BlueYonder

MARCH 7, 2025

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.

Manufacturing Procurement 88

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Sourcing Strategies Material Savings 88

BlueYonder

JUNE 23, 2025

If you are not leading with value-added services and offering new ways of working across decisions that improve your bottom line, your company is behind. Collaboration breaks down silos and improves visibility gaps. How do you improve your business for your people and the experience of end consumers in the age of AI?

Logistics Network Optimization Software 98

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 16, 2024

While these systems do compile and present copious amounts of data from various data sources and partners, users are unable to act on what they see. By utilizing prescriptive and predictive analytics they can solve complex issues and optimize entire supply networks.

Supply Chain Planning Software 63

Supply Chain Planning Software Prescriptive Analytics Software Supply Chain Software Modeling 63

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Our Blue Yonder Warehouse Management is designed to optimize warehouse operations through advanced features such as warehouse execution, yard management, and AI-driven insights, especially as automation, sustainability, and labor trends accelerate. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

New scope of managed services brings new challenges for LSPs The scope of managed service is expanding from transportation to other supply chain services including inventory management, demand forecasting, supplier management, raw material sourcing, robotics, and supply chain and transportation modeling.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 127

Logistics Network Optimization Software Modeling Optimal Sourcing Logistics 127

BlueYonder

APRIL 23, 2025

We enable businesses to optimize their operations with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. Advanced analytics and proprietary machine learning algorithms enable businesses to generate accurate forecasts and optimize their supply chain operations, allowing them to anticipate customer trends with greater confidence.

Supply Chain Planning Software 74

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BlueYonder

APRIL 14, 2025

A significant point of concern is the dependency on single-sourced components, which poses considerable risks. This reliance necessitates a reevaluation of sourcing strategies and the development of contingency plans to ensure continuity of supply.

Supply Chain Planning Software 86

Supply Chain Planning Software Sourcing Strategies Optimal Sourcing Inventory Reduction 86

BlueYonder

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Digital solutions are equally valuable in optimizing service, costs, sustainability and other outcomes during this slightly less wonderful time of the year. Achieving profitable, dynamic inventory optimization Huge holiday order volumes are fantastic. Advanced supply chain software can help optimize the returns process.

Optimal Sourcing 52

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BlueYonder

APRIL 3, 2025

While point solutions promise to address specific pain points, they often perpetuate silos that hinder cohesive, effective planning and optimization. The growing complexity of modern retail Mounting pressures on category managers The pressure to optimize category strategies has never been more intense.

Supply Chain Planning Software 68

Supply Chain Planning Software Inventory Reduction Optimal Sourcing Optimization Software 68

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. These shared metrics translate into optimized inventory management and improved responsiveness to market demands, moving beyond mere collaboration into true cooperative action.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

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BlueYonder

MAY 1, 2025

While the past focus was primarily on minimizing supply chain costs in a global free-trade environment, todays supply chain leaders must prioritize flexibility, build in additional redundancies, and create strategic sourcing options for rare materials, components, and technologies.

Just-in-Time 52

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2025

Our WMS solutions have transformed supply chain operations, significantly reducing order processing times and optimizing warehouse resource utilization. Our solutions streamline logistics processes, resulting in improved productivity and reduced operational costs game-changers for distribution networks.

Gartner 52

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BlueYonder

JUNE 17, 2025

The truth is that most disruptions can’t be solved optimally by a linear CPG supply chain that lacks network-wide connectivity and collaboration. If there’s a supply shortfall, new sources of supply must be found. All affected partners explore solutions, from alternative transportation modes to new sources of inventory.

Supply Chain Network Software 52

Supply Chain Network Software Network Optimization Optimal Sourcing Real-time Visibility 52

BlueYonder

JANUARY 17, 2025

Based on an increasingly omni-channel world, these systems are challenged to handle the combination of downstream demand variability, upstream supplier variability, and the risk that comes with leveraging global sourcing and supply chain strategies.

Network Optimization 52

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Participants changed variables, such as demand, supply, lead times, sources and service levels. The underlying data was critical to getting the model to work and information from outside the four walls improved the output.

Supply Chain Planning Software 68

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BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2025

Our latest release1H 2025 is ready to meet that momentwith an AI-infused platform designed to help businesses respond instantly to disruption, optimize costs, and make better decisions with certainty. AI-driven insights & actions Increase resiliency, improve resource utilization and reduce execution costs. Its a transformation.

Optimal Sourcing 77

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BlueYonder

APRIL 1, 2025

Integrating One Network with Blue Yonders transportation management solutions enhance real-time visibility, collaboration, and optimization, leading to reduced costs and improved service levels. 2 Blue Yonder was previously listed as JDA; the company rebranded to Blue Yonder in February 2020.

Supply Chain Design Software 58

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The only way to manage these changes profitably is to become aware of them at the earliest opportunity, by using software to ingest and analyze real-time data from across the supply chain as well as external sources like social media, news and weather.

Supply Chain Planning Software 91

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BlueYonder

MAY 6, 2025

The Blue Yonder network includes over 1,600 TMS carriers and extends across multiple enterprises and tiers in a supply chain, creating a single source of truth across planning and execution and across multiple parties and tiers. With full visibility, the Cognitive Solutions then ANALYZE.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 81

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Modeling Sourcing Strategies Supply Chain Planning Software 81

BlueYonder

JUNE 18, 2025

Learning recommendation engines generate possible responses or feed back into source systems. In it they noted that while companies continue to improve their understanding of direct suppliers, visibility into deeper levels of the supply chain fell 7% from the prior year, the second such annual decline.

Real-time Visibility 58

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BlueYonder

MAY 29, 2025

Most car and truck manufacturers in partnership with their battery suppliers use a make-to-stock, supply-driven approach for producing and sourcing EV batteries, based on the availability of scarce materials like lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt. Every day, the headlines are filled with news on EV battery innovations.

Modeling 52

Modeling Demand Planning Software Supply and Demand Manufacturing Procurement 52

BlueYonder

MAY 15, 2025

Shoppers expect fresh, high-quality products and full transparency into how those products are sourced, handled and delivered. From food safety to ethical sourcing and environmental responsibility, these mandates signal a shift toward tighter supply chain oversight and real-time data transparency.

Waste Reduction 40

Waste Reduction Optimal Sourcing Inventory Reduction Real-time Visibility 40

BlueYonder

MARCH 10, 2025

More important, well discuss the solutions and strategies that can help automakers navigate this turbulent terrain and deliver a more resilient, optimized supply chain solution that leaves competitors in the dust. In this blog post, we’ll explore today’s biggest challenges facing the automotive industry.

Modeling 84

Modeling Optimal Sourcing Material Savings Supply Chain Planning Software 84

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For example, with 40% of manufacturers planning to increase their domestic sourcing , LSPs will see shifts in transportation and warehousing that might create excess capacity in some regions, while stretching capacity in others. Rates and costs may skyrocket as supplier networks shift.

Supply Chain Planning Software 79

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Modeling Software 79

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

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.

Expense Reduction 312

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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.

Optimal Sourcing 114

Optimal Sourcing Modeling Optimization Software Supply Chain Optimization 114

BlueYonder

AUGUST 29, 2023

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.

Optimal Sourcing 98

Optimal Sourcing Optimization Software Supply Chain Optimization Price Mitigation Strategies 98

BlueYonder

APRIL 24, 2023

One of those urgent challenges is optimal data management — and few people are more qualified to discuss this topic than Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of Snowflake , along with Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder, the leader in end-to-end supply chain management who will share the keynote stage at the event on May 3.

Optimal Sourcing 97

Optimal Sourcing Modeling Optimization Software Supply Chain Optimization 97

Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2023

What is the role of planning in driving/improving supply chain results? Instead of using the data for the technology company to ask how to use the insights to improve their solutions, the writing is propelled into a sales teams’ pitch deck to bash another solution. I find LinkedIn to be a great source to get data.

S&OP 341

S&OP Supply and Demand Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software 341

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Following on the heels of COVID-19, port closures, labor shortages and geopolitical conflict, climate change-related events are emerging as a significant source of supply chain disruption. But how can companies optimize their resilience to climate change and related disruptions in the short term? Awareness Is Power.

Optimal Sourcing 98

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Sourcing Modeling 98

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. Utilizing Real-Time Data to Optimize Warehouse Efficiency.

Optimal Sourcing 71

Optimal Sourcing Sourcing Strategies Real-time Visibility Optimization Software 71

BlueYonder

AUGUST 20, 2024

Knowing exactly what inventory is available, and where, is essential to optimize fulfillment, reducing stockouts and meeting customer expectations about what stock is available to purchase from where. Orchestrate, Optimize and Scale During All Seasons Peak season doesn’t have to be a dreaded period of uncertainty.

Sourcing Strategies 113

Sourcing Strategies Inventory Reduction Price Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies 113

BlueYonder

AUGUST 6, 2024

In Part 1 of our series on challenges in supply chain for medical devices, we delved into these complexities and discussed solutions that can help drive these businesses to the next level, meeting company goals and serving the patients whose lives medical device manufacturers seek to improve.

Optimal Sourcing 118

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Supply Chain Optimization 118

BlueYonder

MARCH 26, 2021

Successfully delivering unified customer experiences in retail depends on agile and robust supply chain solutions that help meet consumer expectations and demands while ensuring order optimization. Traditional solutions only look at a few factors when optimizing orders, and many only do so after an order is placed.

Optimal Sourcing 52

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Optimization Purchasing Skills Price Mitigation Strategies 52

BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

The success of Carlsberg’s overall sustainability strategy will largely be driven by optimizing this transportation process. To trigger such widespread improvements without harming other areas of the company, manual intervention is no longer an option. Dealing with each area — planning, manufacturing, distribution, fulfilment, etc. —

Optimal Sourcing 121

Optimal Sourcing Sustainability Material Savings Waste Reduction 121

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Demand Forecasting and Proactive Replenishment AI analyzes historical sales data, market trends, weather, and promotions to accurately predict demand, helping you optimize inventory levels, reduce carrying costs, and improve cash flow. This improves on-time delivery rates and cost-to-serve.

Manufacturing Procurement 104

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Real-time Visibility Demand Planning Software 104

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. Since every retail organization is different, the IDC MarketScape also looked at the flexibility of the software.

Optimal Sourcing 122

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