How LSPs Can Cut Costs, Reduce Waste and Boost Revenue With Smart Returns Management
Driving down costs across the supply chain is a key goal for third-party logistics (3PL) businesses, particularly during inflationary pressure and labor market shortages. However, while increasingly niche efficiencies and optimizations are being pursued in the outbound logistics journey, reverse logistics still has low-hanging fruit…
Don’t Just Survive Peak Season – Thrive With Peak Planning Strategies
Peak season is a make-or-break period for retailers. With heightened customer expectations and increased order volume, delivering exceptional experiences while maintaining efficiency is paramount. Unfortunately, the pressure to meet demand often leads to reactive strategies that can damage brand reputation and bottom line. A staggering…
Blue Yonder is a Leader For the 13th Time in a Row in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for WMS – Special Thanks to Our Customers and Team!
This blog was co-written by Terence Leung and Clint Riser with Blue Yonder’s Industry & Solutions Marketing team. Companies across the manufacturing, retail, and logistics service provider industries are facing several major chronic challenges that impact their supply chains. These challenges include: Blue Yonder is…
Executing Through Uncertainty: The Problem of Inventory Rebalancing
For supply chain professionals, there is always a conundrum when balancing supply and demand. Traditional order management or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems do their best to execute an optimal balance, and they can be sufficient during normal operations. But a sudden imbalance is enough…
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…
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…