Break Down Silos in Your Retail Supply Chain To Unlock Hidden Value
It may come as an unpleasant surprise that competing KPIs are destroying value across the supply chain. However, the short-sighted fixation on resolving specific, isolated challenges leaves retailers blind to the reality that approaching supply chain challenges with a synchronized “end-to-end” strategy unlocks unseen potential…
Balancing Tech and Touch: Humanizing the Hybrid Retail Experience
In our exploration of end-to-end retail integration, we’ve laid out a sensible grocery retail roadmap for getting there, what it looks like in other verticals when done right, and errors to avoid when making the transition. We’ve also explored how a “microservice” approach to achieving…
From Challenge to Advantage: The Safest Route To End-to-End Retail Integration
Ability to scale remains the keystone to holding together retail’s effort to transition its architecture for the modern era that pits cost against customer expectations. The retailers modernizing toward that end-to-end integration will be those best aligned with that new paradigm. Faster fulfillment, more optionality,…
Beyond the Storefront: A Glimpse Into the Next Wave of Retail’s Tech-Powered Transformation
Online and offline, simple and sophisticated technologies continue to shape and reshape the contours of consumer engagement. That’s before you even factor the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in retail. In Beyond the Aisle blog post, we unpacked the theory, and a 10-phase roadmap for…
Beyond the Aisles: A Roadmap for the “End-to-End” Era in Grocery Retail
As grocery retail value chains have innovated past new challenges, increased value chain integration asks a relevant and timely question: is it time for retail value chains to behave and operate as one single ecosystem? Given the sheer logistics and pressures involved in balancing consumer…
Why Christmas Could Come Early in 2023 for Retailers With a Flexible Workforce Gameplan
Shifting and varied consumer preferences, collapsing brand loyalty, even freak weather: as shoppers limber up for the 2023 holiday season, retailers should expect the unexpected. With “unpredictability” now almost the only reliable constant, flexing the workforce in time to the changing holiday season music has…
ICON 2023: Retail’s New Tomorrow
ICON 2023 is Blue Yonder’s annual customer conference and premier supply chain event, where practitioners and decision-makers exchange insights about their transformation journeys. If you are in the retail industry, why should you attend this year’s event? I spoke with Blue Yonder’s Shannon Wu-Lebron, CVP,…
NRF 2023: Key Highlights
We are just returning from an incredible three days reconnecting with customers. After a three-year hiatus, Blue Yonder returned to an in-person National Retail Federation’s Retail’s Big Show – and the first time appearing as Blue Yonder since changing our company name back in February…
Finding Focus in the Fight Against Inflation
In conjunction with this blog post, watch our on-demand webinar Finding Focus in the Fight Against Inflation. The 1970s are known for a lot more than Star Wars and pet rocks. The era is also known for supply-side economic shocks, low growth and high inflation….
Transform Your Supply Chain Around Customer Demand
A modern supply chain is more than the efficient movement of optimized inventory downstream to meet forecasted customer demand. Of course, this is a huge part of what it should do, but demand exists to be both met and steered. Assortment, space and pricing decisions naturally play a part in the…