Retail, the Blue Yonder way
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 These outdated systems drain resources and hinder innovation.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.
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
Resources
Retail runs on Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder Big Ideas Session
Monday, Jan. 11th | 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Stage 1, Level 1
Decide Faster. Decide Smarter. Decide Together. The AI Era of Retail Has Arrived.
Retail decisions cannot keep pace with change when they stop at functional or enterprise boundaries. Discover how world-class retailers are using retail-specific AI to connect planning and execution with signals from across the retail network, creating a continuous decision loop that operates at the speed of business. As outcomes feed back into the next decision, retailers can learn from what happened, adapt to changing conditions, and improve future actions — sharpening forecast accuracy, OTIF, and other operational metrics along the way. See how connected decision-making, delivered through an intuitive user experience, can help retailers anticipate disruption, coordinate responses, and balance availability, service, cost, and margin with greater confidence. And because the network extends beyond four walls, retailers can move past isolated planning to true orchestration — synchronizing decisions in real time with the broader ecosystem of suppliers and carriers.
Speakers
Andrea Morgan-Vandome, Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Yonder
Jason Booth, Chief Technology Officer,
Crate & Barrel
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.
Event
Blue Yonder Tailgate & Football Watch Party
Sunday, Jan. 10th | 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Join us for the Blue Yonder Tailgate & Football Watch Party co-hosted with Microsoft and Cycle Labs. Get ready for an evening of elite networking and entertainment, with top leaders in supply chain and retail. Plus, don't miss your chance to meet with Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP and NFL Most Valuable Player, Marcus Allen!
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