Inventory

Retail Planning

Inventory

Maximize profitability while accounting for uncertainty

  • Inventory
Overview

Deliver inventory that drives efficiency and mitigates risk

Keep shelves stocked and costs low.  With Blue Yonder’s multi-echelon inventory planning, your planners can make smart, big-picture decisions that transform your supply chain into a competitive edge, boosting business performance and delighting customers.

Capabilities

Manage the product lifecycle seamlessly

Launch new items, run promotions or phase out products with ease thanks to connected workflows and AI agents. From tricky short lifecycle items to rapidly trending items, react quickly with demand-driven replenishment while maintaining the integrity of your assortment and network capacity.

Optimize capacity across your network

Harness real-time insights from forecasts, returns, and supplier data to effortlessly align orders with current and future capacities, ensuring maximum efficiency, and smooth operations. In times of capacity shortfall, utilize the Blue Yonder Network to maintain service levels and avoid disruptions, keeping your supply chain resilient and responsive.

Seize opportunities in every scenario…and return

Plan across interconnected scenarios, ensuring swift and informed decision-making. From identifying the inventory impact of a planogram change or a last-minute promotion to determining the most profitable destination for a restocked returns item, Blue Yonder empowers planners to make faster, better decisions when disruptions or opportunities arise.

Solutions

Blue Yonder solutions that transform and elevate your inventory planning

Empower your teams to deliver their best work faster

Allocation and Replenishment, powered by the Blue Yonder Platform, is a multi-chelon inventory planning solution that allows retailers to manage inventory with visibility to constraints throughout the supply chain. Planners can automate the flow of a product throughout its life cycle in a way that optimizes full-price sales by leveraging the forecast based on actual sales.
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One platform, full control

Synchronize your entire retail ecosystem within a single technology platform that brings together suppliers, logistics companies, warehouse managers, transportation, and customer service to enable extended collaboration and process orchestration.
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Seamlessly coordinate with trading partners to meet demand

Blue Yonder Network is uniquely built for the modern, disrupted business world. With a patented multiparty collaboration underpinning, it enables efficient, continuous planning and execution—rebalancing supply and demand, capacities, and inventory in response to market dynamics.
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Customer loyalty is won or lost through returns

AI-driven returns decisioning uses data to handle returns in the best way for each item so you can factor these returns into your inventory plans.
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Customers

Why Blue Yonder?

  • From understanding demand and forecast, to partnering with suppliers to better understand capacity allows PVH to enable end-to-end global planning across brands.

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  • For Maine-based apparel and outdoor retailer L.L.Bean, getting their products into the hands of their customers in a timely manner is a top priority. But to do that, they needed to gain a more accurate read on the market. Learn how L.L. Bean achieved their business goals harnessing Blue Yonder’s merchandise financial planning, forecasting, and replenishment capabilities.

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    Adored by brands, recognized by analysts

    Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions
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    Related Resources

    Buyer's Guide to Allocation and Replenishment
    Thought Leadership
    Buyer's Guide to Allocation and Replenishment
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    Win Customer Loyalty by Efficiently Moving Your Inventory
    Solution Overview
    Win Customer Loyalty by Efficiently Moving Your Inventory
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