The time for a paradigm shift is now
Reacting quickly in the ever-changing retail landscape is increasingly hard. Today’s retailers face inflationary cost pressures, geopolitical disruption, labor shortages, sustainability mandates, and rapid digital change like never before. At the same time, consumer loyalty is hanging by a thread, with over 50% of shoppers saying they’d switch to a competitor after a single unsatisfactory experience.
These forces converge to make quick, confident decisions harder, turning inventory, fulfillment, pricing, and labor into constant trade-offs that directly impact sales and profitability.
Why an end-to-end supply chain matters?
Visibility
Disconnected planning and execution create inefficiencies across manufacturing, merchandising, and stores. And omni-channel retailers face inventory blind spots and costly returns.
Agility
Rapidly changing trends often leave retailers stuck with markdowns or missed sales. Furthermore, global supply chains are vulnerable to tariffs, disruptions and delays.
Efficiency
Retailers often struggle with legacy systems, data silos, and distrust of AI. These outdated systems drain resources and hinder innovation.
Sustainability
Sustainability and compliance challenge retailers from over-ordering, the carbon footprint of transport, and returned items entering landfills.
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Excel in supply chain with AI
Leading retailers into the future
The Blue Yonder Platform connects end-to-end solutions and teams for real-time demand sensing, optimizing inventory, and managing disruptions, ensuring seamless workflows and exceptional customer experiences.
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The Blue Yonder Approach
The right tools for the right job
- End-to-end visibility
Unify planning and execution
Blue Yonder unifies planning and execution through an AI-driven platform that connects financial, assortment, and inventory decisions with real-time fulfillment. By aligning demand, supply and operations across the value chain, it enables smarter, automated inventory actions, reducing stock imbalances, and improving margins.
- Forecast accuracy
Protect your bottom line
Blue Yonder solutions enable retailers to respond to real-time demand shifts by connecting planning and execution through AI agents. Its unified platform aligns assortments, financial plans and inventory with emerging trends, ensuring faster, data-driven decisions that improve full-price sales and reduce lost opportunities.
- Real-time planning
Respond to real-time demand shifts
Blue Yonder seamlessly connects planning with real-time execution, enabling faster decision-making, dynamic stock adjustments, and automated fulfilment through AI-driven solutions—ensuring the right product reaches the right place at the right time, while minimizing markdowns and stockouts.
- More sustainable retail
Lead the green path
As a result of Blue Yonder’s track-and-trace capabilities, alongside the Sustainability Supply Chain Manager—product traceability and regulatory compliance are improved, creating better supplier collaboration, greater consumer transparency, and reduced carbon footprint consistent with ESG targets.
- Synchronized execution
Optimize your customer journey
Blue Yonder empowers cost-efficient operations by centralizing decision-making and leveraging AI to optimize sourcing, fulfillment, and returns. This holistic approach reduces operational costs, protects margins, and ensures smarter, faster inventory and fulfillment decisions.
- AI-powered resilience
Overcome disruptions with ease
Blue Yonder solutions and capabilities mean enhanced supply chain resilience by centralizing visibility, linking planning to real-time execution, and using AI to quickly detect disruptions, recommend contingency actions, and optimize recovery—ensuring stronger service levels and greater operational efficiency.
- Empowered workforce
Staff efficiently and compliantly
As a result of capabilities such as Workforce Management, the Blue Yonder Platform and Warehouse Returns Processing and Labor Management, scheduling accuracy (AI and ML) is improved, meaning better compliance, more labor available for high-value work, higher employee satisfaction and reduced turnover.
- Modernized operations
Maximize speed, capacity and innovation
Blue Yonder unifies planning and execution with AI-driven intelligence and expert services to simplify IT, automate decisions, and accelerate value. The result is lower cost and risk, faster deployment, smarter operations, and stronger revenue growth.
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Lead the pack with AI-driven innovation
Our AI-powered end-to-end Blue Yonder Platform offers retailers a competitive edge with visibility across supply chains, enhanced agility with real-time response to demand changes, and optimized efficiency with smarter, faster decisions across teams, while ensuring sustainability compliance.
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With Blue Yonder you can achieve:
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55%
Improvement planner efficiency
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40%
Reduction in out-of-stocks
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50%
Reduction in fulfillment, storage and handling charges
Retail runs on Blue Yonder
The ODP Corporation realizes $30 million in inventory reduction for B2B and ecommerce operations with Blue Yonder
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Discount Tire optimizes retail operations with Blue Yonder’s AI solutions
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Promart increases inventory profitability by 40% using Blue Yonder
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ReaderLink Achieves a 30% Increase in New Product Forecasting Accuracy with Blue Yonder
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Personal Collection Achieves 99.3% Product Availability with Blue Yonder
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Rexall Pharmacy transforms Store Operations with Blue Yonder
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Paradies Lagardère optimizes its workforce processes with Blue Yonder
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Industry insights
Solution sheet
Blue Yonder Agent Activation Advisory
Supply chains face mounting complexity, disruptions and resource constraints. AI agents transform manual processes into fast, data-driven operations, but deployment requires expertise. Our Agent Activation Advisory builds tailored agents in weeks, delivering efficiency and cost savings.
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Solution sheet
Turning complexity into clarity with Blue Yonder AI solutions
Blue Yonder's end-to-end AI platform and solutions unify stakeholders for real-time collaboration, smarter decisions, optimized inventory, reduced costs, and enhanced customer satisfaction for retailers.
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The 7 pillars of cognitive supply chain management
The next age of supply chains is here: Thinking, learning and adapting at machine speed. To harness technological advances, we need to change how we think. These are the seven pillars of cognitive supply chain management that underpin the future of supply chain architecture.
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Blog post
How end-to-end supply chain management unlocks retail sustainability
Learn how end-to-end supply chain management provides the visibility needed to drive true retail sustainability and reduce waste.
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Solution sheet
AI optimized inventory: Maximize availability, minimize waste
Balance service, cost and risk with AI-powered inventory optimization. Reduce costs, free up working capital, and ensure products are in the right place at the right time, turning inventory into a driver of growth and customer satisfaction.
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Calculate your returns ROI
See the immediate savings you can gain by integrating returns management into your supply chain.
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A Leader in Three Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Reports
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, Federica Stufano, 26 April 2026.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries, Joe Graham, Pia Orup Lund, Buse Aras, Julia von Massow, Eva Dawkins, Jan Snoeckx, March 18, 2026.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Manav Jain, 27 March 2026.
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GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Blue Yonder. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Blue Yonder was previously listed as i2/i2 Technologies/JDA/JDA Software/Red Prairie; the company rebranded to Blue Yonder in February 2020.
