What’s the Future of Retail? Future Stores Seattle 2023 Illuminates the Path
The physical retail store is dead…long live the reimagined phygital retail store! Branding, technology advancements that deliver efficient operations, delighting the customer, and investing in the employees were the key themes as some of the largest retailers and those up-and-comers met in Seattle for three…
A Blue Yonder Associate Shares His Eye for Capturing Nature’s Beauty
Rahul Bhandari is a Senior Practice Director based in India. He shares his love for nature photography regularly with Blue Yonder associates. In honor of Nature Photography Day, which celebrates nature and the art of photography, we asked him to share his love with our…
Blue Yonder Was Ranked as a Leader in the Inaugural Nucleus Research TMS Technology Value Matrix
Innovation on Functionality to Help Optimize our Customers’ Supply Chain Performance is Our Ongoing Directions Nucleus Research (Nucleus) recently published its inaugural Transportation Technology Value Matrix 2023 report, which provides an overview of the current market for transportation management solutions and assesses the software providers…
A Blue Yonder Associate’s Journey: Choosing Allyship Every Day
Kranthi Remala (she/her) is a Technical Staff Engineer working in the Retail Planning space in Hyderabad, India. This Pride, she shares her journey to becoming an Ally along with some simple measures you can take as an Ally to support the LGBTQ+ community. I was…
Key Learnings from the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Barcelona
Peter Drucker wrote in his book “Managing in the Next Society” that “the biggest challenge for the large company and especially for the multinational may be its social legitimacy – its values, its mission, its vision. Everything else can be outsourced.” This idea, coupled with…
Surviving and Thriving in Times of Low Growth: A Guide for the Future of Manufacturing
“Out of the chip pan and into the fire” must be a recurring feeling among manufacturers – across 2022 and into 2023 – as a proposed rebound following the eye of the COVID-19 pandemic storm has been usurped by a host of new and evolving…
Parenting While Queer
We first met Maddi Cook last year during Pride month when she shared her perspective on the topic of allyship. Since then, Maddi has taken on a leadership role with BYourself, Blue Yonder’s LGBTQ+ Associate Resource Group (ARG). This Pride, she shares on a new…
Our Best ICON 2023 Takeaways: A Post-ICON Conversation With Our Industry Experts
It’s been a month since we were in Las Vegas for ICON 2023. During a recent Blue Yonder Live, several of our Industry Strategy leads shared their insights around the event, including key takeaways and what’s next. Here’s a recap of the conversation host Bryant…
Recession Proofing Your Retail Business
This blog was co-written by Wayne Snyder, VP, Retail Industry Strategy, and Nina Seth, Product Marketing Director. It’s a tough world out there. Inflation, rising interest rates, layoffs, high labor and transportation costs and much more. There is so much doom and gloom in the…
Learnings and Insights From the 2023 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium: Part 2
Last month, at the 2023 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando, Florida, there were many key supply chain themes that emerged. This is Part 2 of the learnings and insights from the discussions with supply chain leaders and from additional sessions by Gartner analysts about…