Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software) is a leading provider of advanced supply chain management solutions, specializing in optimizing costs, enhancing efficiency, and driving revenue for businesses across various industries, including retail, manufacturing, and the service sector.
What Blue Yonder Does
Blue Yonder offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-based supply chain management products and services designed to help organizations digitally transform their supply chains. The platform leverages artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and real-time data analytics to enable businesses to anticipate demand, optimize inventory, and adapt to market changes swiftly.Key Features and Functionality
End-to-End Supply Chain Management
Blue Yonder’s platform serves as a single source of truth for all supply chain needs, from planning to execution. It reduces decision-making latency and minimizes the complexity of cross-functional collaboration, providing real-time visibility and optimization across the entire supply chain.Industry-Specific Solutions
- Manufacturing and Distribution: This sector includes intelligent manufacturing software that monitors stock, aids in inventory planning, and initiates replenishment. It features enhanced predictive analytics, automation, and end-to-end visibility to ensure efficient and sustainable operations.
- Retail: Tools for retail companies include category management, intelligent fulfillment, merchandise operations, retail planning, and store operations. Recent updates have introduced omnichannel capabilities, supported by AI-driven demand forecasting to integrate online and offline operations seamlessly.
- Service Industry: This sector offers pricing and revenue management (PRM) tools, particularly for the hospitality, media, and travel fields. The PRM software forecasts data to balance price versus profitability, optimizing pricing strategies dynamically.
Advanced Planning and Execution
- Demand Planning: Blue Yonder’s Cognitive Demand Planning optimizes forecasting for new and transitioning products, enhancing collaboration across marketing, sales, and operations teams. This results in streamlined inventory management, reduced supply chain costs, and greater control over demand planning processes.
- Fulfillment Sourcing: The Fulfillment Sourcing Simulator allows omni-channel leaders to assess various scenarios, including capacity constraints, to ensure on-time and in-full delivery and avoid stockouts.
- Yard and Warehouse Operations: The platform includes ML-integrated, vision-based yard analysis and Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) technologies to automate and centralize yard management, increasing throughput and decreasing costs.
Transportation Management
- End-to-End Planning: This feature includes planning and optimization of regional and global inbound and outbound processes, with integrated fleet and common carrier planning for optimizing efficiency.
- Transportation Execution: Advanced routing, mode, container, and service level optimization with inventory awareness across the supply chain, along with automated execution and real-time shipment and item-level visibility.
- Transportation Modeling: Tactical modeling and integrated business analytics to enable network performance evaluation and savings quantification.