Are You Ready for Today’s Savvy Hybrid Shopper?
2022 holiday sales numbers are in and it’s a huge win for retailers focused on delivering engaging and delightful experiences to customers both online and in-stores. While we normally hear about e-commerce sales, foot traffic to stores has come back with a roar and continues…
How Automotive Companies Are Transforming Their Supply Chains, Part 1
In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. The following are the insights gained from my discussion with Salim Shaikh, who leads Blue Yonder’s Automotive Industry Strategy, during a…
2023: The Year of the Employee?
As I have been reviewing many retail predictions for this year, one prediction I keep hearing is that 2023 would be the year of the retail frontline employee. Several reasons were shared on the “why,” including the labor shortages, increasing wage rates, tough to hire,…
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…
New Threats in the New Year: Cybersecurity Predictions in 2023
In this new monthly “Security BY Design” blog series, Blue Yonder’s Cybersecurity team will look at cybersecurity in 2023. In our first blog, we predict cybersecurity will grow and are sharing some key steps you and your organizations can take to stay safe. 2022 brought…
Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 2
In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. The following are the insights gained from my discussion with Shri Hariharan, who leads Blue Yonder’s Consumer Manufacturing Industry Strategy, during…
Managing Excess Inventory Needs a New Profitable Approach
Recent reports have highlighted the challenges many retailers are having with excess inventory. With supply chain disruptions continuing, purchasing more stock in advance to meet the forecasted upturn in demand made perfect sense. However, the boost in sales was short-lived as inflation and political instability…
Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 1
In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. The following are insights gained from my discussion with Shri Hariharan, who leads Blue Yonder’s Consumer Manufacturing Industry Strategy, during a…
Why Blue Yonder Was Recently Recognized for Its OMS Microservices in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Retail Distributed Order Management Systems
We are very excited to announce that Blue Yonder has been recognized for the first time as a Representative Vendor in the latest Gartner® Market Guide for Retail Distributed Order Management Systems. The acceleration of omni-channel commerce in the past few years has put significant…
Supply Chain Resilience: Three Lessons from the Leaders
After almost three exhausting years of back-to-back supply chain disruptions, it would be nice to think that someday we’ll return to a “normal” state where demand patterns were easily predictable, supply conditions were consistent and consumer expectations were stable. But the truth is that supply…