BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

They need new trucks, new warehousing space, new micro-fulfillment facilities — but high interest rates and rising real estate prices make them reluctant to invest. At the same time, Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are also feeling pressure. While market growth is exciting, it’s typically accompanied by growing pains.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2025

They’re managed with several point solutions serving supply chain functions, such as warehouse, transportation and order management. Delayed and often outdated information hampers decision-making, slows response times, increases safety stock and raises hidden costs. The result?

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Unfortunately, theres no more time to wait. Make precise decisions to ensure customer loyalty Of course, risks do not disappear once a product leaves the warehouse. Automotive customers, for example, want the ability to customize their cars without waiting for extended periods of time.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Just when you think everything is in order, a new challenge, disruption, or innovation arises, keeping you on your toes. Generative AI needs to have transparency Andrew Hanna from Mars Petcare spoke about the journey of Robotics in warehousing and how generative AI plays a significant role.

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

Our platform encompasses Transportation, Warehouse and Order Management, supports an n-tier network for visibility and collaboration with customers, suppliers and carriers alike and provides next generation planning capabilities from detailed Scheduling to strategic processes like IBP and network design.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We hear talk about them all the time. Just as social networks have existed for centuries (long before social media platforms!), Most organizations ignore the fact that their ecosystem partners are forced by them and many others to access a whole range of disparate systems on a regular basis just to keep up with business.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The production optimization journey involves accurate forecasting, supply planning, production planning, order prioritization, and even looking at the availability of warehouse space and trucks to accommodate materials deliveries and finished products. Why is intelligent production planning so essential? In fact, 43.6% In fact, 43.6%

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Warehouse workers across the U.S But the final decision should include the perspective and expertise of the people who work in those warehouses. Just thinking about cleaning and managing the volume of data required to get valuable insights from AI makes executives and employees alike nervous. Your employees will be no different.

Supply Chain Software

BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2025

While just 10% of in-store purchases are returned, the return rate rises to 26.4% When the item is received at a warehouse or store, for example, an automated digital process is needed to help quickly assess the return and get it on its way to the next destination. of retailers total 2024 sales. This is up from 14.5% for online sales.

Purchasing Skills

BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Getting shipments from the production facility or warehouse to the retail store or the consumers doorstep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. And lets not forget demand volatility, which makes the right product/ right place/right time a moving target. There is good news, though.

Supply Chain Planning Software

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 17, 2025

The enterprise can work closely and in real-time with all parties in its ecosystem. A supply chain goes deeper than just buyers and sellers within a transaction. In recent years, companies have outgrown the traditional capabilities provided by hub and spoke, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

Network Optimization

BlueYonder

MARCH 27, 2025

Concerns that may have seemed specific to the warehouse extend to transportation and logistics. Here’s what we noticed during our time at ProMat 2025: All eyes on AI No matter where you looked throughout the McCormick Center, automation and AI were everywhere. Only real-time data will suffice from now on. And vice versa.

Trends

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

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

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

BlueYonder

APRIL 28, 2025

The timing for the event couldnt have been better, as the North American automotive industry has faced incredible volatility in the past three months including on-again off-again tariffs, changing policies and targets for electric vehicle (EV) adoption, and whiplashing consumer demand for new cars and trucks.

Supply Chain Network Software

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

Expense Reduction

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The changing warehouse technology landscape is driving higher adoption of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and other new automation. How can companies unlock opportunities for greater efficiency, performance and cost reductions across the warehouse? What are the current warehouse automation trends that you are seeing?

Warehousing

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s probably not what anyone would have suspected just a few years ago. Stock outs, missed orders, long lead-times, and uncertainty have made the supply chain a hot topic, especially with the holiday season upon us, and the need to make improvements have become a C-level priority. Automation in the warehouse is nothing new.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While every part of the supply chain is important, let’s take a moment to consider the tough challenges facing warehouses today. Warehouses sit at the heart of the supply chain, fulfilling customer promises and playing a critical role in driving satisfaction and repeat sales. Warehouses also represent a huge, and growing, cost center.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 2, 2021

The future of warehousing and the supply chain execution industry has faced greater scrutiny than ever before in light of the global pandemic, rising consumer requirements and an increasingly strained labor market. It is more than just a retail problem. Even traditional warehouse spaces are where technology is coming to bear right now.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

MARCH 12, 2020

As it turned out, during the same week, I found myself amongst robots yet again; this time the kinds that make warehouses more productive. But already numerous warehouse operators are eager to pilot robots, with some big retailers well into serious deployments. lock a warehouse to doing one thing, and no one wants that anymore.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By 2025, 70% of organizations will have implemented structured automation to significantly enhance flexibility and efficiency , up from just 20% in 2021. Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) find automation not just beneficial but critical — transforming it from a tactical enhancement to a strategic necessity.

Supply Chain Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2024

It’s easy to think about fulfillment as comprising the final steps in the supply chain, but the truth is that the conditions faced in warehouses and delivery vehicles are determined much earlier in the supply chain than in the last mile, so to speak. Just like remote work, faster fulfillment times are here to stay.

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In part 1 of this blog series , we took a look at how innovation is changing the supply chain and the evolution of different warehouse types and processes. Integrating planning supply chain software, coupled with execution solutions, such as warehouse management systems (WMS), can help optimize supply chains. Integrated Solutions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 20, 2022

Bringg focuses on orchestrating last-mile delivery for its customers, such as Day & Ross, Leroy Merlin, Autozone, Boulanger, COOP, KFC and, just recently, Asda ( in partnership with Blue Yonder ). These and other logistics challenges leave products stranded thousands of miles from their final destinations. The Same-Day Delivery Challenge.

Retail

BlueYonder

JULY 22, 2021

Manufacturing and warehouse shift work has been standard procedure since the dawn of the industrial revolution. In this time, we’ve seen the introduction of pallets, forklifts, barcodes, inventory management systems, the Toyota Production System, cross-docking, and omni-channel retailing, just to name a few.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This forward-looking framework isn’t just about adapting; it’s about leading, reshaping and creating the future for the logistics industry. End-to-End Champions : The holistic management of logistics operations, from predictive analytics to smart warehousing, defines LSPs as End-to-End Champions.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 30, 2018

In part 1 of the blog series, “ Why Workforce Productivity for Third Party Logistics and Wholesale Distribution Can’t Just be an Operational Issue Any Longer ,” we focused on organizational steps to be taken to improve workforce optimization. Why Organizing Warehouse Work is Important.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

My previous blog post focused on defining what a Warehouse Execution System (WES) is, as well as the benefits this solution delivers for retailers, manufacturers and logistics services providers (LSPs). Joe recently joined me for a LinkedIn Live event called “Warehouse Execution System: A New Competitive Imperative.”

Logistics Network Optimization Software

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Over and over, we hear from our customers that their transportation management (TMS) , warehouse management (WMS) and warehouse execution solutions from Blue Yonder are making a critical difference in increasing sustainability. Increasingly, companies see advanced technology as a means to measure and improve sustainability.

Las Vegas

BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2015

Outside of the times that I am being ignored when the games are on, our dinner conversations have involved the following topics of conversation: “Hey mom, did you see Hunter fall off his chair when Georgia State won with a buzzer beater?” It is everywhere… just like basketball is right now. Mobility. We can’t escape it.

Warehousing

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Those are just the bigger names. Logistics service providers (LSPs) face unprecedented challenges in today’s fast-paced market. From industry consolidation to shifting trade routes, workforce shortages to sustainability demands, LSPs must adapt quickly. DSV acquired two major transport and logistics companies in 2023.

Logistics Network Optimization Software