just collaborate but also cooperate. What do canceled flights, a matcha shortage and a breakfast crisis reveal about our fragile supply chains?

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 20, 2025

But over the past few years, one force has reshaped not just the automotive supply chain, but all supply chains, unlike any other: Consumer demand. They want accurate, on-demand availability information at the time of purchase and real-time tracking throughout the delivery process. And they want free or low-cost shipping.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

LSPs are not just managing one supply chain; theyre managing day-to-day logistics operations for multiple customers. Clearly advanced technology, including AI and machine learning (ML) , represents the only way to ensure a smart, profitable, real-time response to changing conditions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 12, 2025

What it means for shopper behavior In times of uncertainty, rising prices and falling consumer confidence, we should expect a lot to change when consumers go shopping. Economic turbulence, years of unusually high inflation and even political events are causing significant shifts in consumer behavior.

Price Reduction

BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2025

Announced live at ICON 2025, this release isnt just an upgrade. But theyre facing headwinds: Volatility From tariffs and shortages to shifting customer expectations, leaders need real-time, scenario-based planning that can keep up with constant change. Its a transformation. Ready to dive deeper?

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

JANUARY 10, 2025

From unleashing data and AI to deliver hyper-personalized shopping experiences, to AI-driven image recognition systems for planogram compliance and inventory management, to AI agent powered warehouse automation, no aspect of the supply chain and customer journey remains untouched by AIs transformative potential.

Inventory Management Software

BlueYonder

MAY 19, 2025

There are just 4 million EVs in all of America but Chinese car buyers are purchasing a million EVs every month. The global auto industry is in a markedly different position than just a year ago. import tariffs on finished vehicles and automotive parts are getting a lot of attention, and with good reason. would be electric by 2035.

Modeling

BlueYonder

MAY 15, 2025

Meanwhile, grocers are under increasing pressure to manage tighter inventory turnover, minimize waste, handle time-sensitive products and respond instantly to recalls all while meeting growing regulatory demands. But compliance is just the starting point. Blue Yonder changes that.

Waste Reduction

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Then, when it’s time for customers to actually make a return, they need a convenient returns journey, accessible from your site and retaining your branding throughout. In our last marketplaces post , we covered why many retailers are establishing marketplaces for third-party sellers to offer their products through.

Retail

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

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. For various reasons, many drivers show up unexpectedly and at the same time. Bottom line: yards are hard. But these are not intractable problems.

Expense Reduction

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 8, 2023

There are patterns to speak of but, increasingly, they’re tricky to spot as they pop up and fade, almost in real-time, across a complex array of purchase preferences and channel combinations. Despite all the complexity in predicting the season, there are clear clues for how to tactically leverage inventory placement.

Retail

BlueYonder

JULY 26, 2022

How can retailers connect the two, so that inventory is optimally located for that final leg of the journey? How can retailers connect the two, so that inventory is optimally located for that final leg of the journey? But these tools and methodologies can only hit their mark if inventory is already close to where demand truly is.

Modeling

BlueYonder

JUNE 14, 2021

IHL’s latest report on the future of grocery shows some hard lessons learned from the 2020 disruptions, especially when it comes to inventory accuracy. They just grab the Robust Italian salad dressing instead. Just think about how much revenue potential grocers missed last year. Can’t find the Zesty Italian salad dressing?

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

All of this has raised the complexity, as well as working through time zones. It is at the same time creating more supply chain issues. In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. Now it is all global.

Manufacturing Procurement

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If there was ever a time when uncertainty ruled the world, it is now. I will just name three reasons. For the longest time, people thought it was just the front end of e-commerce that was important. With ICON London a few short weeks away, we thought we would recap his conversation.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

AUGUST 20, 2024

A staggering 76% of customers would stop doing business with a company after just one bad customer experience. No matter the time of year, customers expect the same service they’ve been accustomed to — orders to be fulfilled on time and in full and returns to be free. These expectations don’t change at peak season.

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In every role inventory availability and protecting the company’s assets was always critical. In every role inventory availability and protecting the company’s assets was always critical. is a contributing factor, inaccurate inventory management process and systems remain a big driver of the out-of-stock problem globally.

Retail

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the past, meeting up with friends meant setting a specific time and place and hoping everyone showed up as planned. In today’s world, we continuously update one another with real-time data: live locations, text updates, and routes shared via mapping apps.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The IDC MarketScape looked at whether the applications could support profitable decision-making, enhance both the pre- and post-purchase customer experience, position inventory accurately, and optimize the in-store experience. The IDC MarketScape report on Order Orchestration and Fulfillment evaluates 14 software vendors in this area.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inventory Processing and Order Management Efficiency Has Become a “Make” or “Break” Issue One of the main challenges WD&M faces is transforming away from legacy approaches to inventory processing and order orchestration, as well as moving toward solutions primed to handle omni-channel. Margins are under unprecedented pressure.

Manufacturing Procurement