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…
Honey, I Shrunk the Merchandise! How Missing Merchandise Hurts Retailers
Having started my retail career at the age of 17, I speak from experience when I say…retail is a hard business! In my 30+ years working in retail I often said, “Retail, you’ve got to love it…especially if you are going to make a career…
Back to School: Blue Yonder Execs Revisit Their Younger Selves
As back to school rolls around across the globe, we are celebrating National School Picture Day in the U.S., which takes place the second Thursday of September! School photos are a rite of passage, they capture our journey into adulthood. Looking at these photos gives…
AI in Commerce: Takeaways from The Edge Summit
In a soon-to-be released survey conducted by Blue Yonder, 97% of the retail executive respondents stated it was a priority to adopt AI for omni-channel applications. That’s a big number, but it’s also not surprising. I just had the privilege of attending a timely and…
DIVE In Blog Series Wins Award of Excellence
As humans, we connect through stories, sharing ourselves so others might learn from a different lens. Our DIVE In blog series does just that, it builds connection and empathy, to normalize conversation across all areas. In August 2020, we transitioned our weekly Wednesdays for Women…
Understanding the True Value of OMS: Seven Signs of Optimization
Having a disjointed view of inventory and customer data across both physical and online channels is no longer an option for retailers. Effective order management in the present day requires end-to-end connectivity of intuitive, automated solutions that can optimize customer data and ensure a supply…
Blue Yonder’s Analyst Workbench Arms Your Team with Actionable Data
This blog was cowritten by Sukesh Dixit, Product Director, and Nina Seth, Marketing Director. For the past few years, supply chain uncertainty has tested every company. The world’s supply chains have been stalled by challenges like labor capacity, imperfect inventory positioning, unpredictable supply, rising costs,…
Blue Yonder and Snowflake Are Helping Enterprises Reimagine the Way They Plan, Execute and Deliver
It has become nearly impossible to predict changes in supply and demand patterns. On the supply side, there are increasingly frequent supply disruptions, part shortages and cost pressures. On the demand side, customer preferences remain volatile, and this is further exacerbated by the growing threat…
Get Checked: Associate MoonWalks to Bring Awareness to Breast Cancer
National Got Checked Day takes place on Aug. 26 and aims to encourage women (and men!) to do their regular breast cancer checks. In honor of the day, Blue Yonder associate Jessica Thatcher shares her connection to breast cancer and why it’s important to get…
Calibration and Sharpness: The Two Independent Aspects of Forecast Quality
What Is a Good Forecast? Forecasts are like friends: Trust is the most important factor (you don’t ever want your friends to lie to you), but among your trustable friends, you prefer meeting those that tell you the most interesting stories. What do I mean…