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…
Diversity Among Us
Teamwork allows us to understand that we are different. You get to know a bit about different points of view, experiences that people face, even a plethora of traditions, likes, and dislikes. That’s something I discovered when I joined Blue Yonder. A year ago, I…
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…
Championing Women in STEM
After I graduated from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2016, I began my journey as a woman in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM.) Equal opportunity for women in this area is a topic of interest for many organizations across the globe. At Blue Yonder,…
Retailers Are Changing Stores into Micro-fulfillment Centers with Robots
Reuters recently hosted a panel on the topic of optimizing omni-channel fulfillment to prepare for holiday peaks. Panelists included Jason Lerman, Director Operations at UNTUCKit; Jon Gold, VP of Supply Chain and Customs Policy at NRF; Wayne Snyder, VP Retail Industry Strategy at Blue Yonder; Gina Anderson, VP…
The New Secret Weapon of Supply Chain
Henry Ford famously said of the Model T, “you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.” Today, in the digital age, the ability to personalize has become a key strategy for winning market share. Yet a century later, a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach…
The Future of Black Friday: Prioritizing E-Commerce
Black Friday has long been a shopping phenomenon across retail industries, and the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to make this holiday-shopping-season-kickoff even more interesting. Historically marked by unruly crowds and steep one-day in-store discounts, Black Friday must be reimagined for the world we now live…
Unified Logistics: The Need for Agile Resiliency
Someone recently mentioned that “resiliency” seems to be one of my favorite words. As words go, it’s not a bad one to have as your favorite. The ability to adapt, to quickly recover from disruption, to be elastic; it’s fitting for what we all need…