Blue Yonder enhanced its warehouse management solution with machine-speed, precision and AI to drive competitive advantage, adaptability and greater efficiency in warehouse operations.
Blue Yonder Warehouse Management Solution, one of the company’s Cognitive Solutions, empowers retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers with a step-change in capability to run leaner, faster and more accurately.
“Warehouse operators face intense pressure in today’s digital world, yet many still struggle with disconnected systems and reactive processes, leading to operational challenges,” says Gurdip Singh, chief product officer, Blue Yonder. “Our latest warehouse enhancements provide customers with a new level of efficiency and effectiveness. By building on decades of customer-focused development, our Warehouse Management Solution leverages the power of cloud-native computing and AI, enabling our customers to seamlessly scale resources and act faster with greater precision for better outcomes. This not only delivers substantial financial benefits but helps our customers outperform in today’s competitive market.”
Key takeaways:
· The solution is built on the Blue Yonder Platform with a modern and true cloud architecture for scale and access to advanced AI capabilities. It uses the AI data cloud to eliminate silos and enable end-to-end interoperability for unified and orchestrated decisioning across systems.
- The Warehouse Ops Agent is said to be the first AI-powered agent designed to transform warehouse operations. By delivering dynamic daily briefs and monitoring real-time changes, the agent empowers operations managers to plan effectively and adapt throughout the day. It analyzes complex data in seconds—rather than hours or days—to identify patterns and disruptions and surface actionable insights, enabling faster, more confident decision-making. With AI teammates that can see, analyze, decide and act, warehouse teams gain unprecedented visibility and agility, driving strategic performance and optimizing operations across every corner of the warehouse.
- Resource Orchestration gives customers the ability to allocate resources to tasks and optimize resource assignments as conditions evolve throughout the day. By considering task priorities, resource skillsets, equipment permissions, and current operational bottlenecks, this capability ensures that the workforce is always aligned with operational needs, enhancing flexibility and productivity. An embedded warehouse execution system powered by AI intelligently orchestrates resources to deliver smarter decisions, greater flexibility and maximum efficiency in the warehouse.
- Resource Forecasting enables teams to predict labor and resources requirements—by role, equipment, task and work zone—ranging from weeks to minutes before a shift begins. Unlike traditional methods that rely solely on historical data, our approach is powered by AI and machine learning and incorporates real-time updates, predictive learning models and real-world process variations to create highly accurate forecasts. This ensures warehouses begin each shift prepared for the specific demands of the day.
- Advanced Slotting enables customers to transform slotting from a reactive, rules-based process into a proactive, continuously optimized system. By integrating real-time demand forecasts and machine learning algorithms that predict order volumes and task times, it dynamically determines optimal slot counts and locations to reduce pick travel time and maximize fill rates. AI-powered warehouse agents provide real-time insights into slotting accuracy and efficiency, offering clear actionable recommendations. The system generates daily slot plans that improve space utilization, streamline operations, reduce handling costs, and ensure products are consistently stored in the most efficient locations.
- Customers can unify labor and automation for enhanced warehouse performance—from streamlined onboarding to adaptable execution and ongoing performance improvements. Accelerated automation onboarding is available for over a dozen leading vendors for rapid time to value and increased scalability. Real-time communication between automation and the Warehouse Management Solution prevents the need for batching, immediately identifies automation failures and retries or reassigns resources for optimal productivity and utilization. Robotics performance can be tracked as autonomous work or human-assisted for heightened insight into overall resource performance.
- Blue Yonder’s new AI-powered migration tools facilitate a smooth upgrade process for all Warehouse Management Solution customers, enabling efficient adoption of the latest systems. Leveraging AI significantly reduces integration complexity and deployment time, providing faster transitions, enhanced operational agility and greater value for customers.
