Fearless Females of Supply Chain: Be WISE
WISE is a student organization with the primary purpose of promoting the field of supply chain management/logistics. As part of our “Fearless Females of Supply Chain” Blue Yonder Live series, Blue Yonder’s Chief Customer Officer Susan Beal spoke to Stephanie Powell Thomas, Associate Professor of…
Fulfillment Forecasting: The Keys to Successfully Meeting Omni-Channel Demand
Market-based demand forecasting to help you predict orders and resources Retailers are facing increasing pressure to offer affordable, reliable and frictionless omni-channel fulfillment experiences. With the acceleration of omni-channel shopping, businesses must be able to predict labor needs, improve on-time delivery and order fill rates,…
Why I (Still) DIVE In
A few years ago I was asked, along with a broad coalition of Blue Yonder associates, to lend my image and quote to a company video called “Why I DIVE In.” It spotlighted many diverse Blue Yonder team members from all backgrounds and cultures and…
How Logistics and Supply Chain Careers Allow You “To Leave Your Mark,” Part 1
In honor of National Logistics Day, which is June 28, I share a recap of a conversation I recently had with my colleague Ann Marie Jonkman, who leads Blue Yonder’s 3PL Industry Strategy. Ann Marie shares highlights from her logistics career and what she has…
What’s the Future of Retail? Future Stores Seattle 2023 Illuminates the Path
The physical retail store is dead…long live the reimagined phygital retail store! Branding, technology advancements that deliver efficient operations, delighting the customer, and investing in the employees were the key themes as some of the largest retailers and those up-and-comers met in Seattle for three…
A Blue Yonder Associate Shares His Eye for Capturing Nature’s Beauty
Rahul Bhandari is a Senior Practice Director based in India. He shares his love for nature photography regularly with Blue Yonder associates. In honor of Nature Photography Day, which celebrates nature and the art of photography, we asked him to share his love with our…
Blue Yonder Was Ranked as a Leader in the Inaugural Nucleus Research TMS Technology Value Matrix
Innovation on Functionality to Help Optimize our Customers’ Supply Chain Performance is Our Ongoing Directions Nucleus Research (Nucleus) recently published its inaugural Transportation Technology Value Matrix 2023 report, which provides an overview of the current market for transportation management solutions and assesses the software providers…
A Blue Yonder Associate’s Journey: Choosing Allyship Every Day
Kranthi Remala (she/her) is a Technical Staff Engineer working in the Retail Planning space in Hyderabad, India. This Pride, she shares her journey to becoming an Ally along with some simple measures you can take as an Ally to support the LGBTQ+ community. I was…
Key Learnings from the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Barcelona
Peter Drucker wrote in his book “Managing in the Next Society” that “the biggest challenge for the large company and especially for the multinational may be its social legitimacy – its values, its mission, its vision. Everything else can be outsourced.” This idea, coupled with…
Surviving and Thriving in Times of Low Growth: A Guide for the Future of Manufacturing
“Out of the chip pan and into the fire” must be a recurring feeling among manufacturers – across 2022 and into 2023 – as a proposed rebound following the eye of the COVID-19 pandemic storm has been usurped by a host of new and evolving…