BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Make it easy for them with an easy-to-understand policy that incorporates the rules for your third-party vendors too. These labels allow customers to return easily but give retailers no warning and little data about the return, with extra confusion added when the retailer is dealing with returns from multiple vendors.

Retail

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 3, 2020

The data used to drive statistical safety stock calculations should also be scrubbed to ensure that the wild swings in forecast accuracy, vendor reliability, and lead time variability don’t lead to unsustainable inventory levels in an attempt to meet customer service goals. Realign Inventory Strategies. Online orders?

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The acceleration of e-commerce in the past few years has put significant pressure on businesses to rethink their entire commerce strategy. Blue Yonder is excited to be named a notable vendor in this report. Order management plays a crucial role in the success of business’s commerce strategy. Blue Yonder Order Management.

Vendor Strategies

BlueYonder

JULY 17, 2023

The June Strategy Insights Report is your guide to the latest fulfillment trends. In response, retailers are utilizing search, social media, online marketplaces, and partnerships with drop-shipped vendors. What are retailers’ best practices around managing inventory across their store networks?

Trends

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. The result? So, what’s the solution?

Manufacturing Procurement

BlueYonder

MAY 7, 2024

Implementing Blue Yonder Warehouse Management solutions is a key component of that strategy. Combined, the solutions track performance metrics and adjust as needed, thus reducing waste while improving employee engagement and retention. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission.

Gartner

BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2017

The blog series will discuss shifting consumer behaviors, a variety of implications to the supply chain required to provide and scale service, while effectively managing inventory and value add processes, the ability to define and deliver an agile and scalable framework of capabilities that can aggressively respond to emerging trends and more.

Waste Reduction

BlueYonder

APRIL 1, 2013

Rod Galloway, Vice President, Logistics Strategy, Design, Engineering & Facility Support, Staples . JDA Roundtable: Global Logistics Roundtable: Strategy, Innovation and Technology. Discover how these strategies and practices can minimize cost, mitigate risk and increase network agility.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For the warehouse, supply chain improvements revolve around being productive, meeting customer service levels, effectively managing inventory, and running an optimal warehouse. With the variety of robots available to the warehouse, leveraging multiple vendors’ technology may be the optimal choice. Enabling the Warehouse of the Future.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

JUNE 20, 2022

End-to-end supply chain digitalization has proven essential in addressing these macro issues by finding alternate suppliers, locating or diverting inventory, identifying new routes, and taking other strategic actions. In addition to optimal inventory placement, this may require innovative new fulfillment strategies,” Peck explains.

Retail

ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Steve is an award-winning supply chain and operations expert with over 20 years of experience heading multi-billion dollar global strategy, operations, and supply chain transformations for some of the world’s largest, most complex organizations.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 5, 2023

This blog was co-written by Wayne Snyder, VP, Retail Industry Strategy, and Nina Seth, Product Marketing Director. Thriving requires a long-term strategy to drive operational efficiencies and digitally transform a business. Do you have inventory in the right locations to meet demand? It’s a tough world out there.

Retail

BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2013

Meet the panel: Robin Bornkamp, Vice President, Inventory & Demand Planning, Lowe’s. Matt Fischer, Vice President, Inventory Management, Michaels Stores. Fischer notes that the new focus on the customer has helped supply chain operations go from a cost factor to an enabler of business strategy.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 24, 2022

IDC recently published a set of IDC MarketScapes focused on Holistic Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), and Inventory Optimization*. Blue Yonder is recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Holistic Supply Chain Planning 2022 Vendor Assessment.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 28, 2024

Trust that the demand planners will have their promises fulfilled so that assortment planners will have their promises fulfilled so that inventory will have their promises fulfilled, and so on. A hydra is not slain by cutting off one head at a time; the problem needs to be addressed as a whole, not point by point.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Successful retailers in 2020 could accurately see inventory across their locations and quickly turn retail stores into dark stores to fulfill online orders. Let’s hone in on a few relevant trends that shed light on today’s customers and what retailers need to provide to be the vendor of choice.

Inventory Reduction

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With the two dominant deal days in our rearview mirrors and the world still largely at home due to the pandemic’s restrictions, the e-commerce onslaught will continue, causing retailers to adjust their fulfillment strategies to stay afloat. Fulfillment Operations Expand to Meet High Volume, Higher Expectations.

Inventory Reduction

BlueYonder

APRIL 5, 2017

Some companies feel that the person who forecasts the product should also be responsible for ordering it, and perhaps even managing the inventory for that product. This puts the full accountability for service levels and inventory on one person. Vendor/customer collaboration. Assortment planning analysis. Contact JDA today.

Supply and Demand

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s also hardly a revelation that retailers have responded by rethinking their strategies around inventory management and fulfillment options. Beyond the purpose and people to enact strategy, there are certain tools required to manage a B2C channel as well. Step 4: Developing a Toolbox.

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Meeting these needs puts companies in the Leaders category and that’s where you will find Blue Yonder in the recently launched IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Merchandise Operations Management Solutions 2020–2021 Vendor Assessment , (Doc# US47029020), December 2020.

Procurement Solutions

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Having accurate shipment ETAs can improve sustainability, reduce waste, and reduce expedited fees and fines from delays. The report “provides a snapshot of the market based on how vendors are delivering value to customers through the usability and functionality of their software.” Discover our Luminate Control Tower.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Puneet Saxena, Corporate Vice President of Manufacturing Industry Strategy at Blue Yonder, kicked off proceedings by welcoming attendees and setting the stage for the speakers and the panel discussion that were to follow. This year, the room was near capacity, and the number of companies represented was at a record level.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

MAY 16, 2023

We are bringing innovative capabilities to our customers’ digital efforts, including: Interoperability of Supply Chain Execution Capabilities : Our customers are challenged to predict orders, place inventory and labor in ideal locations, and fulfill orders at the speed of demand.

Gartner

BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. New rates and awards can be rapidly loaded into vendor systems for quick bidding and execution.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Inventory, transportation assets and store resources aren’t invested until plans are agreed on by all stakeholders. Microsoft just named Blue Yonder a winner of the Global Retail & Consumer Goods Partner of the Year Award and a finalist of the Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This includes activities such as reducing their carbon footprint. For the warehouse, this means looking for opportunities to eliminate waste, which often translates to efficiency improvements. With the large uptick in robotics vendors entering the market, choosing the right one becomes more critical. Innovations.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The role of a demand planner is smack dab in the middle of an awful lot: driving the key, centralized sales forecast that will be used to plan out multiple aspects of the business from merchandising to inventory management and promotional planning to transportation. However, the planner must be able to take action on that information.

Demand Planning Software

BlueYonder

MAY 5, 2022

The report includes a detailed analysis of the global OMS market, and provides insights into market dynamics, vendor landscape, and competitive positioning analysis. Blue Yonder’s success as a Technology Leader in this research is based on our vision, strategy, and ability to meet the needs of our customers.

Optimization Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As supply chains continue to weather unexpected disruptions such as inflation, demand and supply volatility, natural disasters, and geo-political conflicts, companies need the ability to quickly align upstream and downstream activities to prevent inventory shortages, outages and delayed orders. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2017

The blog series will discuss shifting consumer behaviors, a variety of implications to the supply chain required to provide and scale service, while effectively managing inventory and value add processes, the ability to define and deliver an agile and scalable framework of capabilities that can aggressively respond to emerging trends and more.

Waste Reduction

BlueYonder

JUNE 6, 2022

This is what one of our valued customers, who reduced their labor costs by 5% – 10% through more effective labor standards, monitoring and incentives, is saying about the value we provide: “We primarily use Blue Yonder’s labor management capabilities to operate in some of our more complex warehouse environments.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Having accurate shipment ETAs can improve sustainability, reduce waste, and reduce expedited fees and fines from delays. The report “provides a snapshot of the market based on how vendors are delivering value to customers through the usability and functionality of their software.” Discover our Luminate Control Tower.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

APRIL 25, 2017

Cons: Merchants that are incented purely on sales may be more likely to inflate forecasts that would drive more inventory than needed into the supply chain. This con can be largely mitigated, however, if the merchants are incented on inventory in addition to sales. SUPPLY CHAIN. about events, promotions and new items.

Supply and Demand

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In order to deal with future and continuous changing customers demands, having integrated supply chain solutions across planning, inventory management, transportation management and warehouse management will be a requirement. System deployment time and complexity has been greatly reduced, and reliability has improved.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Leveraging the capabilities from your Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS), while synchronizing pre-built adaptable workflows can help reduce costs, improve throughput and enhance the customer experience. Constraint Aware Planning. Iterative Optimization.

Modeling

BlueYonder

APRIL 5, 2017

Some companies feel that the person who forecasts the product should also be responsible for ordering it, and perhaps even managing the inventory for that product. This puts the full accountability for service levels and inventory on one person. Vendor/customer collaboration. Assortment planning analysis. Contact JDA today.

Supply and Demand