Climate Change: Yet Another Source of Global Supply Chain Risk and Disruption
Supply Chain Disruption In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solution Marketing team explores innovative solutions to guard against supply chain disruptions. Companies in every industry are focusing on operating more sustainably and embracing environmental stewardship — and with good reason. Every day we’re reminded…
Innovative Solutions to Guard Against Warehouse Disruptions and Challenges, Part 1
Warehouse Disruptions In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solution Marketing team explores innovative solutions to guard against supply chain disruptions. The following are insights gained from my discussion with Joe Kozenski, Blue Yonder Director of Product Management, and Mark Severns, Blue Yonder Director of…
Sustainability Efforts are Gaining Momentum Even Though Sustainability is a Moving Target
The importance of supply chain sustainability (SCS) is trending upward – and that’s a positive! This insight comes from the 2022 State of Supply Chain Sustainability Report, presented by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) and the Council of Supply Chain Management…
Blue Yonder Gives ICON Attendees a Chance to Give Back
Earth Day is celebrated each year in over 190 countries and counting. It’s a day to acknowledge a movement that works to cease unsustainable behavior and create global environmental changes. This year marks the 52nd Earth Day. In honor of the day, Blue Yonder is…
Resilient and Sustainable? Can a Supply Chain Really Have It All?
The State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 report tells us that the work for increased supply chain sustainability has not slowed down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but is continuing in full force. And at the same time, the pandemic has focused on…
Sustainability and Equality are Parts of the Same Equation
In today’s DIVE In blog Nina Lund, Retail and CG Lead at Microsoft offers her words of wisdom, drawing from her own personal and professional experiences. Nina focuses on how sustainability and equality go hand in hand to achieve a diverse and supported workplace. She…
3 Ways to Drive Sustainability in Transportation
This is Part 3 of a multi-part series addressing logistics imperatives necessary to manage uncertainly and disruptions heading into 2022. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Transportation is one of the biggest contributing factors to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and virtually every…
Business and Technology Insights from the 2021 State of Supply Chain Execution Report, Part 1
Customer centricity, e-commerce, Direct-to-Consumer (D2C), and the risk of financial peril are propelling shippers (manufacturers and retailers) and logistics service providers (LSPs) to digitally transform. 2020 and the first half of 2021 saw an acceleration in many emerging digital trends pre-dating the pandemic. Today we…
Weaving Sustainability into the Fabric of the Supply Chain
How Luminate Control Tower is helping our customers, and getting recognized by Microsoft’s Satya Nadella in global conference keynote Do you hear that? It’s the collective sigh from many of us who have been fervently working toward building the future of sustainable supply chains. Why…
Insights from the 2021 Logistics Executive Survey: The New Normal of Logistics
Our recently launched 2021 Logistics Executive Survey aims to seek out the “New Normal of Logistics.” The survey tracks the pulse of the market as logistics operations are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic to periods of adjustments, redefinition, and eventually a new equilibrium. This is…