Supplier Network

BLUE YONDER NETWORK

Blue Yonder Supplier / Shipper Network

Plan, execute, and adapt in real time with one source of truth—boosting efficiency, profits, and OTIF to meet customers’ compliance mandates.

Overview

Plan, collaborate and execute with confidence

The Blue Yonder Network connects suppliers, customers, and carriers in real time, providing a single, trusted source of truth. By unifying all trading partners on one network, suppliers gain end-to-end visibility, streamlined order management, and seamless collaboration across demand, supply, and execution. Shared data, automation, and real-time insights help suppliers anticipate disruptions, optimize production and inventory, and improve OTIF—reducing costs, strengthening partnerships, and driving sustainable growth.
Supplier / Shipper Networks

Streamline your supply chain with smarter supplier networks

The Retail Network US enables suppliers to connect with their US based retailer to centrally manage supply, demand and logistics. These services included allow the supplier to collaborate on end-to-end supply chain management including forecasting, inventory planning, replenishment, order management, ASN, inventory management, warehouse management, transportation management, and freight financials.
 

Capabilities

Intelligent tools for modern supplier operations

Manage orders, deliveries and performance in one place

Supply Chain Command Center dashboards give suppliers a single, configurable view to manage trading partner operations. From one platform, suppliers can manage purchase orders, schedule deliveries, and track carrier and on-time performance. Real-time dashboards highlight critical data, alerts, and reports, while live asset tracking keeps operations connected, visible, and efficient.

Proactive shipment scheduling and exception management

Simplify shipment scheduling with clear visibility into every issue to enable exception-based management. 

  • Auto-scheduling and rescheduling
  • Pending and late appointment notifications
  • Missing confirmations*

*Subscribed users will have access to the Blue Yonder Network UI Portal connecting you to your customers and configured services for their partner communities.

Predict delays and monitor assets in real time

Achieve greater visibility with telematics and predictive insights, spanning cold-chain logistics to IoT-enabled asset monitoring.

  • Real-time data tracking with appointment milestones
  • Collect and prepaid appointments with the ability to monitor infeasible ETAs
  • Late origin gate-in and out tracking

Track performance across sites, lanes and carriers

Track key supplier performance metrics in real time across sites, lanes, carriers, and distribution centers—all from a single, unified dashboard that drives continuous improvement and operational excellence:

  • On time in full (OTIF) current month
  • Order expedites current month
  • On-time, In-full trends
  • Expedite order trends
  • Bottom 10 Items OTIF
Key Benefits

Connected, Real-time Supply Chain Control

Real-time Intelligence

Suppliers receive live inventory projections to optimize supply adjustments, accurate demand forecasting to improve production planning, and real-time insights to fine-tune production capacity. Continuous On Time and In Full (OTIF) and temperature tracking helps ensure timely, complete deliveries, while automated alerts enable proactive management of disruptions before they impact performance.

Unified Order Management

Delivers end-to-end visibility and reconciliation to reduce order lead times, while enabling active collaboration to quickly resolve upstream supply chain disruptions and keep orders on track.

Optimized resources

Retail suppliers achieve demand-driven production scheduling, dynamic lead time management, and predictive maintenance integration to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and better align supply with demand.

Financial impact

Improvements to the bottom line include fewer stockouts and chargebacks, reduced manual processing costs, and shorter lead times—driving lower operating costs, improved cash flow, and stronger profitability.


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