Consistently addressing component shortages, complex product portfolios, and omni-channel growth requires real-time supply chain insights and accurate forecasts.
- Industrial Manufacturing
Industry Challenges
Rapidly changing market conditions
Inventory management
Supply chain disruptions and material shortages have created increased pressure to balance inventory and satisfy demand without overconsuming valuable space, capacity, and cash.
Supply chain visibility
Your customers expect on-time order fulfillment, yet data and organizational siloes obstruct visibility, increase cost and complexity, and make it difficult to meet expectations.
Production planning and scheduling
Manufacturers constantly juggle change requests, expedites, and capacity constraints while trying to plan schedules, optimize availability, minimize downtime, and meet demand.
Actual results from Industrial Manufacturing customers
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fewer changeovers
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fewer days of inventory
Case Studies
Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing
BIC customers purchase 32 million BIC shavers, lighters and promotional products every day. Making sure BIC has the right products in the right places to support this enormous demand takes precise planning. To make this happen, BIC recently deployed factory planning and sequencing application from Blue Yonder in their Charlotte packaging facility, which replaced a manual rolling schedule with an automated process. In this video, Cindy Banks, BIC Global Planning System Manager, explains how the production visibility this provided allowed BIC to collaborate across departments, resulting in a reduction of 40% in changeover time by eliminating one-to-two changeovers per week.
Headquartered in Tokyo, JFE Steel Group is one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers, producing 30 million tons of steel products annually. The organization recognized the need to overhaul their outdated, manual and time-consuming sales processes. Learn how Blue Yonder helped JFE implement best-in-class software to match their own highly innovative steel products in order to plan more accurately and effectively.
Business Impact
Strengthen your resilience amid disruptions while optimizing efficiency and agility
Improve customer service
Blue Yonder solutions help companies better manage order expectations, inventories, and lead times, improving customer service with greater efficiency and lower cost.
Real-time inventory insights
Blue Yonder's solutions help you navigate material shortages, capacity challenges, and supplier issues, so you can minimize production delays and optimize material flows to meet market demands.
Optimal resource allocation
Blue Yonder's supply chain software uses advanced algorithms for cost-effective resource management. Identify where robotics or automation can help deliver more efficient manufacturing and limit the impact of labor and skills shortages.
Capabilities
Transform your business
Supply Chain Planning
Optimize decisions with connected, agile supply chains
Optimize your planning and end-to-end decisions by quickly evaluating production cycles, product handling, and transportation times. With Blue Yonder’s digital connectivity between multi-tiered suppliers, you can work collaboratively to improve agility, sustainability, and competitiveness by flexibly aligning business strategies within your network.
Integrated Business Planning
Automated forecasting for faster, smarter planning
Increase planning speed and productivity for you sales & operations planning with a highly automated forecasting process that supports better collaboration, reduces waste, optimizes allocation management, and improves sustainability.
Demand Planning
Enhance operations with smarter, ML-based demand forecasting
Enhance demand forecasting with Blue Yonder's leading-edge, ML-based planning that gathers real-time data on customer demand that you can use to strategically allocate resources, optimize inventory placement, beter plan supply, and boost productivity for the most efficient and cost-effective operations.
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.
Warehouse Management
Streamline operations with automated warehouse and labor solutions
Boost efficiency with automation solutions for warehouse, labor, and transportation through reliable inventory handling, demand-driven planning, unified logistics, and smart labor allocation, enabling employees to work smarter, increase productivity, and deliver superior service.
Control Tower
Gain real-time control and transparency across your supply chain
Gain comprehensive control and real-time, end-to-end supply chain transparency by sharing information and visualizing the current flow of goods across your entire network from suppliers, factories, distribution centers, to customers. Blue Yonder enables you to work collaboratively to identify and remedy issues before they become bigger problems.
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