December 2024 Release Details

Supply Chain Planning

Blue Yonder’s latest updates across its supply chain planning solutions focus on breaking down traditional silos in planning and ensuring that business planners can make more informed, data-driven decisions across demand and supply planning as well as inventory optimization. These new capabilities streamline planning, reduce manual intervention and ensure businesses can swiftly adapt to changes, resulting in better customer experience, faster time-to-market and improved operational agility.

Integrated Business Planning

The latest Integrated Business Planning release introduces several key features as part of its in-line analytics framework to enhance business decision-making and planning workflows. The in-line analytics framework empowers organizations to stay agile, data-informed and proactive in managing business performance. The analytics are embedded directly within business workflows, which allows users to view, interpret and act on insights without leaving the application environment. This integration minimizes workflow disruption and ensures that analytics are used actively in everyday decision-making.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Customizable metrics and KPIs allow users to define and track custom metrics and KPIs tailored to specific business goals or departmental needs, facilitating targeted performance analysis.
Real-time data collection and monitoring continuously captures and tracks data from various scenarios. This real-time data capture allows users to stay updated on current performance, enabling immediate response to changes and making it easy to interpret data directly within the application.
Anomaly detection monitors data patterns and automatically flags unusual trends or anomalies. For instance, if a specific metric deviates significantly from the norm, the system can alert users, allowing them to investigate and address issues before they escalate.
Drill-down and root cause analysis provide the ability to drill down from high-level trends to detailed data. Users can trace a performance shift to specific transactions, customer interactions, or operational metrics.
Historical data comparison and trend analysis enables users to conduct trend analysis and comparisons over time. Users can view performance against past periods or previous forecasts, supporting better insight into seasonal trends, growth patterns or any recurring performance issues.

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Integrated Demand and Supply Planning

The latest Integrated Demand and Supply Planning release combines demand and supply planning with inventory optimization to offer significant enhancements that drive efficiency and collaboration across planning teams and improve the overall customer experience by enabling smarter and faster decision-making.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Insight-driven planning framework is a new paradigm of examining exceptions, root causes and actions for resolution. This paradigm enables intelligent planner workflows by guiding consolidated actions to recommend resolutions, resolve issues and achieve critical KPIs.
Near real-time consumption of supply chain events via Blue Yonder Platform enables faster responses that exceed traditional batch planning methods.
Integrated planning and reporting help in passing planning details to reporting and vice versa. This allows planners to drill down and aggregate information in the reporting/analytics view and improve decision-making and responsiveness.
Unified demand and supply planning workspace brings together robust planning data and workflows in one place, using a newly redesigned user interface, improving cross-functional collaboration and boosting efficiency in resolving planning issues.

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Retail Planning & Category Management

Blue Yonder's latest updates in retail planning and category management solutions enhance agility, efficiency and profitability. It helps businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions in financial planning, inventory management and assortment optimization. With improved visibility, better alignment of inventory and demand, and optimized store layouts, businesses can better meet customer needs, reduce waste, and boost revenue while enhancing customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.

Merchandise Financial Planning

The latest Merchandise Financial Planning release provides greater flexibility, control and efficiency to planners and streamlines planning workflows by breaking silos and providing real-time insights for informed decision-making.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Planning versions as a separate dimension allows planners to compare and reconcile multiple plan versions, such as working, original, revised and strategic plans, alongside actuals data like last year and this year. This flexibility helps businesses track plan progress, evaluate performance and make necessary adjustments more efficiently.
New store forecasting enables retailers to forecast for new stores based on similar stores with defined attributes. This AI-driven capability identifies like-stores and uses them as a basis to generate accurate forecasts for new locations, improving inventory planning and reducing forecasting errors.
User personalization of planning views allows planners to create personalized views tailored to their specific planning needs. Whether it's an annual vs. monthly plan or a country vs. channel plan, planners can adjust measures, plan version and hierarchy levels to suit different strategies, offering more flexibility in planning processes.
Blue Yonder orchestrator AI service allows planners to adjust plan data across categories, locations and time while also providing actionable insights for decision-making. This enhancement enables more agile and informed planning, making it easier to respond to changes in the market or store performance.

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Allocation and Replenishment

This release marks the introduction of Blue Yonder Allocation and Replenishment, an integrated inventory planning solution that prioritizes demand uncertainty and business goals, generating thoughtfully calculated inventory plans that fuse business strategy and network constraints.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Multi-echelon replenishment optimizes inventory placement across the network, balancing consumer demand, current inventory and service level expectations.
Best balance ordering seeks to maximize sales for short shelf-life products while minimizing wastage.
Supplier ordering generates purchase orders that meet network and procurement constraints while minimizing carrying costs.
DC smoothing streamlines orders to improve DC capacity utilization.
Pack and bulk allocation use flexible rules framework allowing for precise deployment of inventory across locations.
Unified workspace brings all workflows and planning data together, allowing planners to seamlessly switch between processes and collaborate across the enterprise.

Intelligent Allocation

In this release, Intelligent Allocation introduces features that empower retailers with greater flexibility and control over their product distribution, leading to more precise, data-driven decisions.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

User-specified location lists allow retailers to define a list of stores for distribution without relying on administrators to build a store selection, thereby, increasing efficiency by reducing administrative tasks and empowering users to implement location-specific allocations.
Merging model data from multiple sources allows customers to merge store level minimum, maximum, target and threshold values with a size profile model for a style-color, improving the precision of allocations and ensuring that the right products are allocated to the right stores based on both local demand and product specifications.
Updated administrator dashboards enable administrators to monitor allocation volumes and performance over time, providing daily, weekly and monthly insights. This helps managers make data-driven decisions and adjust allocations to optimize inventory distribution.
User override of allocated quantity allows users to manually override a specified allocation quantity by pack and location, when necessary, instead of changing constraints and re-executing the distribution. This flexibility allows businesses to adjust allocations on the fly to meet changing customer or store demands.

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Strategic Assortment

The enhancements to Strategic Assortment in this release empower retailers to align their product assortments with store-specific needs, driving improved localization and space optimization.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Store-specific assortments help retailers localize their offerings by replacing national products with items that resonate better with specific customer preferences in each store. It enhances customer satisfaction and increases sales by aligning product mix more closely with local demand.
Concentric assortments allow retailers to build incremental assortments using varied space efficiently. By maximizing available space and creating a broader variety of products, retailers can increase the appeal of their store layouts and cater to a wider range of customer preferences.

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Category Knowledge Base

In this release, Category Knowledge Base enhances integration and flexibility for businesses by supporting seamless data flow across systems.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Integration with Blue Yonder Platform enables seamless ingestion of master data and efficient transmission of presentation quantities (minimum and maximum) to downstream systems like replenishment. This integration improves data accuracy, enhances synchronization across systems and optimizes replenishment processes for more effective inventory management.
Schema extension gives businesses more control over how they manage and store product and layout data, enabling more tailored, dynamic categorization that supports smarter merchandising decisions. Additional fields have been added to planogram, floorplan, product, store, and planogram performance objects.

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Planogram Generator Enterprise

The enhancements to Planogram Generator Enterprise in this release empower businesses to optimize store layouts even in constrained spaces, support complex planogram designs and streamline minor revisions to accommodate changes in product availability. This helps retailers maximize product placement efficiency, improve customer shopping experiences and drive better in-store sales performance by creating more effective, adaptable store layouts.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Stacking multiple products vertically enables retailers to stack different products on-top of each other (for example, the red product on top of the green product) giving them the opportunity to maximize the assortment offered in limited shelf space.
Merchandise in front of depth obstructions feature is beneficial for retailers who use shelving equipment, where the vertical support bars cause some of the shelf merchandising space to be lost. These bars can be treated as obstructions, and the new feature allows product positions to be merchandised in front of them. This feature enhances merchandising flexibility, ensuring that every inch of space is used efficiently.
Placing dropped positions “on floor” within segments allows users to easily identify the location within the planogram where product positions have been removed, making the process of planogram review much easier and quicker. This feature is especially valuable for wide, multi-segment planograms, where the entire planogram will not fit onto the screen.
Limiting the “change radius” for minor revisions provides more control over minor adjustments when updating planograms, allowing businesses to make efficient updates for new, discontinued or changed product positions without major disruptions, enabling minimized in-store effort to update the planograms.

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Returns Management

Blue Yonder’s returns management updates focus on offering convenience to consumers while driving efficiency and consolidation of parcel volumes.

Drop-Off Kiosk

The enhancements to Drop-off Kiosk in this release include an additional hardware option to offer suitable solutions across a range of store sizes and formats.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

In-wall kiosk features a higher capacity, allowing retailers and postal services to process more returns with less manual involvement from staff.

Online Returns

The latest update in Returns Initiation allows retailers to further tailor the returns journey with additional customization in the customer journey flow.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Store promotion allows retailers to highlight store locations as drop-off options in the Online Returns customer journey, driving footfall to stores and lowering costs by consolidating parcel volumes.

Order Management & Commerce

Blue Yonder’s release for order management and commerce drives tangible improvements to daily operations by unifying data across systems, internal and external sources and enabling improved collaboration across teams so that you can monitor and improve the most strategic KPIs.

In this release, we bring to you an advanced analytics application, analyst workbench, designed to ingest near real-time data from multiple sources, transform it, and present visualizations in a user-friendly, interactive format. It empowers users to analyze supply chain performance and make data-driven decisions through a seamless interface enhancing agility, improving collaboration and optimizing operational decisions.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Seamless integration with supply chain systems to unify data from various supply chain functions like order, labor, warehouse and transportation management.
Personalized, easy to use and interactive interface enables users to visualize supply chain performance. Customizable dashboards and reports allow users to track KPIs, focus on priorities and adapt reporting as needs evolve for a personalized data view.
AI and ML powered analytics for order fulfillment insights on the KPIs that impact perfect orders and shop to deliver experience omni-channel customers. Configure dimensions based on your own needs (fulfillment market, product categories, etc.).

Warehouse Management

Blue Yonder’s latest updates across its warehouse management solutions enable businesses to break silos, and boost efficiency by streamlining workflows with improved machine travel modeling and automated task reprocessing. These updates allow seamless coordination across teams, improve visibility into task data and optimize routing for faster operations, reducing manual effort, increasing operational speed, and delivering a more responsive, modern customer experience.

Warehouse Labor Management

Warehouse Labor Management includes two new features that improve machine travel modeling to more precisely represent actual machine travel dynamics within the warehouse. These enhancements enable more insightful performance analysis that informs more productive process improvement initiatives. Travel times will now factor in the additional effort required to move between levels in a multifloor warehouse. Additionally, the incorporation of more comprehensive machine restrictions, such as those applied to tunnels or one-way paths, improves the accuracy of the shortest pathfinding that enables optimized machine routing and greater operating efficiency.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Floor support improves the ability to manage multifloor warehouses by allowing locations to be assigned to specific floors and factoring in the time required for workers to move between levels. This feature also upgrades the warehouse map display, enabling users to easily visualize the layout for each floor. Key benefits include more precise goal times and clearer visualization of the warehouse layout.
Machine restrictions enhance the accuracy of the shortest pathfinding by considering machine types at specific intersections and aisles, where they must adhere to physical or safety restrictions, such as tunnels, one-way paths or low-level doors. Coupled with a new, faster warehouse map distance search algorithm, this feature significantly speeds up distance calculations while ensuring compliance with the precise paths that each machine type must follow. Key benefits include optimized machine routes, improved travel time accuracy and faster map updates for enhanced operational efficiency.

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Robotics Hub

Robotics Hub includes enhancements to systems communications and task data visibility for improved systems and operations performance. Automated reprocessing of failed messaging to warehouse automation ensures efficient workflows across systems. Meanwhile, the comprehensive display of warehouse task data unlocks valuable insights into inventory, product dimensions and more.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Automated resend of tasks feature eliminates the need for manual intervention by automatically reprocessing failed bot events, ensuring seamless operations across systems. This capability is customizable by site and vendor, allowing for tailored automation that boosts efficiency. With Enhanced Visibility, users can easily monitor the status of resends directly from the Robotics Hub interface, providing transparency into the automation process.
Comprehensive display of task data unlocks valuable insights into inventory, product dimensions and more, while enabling efficient troubleshooting with access to complete task data, including JSON files.
Partial transfer confirmation enhancements streamline the transfer process, offering flexibility in handling mixed LPNs and various scenarios, ensuring precision and control. These features deliver improved operational performance, minimize manual tasks and enhance overall warehouse automation, fostering an efficient and data-driven environment.

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Yard Management

Yard Management includes enhancements that enable users to better define and expedite subsequent processing of equipment and line items upon yard check-in, at check-out or at stages in between.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Empty trailer check-in allows gate attendants to designate empty trailers as "shipping" or "receiving" to facilitate check-in workflows for trailers that are empty or not registered with inventory from WMS.
“Needs attention” workflow allows yard managers to mark trailers in need of extra attention and remove the flag after the issue is resolved, facilitating easy identification, processing and resolution of yard activities.
“Shuttle” trailer recycling logic enables shuttles that work outside of the normal dispatch yard workflow to drop inventory at dock doors and label as “occupied” without having a trailer physically located at the door and to conduct multiple check-in and check-out passes of the equipment through the yard without triggering dispatch to WMS.
Ignoring equipment on arrival or departure allows customers to focus Yard Management on vehicles that need to be tracked coming in and out of the yard. For example, a yard operator can select unrelated vehicles/equipment (a garbage truck, maintenance truck, etc.) to be ignored by the system.

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Transportation Management

Transportation management is continually enhancing its capabilities to provide the leading transportation optimization engine, scale execution capabilities and improve interoperability via Blue Yonder Platform. Additionally, with the surge in customer shipment volumes, we have achieved significant technological advancements, enabling us to scale up to 45 million contracted shipments every month through our Transportation Management solution in the cloud.

Transportation Manager

In this release, Transportation Manager supports our goals of advancing execution capabilities and enhancing interoperability through Blue Yonder Platform. Customers will benefit from more streamlined fleet management and asset utilization, improved billing and connectivity experiences for both customers and carriers, and increased collaboration within supply chain management thanks to a unified data model.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Transportation Manager fleet dispatcher UX offers a modern, highly interactive interface for managing both transportation and private fleet resources. With capabilities like editing trips, assigning vehicles, adjusting trip timing and supporting outside hauler assignments, fleet dispatchers can optimize resource utilization, leading to better coordination and timely deliveries. By integrating driver schedules and vehicle assignments, it simplifies management and increases overall efficiency.
Omni-channel at scale help our customers as they experience volume growth through omni-channel strategies. This includes enhancing our capabilities for rating with external carrier APIs, improving performance with increased transaction per second for tendering and responses, optimizing freight tracking, and streamlining large freight settlements. Ensure you are ready for growth whether it is full truckload or parcel.
Interoperability through Blue Yonder Platform helps streamline data flow across multiple platforms, reducing implementation time and complexity. By enabling a unified data model for planning and execution, customers can achieve greater efficiency and reduce silos in their operations. This supports a more collaborative approach to supply chain management, where data from various sources is integrated into a single touchpoint, enhancing decision-making and operational agility.
Load-based A/R rating empowers customers managing multiple shipments on a single load to better handle Accounts Receivable (A/R) by calculating costs based on the specific characteristics of the executed load. This results in more accurate accessorial charges, rates and better margin management at the shipment level, and reducing potential errors on customer billing.
Archive service enables greater control over archived data through role-based access and the ability to access attachments directly from the archive UI. These updates enhance data security and accessibility, ensuring that only authorized users can view sensitive business data while keeping it readily accessible for analysis or compliance purposes.

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Transportation Planner

With new features like dynamic load building, enhanced algorithms for managing multitemperature compartments, and wagon balancing for Indian railways, Transportation Planner continues to help businesses maximize space utilization, accelerate solution time-to-value, and ensure precise constraints and configurations.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Transportation Planner and the 3D load building algorithm have been upgraded to handle complex food and beverage use cases. This update introduces the ability to model multitemperature compartments while enabling dynamic pallet building for side and rear-door loading and unloading, ensuring that transportation can meet the unique demands of the industry and improve operational flexibility.
Wagon balancing for Indian railways allows for the division of a wagon or equipment type into multiple axis areas, respecting weight distribution and load restrictions within each area. It also accounts for the relationship between weights in different areas, helping optimize load placement according to wagon types. Additionally, the solution considers the specific orientation of different-sized coils and the need for unusable space around items to ensure both secure loading and proper access. This enables a higher level of precision and efficiency for rail transport operations in India.

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Transportation Modeling

With the latest enhancements to Transportation Modeling users gain access to advanced tools that empower flexibility, precision and scalability.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

3D load building algorithms optimize load creation by considering product stacking rules, orientation and equipment constraints, ensuring efficient use of space and adherence to safety standards.
Batch processing for sequential runs allows users to initiate multiple runs that execute in sequence, enabling smoother workflows and enhancing productivity by running models efficiently in the background.
Improved data handling in Transportation Modeling enables sorting across entire datasets without page restrictions, accommodating up to 5,000 rows for enhanced and comprehensive data analysis.
Expanded data capacity through SQL Lite for rate models removes the 2GB size limitation, enabling more effective processing of larger datasets without the constraints previously imposed by Microsoft Access.
Enhanced fleet modeling with support for fixed charges at the vehicle level improves the accuracy of cost modeling for private or dedicated fleet scenarios, ensuring more effective strategic fleet management and cost allocation.

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Transportation Optimization

The enhancements to Transportation Optimization service in this release empower users with greater control and precision, enabling seamless collaboration and streamlined workflows.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Editable load plans allow users to adjust load plans directly in the UI by adding or removing shipments from existing loads and replanning them. Additionally, users can also include eligible loads in optimization processes alongside new shipments, enhancing flexibility and decision-making during transportation planning.
Modernized strategy and parameter file allows users to create new or edit existing files. Integrated online help provides comprehensive guidance, enabling users to make informed decisions while customizing strategies to fit their unique operational needs.

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Load Building

Enhancements to Load Building in this release are designed to streamline workflows and ensure precision in plan execution, supporting businesses in achieving seamless logistics management.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Download plan input snapshot captures a snapshot of input data during plan execution, enabling users to review the master data retrieved from the repository for load building. Users can modify input data and rerun plans as needed, ensuring flexibility and adaptability in planning.
Equipment load space allows users to define compartments within equipment and link specific item groups to their corresponding load spaces, improving load planning efficiency and reducing logistical errors.

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Blue Yonder Platform

Blue Yonder Platform introduces enhanced features designed to streamline your data management experience by integrating advanced capabilities into a unified, user-friendly interface. These updates improve usability, enable greater customization, and support real-time configuration, making data operations faster, accelerating time to value for customers leveraging the platform.

Key capabilities introduced in this release include:

Data model management UX, formerly known as BYDM workbench, now includes draft modes for dynamic extensions, allowing users to view and customize Blue Yonder data models with more flexibility and ease.
Data pipeline management UX simplifies viewing and editing entity mappings across Blue Yonder data models and enables efficient configuration of settings for transformation and distribution services.
Data functions UX helps configure and manage essential data functions for data transformation at various stages, including pre-curation, post-curation and other stages within the platform data cloud.
Ingestion settings UX helps configure data ingestion settings to enable ingestion of inbound data into platform data cloud.
Data as a Service is an all-new user interface that provides a simpler, smarter and faster way to manage data exports. It enables data administrators to effortlessly set up data export configurations, export data to a Blob Store and monitor details with a real-time progress monitoring dashboard. It empowers business users to download exported data directly to the local system and derive meaningful data analysis.
Reporting as a Service (RaaS) framework enhances product consumption and reporting for the planning suite by offering quick access to insights through advanced data transformation and data mart capabilities. It empowers users with self-service business intelligence via RaaS while delivering packaged reports and inline analytics. Seamless onboarding through customer workspace configuration ensures an intuitive experience, while extended analyst workbench support enables deep dives into actionable insights. By simplifying advanced analytics and integrating reporting into workflows, the framework drives better decision-making and maximizes the value customers can extract from their data.

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Category Knowledge Base

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Planogram Generator Enterprise

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Returns Management

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