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Production Planning

Blue Yonder’s agile production planning software helps you balance production planning with volatility in demand.

Production Planning

Dynamic, Responsive Production Planning

Balance demand with material, capacity and due date constraints to develop optimized and agile production plans.
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Improvement in order fill rate

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Reduction in production scheduling and inventory

Features & Capabilities

Respond Rapidly with Blue Yonder Production Planning

Adapt and optimize production

Balance fill rates against changeovers

Rapidly re-sequence customer orders and seamlessly adapt production plans to changes in the supply chain. Minimize downtime and maximize efficiency by balancing fill rates with production changeovers. Stay ahead of disruptions and ensure timely delivery with our dynamic scheduling capabilities.
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Optimize production mix

Coordinate schedules across facilities, reduce inventory and work-in-process, and minimize equipment changeovers. Achieve a balanced production workflow that maximizes resource utilization and minimizes costs. Enhance your operational efficiency with intelligent scheduling that aligns production capabilities with demand.
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Execute one feasible plan

Meet customer commitments while balancing schedules that respect different capacities, material constraints, and workload distributions. Ensure a realistic and achievable production plan that aligns with your operational constraints. Streamline your production process, reducing bottlenecks and improving on-time delivery performance.
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Key Benefits

What’s Possible with Blue Yonder

Create one feasible factory plan

Blue Yonder’s Production Planning software simultaneously balances factory throughput with order fulfillment performance, inventory & cycle times to create a single, coherent masterplan.
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See What You’ve Been Missing

Blue Yonder’s Production Planning software provides better visibility into material and capacity issues at speed with in-memory planning.
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Better integration

The Blue Yonder Platform provides better integration with existing factory systems so you can use a common data model and interfaces to integrate manufacturing planning in the cloud.
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Work smarter with Blue Yonder

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Improved customer fill rates

Gain visibility into material and capacity issues sooner and easily integrate with MES systems to improve order fulfillment.

Optimized upstream and downstream productivity

Coordinate schedules among various facilities, reduce inventory and work-in-process while minimizing equipment changeovers.

Faster response time

Modify rules, assess different scenarios and respond in real-time to any changes on the shop floor.

Case Studies

Success stories in Production Planning

    • Asian Paints Saved Over $720,000 by Reducing Unnecessary Production with Improved Planning From Blue Yonder
      Asian Paints Saved Over $720,000 by Reducing Unnecessary Production with Improved Planning From Blue Yonder

      Asian Paints’ decorative division produces offers both standard paint products as well as more made-to-order formulations, requiring a sophisticated and robust supply chain. Discover how Blue Yonder helped Asian Paints improve production and safety stock planning, reduced inventory, and more.

    • Western Digital Sees 95%+ Performance to Promised Delivery Dates and 10% Improvement in On-time Delivery Metrics
      Western Digital Sees 95%+ Performance to Promised Delivery Dates and 10% Improvement in On-time Delivery Metrics

      As Western Digital’s business grew, they needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support their expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. Western Digital sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help them maintain profitable growth and maximize margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction. They chose Blue Yonder’s Planning solution to transform their planning processes.

    • BIC Adopts a Single Production Plan, Reduces Changeover Times by 40% and Identifies Extra Weekly Capacity with Blue Yonder
      BIC Adopts a Single Production Plan, Reduces Changeover Times by 40% and Identifies Extra Weekly Capacity with Blue Yonder


      BIC customers purchase 32 million BIC shavers, lighters and promotional products every day. Making sure BIC has the right products in the right places to support this enormous demand takes precise planning. To make this happen, BIC recently deployed factory planning and sequencing application from Blue Yonder in their Charlotte packaging facility, which replaced a manual rolling schedule with an automated process. In this video, Cindy Banks, BIC Global Planning System Manager, explains how the production visibility this provided allowed BIC to collaborate across departments, resulting in a reduction of 40% in changeover time by eliminating one-to-two changeovers per week.

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