- ...Industries
- Apparel & Footwear
Industry Challenges
Give your supply chain the power to shake off disruption
Black swan events complicate seasonal planning
Increasing mobile comparison shopping, fast-moving social media style trends, and even the changing physicality of influencers, impede accurately forecasting fashion markets in preseason.
Complex balances between offshoring and nearshoring
Uncertain trade partners, shorter sales times, expensive air shipping, and labor shortages complicate the coordination of production and transportation.
Omni-channel and full-service act as cost drivers
The shift toward omni-channel commerce increases margin pressure, while control and sanitizing of returned goods reduces profitability in end of season stock.
Up to 0%
reduction of out-of-stocks
$0M
profit due to markdown avoidance
Case Studies
Success stories in Apparel & Footwear
Blue Yonder's category management solution helps category managers, floor, assortment and space planners with seamless data transfer, real-time sync and space-aware planning.
Business Impact
Fashion retailers trust Blue Yonder
AI separates profitable trends from transitory blips
Blue Yonder melds data science with the art of merchandising by factoring in weather data, seasonality, and local events that drive buying habits so you can shift from siloed working patterns to consolidated strategies across the enterprise. With end-to-end visibility, you can predict and adjust production, allocation, replenishment, space, and product mix, as well as pricing and promotions.
Nudge buyer behavior in your favor
Influence consumer decisions with targeted pricing and rewards to encourage sales with buy-in-store, click-and-collect, and ship-to-store models that suit your business and customer experience goals.
Choose the best fulfillment option considering multiple factors
Select the fastest or most efficient shipping mode, especially for long-range fulfillment. Consider factors such as taxes and goods storage from the first mile to the last mile and directly link shipping to order management to provide customers with real-time updates on the status and location of their orders.
Capabilities
Solutions for every retail supply chain challenge from raw material to end consumer
Retail Planning & Category Management
Manage merchandising strategies, boost supply chain performance
Manage pre-season, in-season, open-to-buy, and other merchandising strategies, to coordinate inventory plans and end-to-end distributions for a more responsive and profitable supply chain.
Space Management
Maximize space, boost sales and profitability
Gain a comprehensive and accurate understanding of available space and maximize shelf and floor space to drive profitable sales for new fashions as well as continuity items.
Merchandising
Automate pricing, maximize margins, attract shoppers
Fully automate pricing decisions across the entire product lifecycle to make smarter decisions that optimize margins while appealing to customers’ fashion sense and value.
Inventory Optimization
Prepare for disruption, deliver with confidence
Gain insights and automate processes to prepare for black swan events so that when the unexpected happens you can quickly have the right products at the right locations to cope with market changes, supply disruptions, and fickle consumer trends.
Resourcing & Labor Management
Smarter labor, flexible delivery, real-time results
Align labor scheduling with predicted demand for exceptional omnichannel fulfillment, providing better personalized service to last- mile delivery flexibility including dynamic routing, optimized load building, and real-time visibility.
Control Tower
Real-Time visibility and orchestration
Visualize the flow of goods across the supply chain so you can measure the impact of supply, demand, and disruptions in real time. Apply prescriptive resolutions to mitigate risks, analyze trade-offs, balance outcomes, and respond to disruptions with speed, agility, and confidence.
Platform
Orchestrate your supply chain, unlock hidden value
Blue Yonder enables end-to-end visibility and synchronization across the supply chain, from the warehouse to the final sale. This enables retailers to adapt to unexpected demand surges, support more-complex buying journeys, adapt to resource volatility, and react to changing shopping preferences with an orchestrated approach that unlocks hidden value.
Returns Management
Streamline returns for increased efficiency and customer satisfaction
Give your customers the convenient, self-service drop-off experience they want and gain the speed, efficiency and data you need to resell returned stock in the same season. Block out-of-policy returns, empower your staff with step-by-step instructions and ensure every returned item is routed to the right place, using the most optimal carrier option.
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