Cognitive Solutions for Planning

1H 2026 Release

What’s new for Cognitive Solutions for Planning

Manufacturing Planning

Explainable and trustworthy, AI-augmented manufacturing planning

Blue Yonder 2026.1 elevates the entire manufacturing planning experience with stronger AI intelligence, modernized analyst workflows, and auditing across planning decisions. Key enhancements include:

  • Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Intelligent Tagging: Captures and displays the full update lineage across planners, managers, and executives. Tags for corridors, risks, and opportunities are preserved as part of long-term corporate memory—helping planners use real-world context and analytics to avoid previous missteps, optimize inventory based on observed, company specific trends and better predict disruptions.

  • Demand and Supply Planning (DSP) Insight-Driven Planning: Surfaces root causes of demand and supply issues at a granular level for more precise, targeted action.

  • DSP/IBP Audit and Traceability: Keep your planning defensible and governance-ready with unified business audit logging across all scenario-level changes—capturing every forecast change, override, and approval with full before-and-after detail, and distinguishing planner, manager, and executive actions so you always know who made what change.  

  • Demand and Supply Planning Inventory Ops Agent: Get more accurate inventory management with improved reasoning, task routing, and reliability, delivered via agentic AI that’s been refined using real-world customer sessions.

Retail Planning

Smarter retail planning that keeps planners one step ahead

Blue Yonder 2026.1 advances our allocation and replenishment capabilities with AI-assisted tools that surface the right insights at the right time—all while embedding sustainability goals directly into those same workflows. Key enhancements include:

  • Allocation and Replenishment Mobile App: Improves planner efficiency with mobile visibility into orders and inventory updates.

  • Planner's Brief: Surfaces the most critical changes, impacts, and priorities to accelerate decision-making.

  • Agentic Supplier Ordering: An AI companion that works alongside planners to review and approve pending orders in natural language.

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