From the Barley in the Fields, to the Beer in Our Hands: Carlsberg’s Sustainability Journey
For the past 175 years, Carlsberg has continuously reinvented itself from a marketing, innovation and product perspective, while remaining true to its core values of enriching communities while manufacturing quality drinks. Spanning 140 brands, 40,000 employees, 150 global markets, and 12.5 billion liters of alcoholic…
For CPG Companies, Risk Mitigation Is a Key Success Factor
What are the greatest challenges and opportunities facing consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies today, and how can they maximize their chances for success? Blue Yonder and Microsoft recently commissioned IDC to create an infographic* addressing those questions. The answers may surprise you. Read on to…
6 Key Takeaways from Blue Yonder Automotive Connect
Blue Yonder and Microsoft co-hosted the annual Blue Yonder Automotive Connect event in Detroit, Michigan, bringing together 67 supply chain practitioners from 15 companies in the Automotive OEM, Tier 1, and Aftermarket sectors. The event featured engaging speakers from Daimler Truck, Ford, Subaru Canada, Mercedes-Benz…
Integrated Demand and Supply Planning: The Key to Success for CPG, F&B and Life Sciences Manufacturers
Manufacturers of consumer products — including packaged goods, food and beverages, and life sciences — face both opportunities and challenges. Product sales figures are on the rise, with the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector realizing 10% growth in 2023. But much of this growth can…
Driving Digital Supply Chain Transformation at onsemi
At Gartner’s recent Supply Chain Planning Summit, I had the honor of co-presenting with Chance Finley, Vice President for Global Supply Chain at onsemi, a leading semiconductor manufacturer with more than $8 billion in annual revenue. Since 2022, Blue Yonder has been working with onsemi…
Driving the Future of Automotive — Connected, Autonomous, Electric, Configure to Order
For over a century, the global automotive industry has been focused on one central technology: the internal combustion engine. But now, the digitalization of the modern car is revolutionizing the industry, with enormous repercussions for the end-to-end supply chain. As cars become more connected, autonomous,…
Advanced Order Management: The Key to Wholesale Distribution Success
Recently, Blue Yonder released the findings of its survey of wholesale distribution executives1, which focused on their order management challenges, goals and forward-looking plans. While this blog provides an overview of our key findings, the complete results are summarized in our new e-book, “Distribution Executives…
People-Centric Transformations, Building Sustainable Supply Chains and Cognition – The Next Frontier in Supply Chains
Highlights from the High-Tech Industry Summit Blue Yonder’s High-Tech Industry Summit, cosponsored by Microsoft and Ernst & Young LLP, brought together over 50 supply chain practitioners from 18 diverse high-tech companies to Microsoft’s Technology Center in Mountain View, California, in October. This annual event, which facilitates sharing…
What if Your ERP Never Gets Out of the ER?
How to transform your supply chain (without waiting for your ERP to recover) Wholesale distribution and manufacturing (WD&M) has entered a new era where agility, speed and accuracy are no longer nice-to-haves, but rather uncompromising must-haves for meeting the new omni-channel B2B customer expectation. Once…
5 Lucrative Value-Added Services for Wholesale Distribution and Manufacturing
Over the last five years, B2B commerce has experienced one of the most significant inflection points in its history. Seismic shifts in buying behavior and customer expectations have fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. Omni-channel has been firmly positioned as the new industry standard, forcing…