Digitalization in the Real-World, Part 2
At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON, we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. This is part 2 of a multiple part series to explore…
Digitalization in the Real-World, Part 1
At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON, we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. This is Part 1 of a multiple part series to explore…
Sustainability Efforts are Gaining Momentum Even Though Sustainability is a Moving Target
The importance of supply chain sustainability (SCS) is trending upward – and that’s a positive! This insight comes from the 2022 State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report, presented by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and the Council of Supply Chain Management…
Mastering the Last Mile of Retail Delivery
A lot of recent media attention has been devoted to what might be considered “macro” logistics problems, such as port closures, blocked shipping lanes and a lack of ocean container capacity. These and other logistics challenges leave products stranded thousands of miles from their final…
Insights from the 2022 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium, Part 1
This week, at the 2022 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium, we learned several key themes, as well as how the Gartner Magic Quadrants are evolving. In this blog, we will share those insights with you. Also, this week, Blue Yonder shared our standing as a Leader…
Blue Yonder’s WMS Customers Make Us a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader 11 Years Running
Blue Yonder has once again been recognized as a Leader in 2022 Magic Quadrant. For the 11th year1 in a row, we have been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) report2—which is every year since the report…
Logistics Executives Survey Offers Latest Insights on Customer Experience and Disruptions
While every industry has experienced its share of challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the end-to-end supply chain and global and regional logistics operations have been forever transformed by the events of the last two years. Since supply chain volatility seems unlikely to…
Three Keys for 4PL Success
This is part 2 of 3 article on the topic of “How 4PL Services Can Help Up the Game in the Omni-Channel World.” As I discussed in my last blog post, the pandemic has driven dramatic growth for fourth-party logistics (4PL) providers. As the world’s…
Strategies To Modernize Your Grocery E-Commerce Supply Chain
This is an article co-authored by Terence Leung, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Supply Chain Execution, and Nina Seth, Director of Product Marketing for Commerce for Blue Yonder Online grocery sales are soaring to new heights. In fact, more than 70% of U.S. households, or 93…
The Not-So-Surprising Growth of 4PLs
This is part 1 of 3 article on the topic of “How 4PL Services Can Help Up the Game in the Omni-Channel World.” The COVID-19 pandemic changed just about every facet of our personal and professional lives, but its impact has been especially dramatic for…