- Automotive
Industry Challenges
Navigate the roughest terrain with ease
Highly fluctuating demand on ever more globalized markets
Leverage real-time planning and scheduling capabilities to dynamically adjust production and distribution, ensuring optimized resource usage and on-time deliveries—even as global demand shifts unpredictably.
Interruptions in the transport chains
Maintain complete visibility into your logistics networks and proactively respond to disruptions with alternative routes or schedules, keeping deliveries on track and minimizing cascading delays.
Quality problems in parts production
Integrate advanced analytics and quality-control measures into every stage of your manufacturing processes to detect defects early, reduce waste, and consistently deliver dependable automotive components.
Blue Yonder delivers results
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Case Studies
Success Stories in Automotive
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 Production Scheduling system to match its complex operations with shifting global dema
How Blue Yonder helps
What’s possible with advanced planning and scheduling
Maximize efficiency and return on assets
With the ability to perform continuous analysis and adjustment of production processes based on supply and demand changes, planners can refine and rebalance production to improve inventory utilization, increase output and decrease rework while minimizing logistics and warehousing costs.
Deliver increased stability and higher throughput
Intelligent scenario planning analyzes supply and production constraints like semiconductor shortages and other supply/demand imbalances as well as order changes to generate a resource-optimized schedule and sequence that can be locked in, smoothing assembly times of a facility, even down to sections of a conveyor belt, all while balancing labor cost, machine utilization and assembly time.
Ensure reliable delivery commitments to customers and partners
Digital twin modeling enables planners to continually optimize production slotting, scheduling, and sequencing to support the most demanding and variant-rich production processes while improving forecast accuracy to ensure partners and customers know when to expect orders.
Capabilities
Orchestrate production excellence: From planning to execution
Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Counteract and avoid volatile demand, transport chain disruptions, and waste of resources
Use Blue Yonder Advanced Planning & Scheduling solutions to accelerate production, reduce costs, and dramatically improve on-time delivery—even in the most unpredictable markets. Discover Blue Yonder solutions leverage real-time data on orders, inventory, capacity, and more to maximize production efficiency, improve machine utilization, and ensure dependable delivery commitments for happier customers and stronger bottom-line results.
Order Slotting and Scheduling
Streamline production for speed and profitability for the mid-term horizon
Optimize schedules and improve order distribution with Blue Yonder’s automotive scheduling software to more efficiently support sales and production priorities, including rush orders. Real-time visibility into component availability, assembly capacity, new order details, and scheduling dates, enables planners to balance order distribution and increase line efficiency, minimizing inefficiencies that could delay delivery or increase costs.
Detailed Scheduling
Increase delivery transparency and control costs
Quickly create and communicate plans for new orders that optimize delivery while reducing idle time and production setup. Advanced scenario planning uses digital twins to analyze resource availability, production capacity, and existing order details to identify an efficient production plan that can be executed and communicated to customers for improved relationships.
Order Sequencing
Boost production efficiency and stability
Create refined order sequences that uniformly distribute work, smooth assembly times, and mitigate supply chain bottlenecks.
Blue Yonder’s automotive sequencing software analyzes potential supply, production, and transportation constraints to reduce rework by up to 50%, enhance throughput by up to 20% and increase sequence stability by up to 100%.
Blue Yonder’s automotive sequencing software analyzes potential supply, production, and transportation constraints to reduce rework by up to 50%, enhance throughput by up to 20% and increase sequence stability by up to 100%.
Industry insights
ICON 2024 Blue Yonder Live: How Blue Yonder & Flexis Are Joining Forces to Combat Today’s Automotive & Industrial Challenges 
Event Replay
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Solution Overview
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Detailed Scheduling
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Order Sequencing
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Event Replay
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