Optimize Your Logistics, From the First Mile to the Last
Today’s logistics teams face enormous challenges. Fluctuating demand, coupled with an omni-channel selling environment, has driven higher volumes of smaller orders — as well as a great deal of day-to-day uncertainty. The “Amazon effect” continues to increase customer expectations for fast, low-cost delivery. Labor shortages…
Blue Yonder is a Leader in the Inaugural Nucleus Research WMS Technology Value Matrix
Innovation on Functionality to Help Optimize our Customers’ Warehouse and Supply Chain Performance is Our Ongoing Directions Nucleus Research (Nucleus) recently published its inaugural Warehouse Technology Value Matrix 2023 report, which provides an overview of the current market for warehouse management systems (WMS) and assesses…
Transportation Optimization: The Key to Weathering Droughts, Disasters and Other Disruptions
This blog was co-written by Chirag Modi, Corporate Vice President, Industry Strategy – Supply Chain Execution and 3PL Global Lead, and Jen McQuiston, Product Marketing Director. Global supply chains face many risks and disruptions, but increasingly those disruptions seem to be related to droughts, storms…
Logistics’ New Tomorrow: Eye on London
How do you prepare your supply chain and logistics operations for a new tomorrow? During a recent “Logistics New Tomorrow” Blue Yonder Live, I spoke with Roy Bridgland, Senior Industry Strategy Director, and Brad Revell, VP of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) Industry for Europe, Middle…
How a Warehouse Execution System Increases Warehouse Throughput and Utilization, Part 1
The changing warehouse technology landscape is driving higher adoption of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and other new automation. How can companies unlock opportunities for greater efficiency, performance and cost reductions across the warehouse? During a recent “How Warehouse Execution System Increases Warehouse Throughput & Utilization”…
Maximize One of Your Greatest Assets: Yard Operations
The end-to-end logistics network represents a big investment for companies — as well as a key source of competitive advantage. Over the past few years, ongoing volatility on both the demand and supply sides has clearly demonstrated the need to orchestrate every aspect of logistics…
Getting Smarter About Logistics and Sustainability
In a previous Blue Yonder blog post, we defined some of the advanced technologies that are impacting the logistics industry today and provided an overview of how they’re improving companies’ cost and service outcomes. But the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automation,…
The Brave New World of Logistics: A Primer
Across every industry, there’s buzz about artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automation, optimization engines, and other advanced technologies. But what do these terms mean for the logistics industry? Will self-driving trucks ever be a reality? What exactly is a data cloud? Should we be…
Celebrating Truck Drivers Today and Everyday
If you bought it, it’s likely that a truck brought it. 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. It’s a tough job, completed…
A Logistics Conversation with Arcadia Cold, Part 1
In honor of National Logistics Day last month, I had a Blue Yonder Live conversation with Arcadia Cold’s JD Schwefler, Head of Site Selection & Design Solutions. JD shared his insights into how to have a long-term logistics career and how he and his company leverage…