Retailers’ Top 3 E-Commerce Fulfillment Priorities for 2021
In our previous blog, we explored e-commerce’s explosive growth driven by the pandemic and the resulting challenges that omni-channel retailers continue to face. Out-of-stock products, lack of automation and the need to close the physical gap between fulfillment centers and consumers are all sparking new…
From Lab to Arm: Supply Chain Journey of the COVID-19 Vaccines
Distributing the COVID-19 vaccines is a mission critical action that will no doubt save more lives and relieve the much-pressured medical system. If the actions are done well throughout the supply chain, the vaccines will be distributed to all the desired destinations, on time and…
Building Supply Chain Resilience Through a Boundaryless S&OP and S&OE Process
This blog was co-authored by Salim Shaikh and Chainalytics’ Jeff Baker. In today’s VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment, unexpected market demand and supply disruption can occur at any time. How do you recover from a crisis – and are you prepared for the…
Agility and Resilience in Supply Chain Execution: Imperatives in an Unpredictable World, Part 1
This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.” The COVID-19 pandemic has only confirmed what we already knew: modern supply chains must be built…
Santa’s Supply Chain: Holiday Logistics in 2020
This blog is co-authored by Wayne Snyder, VP, Retail Industry Strategy EMEA, and Alan Duncan, Senior Director of Industry Strategy, EMEA. “T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by…
Accelerating Sales with Real-time, Intelligent Inventory Availability
While the convergence of physical and online stores began before the pandemic, COVID-19 has accelerated the e-commerce and omni-channel trends by a few years. When consumers pivoted from foot traffic to online options, retailers quickly worked overtime to enable speed and convenience options such as buy online pick up in store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, and ship from local store to support…
eCommerce Fulfillment Trial Now Available
We are very excited to announce that our e-Commerce Fulfillment Trial is now available. You can experience the new capabilities that are available through our Inventory Availability and Omni-Channel Fulfillment microservices. At a time when retailers are expanding their business to include e-commerce offerings, Blue Yonder’s new microservices bring supply chain transparency to your online shopping experience and deliver faster, more convenient options to your…
Putting the Smart in Smarter Logistics
This blog also ran on the «Let’s Talk Supply Chain» blog. It is not a secret that technology evolves at an accelerated rate. As an example, I have seen the progress of vinyl records to cassettes to compact discs to playable digital files and finally…
Personalized Fulfillment Experiences Webinar
We are very excited to kick off our monthly webinar series: Personalized Fulfillment Experiences in Action. Delivering personalized experiences is a key business requirement today with customers expecting retailers to deliver the right product, at the right time, through their channel of choice. Leading retailers…
Riding the E-Commerce Surge: 3 Key Takeaways from our Future of Fulfillment Report
In a year like no other, e-commerce continues to see meteoric growth driven by the pandemic. This holiday shopping season marked record numbers of online shoppers on Black Friday and the biggest online shopping day in U.S. history on Cyber Monday. With the two dominant…