Blue Yonder Transforms Retail Enterprise Planning
A report from Kore.AI has found UK workers are spending as much as half of their day (3-4 hours) doing non-productive work or manual tasks that could be automated.
This has inspired leading logistics leaders to turn to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help automate such tasks.
The latest announcement from Blue Yonder, a world leader in digital supply chain transformation, therefore comes at a crucial time; its new ML-integrated, vision-based yard analysis automates and centralises yard management for increased throughput and decreased costs.
Through the offering, the company has strengthened its enterprise supply chain platform and industry-specific offerings by releasing new planning and execution capabilities that empower supply chain leaders to meet critical business objectives.
As it continues to build the supply chain for the future, Blue Yonder’s new industry-specific solutions will empower supply chain leaders to meet overarching business objectives.
These product innovations are aimed at further supporting organisations by providing actionable insights from their supply chain data that drive greater cost efficiency and a faster return on investment.
The Blue Yonder Platform serves as the single source for all supply chain needs, from planning to execution, reducing decision-making latency, as well as minimising the complexity of enabling cross-functional collaboration from planning through execution.
With these new product innovations, organisations can better leverage data to forecast demand and supply requirements, improve inventory utilisation and quickly resolve inefficiencies in warehouse and yard operations that could delay deliveries.
The announcement comes at a crucial time for the logistics sector.
Blue Yonder’s Robotics Hub also now enables high-volume automated processes using cutting-edge Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) technologies to minimise latency and facilitate efficient warehouse operations.
"These new innovations directly support our customers as they digitally transform their supply chains to take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the latest advancements in robotics," explains Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder.
“Our Blue Yonder Platform connects the breadth of our solutions – across planning, execution, labour, e-commerce and delivery.
“By supporting simple extensibility for our customers to extend and configure their solutions as needed, the Blue Yonder Platform allows them to increase speed and agility, make data-driven decisions and pivot around disruptions.
“The platform offers composability, allowing customers to add on new functionalities as they need them with a faster time to value.”
- Blue Yonder Cognitive Merchandise Financial Planning enhances decision-making with visualisation, hierarchical planning, attribute analysis and collaboration, improving cost control and revenue.
- Blue Yonder Fulfilment Sourcing Simulator helps leaders assess scenarios, understand trade-offs and select optimal alternatives for timely delivery and avoiding stockouts.
- Blue Yonder Cognitive Demand Planning optimises forecasting and collaboration, enhancing customer experience, inventory management, supply chain costs and demand planning.
- ML-integrated, vision-based yard analysis automates management, increasing throughput and reducing costs.
- Blue Yonder Robotics Hub uses AS/RS technologies to minimise latency and enhance warehouse operations.
- Blue Yonder Returns Management optimises returns handling to improve financial performance, customer experience and reduce waste with advanced carrier selection and store drop-off promotions.
These new advancements from Blue Yonder enhance supply chain speed and agility across industries, enabling warehouse, transportation and order management teams to collaborate from a single data set.
This provides immediate notifications of issues and opportunities with suggested solutions. Organisations gain end-to-end visibility and optimisation, improving service, profitability and sustainability- in an era when the demand for these features is only going to grow.
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