Scale for Sale: Digitizing Your Workforce to Delight the Customer
Think about your local store. It is likely to be a microcosm of broader society – multiple generations, each with different lifestyle needs and wants, and different economic drivers. And like any society, open to disruption. Pre-pandemic, many of the tensions in the retail labor…
Introducing Blue Yonder Connections: a Special Interest Group App
Providing community members with a simple way to get engaged and make new connections is a top priority. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the launch of Blue Yonder Connections, a Special Interest Group Community mobile app! The Mobile App features include: Home Feed to keep…
Digital Supply Chains: Now or Never for Retailers
Things have never stood still in the retail world. With lines blurring between physical and digital worlds, and ever-changing consumer demands, retailers find themselves continuously evolving to keep pace with competitors. Today, more than ever, retailers need to be agile, responsive and resilient. The COVID-19…
Press Start to Make Your Supply Chain Smarter
In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, visibility equals agility and the business that moves the fastest wins the game. What’s required is a clear view of what the business needs to plan for and then execute: control towers. As with any technology investment, control towers should…
Four Ways Blue Yonder Continues to Innovate After 35+ Years of Success
How do you stay agile, and at the same time, support a vast portfolio of products and customers? Blue Yonder serves a large customer base of companies with a varied set of products and capabilities, all of which are leveraged uniquely by different customers. As…
The New Associate
There will be a new generation of associates entering the workforce post-COVID-19. Organizations need to be prepared for their changing expectations so they can continue to engage and retain their employees. This generation of workers understands and values technology.
The Inevitability of Warehouse Robots
Recently, while attempting to leave San Francisco International Airport, I found myself halted by the CAFEX coffee-making robot. Its glistening white arms moved with surprisingly organic fluidity, even attempting to gently swirl the cup’s contents. Instantly, I found myself in an internal social debate, “Is this the…
Finding the Value in Your Control Tower
Talking with supply chain leaders across the industry, it’s clear that supply chain control towers are being tasked with more and more functionality. It’s a natural evolution. After all, control towers collect and leverage large data sets from across the end-to-end supply chain. If data…
7 AI Predictions for 2020
Dr. Michael Feindt – founder of Blue Yonder and JDA’s chief scientific advisor – has been researching, understanding, and identifying ground-breaking use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) for many years. As a physicist and data scientist, he is constantly thinking about how algorithms can be…
Removing the “People Roadblock” to Digital Transformation
As the competition to satisfy customer demand for ever-faster deliveries has made supply chain automation a necessity, and as new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and robotics have transformed supply chain best practices, data has become the…