Blue Yonder announces product updates to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform and cognitive planning and execution solutions that enable organizations of any size to be more agile, accelerate their global expansion and meet their business goals.
“For Blue Yonder, this is more than a product update; this release represents the culmination of two years of effort and the integration of 8,000 workstreams spanning supply, demand and business planning, synchronized execution and AI-centric data modeling,” says Duncan Angove, CEO, Blue Yonder. “This release enables customers to build out and support new market opportunities or adjust their entire supply chain model as priorities shift, in a fraction of the time while maximizing profits. It also allows our customers to grow their business while navigating geopolitical tensions, disruptions, economic shifts or anything else that may come their way.”
Key Takeaways:
- Blue Yonder Integrated Demand & Supply Planning solution simultaneously analyzes changing demand patterns and supply availability to balance all aspects of planning for maximum efficiency, resiliency and service level attainment. Blue Yonder takes a unique approach to concurrent planning that harmonizes necessary supply, sourcing factors and capital resource availability to reduce costs, increase capital resource efficiency and cut inventory waste. For demand planners, this release utilizes AI and ML to provide recommendations on leveraging available inventory to serve specific customer segments and regions – optimizing cost efficiency and on-time, in-full delivery.
- With AI and machine learning (ML) updates to accelerate planning across supply chain and financial operations, as well as increased support for custom risk and opportunity scenarios, Integrated Business Planning provides near real-time recommendations that drive alignment across supply chain and financial goals.
- With retail, manufacturing and supply planning all connected and available on the Blue Yonder Platform, this release enables every aspect of the planning cycle to be handled in a single location for superior inventory and capital asset utilization while minimizing waste.
