Production Planning & Scheduling Software

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

In this survey of nearly 700 businesses, we asked supply chain leaders about their ambitions, fears, goals and strategies. Find out the overall direction of the industry, the state of the art of supply chain management, why optimism remains strong and which key actions are being prioritized to achieve strategic goals like building resilience, implementing new technology, and becoming more sustainable.

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

Incisiv explores the significant transformation underway in modern supply chains, detailing the shift away from fragmented processes and point solutions to more agile platforms and collaborative workflows. This evolution addresses systemic issues such as inflexibility and disconnected communication, enhancing supply chain responsiveness, sustainability, and profitability.

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Production Planning & Scheduling Solutions

Blue Yonder’s supply chain solutions, acquired from flexis, digitalizes production planning and scheduling to make manufacturing operations as well as sales & operations execution processes more dynamic and transparent and successfully counteract supply chain bottlenecks.

Production Planning & Scheduling Solutions

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Plan with real-time data

Production planning and scheduling (APS) with constraint-based optimization

Find out how intelligent advanced planning and scheduling can transform the production efficiency for manufacturers.

increase in adherence to delivery dates

increase in machine utilization

reduction of set-up times

Blue Yonder Expands Capabilities for the Manufacturing Industry

In February 2024, Blue Yonder acquired flexis, a technology provider with 25+ years’ experience specializing in production optimization and transportation planning and execution. This acquisition broadens and deepens Blue Yonder’s ability to serve automotive and industrial manufacturers with highly configurable products and expansive suppliers, unlocking a nimble solution to today’s manufacturing and e-commerce challenges.

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Features & Capabilities

Automated planning, sequencing and scheduling with end-to-end visibility in real time

Flexibly optimize and manage order schedules

Use sales and production views of your workflow to equally distribute orders and optimize schedules based on configurable constraints with early fault detection. If needed, you can manually reschedule with ease.

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Plan with a real-time view of resources

Plan production based on the plants, personnel, materials and tools available with an overview of all resources. Compare plans with actual feedback, create what-if scenarios and schedule modifications easily. All online, validated by digital twin models.

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Plan and optimize order sequences

Create optimal sequences (pearl chains) across production processes to uniformly distribute work, smooth assembly times, prevent bottlenecks and visualize rule violations when unexpected events occur. Select standard rules from a proven library and configure restrictions according to individual processes.

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Real-time visibility for optimal resource utilization

With accurate software that delivers end-to-end visibility in real time, even the most demanding and variant-rich production processes can balance optimal resource utilization to reliably meet customer requirements every time.

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Stable, efficient, optimized production flows

Make production processes leaner and increase productivity with real-time monitoring of daily, weekly and monthly schedules that enable continuous adjustments to improve production efficiency, stabilize processes and optimize costs by increasing output and decreasing rework.

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Happier customers and bigger margins

Increase throughput by up to 20%, achieve up to 100% sequence stability and reduce rework by up to 50% to make production processes more profitable, improve margins and increase customer satisfaction.

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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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Work smarter with Blue Yonder

Production planner

With Blue Yonder, you can detect faults, issues and rule violations before they occur so you can spot bottlenecks early and respond flexibly no matter how complex your processes are.

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Ensure high utilization and optimal production flow

Improve utilization with a real-time view of resources, stabilize production flow and reduce rework with optimized production and distribution workflows.

Improve customer fill rates profitably

Increase productivity by equally distributing work content to reliably improve delivery dates while delivering sustainable statements to customers.

Deliver better information within the organization

Gain a real-time view of all production activities to give sales and production teams accurate information about orders in the short, medium and long term for smooth S&OE processes.

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Enhance performance and growth with Professional Services

Partner with Blue Yonder Professional Services to get the most value from your Blue Yonder solution—faster time to value, solution expertise and a proven track record of success. Our Services Team is with you every step of the way to create a modern and resilient supply chain.

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Case Studies

Success stories in Advanced Planning & Scheduling

PACCAR manufacturers Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF brand trucks in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil and the UK. It needed an Advanced Planning & Scheduling system to match its complex operations with shifting global dema
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Related Resources

ICON 2024 Blue Yonder Live: How Blue Yonder & Flexis Are Joining Forces to Combat Today’s Automotive & Industrial Challenges

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ICON 2024 Blue Yonder Live: How Blue Yonder & Flexis Are Joining Forces to Combat Today’s Automotive & Industrial Challenges

In February 2024, Blue Yonder acquired flexis, a technology provider specializing in production optimization and transportation planning and execution. In this interview, we uncover what this new acquisition means for Automotive and Industrial ...

Blue Yonder Automotive Connect: A Conversation With Subaru Canada and flexis

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Blue Yonder Automotive Connect: A Conversation With Subaru Canada and flexis

Maximizing Profitable Growth in Automotive Through a Resilient Supply Chain. In this panel discussion, you will hear from industry leaders on how automotive manufacturers need to adjust with the connected vehicle, which brings a new set of customer ...

A Guide to Production Planning in Manufacturing

Thought Leadership

A Guide to Production Planning in Manufacturing

Manufacturers are on a mission to boost efficiency, maximize ROI and optimize resource planning while managing precise order timing and logistics. However, they face mounting challenges like increased product variety, complex supply chains and the need ...

Order slotting & scheduling

Solution Overview

Order slotting & scheduling

Allocating orders to production sites in daily and weekly lots—is crucial in today's volatile world. Material shortages, capacity issues or sudden demand shifts can disrupt plans. Sales often influence slotting but lack a strategic view, leading to ...

Detailed Scheduling

Solution Overview

Detailed Scheduling

A key function of production planning is to quickly and accurately respond to sales inquiries about new customer orders. However, assessing material, labor and assembly line availability can be challenging. Discover how Blue Yonder Detailed Scheduling ...

Order sequencing

Solution Overview

Order sequencing

To maximize the reliability and efficiency of production cycles, planning teams must be able to define and implement a consistent production sequence for orders. Discover how Blue Yonder Order Sequencing drives both production stability and flexibility.

Production Planning & Scheduling Solutions

Unlock 12x ROI with a true end-to-end supply chain platform

End-to-End Planning & Execution

AI & Machine Learning

Blue Yonder Network

Cognitive Solutions

Data Cloud & Platform

Composable Journeys

Professional Services

User Experience

Our solutions have the power to unveil the hidden.

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder unveils advanced AI-driven Cognitive Solutions

Accelerate Informed Decisions With AI Built for Supply Chain

Demystifying AI for Supply Chain Leaders

Reorganizing for AI: How Supply Chain Leaders Have to Adapt

Success stories showcase the transformative impact we've had on their businesses.

DHL

Carlsberg Group

Walgreens

Browse all our resources: whitepapers, guides, reports and more.

How AI-Enabled Planning Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

ICON 2026

Production Planning & Scheduling Solutions

Production planning and scheduling (APS) with constraint-based optimization

Blue Yonder Expands Capabilities for the Manufacturing Industry

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Automated planning, sequencing and scheduling with end-to-end visibility in real time

Flexibly optimize and manage order schedules

Plan with a real-time view of resources

Plan and optimize order sequences

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Real-time visibility for optimal resource utilization

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Stable, efficient, optimized production flows

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Happier customers and bigger margins

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Adored by brands, recognized by analysts

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Work smarter with Blue Yonder

Production planner

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Enhance performance and growth with Professional Services

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Success stories in Advanced Planning & Scheduling

PACCAR manufacturers Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF brand trucks in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil and the UK. It needed an Advanced Planning & Scheduling system to match its complex operations with shifting global dema

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Related Resources

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Why Blue Yonder

About Blue Yonder

Partners

Unlock 12x ROI with a true end-to-end supply chain platform

End-to-End Planning & Execution

AI & Machine Learning

Blue Yonder Network

Cognitive Solutions

Data Cloud & Platform

Composable Journeys

Professional Services

User Experience

Our solutions have the power to unveil the hidden.

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder unveils advanced AI-driven Cognitive Solutions

Accelerate Informed Decisions With AI Built for Supply Chain

Demystifying AI for Supply Chain Leaders

Reorganizing for AI: How Supply Chain Leaders Have to Adapt

Success stories showcase the transformative impact we've had on their businesses.

DHL

Carlsberg Group

Walgreens

Browse all our resources: whitepapers, guides, reports and more.

How AI-Enabled Planning Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

ICON 2026

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