Empowering Demand Planners With AI
It’s increasingly difficult to forecast demand accurately in today’s volatile, disrupted environment. Smart planning teams are turning to artificial intelligence. Has there ever been a more challenging time to accurately predict demand? Today, supply chain planners must contend with inflation, high interest rates and other…
Blue Yonder Dallas Associates Play Cricket To Raise Awareness About Visual Impairment
In this DIVE In blog post, Blue Yonder associate Ravi Sajja shares his recent experience helping to coordinate a cricket game in Dallas on behalf of Blue Yonder to bring awareness to visual impairment and promote inclusivity. Cricket is a game of skill and technique….
Profitability and Mass Personalization: Automakers Can Now Achieve Both
Today’s consumers increasingly want personalized products — and automobiles are no exception. For automotive manufacturers the demand for personalization means more vehicle variations and a technology ecosystem that powers this customer experience from show room to shop floor. Build-to-order capabilities are possibly the most critical…
5 Ways To Make Your Returns Process More Profitable
Returns are a core part of e-commerce. Customers will order the wrong items, either on purpose or by accident. It happens and will continue to happen – as long as e-commerce exists, so will returns. Returns are currently one of the biggest issues in e-commerce,…
Intelligent Rebalancer: React and Recover from Disruptions
In a previous blog post, I discussed the challenges planning and execution teams face in responding to increasing disruptions. From extreme weather to port closures, disruptions all too frequently upset these teams’ carefully defined plans for getting inventory from Point A to Point B —…
Blue Yonder Associate Shares Journey of Hair Loss, Healing and Embracing Resilience
September is Alopecia Areata Awareness Month, which focuses on an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. The severity can range from small patches to complete hair loss. Blue Yonder associate Charlotte Diener shares her journey of diagnosis and how she learned to make lemonade out…
A (Supply) Chain is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Link: Why Labor Management is a Key Component of the Supply Chain
Right now, your supply chain platform probably includes planning software — focused on things like demand, inventory or replenishment — and execution software — focused on transportation, logistics or warehousing — to create a more efficient supply chain. The data and automation provided by these…
Can Production Be Both Flexible and Stable? The Answer Is “Yes!”
The global automative industry has experienced many foundational changes over the past several decades. One of the biggest is a shift from an emphasis on “lean” manufacturing principles — which emphasize production efficiency, stability and profitability — to today’s increasing focus on flexibility and customer-centricity….
How LSPs Can Cut Costs, Reduce Waste and Boost Revenue With Smart Returns Management
Driving down costs across the supply chain is a key goal for third-party logistics (3PL) businesses, particularly during inflationary pressure and labor market shortages. However, while increasingly niche efficiencies and optimizations are being pursued in the outbound logistics journey, reverse logistics still has low-hanging fruit…
Blue Yonder Associate Fulfills Once-in-a-Lifetime Dream of Volunteering at the Olympics
Blue Yonder associate Naveen Kumar Chintamani, Senior Project Manager, volunteered at the Paris Olympics. He shares his experience in this DIVE In blog post. The Olympics – the first thing that likely comes to your mind is a global sporting event where every country participates…