Cognitive Solutions for Planning

1H 2026 Release

What’s new for Cognitive Solutions for Planning

Demand & Supply Planning / Integrated Business Planning

Superior financial clarity from planning to execution to staffing

Blue Yonder 2026.2 connects planning, execution, and workforce decisions to financial outcomes, helping organizations improve visibility, align actions to business objectives, and optimize revenue, margin, inventory, and labor performance.

Key enhancements include:

  • Forecast Transparency | Demand and Supply Planning: Event cleansing, event forecasting, and mix-and-match analysis identify event-driven demand patterns and provide greater visibility into forecast drivers and model performance. This improves planner confidence, strengthens decision quality, and helps teams better understand what is influencing demand.

  • Forecast Override Reliability | Demand and Supply Planning: Forecast Override Reliability protects forecast accuracy for new products by locking high-risk forecast overrides and preventing unauthorized changes where historical data is limited. This strengthens governance, preserves demand accuracy, and ensures planners follow the right process-driven workflows.

  • Gross-to-Net Impact | Integrated Business Planning: Gross-to-Net Impact simulates how changes in demand, supply, inventory, and capacity affect revenue, margin, EBITDA, and working capital before decisions are committed. This helps organizations evaluate tradeoffs, improve financial clarity, and make more confident planning decisions.

Intelligent Inventory Operations

Agentic supply chain optimization across planning workflows

Blue Yonder 2026.2 extends AI-driven decision intelligence across planning, execution, and network operations through domain-optimized agents that help organizations improve inventory performance, accelerate decision-making, and respond faster to disruption.

Key enhancements include:

  • Intelligent Inventory Operations | Demand and Supply Planning: Intelligent Inventory Operations adds a new data science workflow for on-the-fly forecasting model updates and demand pivot interaction. It extends one-shot resolution into multi-step execution with dynamic data updates and scenario runs across supply analysis, root-cause analysis, constraint analysis, scenario generation, and scenario comparison.