Blue Yonder named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems

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Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems for the 14th Consecutive Year

  • Blue Yonder named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems
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At Blue Yonder, our commitment to placing customers at the forefront of everything we do has empowered us to consistently deliver solutions that drive operational excellence. We proudly announce that Blue Yonder has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report1 for the 14th consecutive year2. We believe this recognition highlights the Completeness of our Vision and our Ability to Execute by providing cutting-edge technology to address the complex and evolving needs of our customers. Our commitment to continuous innovation is evident through our increased investment in Blue Yonder’s transportation management solutions, ensuring that our clients receive the best of the best.

Blue Yonder’s achievements are deeply rooted in our transportation management solutions and the Blue Yonder Platform. In the face of economic fluctuations, our solutions help businesses redesign distribution networks, focusing on cost-effective productivity to navigate these challenges. Blue Yonder supports businesses throughout the entire supply chain, from initial to final delivery and back.

With this latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management System, Blue Yonder remains one of only two companies recognized as a Leader in the three Gartner Magic Quadrant reports3 covering Supply Chain Planning, Transportation Management Systems, and Warehouse Management Systems.

Enhanced Capabilities through Strategic Acquisitions

Our transportation management solutions offer end-to-end global transportation management, complemented by logistics solutions such as Warehouse Management and Yard Management solutions. We believe the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Transportation Management Systems report4 underscores the effectiveness of Blue Yonder’s transportation management solutions in addressing Level 3 through Level 5 use cases. With our strategic acquisition of One Network Enterprises, we are poised to enhance our service offerings across the entire spectrum, from Level 1 to Level 5 clients, catering to both the simplest and the most complex enterprise needs.

Integrating One Network with Blue Yonder’s transportation management solutions enhance real-time visibility, collaboration, and optimization, leading to reduced costs and improved service levels. By providing a scalable, cloud-based platform that connects end-to-end supply chain functions, we empower data-driven decision-making and proactive risk management, ultimately boosting operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Continuous Innovation Across Diverse Industries and Geographies

Blue Yonder is a global supply chain leader with a strong presence across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions. Retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers worldwide rely on Blue Yonder transportation management solutions to optimize and accelerate their supply chain operations.

“We have great expectations that this new [Blue Yonder transportation management solutions] will support us to improve our customer experience and our logistics operations throughout the entire global supply chain network.”

Johnny Ivanyi, Global Head of Logistics Operational Excellence, Bayer.

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Supporting Digital Journeys and Sustainability Goals

Blue Yonder’s transportation management solutions are designed to support our customers’ digital journeys, helping them navigate complex challenges and meet customer-centric requirements. At Blue Yonder, we are focused on enabling our customers to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape, ensuring they achieve their ambitious goals in sustainability and productivity. Regardless of the increasing complexity of the world, Blue Yonder remains committed to delivering responsible and innovative technology to our customers.

“As a new company, we could embed sustainability from the start in our business processes and technology choices. Blue Yonder’s solutions gave us the ability to start digital. We do everything digital — from taking pictures of inbound trucks and showing our customers how we receive their products to how we ship their products. There’s no paper waste. Blue Yonder provides us and our customers with a single view of our data so we can see all their information in one place. Everything is documented in a system for ease of access and waste reduction,”  

Christopher Lafaire, Chief Information Officer, Arcadia Cold. 

 

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Advanced AI and ML Integration

The Blue Yonder Platform, along with its transportation management solutions, is at the forefront of innovation with a clear vision centered around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These advanced technologies empower global transportation execution and optimization, excelling in data management and seamlessly integrating into the logistics ecosystem. Our solutions are designed to provide customers with end-to-end visibility, coordination, and optimization, effectively supporting Logistics Service Providers and the transportation operations of manufacturers and retailers, as well as their carrier networks. Furthermore, Blue Yonder’s logistics network enhances the shipper experience through superior built-in connectivity and continuously updated service offerings, underscoring our commitment to leveraging AI and ML for transformative transportation management solutions.

“We first implemented Blue Yonder’s transportation management [solutions] in 2006. The logistics landscape has changed significantly since then, but Blue Yonder’s capabilities have evolved along with it. Today we’re undertaking a digital transformation, supported by a move to the cloud, that’s setting the stage for automation and exception-based management across our global transportation network. Working in partnership with Blue Yonder, I’m confident we’ll get there,” 

A Transportation Manager, Kimberly-Clark. 

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Empowering our Customers

At Blue Yonder, we are dedicated to empowering our customers to achieve operational excellence and thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. Our solutions are designed to support ambitious goals in sustainability and efficiency, ensuring our customers remain at the forefront of their industries.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations and appreciation to our transportation management customers globally, whose contributions are vital to Blue Yonder being recognized in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report. For those Blue Yonder customers who have yet to explore our innovative capabilities, we invite you to reach out and discover how these Blue Yonder solutions can integrate with and elevate your current Blue Yonder software.

To learn how our customers’ digital journey benefits from our transportation management solutions, visit the Blue Yonder Transportation Management solution page and review our Transportation Management for a Transformed World E-book , and Selecting the Right TMS for Your Needs E-book.

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1Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 25 March 2025.

2Blue Yonder was previously listed as JDA; the company rebranded to Blue Yonder in February 2020.

3Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, Federica Stufano, 2 May 2024. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions, Pia Orup Lund, Tim Payne, Joe Graham, Caleb Thomson, Jan Snoeckx, 23 April 2024. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 24 March 2025.

4Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 24 March 2025.

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