Blue Yonder Transforms and Reimagines Supply Chain Planning With Latest Product Release

Blue Yonder, the world leader in digital supply chain transformation, announced product updates to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform and cognitive planning and execution solutions that enable organizations of any size to be more agile, accelerate their global expansion, and meet their business goals.

“For Blue Yonder, this is more than a product update; this release represents the culmination of two years of effort and the integration of 8,000 workstreams spanning supply, demand and business planning, synchronized execution, and AI-centric data modeling”

“For Blue Yonder, this is more than a product update; this release represents the culmination of two years of effort and the integration of 8,000 workstreams spanning supply, demand and business planning, synchronized execution, and AI-centric data modeling,” said Duncan Angove, CEO, Blue Yonder. “This release enables customers to build out and support new market opportunities or adjust their entire supply chain model as priorities shift, in a fraction of the time while maximizing profits. It also allows our customers to grow their business while navigating geopolitical tensions, disruptions, economic shifts, or anything else that may come their way.”

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With this release, Blue Yonder advancements are focused on the following key areas:

Bring Together Comprehensive Planning That Encompasses Business, Demand and Supply To Accelerate Profitability and Productivity

Supply chains are a critical component to successful and profitable business operations. With this release, Blue Yonder eliminates traditional operational silos and redefines the strategic planning process to empower collaborative, real-time decision-making that leverages inputs from demand, supply, finance and operations for more accurate, actionable plans that ensure profitability.

• Integrated Demand and Supply Planning With Enhanced AI and ML: Blue Yonder has transformed the demand and supply planning processes into a single integrated motion. Blue Yonder Integrated Demand & Supply Planning solution simultaneously analyzes changing demand patterns and supply availability to balance all aspects of planning for maximum efficiency, resiliency and service level attainment. Blue Yonder takes a unique approach to concurrent planning that harmonizes necessary supply, sourcing factors and capital resource availability to reduce costs, increase capital resource efficiency, and cut inventory waste. For demand planners, this release utilizes AI and ML to provide recommendations on leveraging available inventory to serve specific customer segments and regions – optimizing cost efficiency and on-time, in-full delivery.
• Enhanced Integrated Business Planning: With AI and machine learning (ML) updates to accelerate planning across supply chain and financial operations, as well as increased support for custom risk and opportunity scenarios, Integrated Business Planning provides near real-time recommendations that drive alignment across supply chain and financial goals.
• Support for Vertically Integrated Retailers: With retail, manufacturing and supply planning all connected and available on the Blue Yonder Platform, this release enables every aspect of the planning cycle to be handled in a single location for superior inventory and capital asset utilization while minimizing waste.

Planning and Inventory Management Designed for Omni-Channel Commerce

As customer behavior shifts, supply chains must evolve to ensure business goals are met, resources are used sustainably, and inventory can be delivered – or returned – efficiently. Blue Yonder delivers a single platform that supports a circular supply chain through:

• A Single View of Online and In-Store Inventory: As customer demand for in-store and online shopping continues to shift, planners can update assortment and strategic space to bridge the gap between the online and offline worlds to better meet demand and reduce inventory holds.
• Enhanced Returns Orchestration To Reduce Costs and Inventory Waste: New integrations between warehouse management, commerce, and Returns Management solutions combine order data with details on returning stock to improve inventory control.
• Integrated Pre- and In-Season Planning To Better Serve Demand: Advancements to Allocation & Replenishment allow teams to quickly calculate and adjust order quantities based on upstream and downstream constraints so companies can pivot based on how digital trends influence demand.

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AI and ML Architecture Enhancements To Support Faster, More Impactful Decision-Making

With AI and ML embedded in the Blue Yonder Platform and supply chain planning solutions, businesses can make faster decisions with:

• AI-Tuned Data Model for Ongoing Intelligence: Updates to the common data model enable embedded AI and ML to enrich and leverage data for more accurate and explainable insights, as well as faster recommendations and root cause analysis. This intelligence will be critical for linking to external, generative AI agents that can engage with Blue Yonder and third-party data.
• Custom ML To Support Business-Specific Needs: When an independent or Blue Yonder data model needs to be tuned, an ML Studio is now available to meet custom requirements. The ML Studio includes the ability to test different models to find the one that best supports specific needs.
• Expanded AI Integration To Optimize Planning: The release adds new AI capabilities to Inventory Optimization, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Integrated Business Planning, and Integrated Demand & Supply Planning. Combined, these capabilities enable planners to model thousands of scenarios in minutes, tuned for specific business goals – identifying the optimal approach to leverage available supply to meet changing global demand.

Warehouse and Logistics Enhancements To Dramatically Increase Operational Speed and Scale

Blue Yonder customers will be able to increase operational efficiency, cut costs and improve decision-making accuracy with these product updates:

• Optimize Freight Billing and Payment Accuracy: Updates to transportation management solutions and Fleet Dispatcher allow companies to analyze and reconcile multiple customers at once, including identifying billing issues from late shipments and damaged goods, so freight charges are accurate and there is no overpayment for shipments.
• Streamline and Scale Logistics Across Transportation and Warehouse Operations. Enhancements to transportation and warehousing solutions deliver exponential increases in scalability so organizations can handle increasingly complex transportation routes and millions of orchestrated warehouse and distribution center tasks with ease.
• Rapidly Respond to Logistics Disruptions. Updates to the notification services ensure that planning and logistics teams are alerted faster than ever so when a disruption occurs it can be quickly addressed before the business and customers are significantly impacted.
• Boost Warehouse Performance Through Enhanced Labor and Automation Integration. Advancements in Robotics Hub and Warehouse Tasking improve our leadership standing as one of the top robotics management companies for logistics service providers (LSPs), enabling companies to work around network and timing issues and pinpoint and resolve real issues impacting warehouse tasking faster so operations are more efficient.

Optimized User Experience With Up to 40% Faster Load Time

The release also includes a holistic update to the overall user experience, introducing the first wave of user experience (UX) / user interface (UI) enhancements including but not limited to:

• Increased workflow performance with up to 40% faster load time, allowing planners to move more quickly through the UI.
• New density mode allows planners to maximize screen real estate, empowering them to see everything at a glance to make smarter decisions and decrease decision fatigue.
• Improved accessibility with an overhauled theme engine, including light/dark modes and browser support for users with impairments.
• Dynamically generated content that provides insights for planners, driving better decision-making.
• Embedded user collaboration to streamline workflow efficiency with contextual information, bringing planners and their managers together.