Parts and labor shortages, changing buying patterns, and intense competitive pressures require a new approach to automotive manufacturing, distribution, and sales.
- Automotive
Industry challenges
You need resilient and sustainable supply chains that work effectively across your multi-tier networks
Procurement planning and logistics silos
Disconnected demand and supply planning leads to excess inventory and inefficiencies, exacerbated by rising customer expectations and market volatility.
Ongoing supply shortages and logistic disruptions
Geopolitical tensions, parts shortages, and labor constraints cause supply chain bottlenecks. You need a crisis-proof approach to supply chains between suppliers and OEMs.
Legacy tech fails to deliver
Today's automotive customer expects a consistent omni-channel experience that delivers rapid, accurate fulfillment and options for advanced online customization that legacy tech struggles to deliver.
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Business Impact
Capabilities
Transforming the automotive industry
Network Design & Utilization
Adapt and optimize your network to meet any challenge
Model and optimize the full breadth and depth of your supply chain network. With powerful modeling capabilities that consider what-if scenarios, varying currencies, and application flexibility, Blue Yonder can help you evaluate, design, optimize, and ultimately transform your supply chain network. Whether you are looking to expand, mitigate disruption, or optimize your current network resources, our solutions can help you reach your supply chain goals.
Integrated Business Planning
Automated forecasting for faster, smarter planning
Increase planning speed and productivity of your sales & operations planning with a highly automated forecasting process that supports better collaboration, reduces waste, optimizes allocation management, and improves sustainability. Our exception-based, AI-enabled planning framework identifies supply-demand imbalances in real time and offers a variety of resolution options. Your planning and execution will be supported by ongoing monitoring, real-time alerting, and a continuous feedback loop to ensure optimization.
Demand Planning
Enhance plans with predictive analytics and scenario analysis
Meet and exceed your business goals with Blue Yonder's end-to-end demand and supply plans that consider capacity, materials, costs, campaigns, and logistics. Improve your plan quality significantly with predictive analytics, fast demand-supply scenario analysis, prescriptive guidance, and situation rooms that promote collaboration.
Control Tower
Gain real-time control and transparency across your supply chain
Utilize one version of the truth and end-to-end visibility across functions and trading partners. With shared playbooks, situation rooms, and machine learning (ML)-powered resolutions, trading partners can not only collaborate more freely with each other in real-time, but optimize their own outcomes while also helping increase the performance of the entire network.
Order Promising & Optimization
Optimize costs, deliver on promises.
Deliver accurate and reliable data and inventory commitments to your customers according to personal preferences, across every channel, in real time. With Blue Yonder, you can optimize the cost to fulfill by considering model and parts selection and location, cost of goods, profitability, and transportation - from production to delivery.
Resourcing & Labor Management
Streamline logistics and labor for smarter, faster operations
Boost your efficiency of your warehouse, labor, and transportation with reliable inventory handling, demand-driven planning, unified logistics, and smart labor allocation. The results? Your employees are free to work smartly and accurately, increasing productivity while delivering superior service.
Transportation Management
Optimize transportation and procurement decisions
Scale your transportation management solutions so you can leverage every available asset to reduce delays, navigate disruptions, and drive profitability. You can transform transportation operations by managing both inbound and outbound transport and integrate supplier and carrier collaboration.