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Discount Tire leverages Blue Yonder’s demand planning and replenishment capabilities, built on Microsoft Azure, to enhance its planning process with AI-driven predictions. These technologies deliver highly accurate, probabilistic demand forecasts that incorporate hundreds of internal and external variables. The retailer also established a center of excellence—a specialized hub for Blue Yonder knowledge and innovation—up-leveling employees’ skills and collaboration.
With over 1 million item locations—individual product placements—across its 1,200 stores, Blue Yonder’s technologies help Discount Tire manage these metrics by enhancing inventory management and demand forecasting. It also accurately tracks and optimizes inventory levels, reducing out-of-stock occurrences and ensuring product availability.
Another advantage of Blue Yonder’s demand planning and replenishment capabilities is the automation of routine tasks and integration of input from various departments. These competencies continuously evolve to meet shifting market demands through self-learning algorithms and deeper insights into customer behavior.
Elevating operational efficiency and profitability
Streamlined processes and team structures also helped aid in more responsive and agile operations. Discount Tire, with the help of Blue Yonder, achieved a 600-basis-point increase in 90-day purchase forecast accuracy and a 1,000-basis-point improvement in vendor fill-to-order.
These enhancements are helping Discount Tire adapt to market changes and optimize inventory management, securing its competitive edge and supporting long-term growth.
Momentum through connected planning
Discount Tire continues to expand its work with Blue Yonder as it implements dynamic allocation and supersession for demand planning. Next, the retailer will add assortment planning on the merchandising side, creating a seamless connection from financial planning, through assortment, demand planning, and inventory management.
