Changing Perspectives on Warehouse and Logistics For Dramatic Increase in Operational Efficiency
While crafting strategies for operational efficiency, executives face the single most unpredictable challenge: consumer behavior. Trends appear (and disappear) faster, and with more intensity, in recent years. Complicated logistics routes or unexpected defects can create a domino of issues for warehouse and logistic efficiency. …
The Top 10 Causes of Shipping Delays — and How to Mitigate Them
Getting shipments from the production facility or warehouse to the retail store or the consumer’s doorstep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. Today’s supply chains span thousands of miles, cross continents and oceans, rely on multiple modes of transportation, and involve…
Resolve to Join a Blue Yonder User Group This Year
Now that the holidays are behind us, ‘tis the season for gym memberships, “damp January” and other self-improvement plans. This year, why not resolve to increase your company’s returns on Blue Yonder software, improve your supply chain results, and find a like-minded community of peers…
The Five “Must Haves” for an Advanced Production Scheduling Solution
Today’s large-scale manufacturing supply chains are more geographically distributed than ever. They produce more diverse, customized products than ever. Operating costs are skyrocketing. Material shortages are creating supply uncertainty. And manufacturers are facing unprecedented demand volatility. Creating predictable, stable, and profitable production plans under these…
Driving Responsiveness and Profitability via Flexible Production Planning: Three Customer Case Studies
Many of the challenges faced by the world’s automotive and equipment manufacturers can be mitigated via flexible production planning. By digitalizing and automating their production planning processes, manufacturers can respond faster and more profitably when confronted with demand variability, materials shortages, logistics roadblocks and other…
Forget the Crystal Ball. Instead, Link Forecasting Directly to Production Planning.
As the global automotive industry transitions from primarily producing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to including electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids, we’re witnessing a true transformation. This transformation delivers many benefits, including increased sustainability, but it also creates demand-planning and production-planning challenges. To profitably serve…
Ensuring Predictable Production Amid the Unpredictable Challenges of the Auto Industry
In October 2024, a team from Blue Yonder attended the automotiveIT Kongress, held at the Vienna House Andel’s Berlin. The largest industry gathering of automotive and IT professionals in Germany, the automotiveIT Kongress featured lectures, panel discussions, best practices, deep-dive sessions, an awards presentation, and…
Facing Industrial Manufacturing’s Dilemma: Nailing Down Forecasting Accuracy
It’s been two centuries since the Industrial Revolution transformed manufacturing, introducing machines that automated production and unlocked unprecedented efficiencies. But in the last decade, the industrial manufacturing sector has encountered a new wave of challenges and disruptions. From fluctuating demand and rising costs to material…
Why Demand Planning in High Tech Manufacturing Needs a Reboot
The global chip shortage a few years ago shone a spotlight on the supply chain planning complexity that has always characterized High Tech companies. It is difficult for semiconductor companies, consumer device manufacturers, and other High Tech companies to profitability match supply with demand, especially…
From Aisle to AI: How CPGs Can Conquer Demand Variability
Extreme demand volatility and unprecedented supply chain disruptions make it tough for many manufacturers to get the demand-supply balance right. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies face especially difficult forecasting and demand planning challenges. Every day, CPG planners must contend with the complexities of omni-channel sales…