Invite Others To Dance: How We Can Amplify Women and Diverse Voices
International Women’s Day is celebrated each year on March 8. This year, Blue Yonder hosted Cheryl Williams, CIO of Wakefern Food Corp., and Jen Pritchard, General Manager at Accenture, to talk about topics of importance to women in supply chain. As we close out this…
Hardline Retailers Leverage Blue Yonder to Deliver Modern Omni-Channel Offerings
One might think that supply chain issues have been addressed or at least resolved enough to get goods where they need to go as we enter the third year of the pandemic. Unfortunately for all of us, the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on supply…
Three Core Building Blocks To Create a Resilient Supply Chain
Supply chains were on the verge of recovering from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic when yet again they were plunged into turmoil due to the conflict in Ukraine. From the extremely visible and immediately felt increase in crude oil prices, the conflict is disrupting everything…
Resilient and Sustainable? Can a Supply Chain Really Have It All?
The State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 report tells us that the work for increased supply chain sustainability has not slowed down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but is continuing in full force. And at the same time, the pandemic has focused on…
Blue Yonder Associate Organizes Community to Help Ukrainian Relief Effort
Olivier Vattier-Delaunay is a Blue Yonder associate who resides in Châteaubourg, a small town in the west of France. He shares how his community is helping those impacted by the situation in Ukraine. On March 2nd, as the conflict was beginning to ignite in Ukraine,…
Leveraging Technology To Improve Employee Engagement and Retention
In part one, Creating a Culture That Engages and Retains Warehouse Employees, we explored successful strategies to enhance employee engagement and improve warehouse staff retention. Technology can play a critical role towards creating a culture of engagement and retention. Blue Yonder’s Luminate™ Platform includes solutions…
The Private Label Pivot — More Headaches for Category Planners
In just the few weeks since writing my last blog on inflation, the U.S. consumer price index (CPI) has jumped from a 12-month average of 7.5% up to 7.9%, with food-at-home reaching 8.6%. It’s the largest increase for at-home food in 40 years, as if…
Four Ways for Driving Agility with Integrated Demand & Supply Planning
Already in crisis, the world’s supply chains are facing additional obstacles in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just as port congestion was beginning to clear, companies find themselves facing a new set of challenges, including product and materials shortages, blocked transportation lanes and…
Keeping the World’s Supply Chains Moving — Even During the Worst Kind of Disruption
Like the rest of the world, I watched with heartbreak as the conflict in Ukraine began. My heart goes out to people of Ukraine, along with their families and loved ones. You can read Blue Yonder’s full statement here. I also want to be clear…
Shifting Gears: How One Associate Changed Her Career Path
Amanda Dyson has been with Blue Yonder for 12 years, starting first at the company’s corporate office in Scottsdale then relocating with her family to North Carolina and working remotely. When the “Great Resignation” came calling recently, Amanda chose a different path — to stay…