Our supply chain champions
Discount Tire: 6% increase in forecast accuracy
Discount Tire is a leading independent retailer of tires and wheels. Discount Tire implemented Blue Yonder’s AI-driven demand and replenishment capabilities to streamline its inventory management, achieving a 6% increase in forecast accuracy. This enables the company to align stock levels with real-time demand, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency – all while making sure that everyone can drive home safely for the holidays.
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Bata: 72% in-store availability for all shoes and sizes
Bata is one of the world’s leading footwear manufacturers and distributors, selling nearly 150 million pairs of shoes annually. Using Blue Yonder’s cloud-native solutions in merchandising, assortment, demand, and replenishment planning, Bata is able to better understand consumer demand, evaluate product characteristics, and tailor distribution strategies to individual stores ahead of the holiday season.
“In India, our in-store availability has increased to 72%, and we’ve been able to shorten product cycles, allowing us to introduce and replenish new collections more quickly. These early wins are just the beginning of our journey to provide the best possible offerings to our customers.”
Barbara Franceschetto, Chief Global Product Officer, Bata Group.
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METRO: Achieves record 97% product availability
METRO is a leading international food wholesaler, operating a complex supply chain with products sold at physical stores and directly delivered to hotels, restaurants, grocers, and other food-service businesses. Using Blue Yonder supply chain planning solutions, METRO can optimally balance ambitious customer service targets with inventory controls and accurate resource planning, achieving its record high of 97% product availability for its customers. That’s holiday feasts sorted across 16 countries and counting.
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Promart: Increased inventory profitability by 40%
Homecenters Peruanos (Promart) is a Peruvian home improvement retail chain with 37 stores nationwide. Using Blue Yonder‘s assortment optimization capabilities, Promart was able to redefine its national portfolio, creating a more precise and regionally tailored allocation strategy while streamlining its inventory management. Overall, they achieved a 40% increase in inventory profitability and a 10% increase in sales, giving consumers the perfect backdrop to make holiday memories.
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XPO Logistics: 99.9% stock accuracy
XPO Logistics is a global logistics company, operating across over 215 sites across 14 European countries. Using the Blue Yonder Dispatcher, part of Blue Yonder Warehouse Management, to enhance accuracy and productivity, XPO Logistics was able to optimize pick and stock accuracy across multiple sites, reaching a 99.9% stock accuracy rate.
"We’ve seen unparalleled improvements in stock accuracy and productivity using Blue Yonder. It's become a key part of our growth and automation strategy."
– Nigel Rouch, SVP of Technology - Europe, XPO Logistics.
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Arcadia Cold: 9% boost in warehouse labor productivity
Arcadia Cold Storage and Logistics specializes in providing third-party, temperature-controlled handling, storage, distribution and value-added services to the food industry, and aims to become the most customer-centric cold chain organization in the U.S.
Using Blue Yonder’s warehouse management, warehouse labor management, and transportation management solutions helped Arcadia Cold gain real-time visibility, improve efficiency, and build resilience and sustainability into its operations from the start. With Blue Yonder, Arcadia Cold not only launched 5 new facilities in just 18 months, but also increased warehouse labor productivity by 9%.
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Lenovo: 5% boost in forecast accuracy
Operating 30 manufacturing facilities and serving 180 markets worldwide, Lenovo produces an astonishing three devices every second. Blue Yonder’s solutions have become the backbone of Lenovo’s digital planning initiatives, achieving a 5% boost in forecast accuracy, 10% higher delivery accuracy, 10% reduction in inventory turns and a 4% improvement in on-time delivery ready for the holiday season.
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CPF: 15% reduction in food waste
Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is a $30 billion global food production company that exports to 40 countries where consumers have varying requirements for the size and quality grade of its meats. Blue Yonder’s demand and supply planning solution helps manage supply chain operations from hatchery to production, right through to distribution.
“Blue Yonder demand and supply planning software provides near real-time, end-to-end visibility of our incredibly complex supply chain. It has improved our sustainability metrics as we have reduced residual food wastage by 15% through better meat-cutting optimization.”
–Birasit Boonnam - Head of Aquatic Operations, CPF
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Core-Mark: 51,000 customer/retailer locations supported by single cloud platform
Core-Mark, a Performance Food Group company, is one of North America’s largest distributors to the convenience-retail industry. Blue Yonder space planning, leveraging its planogram generator feature to standardize its planogram process. Analysts can now log in, retrieve store-specific fixture data, and generate shelf-ready planograms within minutes. Core-Mark significantly accelerated its time-to-shelf while ensuring consistency across its diverse retail network, boosting planogram coverage by 40% and supporting over 51,000 customer/retailer locations with a single cloud platform.
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