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.
Blue Yonder delivers results
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Case Studies
Success stories in Automotive
For automotive company Renault, premium customer service is at the core of their business – but their pledge to deliver any one of 200,000 spare parts overnight was not only complicated, but costly. Learn how Blue Yonder helped Renault achieve a centralized calculation of inventory drivers, replenishment and forecast, allowing them to reduce redundant safety stock while maintaining high levels of customer service.
Michelin had three major supply chain goals: to improve customer service, lower logistics costs and reduce inventory. Listen as the executive project manager of supply chain transformation explains how Blue Yonder helped Michelin identify and implement the right solution to achieve each of their three supply chain goals – without compromising the others.
To deliver higher service levels for its customers, Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. knew it first had to achieve greater forecast accuracy. Discover how Blue Yonder Planning helped the business analyze supply chain trouble spots and resolve potential inventory issues before they happened, as well as improve overall customer service.
The Spares Business Unit (SBU) at Mahindra & Mahindra Farm Equipment provides genuine vehicle and tractor spare parts. The team was challenged to profitably manage its high inventory investments.
Business Impact
Integrated demand and supply planning
Develop "what-if" simulations and contingency plans based on demand realization and supply disruption scenarios. Proactive scenario planning helps you comprehend the demand upside that can be covered and percentage of demand that will be unmet in the event of a disruption. This improves fill rates, reduces working capital as well as premium freight and enhances planner productivity.
Illuminate your supply chain network
Visualize the entire flow of goods across your network, you can measure the impact of a supply disruption or a demand mix change. When you see the impact of the disruption in real-time, you can come up with proactive risk mitigation plans which will help organizations improve fill rates, reduce premium freight and improve planner productivity.
Synchronized planning and execution
A seamlessly integrated platform for synchronized Planning and Execution helps converge manufacturing, transportation, and warehouse operations, fostering enhanced resiliency, agility, and responsiveness. By dismantling the barriers between planning and execution, organizations forge strategic partnerships, enhance collaboration with logistics providers, and potentially bring logistics in-house.
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.
