BlueYonder

DECEMBER 7, 2023

How to transform your supply chain (without waiting for your ERP to recover) Wholesale distribution and manufacturing (WD&M) has entered a new era where agility, speed and accuracy are no longer nice-to-haves, but rather uncompromising must-haves for meeting the new omni-channel B2B customer expectation. The result?

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2024

As cars become more connected, autonomous, electric and configured to order, automotive manufacturers are increasingly becoming software companies. Software companies operate much differently than traditional manufacturers. This represents a significant change from their historic approach.

Automotive

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Blue Yonder was named a Leader in this inaugural report and the leader in the Better Functionality quadrant based on an evaluation of our Blue Yonder Warehouse Management solution. Blue Yonder’s WMS , a SaaS solution, empowers businesses to deliver consistently high service at a value-driven cost.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2020

The mounting concern is that excess manufacturing is leading to increased inventory warehousing costs and is compounding the already-difficult financial situation. However, retailers that adopted forecasting solutions powered by AI and ML were in a better position to identify these trends at an early stage and respond to them quicker.

Price Reduction

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Meeting these requirements isn’t possible without rich data, and data isn’t useful without a robust data infrastructure, as well as the tools to use it. AI-enabled engines can be tuned to source products from only ethical, sustainable sources, as well as make decisions that minimize waste, emissions, and other impacts.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

JANUARY 27, 2015

It used to be that retailers and manufacturers could periodically forecast demand, plan what to sell, and execute to that plan. Now, we must go beyond predicting demand of individual stock keeping units to continuously anticipating needs of individual customers in real-time and understanding their attitudes and paths to purchase.

Manufacturing Procurement

BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions.

Automotive

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. The COVID-19 pandemic has only confirmed what we already knew: modern supply chains must be built on a foundation of extreme agility and responsiveness.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For decades, from hardware to electronics, textiles, food, household goods, and general merchandise; retailers have been offering lower prices on goods sourced overseas. China’s cost base, infrastructure and manufacturing expertise provides a wealth of opportunities to improve profit margins for US companies. What can retailers do?

Purchasing Skills

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Focus on warehouse automation has come full circle since the last big automation movement of the ‘90s, but today with a significantly better set of tools and technological improvements enabling more robust digital transformation and warehouse automation. Investments in Transportation solutions is imperative.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It can be a costly exercise but is worth the outlay considering these channels will be the persuader of upfront investments and ultimate purchases. Beyond the purpose and people to enact strategy, there are certain tools required to manage a B2C channel as well. Step 5: Measuring Success. They’ll tell you with their clicks.

Sourcing Strategies

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Predicting the paths to purchase she is likely to take. Combine this with other clues such as time of the year and other accompanying searches or purchases and you can be practically sure if this is the case. None of this will be possible without processes and tools that are designed to learn continuously with every interaction.

Manufacturing Procurement

BlueYonder

JULY 31, 2023

In an increasingly challenging commerce space where order management capabilities form the backbone of a retailer’s fulfillment infrastructure, retailers, distributors, 3PL’s, and manufacturers are challenged by monolithic, legacy technology that no longer fits their needs. Where to start?

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

APRIL 15, 2015

Avnet and JDA Software decided rather than complain about the shortage, they’d do something about it. “We For the past five years Avnet has offered a competition encompassing supply chain issues and strategies, sponsored each year by JDA Software, called the JDA Supply Chain Challenge.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 7, 2020

Restrictions on leaving the house, widespread closings or limitations of local and big-box storefronts, and exhausted e-commerce channels struggling to fulfill rapidly increasing demand levels have impacted retailers, manufacturers, and consumers alike. To better understand the consumer perspective, Blue Yonder surveyed over 1,000 U.S.

Survey

BlueYonder

MARCH 27, 2023

A D2C model offers the most straightforward avenue for CPG brands to generate the extent of data required to create stronger brand loyalty and to drive increased sales for CPG brands/manufacturers entering the world of retail. Doubling Data For CPG brands, D2C means cutting out the middleman between them and customers.

Optimal Sourcing

BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2023

The solution leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to deliver customer-centric experiences for inventory availability, order optimization, order orchestration, and fulfillment. Why Blue Yonder.

Gartner

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In Part I of this series , I discussed why retailers, manufacturers and distributors are struggling to adjust to the new demands of the omni-channel consumer. We can train our phones to recognize our voices and our photo management software to recognize faces within our images. Learning will improve with the abundance of data.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Several robot analysts cite Amazon’s $775 million purchase of robot maker Kiva Systems in 2012 as a turning point for retailers and other companies, not just automakers or industrial manufactures, in adopting robots. For years now, consumers have been purchasing more products online. percent) and Target (TGT, +0.14

Forecasting Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Bridging the Divide Between the Retail and Manufacturing World. A fascinating evolution occurred over the last few years in how more and more advanced types of supply chain collaboration blurred the lines between retail and manufacturing supply chains. Gap 1: Current store level systems support planning consumer purchases.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

She’s an enterprise solution architect and a U.S. Self portrait of Donna – solution architect and U.S. DW: I have been with JDA Software for five and a half years, and I am an enterprise solution architect. veteran, having served eight years in the U.S. SCN: Tell me a little about yourself. DW: I served in the U.S.

Military

BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solution Marketing team explores innovative solutions to guard against supply chain disruptions. We have seen Texas freeze, which impacted all industries from petrochemicals to semiconductors to car manufacturing. Transportation and Logistics Disruptions. We have seen massive hurricanes.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Recent research published by SCM World on behalf of JDA Software Group, Inc. ( Companies are building products that monitor consumption post-purchase, and have already started bundling that digital consumption data with reordering services to ensure automatic replenishment. digital supply chain (66 percent).

Supply Chain Software

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It’s never been easier to customize the shopping experience — from product personalization to a myriad of purchasing and delivery options — to meet your specific needs. Manufacturers are also taking notice; Bear Naked Granola and NIKEiD are just two examples of manufacturers going direct to consumers via e-commerce.

Manufacturing Procurement

BlueYonder

AUGUST 6, 2015

If the retail supply chain is truly optimized, when you go to your local sporting goods store, those sneakers should be there — because you’ve purchased them before. You’ve established localized demand for the sneakers you wear, size 10, white, from a specific manufacturer. Isn’t it frustrating when the sneakers aren’t there?

Demand Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 9, 2017

In just four years, survey respondents indicated that they have increased how they are using this type of data within their businesses: Source of real-time customer feedback (73 percent in 2016, vs. 56 percent in 2012). Additional recommended resources: How to prepare for future changes in manufacturing planning.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 2023

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. This Part 2 blog post will explore the next remedies and innovative solutions that will help accelerate digital transformations and attainment of benefits.

Automotive

BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2017

These shifts have changed the way that we live in a measurable way through its impact on the shopping mission, and the industry is responding in the products they stock, the means in which they source and the store formats and layouts that serve their customers. Proximity Based Shopping. How JDA Can Help.

Waste Reduction

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As the world continues to address the evolving challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, here at Blue Yonder, we’re closely monitoring the changing commerce environment to predict what lies ahead not only for consumers, but the retailers and manufacturers working to keep up with their increasing demands and shifting preferences.

Survey

BlueYonder

JULY 25, 2017

The shifts in manufacturing and retail business models, enhanced delivery models, such as last mile and click and collect, along with the innovative advances in technologies, have created significant opportunities for 3PL companies. Investing in an enterprise workforce management solution will deliver around 5 percent productivity increase.

Third Party Logistics

BlueYonder

AUGUST 26, 2016

But increasing numbers of millennials are now involved in purchasing decisions and in fact more than a third are empowered to make their own. And that creates an equal opportunity environment for every segment of the supply chain; manufacturers are now selling direct to end consumers, retailers are beginning to run their own manufacturing.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Supply chains are getting more and more complex, thanks to soaring customer expectations for service and responsiveness and endless purchasing options. However, as enterprise resource planning systems have matured, it’s now possible to securely share more business-relevant information among supply chain partners, from manufacturing to retail.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

BlueYonder

AUGUST 26, 2016

But increasing numbers of millennials are now involved in purchasing decisions and in fact more than a third are empowered to make their own. And that creates an equal opportunity environment for every segment of the supply chain; manufacturers are now selling direct to end consumers, retailers are beginning to run their own manufacturing.

Supply Chain Planning Software

BlueYonder

MARCH 14, 2017

Even assortments driven by a group or cluster of information (such as demographic or purchasing similarities) still lacked the level of personalization needed to identify local preferences and engage important strategic customer groups. Greater supply chain visibility is another key to your assortment planning process.

Meeting

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For decades, from hardware to electronics, textiles, food, household goods, and general merchandise; retailers have been offering lower prices on goods sourced overseas. China’s cost base, infrastructure and manufacturing expertise provides a wealth of opportunities to improve profit margins for US companies. What can retailers do?

Purchasing Skills

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

She’s an enterprise solution architect and a U.S. Self portrait of Donna – solution architect and U.S. DW: I have been with JDA Software for five and a half years, and I am an enterprise solution architect. veteran, having served eight years in the U.S. SCN: Tell me a little about yourself. DW: I served in the U.S.

Military

BlueYonder

MARCH 16, 2018

The news came as the latest jobs reports showed robust growth across construction and manufacturing, adding to transportation demand. According to news reports, the chain has made a deal to acquire two leading retail technology companies – BevyUp, a digital selling tool, and MessageYes, a conversational commerce platform.

Demand Planning Software