Managing Excess Inventory Needs a New Profitable Approach
Recent reports have highlighted the challenges many retailers are having with excess inventory. With supply chain disruptions continuing, purchasing more stock in advance to meet the forecasted upturn in demand made perfect sense. However, the boost in sales was short-lived as inflation and political instability…
Seize the Day! The Importance of Taking Advantage of Career-Growing Opportunities
When Gema Verdin from Ajinomoto Foods North America was told that not everyone likes a smart woman, she saw it not as something to overcome but something to reach past. Gema jumped on career-growing opportunities every chance she could so she could learn and improve…
Digital Supply Chains Change the Game in Consumer Goods, Part 1
In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. The following are insights gained from my discussion with Shri Hariharan, who leads Blue Yonder’s Consumer Manufacturing Industry Strategy, during a…
How To Fix Mean Absolute Error, Part 2
Part 2: How the Ranked Probability Score reconciles statisticians with practitioners In part 1, we challenged the usual way to evaluate Mean Absolute Error by just taking the difference between the predicted mean and the observed outcome. We found that it is necessary to use…
Why Blue Yonder Was Recently Recognized for Its OMS Microservices in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Retail Distributed Order Management Systems
We are very excited to announce that Blue Yonder has been recognized for the first time as a Representative Vendor in the latest Gartner® Market Guide for Retail Distributed Order Management Systems. The acceleration of omni-channel commerce in the past few years has put significant…
New Year, New Blue
As we welcome 2023, we asked our associates what they are looking forward to in the year ahead. We share a sampling of their responses in this week’s DIVE In blog. What are you looking forward to? Share with us on social! I’m setting up…
Supply Chain Resilience: Three Lessons from the Leaders
After almost three exhausting years of back-to-back supply chain disruptions, it would be nice to think that someday we’ll return to a “normal” state where demand patterns were easily predictable, supply conditions were consistent and consumer expectations were stable. But the truth is that supply…
DIVE In Round-Up: 12 Lessons Blue Yonder Associates and Customers Taught Us in 2022
Each Wednesday, we share how Blue Yonder associates and customers DIVE in — their personal stories of diversity, inclusion, value and equity. Throughout the year, each has offered meaningful takeaways that allow us to see the world through their eyes. As we reflect on the…
Nucleus Research Calls Control Towers Essential — and Names Blue Yonder a Leader
Nucleus Research recently released its Control Tower Technology Value Matrix 2022, a report that looks at the competitive landscape for control tower solutions and assesses the technology vendors. Blue Yonder was gratified to be named a “Leader” in the Nucleus report, based on the capabilities…
Managing the Holiday Rush in the Warehouse
This blog was co-authored by Mark Severns, Product Marketing Director, and Logan Kluth, Product Management Director. Whether you are a retailer, manufacturer, 3PL, or in most any other industry, “Black Friday” likely initiates a dramatic shift in the dynamics of your business. In your warehouses…