BlueYonder

JUNE 26, 2020

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today. In 2007, the U.S.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From Tropical Storm Hilary, which dumped over a foot of rain on California in August, to Hurricane Idalia, which came aground in Florida 10 days later with windspeeds of 125 miles per hour, these disasters wreaked havoc with ports, transportation routes and carefully laid logistics plans. But most companies do end up paying in other ways.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Transportation optimization One of the most feared words in the transportation realm is “expedite.” Any surprise — like stockouts, or products that weren’t allocated correctly — can lead to much higher transportation costs.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 10, 2020

Gartner recently released the Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report 1. To determine this year’s leaders, Gartner analysts evaluated vendor’s offerings considering capabilities such as rate and contract management, operational planning, execution, freight settlement, and transportation analytics.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 9, 2025

Faced with unprecedented supply chain complexity, more companies are making a strategic choice to focus on their core business, while outsourcing their warehousing and transportation to the experts logistics services providers, or LSPs. We understand the needs of LSPs.

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Locus

JULY 2, 2024

Locus Locus , a trailblazing all-mile transportation management platform headquartered in India, has transformed the logistics sector by facilitating over 1 billion deliveries worldwide. BlueYonder BlueYonder, a prominent US-based supply chain management platform, has become a go-to for businesses seeking RFPs (Request for Proposals).

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2017

These capacity crunches, at times, force carriers not to adhere to capacity commitments with customers, resulting in companies having to go out into the market to find alternate transportation options. This typically corresponds with a more expensive transportation choice in an expedited manner. Modeling Suggestions.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For those outside the supply chain world, logistics might seem as straightforward as transport and warehousing, a “commodity”. Our platform provides an End-to-End Supply Chain Platform with comprehensive, best-in-class capabilities across Warehouse Management , Transportation Management , and beyond.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2025

Teams from supply planning all the way to warehouse management and transportation must share the same data. Transportation is not an immediate consideration when the topic of tariffs comes up. Nearshoring became a key priority during Covid to protect against added costs associated with transportation, among other reasons.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 27, 2021

In their journey toward transforming their existing transportation and broader supply chain operations, many customers face challenges in substantiating their business case when it comes to crucial pillars such as better capacity allocation, asset optimization, and redefining procurement services. Why there is a need for such service?

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Buyers should be aware that solutions differ in terms of whether their visibility and control span the entire supply chain or only focus on a specific function such as Transportation Management, Demand or Supply Planning, or Warehouse Management.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Our platform encompasses Transportation, Warehouse and Order Management, supports an n-tier network for visibility and collaboration with customers, suppliers and carriers alike and provides next generation planning capabilities from detailed Scheduling to strategic processes like IBP and network design.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Todays supply chains span thousands of miles, cross continents and oceans, rely on multiple modes of transportation, and involve many supplier tiers. Advanced digital software, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) like the Blue Yonder Transportation Management solution are purpose-built to address the top causes of shipping delays.

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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. 2 May 2024 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, et al.,

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BlueYonder

APRIL 7, 2021

Gartner recently released the Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report 1 , and Blue Yonder has again been named a Leader in the report. Multiple subcomponents make up comprehensive multimodal TMS solution. Blue Yonder was positioned among a total of four vendors in the Leaders quadrant.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 9, 2024

Carlsberg has also introduced electric trucks and established a specialized transportation control tower in Poznan, Poland. The success of Carlsberg’s overall sustainability strategy will largely be driven by optimizing this transportation process. In a recent webinar , Carlsberg shared more on this topic.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This blog was co-written by Terence Leung and Jen McQuiston Our customers depend on Blue Yonder Transportation Management to achieve customer-centricity and operational resiliency across the globe. Transportation Optimization microservice: top-tier Blue Yonder planning made available to wider audience via a standalone API.

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BlueYonder

MAY 23, 2024

Working together, the team has established a common platform, based on Transportation Management and Warehouse Management solutions from Blue Yonder, as well as standardized and automated processes across the company’s enormous logistics footprint. We can quickly look at scenarios and execute the right action.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Network planning, Transportation planning) to adjust continuously. For example, sequencing solutions are built to not only resolve the nodes of order scheduling, but also to take in consideration plans from S&OP, Order forecast generator, or give production plans to Logistics (e.g.,

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BlueYonder

JUNE 9, 2015

By that standard we should tell our transportation operations to grow up, as well, since the recently released JDA Vision 2015 Supply Chain Market Study found that most companies are operating at the lowest level of the transportation maturity curve, leaving significant money on the table from lost opportunities to cut transportation costs.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 6, 2024

Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions can then optimize transportation within the complex network involved with field inventory. Through the ability to seamlessly connect Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning and Transportation Management, processes can be managed in a continuous manner using one data model.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

The areas most affected by labor shortages were transportation operations with 61% of businesses affected, followed by warehouse operations at 51%, as well as transportation planning and inventory/distribution at 51%.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Following Walmart, Steve switched over to the digital world when he became Executive VP of Product Marketing and Strategy at i2 Technologies, acquired by JDA, and now BlueYonder. This was followed by stints at executive posts at Air Road Express, One Network Enterprises, and Transplace.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 3, 2023

Innovation and Customer-Centricity are Our Continuing Directions Thanks to our TMS customers, for the 12 th time 1 in a row, Blue Yonder is named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report 2. As a result, we’ve reduced our overall transportation spend by 3-5%.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If the transportation management system (TMS), warehouse management system (WMS), order management system (OMS) and other digital solutions are hosted on a shared platform such as Blue Yonder Platform and connected in real time, then the response can be executed equally quickly.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Automation: The Proactive Force in Logistics Resilience In a survey of 600 C-suite and senior executives worldwide , 84% of logistics leaders face persistent supply chain disruptions — from material shortages to transportation bottlenecks.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Five Key Software Capabilities for Cold Chain LSPs should look for five key capabilities when choosing a software provider to help them manage the harsh realities of storing, distributing and transporting temperature-controlled products. Real-time, end-to-end visibility and traceability.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Logistics has been focused for so long on operational tradeoffs and cost in transportation, and we’re suddenly throwing a new factor into the mix with sustainability,” he noted. “So How exactly do warehouse and transportation management solutions contribute to solving the complex problem of sustainability?

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BlueYonder

MARCH 18, 2024

He sees retailers struggle to gather and interpret data across their order, warehouse, and transportation management systems — or Order Management System (OMS), Warehouse Management System (WMS), and Transportation Management System (TMS). Roycroft says, “What happens is that retailers have a lack of visibility across their network.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 15, 2023

Blue Yonder was named a Leader in this inaugural report, based on an evaluation of Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management System (TMS). Transportation modeling that creates very realistic and highly optimized scenarios as customers’ supply chain footprints is changing to fit customer-centric requirements.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 4, 2024

We look at labor; we look at the transportation network; we look at logistics. He continues: “When it comes to transportation, what carriers do you have available? The idea of synching real-time capacity data across your order, warehouse, and transportation management systems may seem overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 29, 2024

The tagline for the day is “Every link in the supply chain matters,” which emphasizes how import each piece of the supply chain is from the raw materials to the transportation element to manufacturing to the labor to omni-channel commerce.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 4, 2013

Unfortunately, supporting systems have been built in silos as well – planning systems, procurement systems, manufacturing systems, distribution systems and transportation systems, for example. It’s all about the flow.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As I discussed in a previous blog , more retailers and manufacturers are turning to logistics services providers (LSPs) to manage their growing warehousing and transportation challenges — including rising costs, shrinking margins, labor shortages, and increasing customer demands. It allows us to be better prepared for space in the warehouse.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As a report sponsor, we were honored to participate in an in-person event hosted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and CSCMP, the report authors. Berries are a delicate product and are transported in a plastic clamshell that protects the fruit; however, this uses a lot of plastic.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Transportation management system (TMS). A TMS is software that collects data and tracks the processes associated with moving goods, both inbound and outbound, and across all modes of transportation including rail, air, surface, and sea. Let’s start with the basics.

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