Vacation Vibes and a Job? Kids Can Have It All This Summer
It’s that time of year again. The days are getting longer, the weather is getting hotter, and the end of school is just around the corner. It’s summertime! The season of flip flops, sandy beaches, family vacations, and most importantly, no school until the fall….
Logistics Executives Survey Offers Latest Insights on Customer Experience and Disruptions
While every industry has experienced its share of challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the end-to-end supply chain and global and regional logistics operations have been forever transformed by the events of the last two years. Since supply chain volatility seems unlikely to…
SIG Meetings at ICON 2022 – The Best Way to Network with Fellow Customers
ICON 2022 is less than a month away! Blue Yonder’s Wayland Fox, Senior Marketing Director, sat down with Rachael Kennedy, Senior Process Manager, at L.L.Bean recently to discuss her role on Blue Yonder’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs), what she enjoys most about being part of…
Keeping Tire Manufacturing on Track in the New Normal: Supply Chain Optimization is the Best Route Forward
Over the past decade, the tire industry has faced several market and technological challenges, caused by increasing competition and growing demand for high technology tires. At the same time, tire manufacturers have suffered from extreme volatility, raw material shortages with rapidly rising prices, a shortage…
Dynamic Safety Stock in Retail
Underselling and overselling are common challenges for most retailers. On the one hand, companies strive to place just enough quantities of goods at the right locations, particularly at the right stores to enable buy-online-pickup-in store (BOPIS). On the other hand, companies fear the risk of…
ICON Partner Highlight: Get To Know Accenture
We’re excited to have you as a sponsor, what excites you most about ICON 2022? It is exciting to finally be able to come back together, in person, at one of the largest supply chain events. We will be able to see how companies have…
Blue Yonder – A Technology Leader in Quadrant Knowledge Solutions SPARK Matrix™: Omnichannel Order Management Systems (OMS), 2022
Blue Yonder is excited to announced that we have been positioned as a Technology Leader in Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix: Omnichannel Order Management Systems (OMS), 2022. The report includes a detailed analysis of the global OMS market, and provides insights into market dynamics, vendor…
Blue Yonder Named a Leader in WFM Technology
Workforce remains top of mind for business leaders because it’s become clear that there’s no end in sight for today’s labor challenges. There are more than 11 million job openings in the United States, and 35% of businesses are experiencing unsustainable turnover rates between 11%…
Three Keys for 4PL Success
This is part 2 of 3 article on the topic of “How 4PL Services Can Help Up the Game in the Omni-Channel World.” As I discussed in my last blog post, the pandemic has driven dramatic growth for fourth-party logistics (4PL) providers. As the world’s…
Strategies To Modernize Your Grocery E-Commerce Supply Chain
This is an article co-authored by Terence Leung, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Supply Chain Execution, and Nina Seth, Director of Product Marketing for Commerce for Blue Yonder Online grocery sales are soaring to new heights. In fact, more than 70% of U.S. households, or 93…