BlueYonder

AUGUST 3, 2021

Business decision makers, and especially CIOs, are facing an inconvenient truth — to enact a successful artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) project, there can only be one single source of truth when it comes to their data. Several computers, databases and data warehouses are not uncommon consequences of the big data surge.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Our commitment to innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction has gotten us recognized in Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and Supply Chain Planning (SCP) analyst evaluations. Sources: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions, Pia Orup Lund, Tim Payne, et al.,

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 28, 2023

Their short-term profitability and long-term competitive success depend on making the right decisions, almost immediately, about how to source and store products, manage and fulfill orders, and schedule assets like labor and transportation. They can anticipate these events and resolve them proactively, instead of reactively. The result?

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sunil: In the pandemic era, because of the sourcing, raw material, and labor problems, service levels were impacted. The third crucial priority for discrete manufacturers is regarding the distribution network which includes warehousing and transportation for supplying items to B2B customers. But now conditions have changed again.

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BlueYonder

JULY 30, 2024

In addition, Blue Yonder is also one of the few vendors named as a Leader in multiple Nucleus Research Value Matrix reports, including Warehouse Management System , Transportation Management System , and Workforce Management. In addition, Blue Yonder has shown positive momentum consistently over the last five years.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 30, 2018

Part 2 of this series will take a deeper dive into the importance of organizing warehouse work, as well as why utilizing real-time data to optimize warehouse efficiency is required. Why Organizing Warehouse Work is Important. Utilizing Real-Time Data to Optimize Warehouse Efficiency.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 6, 2024

Field inventory is difficult to manage due to the number of locations in which it sits outside of a controlled warehouse environment. Optimized inventory involves having enough of the right products to meet customer demand, while not having an oversupply, which can take up valuable warehouse space and cause write-offs.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Every day, 24/7/365 truck drivers are crossing not only the nation, but roads across the globe delivering goods to our homes, our local stores, hospitals, warehouses, plants, and beyond. owning and operating 10 or fewer trucks (source: American Trucking Associations (ATA) Economic Update).

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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. Brief highlights of logistics investments over the last three decades.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The fundamental aspects of flow paths, lead times, constraints, execution capacity – be it in the warehouse or in the logistics center – are all unknown. They are not just asking you what is happening in the warehouse and what is happening in the logistics network. What is a better way?

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“Talking with vendors and retail and brand customers reveals order orchestration and fulfillment as the beating heart of a retail enterprise, receiving and handing off the lifeblood — data — of the order life cycle, often integrated with a multitude of other systems, including ecommerce, inventory, warehousing, customer service, store operations, and (..)

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Unveiling the Largest Product Update: In December 2023, Blue Yonder will roll out its most extensive product update ever, marking a pivotal moment in the integration of planning, warehouse, transportation, and commerce solutions to foster seamless interoperability.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With at least three major discount events, the 2023 holiday season will surely put store and warehouse teams to daily tests of collaboration. Needless to say, even seasoned store and warehouse teams could be caught off guard. First, it’s Amazon Prime Day on Oct. 10 , then comes Black Friday on Nov.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 30, 2018

Part 2 of this series will take a deeper dive into the importance of organizing warehouse work, as well as why utilizing real-time data to optimize warehouse efficiency is required. Why Organizing Warehouse Work is Important. Utilizing Real-Time Data to Optimize Warehouse Efficiency.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 18, 2024

These businesses struggle to collect data that is scattered all across their supply chain and in third-party sources. He gives a couple of examples: “Say illness leaves you short-staffed at a particular warehouse. So why don’t more retailers take these steps? The sheer volume of data overwhelms many companies.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 25, 2024

Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management (TMS) is a part of a broader planning, execution, and commerce end-to-end supply chain platform that includes warehouse management (WMS), labor management, supply chain planning, control tower, and order management solutions,” he wrote. It has cascading effects for many other parts of the business.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Households have spent their savings, and questions loom about future fuel sources. Business investment, except in warehousing, has stagnated. Traditional drivers of economic growth, such as real income growth, are waning, giving way to a series of headwinds.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Customer Trust – Supplier Collaboration and Data-Driven Sourcing Trust forms the bedrock of success. Mutual data exchange gives rise to a data-driven sourcing strategy, benefiting all stakeholders across the buyer and supplier ecosystem. Fortifying relationships with suppliers takes center stage in this phase.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Warehouse management system (WMS). If it’s part of the warehouse, it’s captured and reflected in the WMS. Data clouds provide a single platform that integrates internal data across various systems — including Blue Yonder’s WMS, TMS and OMS solutions — with third-party streaming sources like news and weather.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We learnt about the warehouse and found out that one of our customers has volunteered there and spoke to Foodbank on how they could improve their warehouse. We had fun catching up whilst helping out the local community. In Singapore, about 10% of Singaporeans have faced food insecurity in the last 12 months.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

Integrated pallet building and route planning: provides F&B, CPG and other customers the ability to build nested cases on tiers, pallets and trucks while looking at route sequence and warehouse loading limits to maximize trailer, driver unload and route efficiency.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And finally, you’re able to process information – running scenarios across merchandising, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and distribution – all at the same time with unconstrained computing power. The key is bringing all your data together, creating a single source of truth for your applications and analytics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

This includes demand planning, volume assessments at a granular level, knowing where best to source from to meet omni-channel demand, where to then position inventory based on known demand and where customers are located, and, of course, how best to then fulfill orders and to optimize the last mile.

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BlueYonder

MAY 14, 2024

With the publication of this report, Blue Yonder continues to be one of only two evaluated companies recognized as a Leader in three Gartner Magic Quadrant reports covering Supply Chain Planning, Transportation Management Systems and Warehouse Management Systems. The Gartner document is available on request from Blue Yonder.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Order Management (OMS) solution provides powerful capabilities to businesses: Inventory Services – Track inventory in real-time across the network Commits Services – Optimize the right fulfillment channels based on customer preferences and cost to serve Order Services – Create a unified view of orders across multiple channels and sources Order (..)

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 21, 2021

The new concepts require: digital supply chain execution capabilities in transportation, warehouse, labor and fulfillment digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management effective pricing and promotions management.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The end-to-end logistics network represents a big investment for companies — as well as a key source of competitive advantage. One often-overlooked logistics asset is yard operations — the physical space outside warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities where inbound and outbound shipments are handled.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If a customer is running our transportation or warehouse management, it will be seamless to add planning or commerce solutions — and the benefits will be exponential. A single data cloud Blue Yonder’s second core tenet is that supply chains need to share a single source of truth and a unified set of data.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 8, 2024

This more bespoke approach is likely to lead you to more diverse manufacturing network formulation with alternative sources, make-and-buy optionality, or nearshoring possibilities. The balance between better service and environmental friendliness, with unwanted increased costs, can be managed with a greater degree of accuracy.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 10, 2022

Also, this week, Blue Yonder shared our standing as a Leader in the recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems 1. Sources: 1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, 1 June 2022. In this blog, we will share those insights with you.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Point-of-sale information in retail settings, sensors mounted on factory equipment, mobile devices being used in the warehouse, GPS systems installed in trucks — across the supply chain, real-time data is being generated every second of every day.

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BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2016

By implementing the latest demand forecasting technologies, we were able to gradually feed data back through the supply chain so managers in manufacturing, warehousing and transportation could make cost-effective decisions. Intelligent fulfillment differentiates between sources of demand, sources of fulfillment and points of consumption.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The transition from just-in-time (JIT) and just-in-sequence (JIS) approaches, to adding second and third supply sources or even reshoring, epitomizes this strive for resiliency and a defensive attempt to avoid risk. While the transition has promoted resiliency, it has rather lost the essence of innovation along the way.

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BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2016

By implementing the latest demand forecasting technologies, we were able to gradually feed data back through the supply chain so managers in manufacturing, warehousing and transportation could make cost-effective decisions. Intelligent fulfillment differentiates between sources of demand, sources of fulfillment and points of consumption.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The company also improved its operations by looking at downstream logistics, modeling capacities at warehouses, and optimizing inbound and outbound operations together. He believes that strong supply chains will continue to add value to the business like the ability to adapt to changes, be flexible, and deliver results.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2017

Warehousing. Figure 1 shows how various new data sources can enrich the demand-shaping effort. additional stocking points and inventory buffers will need to be included in the distribution planning, warehousing and transportation management processes. Fulfillment. Transportation. Store Operations and Labor Management.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Businesses have become overwhelmed by the sheer volume and velocity of available data — from suppliers, customers, partners, and third-party sources — all with different formats, product hierarchies, taxonomies, etc. What if planning and logistics teams could stay continuously connected, all running on a single source of truth?

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