What Constitutes a True Supply Chain Network?
Over the past few years, the distributions of the pandemic and the Suez and Panama canals have highlighted the shortcomings of the traditional ways of running a supply chain. Many businesses are embarking on a digital transformation to turn linear supply chains into connected, intelligent, scalable, customizable, and nimble…
Blue Yonder Recognized by Industry Analysts as a Leader in Three Areas of Supply Chain Management
Blue Yonder – A Leader in Supply Chain Management At Blue Yonder we are proud to announce that we have been recognized as a Leader in what we believe are three major areas by top industry analysts. Our commitment to innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction has…
Blue Yonder at BVL Supply Chain CX in Berlin: A New Vision for Transformational Supply Chains
During 23 to 25 October, the Blue Yonder team had the pleasure of joining thousands of supply chain professionals at the newly rebranded BVL Supply Chain CX event in Berlin. As we exhibited here, as well as at the Düsseldorf Logistics Summit earlier this year,…
Press Start to Make Your Supply Chain Smarter
In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, visibility equals agility and the business that moves the fastest wins the game. What’s required is a clear view of what the business needs to plan for and then execute: control towers. As with any technology investment, control towers should…
Good AI vs. Bad AI
Blue Yonder and WMG, University of Warwick recently released a report exploring the digital readiness of today’s retail supply chains with only 15% of global retailers reporting prescriptive or autonomous supply chains driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). However, over half of those surveyed…
Four Ways Blue Yonder Continues to Innovate After 35+ Years of Success
How do you stay agile, and at the same time, support a vast portfolio of products and customers? Blue Yonder serves a large customer base of companies with a varied set of products and capabilities, all of which are leveraged uniquely by different customers. As…
The Inevitability of Warehouse Robots
Recently, while attempting to leave San Francisco International Airport, I found myself halted by the CAFEX coffee-making robot. Its glistening white arms moved with surprisingly organic fluidity, even attempting to gently swirl the cup’s contents. Instantly, I found myself in an internal social debate, « Is this the…
7 AI Predictions for 2020
Dr. Michael Feindt – founder of Blue Yonder and JDA’s chief scientific advisor – has been researching, understanding, and identifying ground-breaking use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) for many years. As a physicist and data scientist, he is constantly thinking about how algorithms can be…
Retail Pricing: How Leading Retailers Are Leveraging AI to Fight Back
The first blog in this two-part series focused on the primary challenge facing retailers today: mega-retailers have forced prices down, based on their economies of scale and hyper-optimized supply chains. Smaller retailers have responded by creating short-term promotions that draw shoppers into the store, but…
Retail Pricing: Understanding How Power Shifted to the Consumer
Remember the good old days when retailers controlled pricing? With limited competition, they were able to offer standardized assortments across all their sales outlets, purchased in a manner that delivered the lowest possible unit cost. Pricing was based on a set of established rules, defined…