Cognitive Solutions for Execution

1H 2026 Release

What’s new for Cognitive Solutions for Execution

  • Cognitive Solutions for Execution

Warehouse Management Solution

Predictive and agile warehouse orchestration
Blue Yonder 2026.1 delivers greater warehouse adaptability and efficiency through embedded AI, real-time orchestration, and simplified workflows—unifying data, automation, and billing into a seamless operational experience. Key enhancements include:

  • Advanced Slotting: Ensures fast, efficient fulfillment by proactively identifying SKUs with future demand that lack active forward slots and recommends the best-fit placement. 

  • Mobile App for Warehouse Managers: Delivers a secure, scalable agentic AI experience that delivers real-time visibility into warehouse performance, highlights exceptions and execution risks, and drives faster decisions and continuous improvement for the warehouse manager.

  • Automation Extensions: A vendor-agnostic transformation layer maps internal API standards to diverse third-party requirements. Simplifies and reduces the cost of automation integration, modification, and onboarding with a vendor-agnostic transformation layer that unifies all of your automation through one flexible interface.

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Transportation Management Solution

Orchestrated transportation with intelligent, end‑to‑end control

The 2026.1 release introduces the Transportation Admin UX—an enhanced, portal-based administration experience for the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Solution (TMS). Key enhancements include:

  • Centralized configuration and governance: Single, centralized interface for admins and super users to configure and govern TMS behavior.

  • One-stop access to global settings: Faster setup and troubleshooting through centralized access to key settings including ACS, Global Defaults, Audit data configurations, Auto-tendering, External mappings, Transaction Management, and Domain Controls.

  • Advanced global semantic search: Interprets query context for more accurate, relevant results than traditional keyword search.

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Order Management

Smarter order management that drives better fulfillment at scale

Blue Yonder 2026.1 embeds performance intelligence, predictive simulation, and unified service capabilities into Order Management for a more connected execution platform that improves sourcing, service, and fulfillment decisions across every channel. Key enhancements include:

  • Commits Service: Improved analysis of delivery accuracy (promised vs actual outcomes), detect node performance risks such as throughput drift and backlog buildup, proactively recommend corrective actions for supply chain disruptions, and surface partial fulfillment risks to drive sustained fill-rate improvement. 

  • Fulfillment Sourcing Simulator: Simulates future demand and inventory scenarios to help planning and supply chain leaders make proactive, forward-looking sourcing decisions before execution.

  • Customer Service Agent: Reduce resolution time and improve consistency across channels with a unified, card-based order workspace that consolidates click, chat, and assisted-service interactions in a single interface.

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Returns Management

Returns transformed into a strategic source of inventory and value
Blue Yonder 2026.1 operationalizes the Optoro and Blue Yonder integration—connecting decisioning, workflows, and best-of-breed capabilities into a unified, intelligent returns portfolio. Key enhancements include:

  • Warehouse Returns – Unit Level Detail Capture: Expand into regulated verticals like consumer electronics, grocery, and medicine by capturing granular return attributes at intake — including Country of Origin, Serial Number, Lot Number, and Expiration Date — for full traceability across every return.

  • Online Returns: Rule-based personalized return journeys by customer cohort. Introduces store credit return methods. Deeper Blue Yonder Platform integration with RBAC enhancements. 

  • Drop-Off Kiosks: Reduce maintenance burden and improve operational transparency with simplified self-service return workflows—offering availability metrics with full reason breakdowns and configurable surveys for staff.

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