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…
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…
Driving Promises You Can Keep with Intelligent Order Promising and Optimization
One phrase describes 2020 — “the new normal.” According to McKinsey, 10 years of e-commerce adoption was compressed into three months. Widespread stay-at-home orders, as well as health concerns due to the pandemic, accelerated the adoption of online shopping as consumers were forced to find new ways to get the products…
Passing Go: Suez Canal, Shipment Visibility and Logjams
The world is aflutter discussing how an enormous container ship became an immovable force in the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world’s most vital shipping routes. 120 miles long, the Suez Canal sees nearly 50 ships passing through on an average every day and…
Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions 2021
Gartner recently released the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions 1 (February 22, 2021), and Blue Yonder has again been named a Leader. Per our understanding, to determine this year’s Magic Quadrant Leaders, Gartner analysts evaluated vendor’s Supply Chain Planning offerings considering capabilities…
Top 3 Strategies for Supply Chain Planners in 2021
In today’s ever-changing business environment, supply chain planners have a challenging task at hand. They need to understand the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and align short- and long-term supply chain plans to maximize market share and revenue targets. Some challenges supply chain planners are facing…