Our focus with the June 2024 release has been on empowering you to make more data-driven decisions and better utilization of data through the delivery of actionable insights and capabilities to drive more optimization across your supply chain.
- June 2024 Release
New and enhanced solutions across the supply chain
What's new in retail
- Transforming retail enterprise planning
Cognitive Merchandise Financial Planning adds new insight visualization, hierarchical planning, attribute-based analysis, and collaboration capabilities that improve cost control and revenue generation from merchandise planning. - Empowering fulfillment sourcing decisions fulfillment
Sourcing Simulator allows omni-channel leaders to assess various scenarios, including capacity constraints to understand trade-offs and select optimal alternatives to ensure on-time, in-full delivery and avoid stockouts.
- Enhance the digital retail experience
Returns Management solutions use data to handle returns in the best way for each item to improve financial performance, boost customer experience and reduce wastage. With enhanced carrier selection rules and the ability to promote stores as drop-off locations in the returns journey, retailers gain more control over the returns process.
What's new in manufacturing
- Enhancing productivity and collaboration
Cognitive Demand Planning optimizes the process for forecasting of both new products and transitioning products, as well as provides collaboration across marketing, sales, and operations teams. This allows organizations to offer an enhanced experience for their customers, streamlined inventory management, reduced supply chain costs, and greater control over demand planning processes.
- Translating business goals into action
Cognitive Integrated Business Planning enables manufacturers to navigate uncertainties by simulating various risk and opportunity scenarios, aiding in intelligent decision-making and the establishment of a corporate memory with well-documented assumptions.
What's new in logistics
- Deliver greater efficiency from yard operations
New ML-integrated, vision-based yard analysis automates and centralizes yard management for increased throughput and decreased costs.
- Improve task and staff efficiency to ensure SLAs are met
Easily identify warehouse task dependencies for different use cases to ensure tasks are properly optimized and completed in the least amount of time.
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Empower communication and orchestration with AS/RS
Technologies Robotics Hub now seamlessly integrates with high-volume automated processes and cutting-edge Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) technologies. For order flows necessitating rapid communication, such as case induction from pallets, this enhancement minimizes latency and facilitates agile and efficient operations.
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Introduce the ability to schedule billing reports
Users can now schedule billing reports to run automatically and leverage Advance Print Mapping functionality to email reports to users for review.
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Enable interoperability of warehouse, transportation, and order management through Blue Yonder Platform enhancements
Blue Yonder provides a real-time, end-to end solution, powered by the Blue Yonder Platform which synchronizes warehouse, transportation, and order management. With expanded interoperable flows and a composable approach, customers have end-to-end visibility and optimization to improve service, profitability, and sustainability.