Talent Shortage Management

  • Talent Shortage Management

Mobilize your talent to drive your supply chain forward

Increase retention, achieve greater satisfaction, upskill your talent, and create greater flexibility and balance within your supply chain workforce.

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Engage your workforce to excel in supply chain management

Productivity, retention, and competition drive talent mobility

Productivity

Productivity suffers from supply chain volatility and uncertainty

Global supply chain disruptions hinder planning, complicating hiring talent to fill operational gaps. AI and predictive analytics for the supply chain can help manage disruptions, but the workforce requires upskilling to effectively utilize them. While using the latest technology can attract new talent, it can also discourage existing workers who are used to “the old ways” and must be encouraged to adapt.
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An aging workforce inhibits retention of both talent and knowledge

Managing a complex supply chain requires a great deal of experience. As the current workforce heads for retirement, there is a risk of losing their valuable knowledge. An AI-enhanced supply chain platform can help codify this hard-earned information. Modern application interfaces with mobile capabilities can also attract younger talent to fill the gaps resulting from retirements, aided by the captured knowledge.
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Differentiate your workplace with technology to compete for talent

You compete with global companies for the same pool of talent. The unique aspects of your company help you stand out to potential employees. Whether it is a frontline, essential, knowledge-based, or skilled trades position, candidates expect your technology infrastructure to be as sophisticated as the devices and applications they use daily, if not better.
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Benefits

Blue Yonder enables managers to engage and retain talent

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Warehouse Managers

To retain talent, warehouse managers must shift their focus from moving inventory to rewarding employees for innovative performance.
Maximize workforce performance by automating routine tasks
As automation increasingly handles manual pick-and-pack tasks in warehouses, human workers contribute the crucial value necessary to deliver an excellent customer experience.

Increase throughput and productivity with human insights
On the warehouse floor, employees can identify opportunities for process enhancements and develop new best practices to boost productivity by leveraging human and AI capabilities.

Dynamically reallocate labor for maximum impact
With AI-empowered systems overseeing the movement of goods, managers can model adjustments in both human and robotic labor as worker schedules fluctuate and product demand changes.

Want to dig deeper into talent management?

Functional Silos are Holding you Back From the Customer
Functional Silos are Holding you Back From the Customer
Thought Leadership
Retail supply chains are complex and specialized, but if specialists retreat into silos, they leave value on the table. This guide explores ...
The Role of Automation and AI in Transforming the CPG Supply Chain
The Role of Automation and AI in Transforming the CPG Supply Chain
Thought Leadership
Technologies, such as automation and AI, are now critical drivers of change and transformation. This analyst brief explores the key themes ...

Solutions

Engage and retain talent with Blue Yonder

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Enhance manager engagement by automating routine tasks

Managers are overwhelmed with administrative tasks that distract them from motivating their workforce through direct engagement. Blue Yonder Workforce Management supports managers in efficiently handling time attendance, and payroll, automating labor forecasts and schedules, and facilitating communication from distribution centers to stores.
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Advanced Scheduling

Motivate your workforce by empowering them with flexible scheduling

An effective, dependable, and motivated workforce is essential for consistently reaching performance targets. Blue Yonder schedules labor based on employee preferences, giving people control over their work schedules. Managers can enhance workforce engagement through accurate reporting that fairly evaluates employees and their contributions, encouraging innovative thinking and engagement.
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Labor Management

Warehouse process improvements energize workforce performance

Blue Yonder offers supervisors a framework to formalize a deep understanding of warehouse processes and identify variations that affect productivity and performance. By analyzing metrics such as individual steps taken and variations in work methods among team members, best practices can be established to coach, counsel, and retrain workers for improved performance.
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Case studies that prove we can help maximize workforce engagement

    • Improving Workforce Productivity and Retention at Cooperative Wholesale Distributor
      Improving Workforce Productivity and Retention at Cooperative Wholesale Distributor

      Associated Food Stores (AFS) is a cooperatively owned wholesale distributor headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. AFS implemented Blue Yonder’s workforce management capabilities which enable them to automatically schedule labor according to actual demand and provided associates with flexible, self-service scheduling, improving associate satisfaction while saving significant labor costs.

    • DSC Logistics Sees 20% Decrease in Variable Labor Costs Across 50 DCs From Better Optimization with Labor Management
      DSC Logistics Sees 20% Decrease in Variable Labor Costs Across 50 DCs From Better Optimization with Labor Management

      DSC Logistics views labor management as mission-critical and as at the same level of importance as its ability to receive and ship cases for customers. The company implemented labor management to achieve a 20-plus percent reduction in its variable labor spend across its logistics network.

    • Fifth Largest Coca-Cola Bottler Increased Forecasting and Planning Accuracy with Blue Yonder Planning Solutions
      Fifth Largest Coca-Cola Bottler Increased Forecasting and Planning Accuracy with Blue Yonder Planning Solutions

      Swire Coca-Cola is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, the fifth-largest bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company by global volume. With 36 bottling plants and approximately 39,000 employees, Swire Coca-Cola provides more than 60 beverage brands to more than 880 million consumers. The company leverages Blue Yonder demand planning, supply planning and production sequencing solutions to drive a unified, end-to-end planning process. The results include higher planner productivity, better inventory management and an improved understanding of demand drivers and customer behaviors. The company can simultaneously balance customer service, cost and utilization outcomes — while also respecting complex manufacturing constraints.

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