How Santa Is Creating the Most Elf-ficient Supply Chain in the World
It’s that time of year again — Santa Claus and his team of magic elves are getting ready for their Christmas Eve flight to deliver toys to children around the world. But have you ever wondered how they get it all done? All we really…
Visibility: The Foundation of Today’s Resilient Supply Chain
With a 412% year-over-year increase in the mentions of “supply chain issues” by chief executives during the latest company earnings season, it likely comes as no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a painful realization that today’s global supply chains are constantly exposed to a range of…
Welcome to the Supply Chain Without Boundaries
Supply chain optimization has never been more essential to overall business success than it is today. A study by Bank of America Global Research, cited by Reuters, found that mentions of “supply chain” increased by 412% in third-quarter earnings calls hosted by Fortune 500 companies this year, compared…
Real-Time Visibility: The Key to Navigating Port Congestion
This blog post was co-authored by Anmol Khurana and Tommy See. Since the Suez Canal disruption earlier this year, container and port capacity constraints have caused tremendous impacts to many supply chains around the world. Now all major ports in the United States are currently experiencing unprecedented…
Luminate Platform: Built on Three Guiding Principles
This blog is co-written by Desikan Madhavanur, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, and Chris Burchett, Corporate Vice President Product Development Who hasn’t walked into a retail store recently and found a favorite product out of stock? Transportation bottlenecks, labor and materials shortages, rising…
A Purpose-Built Supply Chain Platform Strategy and the 6 C’s
A recent headline article in The Washington Post said it best: “Supply headaches stretching from Asian factory towns to the American Midwest are intensifying as the economic recovery tries to outrun the highly infectious delta variant. … The pandemic has exposed fragile global supply chains…
Weaving Sustainability into the Fabric of the Supply Chain
How Luminate Control Tower is helping our customers, and getting recognized by Microsoft’s Satya Nadella in global conference keynote Do you hear that? It’s the collective sigh from many of us who have been fervently working toward building the future of sustainable supply chains. Why…
Blue Yonder Named a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems
Gartner recently released the Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report1, and Blue Yonder has again been named a Leader in the report. Multiple subcomponents make up comprehensive multimodal TMS solution. Per our understanding, to determine this year’s leaders, Gartner analysts evaluated vendors’ offerings…
Shared Decision-Making: How the C-Suite Can Take a Page from the Medical Community
The concept of shared decision-making in the medical community has been commonplace for years: a team of doctors, specialists and loved ones working together on complex issues to weigh different options and choose the best course of treatment. It’s a win for patients, for doctors and…
Now Moving: Suez Canal, Shipment Visibility and Logjams (Part II)
As traffic slowly resumes in the Suez Canal, rising prices and lost sales are adding ripples to an already strained supply chain. Withstanding this new shock, one that impacted almost $9.5 billion worth of goods daily, means taking another look at resiliency plans in context…