Optimize and Automate Your Planning and Scheduling With Blue Yonder
Manufacturers of cars and trucks — as well as other large-scale manufacturing enterprises — face tough challenges. With their high capital investments, long lead times and rising operations costs, they’ve been hit especially hard by the disruptions that characterize all supply chains today. From extreme…
How To Sharpen Up Your Customer Focus With Returns Feedback
Steve Jobs was desperate to make Apple focus on customers. “Some people say, ‘Give the customers what they want.’ But that’s not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do.” That’s a classic Jobs quote you’re probably…
How To Talk to Customers About Returns
As in so many things, communication is key when dealing with e-commerce returns. Marketers often discuss brand touchpoints, meaning the website, physical store locations, advertisements, sponsorships, and most crucially, when using, wearing or owning the product. However, one under-appreciated and crucially important brand touchpoint is…
Blue Yonder Associate Pursues Passion Through Ongoing Education
This DIVE In blog post was contributed by Blue Yonder associate Sekhar Variam, Senior Principal Software Engineer, who recently earned his master’s degree and shares his lessons learned along the journey. We all have dreams. Whether it’s to compete in the Olympics, learn to cook…
Challenges in Supply Chain for Medical Devices: Part 2
Supply chains for medical devices are becoming increasingly complex and face unique challenges. In Part 1 of our series on challenges in supply chain for medical devices, we delved into these complexities and discussed solutions that can help drive these businesses to the next level,…
Adding a Decade of First and Last Mile Lessons to Blue Yonder’s Future
Having spent a decade (which I recognize is not a massively long time in this industry!) working in the front line of the first and last mile, I wanted to discuss some of the key changes I’ve seen from our unique perspective as Doddle –…
Schrödinger’s Inventory: Managing Returned Stock
Erwin Schrödinger came up with his now-infamous cat partly out of frustration with the complexities of quantum physics and the apparent impossibility to know with certainty where things would be. That’s a relatable frustration to anyone who works in inventory management! For the unfamiliar, the…
How Blue Yonder’s Acquisition of One Network Enterprises Reinvents Supply Chain Management
Today, Blue Yonder completed its acquisition of One Network Enterprises, a global supply chain network and provider of the Intelligent Control Tower. The move has been described as a “shakeup of the supply chain software market,” and as one that will “change the landscape in…
Nucleus Research Names Blue Yonder a Leader in Supply Chain Planning Value Matrix™ 2024. Again.
Supply chain and IT leaders are under tremendous pressure to make the right decisions regarding supply chain planning technology investments. This investment should not only solve today’s problems but also be ready to tackle unseen future challenges, including Black Swan events like the recent IT…
Speedy Refunds: Creating Happy Customers With Fast and Effective Returns
Returns are one of retailers’ biggest problems in today’s e-commerce landscape – with 63% of merchants saying it’s a significant problem for their business. Without effective returns strategies, retailers are experiencing increased costs thanks to processing, sorting and restocking returns – all while damaging the…