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1H 2025 Release

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Cognitive Solutions for Planning: Retail

Enhance planning speed and agility while accelerating inventory turnover and reducing waste—even as customer needs and business demands evolve.

  • Concurrent planning, real-time alignment:  Demand forecasting, merchandise financial planning, assortment, allocation, and replenishment are now fully connected on a common data platform, ensuring plans stay in sync as conditions shift.
     
  • AI-powered recommendations:  Our natural language AI assistant analyzes sales, supply, and buying trends to quickly suggest assortment adjustments in response to market changes.
     
  • AI-assisted mapping of assortment to demand:  ML-based behavioral clustering analyzes assortment sales data against buying trends and available supply to better align assortments to seasonal buying patterns.
     
  • Better-balance ordering:  Optimize allocation and replenishment to prevent spoilage of date-sensitive goods and meet regional demand with greater precision. 
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Cognitive Solutions for Planning: Manufacturing

Quickly rebalance inventory and operations to maximize efficiency and profitability—no matter how your business evolves.

  • Unified planning across time ranges and organizations:  Master, production, distribution, and deployment plans now share common processes and data, enabling real-time alignment from long-range strategy to day-to-day execution.
     
  • Collaborative, multi-tier planning:  The Blue Yonder Network connects supply, demand, and inventory planning, enabling manufacturers to easily meet changing customer demand through a global set of trading partners including raw material and component suppliers, distributors, shippers and more.
     
  • Advanced Demand and Supply Planning:  AI backed strategies drive stronger product introductions through analysis balancing consumer and market demand with supply sourcing and production requirements. New solver technology optimizes inventory management and limits revenue loss by analyzing shelf life, attribute analytics and potential for excess inventory holds.
     
  • Risk-aware, Integrated Business Planning:  Strategic risk and stability analysis helps teams identify the best scenarios for maximizing results while avoiding potential disruptions—aligning planning decisions with both supply chain and financial goals. 
     
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Cognitive Solutions for Execution: Warehouse

Maximize warehouse efficiency, accelerate fulfillment, and boost ROI—powered by modern architecture and a modern workforce.

  • Cloud-native architecture with transparent updates and scaling:  A new cloud-native foundation enables immediate scalability and delivers continuous updates without downtime.
     
  • AI/ML optimized warehouse layout for superior efficiency:  AI and machine learning optimize warehouse slotting to reduce movement of goods in, out and through the warehouse, speeding up storage and fulfillment while minimizing workforce time.
     
  • Modern workforce efficiency:  Resource optimization combines the power of ML-driven forecasting to predict labor and equipment needs with resource orchestration to intelligently coordinate people and equipment increasing throughput and execution accuracy during every shift. 
     
  • Streamlined retail replenishment:  Integrated support for chase pick, garment-on-hanger, and more in a single solution accelerates shipment and receiving for superior on time, in full retailer operations. 
     
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Returns Management

Empower a circular supply chain that reduces waste, recoups potentially lost revenue, and minimizes the cost of processing low-value returns.

  • Smarter returns journeys:  Tailored return paths and split order rules enable refunds on eligible items while blocking those that are cost-prohibitive to return—even within grouped orders.
     
  • Returns insights that optimize business operations:  Returns analytics and reporting identify items and individuals with high-volumes of returns, providing key data for adapting business practices to prevent losses.
     
  • Dynamic grading for resale:  Automatically determine the quality of returned goods—and whether they should be restocked, resold, or removed—to minimize return losses, and get goods back into sales inventory sooner.
     
  • Retail-optimized warehouse decisioning:  WMS logic determines whether items should be reprocessed or discarded, helping reduce costs tied to returns processing. 
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Digital Supply Chain Network

Adjust supplier and carrier leverage quickly and easily—so raw materials, components, and finished goods arrive on time, in full, and at cost.

  • Multi-tier Bill of Material Management:  Support dynamic sourcing relationships while maintaining information framework for lineage, traceability, and chain-of-custody requirements.
     
  • Intelligent, multi-enterprise risk analysis and remediation:  Perform multi-party root cause analysis and identify alternate suppliers and carriers to improve resiliency and avoid disruptions.
     
  • Flexible order scheduling:  Identify and engage new vendors based on contracts and component requirements—enabling faster pivots and better fulfillment if there are changes to requirements for cost, sourcing and more.
     
  • Multi-tier networking for Blue Yonder Transportation Management:  Enable real time tuning of transportation plans and schedules. The integration of the Blue Yonder Network with Blue Yonder TMS delivers access to advanced telematics, automation of transportation appointment scheduling and RFQ collaboration with suppliers and carriers.
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Agentic AI Supply Chain

Drive smarter, automated decision-making across planning and execution. Blue Yonder AI-powered supply chains instantly identify, analyze and recommend changes across your supply chain and trading partners, ensuring faster, more precise actions and improved outcomes at every stage.

  • Planning Agents:  Our assortment AI identifies and analyzes demand changes as well as supply risks, then recommends corrective actions—including alternate suppliers or demand swaps—to proactively meet changing circumstances. , Across space planning, our AI  enables large-scale planogram editing with simple prompts, allowing teams to quickly build and adjust to store-specific requirements at-scale.  
     
  • Supply Chain Execution Agents:  Warehouse and Transportation logistics AI, working closely with Network agents, continually review operations and the movement of people, goods, and equipment to ensure they are moving as required.  
     
    • Route adjustments are recommended to prevent delivery disruptions and to optimize cost, on-time delivery, and emissions expenditure.
       
    • Appointment scheduling and staffing are updated to avoid bottlenecks and accelerate processing
       
    • Monitor inventory movements from inbound receipt to put-away, fulfillment, and outbound load building and shipment with expedited trailer docking and unloading based on content priorities and staffing.
       
    • Warehouse slotting is optimized based on resources, and supply and demand forecasts.
       
    • Labor and equipment assignment changes are recommended and made as priorities shift and resource capacity fluctuates.  
       
  • Network Agents:  Optimize your Procure-to-Pay process and logistics operations by automating order confirmations, invoice processing, and detailed performance analysis. Fully integrated ML predictors identify at risk flows, auto-generating prescriptive options for corrective action.