Automotive

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Automotive

Drive greater performance and navigate today's challenges

Accelerate your response to demand swings, material shortages, and transport challenges with a high-performance, agile, and resilient supply chain that adapts to every turn.

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Industry challenges

You need resilient and sustainable supply chains that work effectively across your multi-tier networks

Parts and labor shortages, changing buying patterns, and intense competitive pressures require a new approach to automotive manufacturing, distribution, and sales.
Productivity

Procurement planning and logistics silos

Disconnected demand and supply planning leads to excess inventory and inefficiencies, exacerbated by rising customer expectations and market volatility.
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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.
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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

    • Renault Reduce Safety Stock and Improve Cashflow with Blue Yonder Forecasting and Replenishment
      Renault Reduce Safety Stock and Improve Cashflow with Blue Yonder Forecasting and Replenishment

      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 Drives Supply Chain Cost Reductions and Service Improvements with Blue Yonder Planning and Logistics
      Michelin Drives Supply Chain Cost Reductions and Service Improvements with Blue Yonder Planning and Logistics

      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.

    • Mitsubishi Drive Supply Chain Excellence with Forecasting & Replenishment
      Mitsubishi Drive Supply Chain Excellence with Forecasting & Replenishment

      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.

    • Mahindra & Mahindra Increases Revenues by 10% and Reduces Customer Response Times by 40% with Blue Yonder Optimization
      Mahindra & Mahindra Increases Revenues by 10% and Reduces Customer Response Times by 40% with Blue Yonder Optimization

      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

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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