Life Sciences Supply Chain Software

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

In this survey of nearly 700 businesses, we asked supply chain leaders about their ambitions, fears, goals and strategies. Find out the overall direction of the industry, the state of the art of supply chain management, why optimism remains strong and which key actions are being prioritized to achieve strategic goals like building resilience, implementing new technology, and becoming more sustainable.

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

Incisiv explores the significant transformation underway in modern supply chains, detailing the shift away from fragmented processes and point solutions to more agile platforms and collaborative workflows. This evolution addresses systemic issues such as inflexibility and disconnected communication, enhancing supply chain responsiveness, sustainability, and profitability.

Life Sciences

Industry Challenges
Capabilities
Business Impact
Case Studies
Industry Insights

Industry Challenges

Build high-performance, predictive supply chains to achieve strategic advantage

Strike the perfect balance between insight-driven efficiency, compliance and innovation across your supply chain to turn challenges into patient-centric advantages.

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Capabilities

Manage your complete life sciences supply chain with Blue Yonder

Integrated sales and operations planning

Given the variability in demand in life sciences supply chains, key business functions must stay aligned on corporate business objectives. Blue Yonder enables organizations to aggregate demand across all functions and locations, view demand at any level, drill down to underlying details, perform supply and demand balancing, and do plan-to-plan comparisons.

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Inventory and order optimization supports new product introductions

Determine order lead times with advanced algorithms that assess optimal inventory levels at each node of the supply chain based on customer order history. What-if analysis helps you plan inventory for new product introductions, including lead times for regulatory approvals. Safety stock can be reduced to lower capital requirements and improve cash flow to reallocate for R&D. Inventory and order optimization supports new product introductions.

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Distribution planning and order optimization support a wide range of planning activities

Blue Yonder supply planning and order optimization generates distribution plans that respect shelf-life constraints and alternate sourcing compliance by market; tracks and manages date-sensitive inventory; understands bulk requirements from bottom-up replenishment; and supports new distribution models such as direct-to-pharmacy and direct-to-hospital.

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Transportation management optimizes all modes of transport

Consider all transportation options to ensure lowest cost modes, routes, and carriers are evaluated to meet delivery commitments. The system optimizes global multi-leg, multi-modal shipments to local multi-stop fleet routing. Transportation is fully integrated with warehouse and labor management to synchronize operations based on priorities and constraints.

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Warehouse management automatically schedules work activities

Manage the flow of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory across internal distribution networks. The system automatically assigns each worker to the most productive task based on order priorities, proximity to inventory, and the equipment and certifications of each worker. Efficiency can be enhanced with RFID devices, voice picking, and pick-to-light automation.

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Blue Yonder Network

Coordinate efforts across your complex fabric of trading partners for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve, and faster time to market. As variability and volatility increase, digital supply chain networks are critical to adjust to change faster and smarter.

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Next-generation Control Towers

Network-wide visibility and orchestration for a continuously updated, shared version of end-to-end operations. Visualize the flow of orders, inventory and capacities – across the enterprise and partners - production, logistics, demand, supply, and space. Leverage intelligence to derive a coordinated response.

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Streamline decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

With superior decision-making speed and precision, life sciences companies can control costs, ensure timely availability and increase inventory turnover in the face of volatility. Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning is the only all-in-one solution for predictive forecasts, autonomous scenario planning, inventory optimization and insight-driven, end-to-end planning. Powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, market proven algorithms and intelligent insights.

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Optimize your reverse logistics execution

Optimize reverse logistics by directing returning items to the right place. Help warehouse operators handle returned inventory faster and more accurately with guided steps to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

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Blue Yonder delivers multiple benefits for life science companies

reduction in cost-to-serve

increase in service levels

increase in order fulfillment customer satisfaction

Business Impact

Blue Yonder enhances supply chain precision, resilience and strategic growth for optimized outcomes

Predictive demand and supply planning enhances forecasting precision

Insight-driven planning increases the ability for Medtech and Pharmaceutical companies to meet demand, minimize excess inventory and maximize inventory turnover while cognitively adapting to changing market conditions.

Optimized planning to improve patient outcomes

Optimize production of pharmaceuticals and devices based on patient needs, maintain inventory requirements across the globe, and speed up transportation to service patients at high levels while minimizing costs.

Extend seamless collaboration among internal and external teams

Enhance collaboration across internal supply chain functions as well as external networks from suppliers through distribution partners.

Life Sciences

Unlock 12x ROI with a true end-to-end supply chain platform

End-to-End Planning & Execution

AI & Machine Learning

Blue Yonder Network

Cognitive Solutions

Data Cloud & Platform

Composable Journeys

Professional Services

User Experience

Our solutions have the power to unveil the hidden.

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder unveils advanced AI-driven Cognitive Solutions

Accelerate Informed Decisions With AI Built for Supply Chain

Demystifying AI for Supply Chain Leaders

Reorganizing for AI: How Supply Chain Leaders Have to Adapt

Success stories showcase the transformative impact we've had on their businesses.

DHL

Carlsberg Group

Walgreens

Browse all our resources: whitepapers, guides, reports and more.

How AI-Enabled Planning Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

ICON 2026

Ensure traceability with compliant, end-to-end cold-chain control

Build high-performance, predictive supply chains to achieve strategic advantage

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Manage your complete life sciences supply chain with Blue Yonder

Integrated sales and operations planning

Inventory and order optimization supports new product introductions

Distribution planning and order optimization support a wide range of planning activities

Transportation management optimizes all modes of transport

Warehouse management automatically schedules work activities

Blue Yonder Network

Next-generation Control Towers

Streamline decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

Optimize your reverse logistics execution

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Blue Yonder delivers multiple benefits for life science companies

Blue Yonder enhances supply chain precision, resilience and strategic growth for optimized outcomes

Predictive demand and supply planning enhances forecasting precision

Optimized planning to improve patient outcomes

Extend seamless collaboration among internal and external teams

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Success stories in Life Sciences

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Industry insights

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Why Blue Yonder

About Blue Yonder

Partners

Unlock 12x ROI with a true end-to-end supply chain platform

End-to-End Planning & Execution

AI & Machine Learning

Blue Yonder Network

Cognitive Solutions

Data Cloud & Platform

Composable Journeys

Professional Services

User Experience

Our solutions have the power to unveil the hidden.

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder unveils advanced AI-driven Cognitive Solutions

Accelerate Informed Decisions With AI Built for Supply Chain

Demystifying AI for Supply Chain Leaders

Reorganizing for AI: How Supply Chain Leaders Have to Adapt

Success stories showcase the transformative impact we've had on their businesses.

DHL

Carlsberg Group

Walgreens

Browse all our resources: whitepapers, guides, reports and more.

How AI-Enabled Planning Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

ICON 2026

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Manage your complete life sciences supply chain with Blue Yonder