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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Case-in-point: my company FourKites will collaborate with 16 other supply chain industry leaders — including BlueYonder, e2open, Oracle, Uber Freight, and JB Hunt, to name a few — as part of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC). There’s also a bigger-picture environmental benefit to yard optimization.

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Driving Responsiveness and Profitability via Flexible Production Planning: Three Customer Case Studies 

BlueYonder

The Blue Yonder Platform — which spans production planning, scheduling, sequencing and slotting — has been proven to drive enormous benefits, including improved profitability, increased asset utilization and a more accurate demand-supply match. But what practical benefits does advanced production planning software deliver?

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Blue Yonder’s Key Takeaways  from the 2024 Gartner® Supply Chain Planning Summit

BlueYonder

Across its nearly 200 markets, HEINEKEN needs to use a common data source and planning platform, apply the same standardized processes, ensure the same analytic rigor and achieve consistent financial results. They explored how AI can improve forecasting and decision-making, reducing inventory and lead times.

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Redefining Supply Chain Excellence in the AI and Digital Network Era

BlueYonder

Today’s digital networks enable continuous real-time optimization where demand signals update instantly across all nodes, inventory positions adjust dynamically, and transportation and warehouse plans reconfigure automatically in response to changing conditions. Warehouse operations are being similarly revolutionized.

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Transportation Optimization: The Key to Weathering Droughts, Disasters and Other Disruptions

BlueYonder

Drought conditions at the Panama Canal are not a good match for its high water demands; it takes at least 50 million gallons of water , with some sources citing much more, to move a single ship through the 51-mile waterway. That’s the beauty of transportation optimization in today’s age of sophisticated AI and ML.

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Tariff Implications for Industrial Manufacturers

BlueYonder

To mitigate this impact, manufacturers may need to source materials domestically and develop new suppliers often leading to higher costs with added logistical complexities. Stay ahead of the curve by exploring how Blue Yonder can optimize your supply chain in the face of tariffs and other challenges. Contact us today to learn more.

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Understanding the True Value of OMS: Seven Signs of Optimization

BlueYonder

Effective order management in the present day requires end-to-end connectivity of intuitive, automated solutions that can optimize customer data and ensure a supply chain that is agile to those same customers’ demands. Moreover, an effective OMS can help retailers improve order orchestration, further reducing instances of overselling.