Navigating the Future of Supply Chain Planning: Blue Yonder’s Insights From the 2024 Gartner® Supply Chain Planning Summit
I had the pleasure of attending the Gartner® Supply Chain Planning Summit 2024, held on Dec. 3 – 4 in Denver, CO. This event offered a unique opportunity to engage with industry leaders and gain firsthand insights into the latest trends and innovations in supply…
LSPs Need to Build Digital Leadership Quickly. Blue Yonder Can Help.
Faced with unprecedented supply chain complexity, more companies are making a strategic choice to focus on their core business, while outsourcing their warehousing and transportation to the experts — logistics services providers, or LSPs. Among Fortune 500 companies, 80% are outsourcing logistics — and 68%…
DIVE In Round-Up: 12 Lessons Blue Yonder Associates Taught Us in 2024
Every Wednesday, we share how Blue Yonder associates DIVE In — their personal stories of diversity, inclusion, value, and equity. Throughout the year, each has offered meaningful takeaways that we can apply to our lives both at work and at home. As we reflect on a year…
The State of Order Management: Commerce and Order Management Strategies to Drive Success
This blog was co-written by Nina Seth and Hiu Wai Loh. The retail landscape continues to evolve. Every retailer must create customer-centric experiences from click to deliver and back, leverage stores as fulfillment hubs and keep an eye on sustainability to meet the needs of sustainability…
Keep or Return? Fashion Influencers Have Created a Costly Trend for Retailers
It’s no secret that product returns are one of the biggest challenges facing the world’s retailers — especially retailers of fashion apparel. Clothing trends and product seasons come and go with increasing speed today. That means fashion retailers must get returned products back in stores,…
Blue Yonder Associate Shares Her Story of Growing Up With a Twin Sister
National Twin Day is celebrated every year on Dec. 18 and is dedicated to honoring twins and recognizing the unique bond they share. In honor of National Twin Day, Blue Yonder associate Hannah Fresia shares what it’s really like to be a fraternal twin and the special…
4 Types of Supply Chain Control Towers
The term control tower has been grossly overused in the domain of supply chain management. It’s used to describe practically anything from basic visibility to network-wide fully autonomous solutions. This makes it nearly impossible for anyone looking for a capable solution to effectively compare options…
Can ChatGPT Pass the Supply Chain Test? Blue Yonder Reveals Benchmark Study for LLMs
There’s been a lot of talk about how generative AI will change working in the supply chain, and we wanted to test that hypothesis. In our experiment, we explore how capable Language Learning Models (LLMs) are out-of-the-box and if they can be effectively applied to…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like the Post-Peak Season
The holiday season is a time for joy — and for supply chain chaos. This year is no exception. The five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday shattered online retail sales records, with U.S. consumers spending $41.1 billion, an increase of 8.1% over 2023. The…
Your Ultimate Gift to Yourself: How To Embrace Joy and Overcome Stress This Holiday Season
While the holidays can be a season for joy and togetherness, they can also be a stressful time of complex emotions and loneliness for many people. Blue Yonder’s Time to Talk* team members offer guidance on ways to improve one’s mental health and well-being this…