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Today’s supply chains are an essential part to create more sustainable and efficient processes and improve the health and safety of companies. Blue Yonder's vision for our customers, utilising a robust, end-to-end supply chain platform, with boundaryless planning and execution, to allow supply chain leaders to take on new, unprecedented challenges globally. With the Luminate Platform, global manufacturing companies can utilize the power of current AI and ML capabilities.

Meeting Challenges

Visibility

To stay ahead of today's challenges, supply chains need visibility - to inventory, to logistics, to disruptions along with ability to quickly find and execute resolutions. Visibility is the first step to agility.
Volatile Demand

Evolving customer expectations, focus on sustainability, macro and micro economic factors, social media trends continue to increase demand volatility. Ability to accurately forecast demand is a critical capability to create a high performing supply chain.
Constrained Supply

In today's fast-changing, highly competitive, digital world, it is more challenging than ever for companies to fulfill customer requirements, at the right place, at the right time while maintaining margins and support growth.

Why Blue Yonder?

The Complete Supply Chain Platform; Boundaryless Planning with Demand Planning, Supply Planning and Order Promising and End to End Visibility with Control Tower

Boost customer service while reducing inventory with Demand Planning

Critical for global manufacturers like Panasonic to compete, an accurate demand forecast allows supply chains to stay ahead of orders, purchasing trends and customer demand.

Business Benefits:
- Increased profitability; higher availability at lower costs
- Minimized inventory and waste; drive inventory deployment and accurate demand and assortment planning

Build & position the right inventory at the right place with Supply Planning

Gain supply chain agility with an optimized supply plan designed to meet volatile demand. An optimized plan saves your planner time, and helps your organization minimize stock-outs and maximize inventory turns.

Business Benefits:
- Increased agility; Predict and pivot to demand shifts, competitors, material costs and other disruptions
- Increased productivity; improve planner productivity with flexible, fast plan analysis
- Optimized inventory; the right inventory in your network

Reduce expedites & improve productivity with Order Promiser

When it comes to successful order promising, it’s essential that your organization has a full view of earlier commitments, as well as the rules that control allowable changes. Discover how to maximize business results with powerful, intelligent and automated order promising capabilities.

Business Benefits:
- Gain increased confidence in quoted delivery dates for exceptional service levels
- Fill more orders on time yielding better customer service
- Support Constraints-based Allocation, e.g. Advanced-Available-to-Promise and Capable-to-Promise

Visibility, Insights & Action with Luminate Control Tower

Luminate Control Tower is a next-gen SaaS solution powering end to end visibility of your supply chain for faster, more accurate, and more informed decision-making. See, understand, act and learn on real-time information from the entire digital ecosystem, including third-party data sources.

Business Benefits:
- Predicts future supply chain disruptions
- Respond efficiently and profitably to disruptions
- Increases internal and external collaboration

Foundation for a future relationship

Boundaryless Planning and collaboration across networks
- Sales & Operations Planning: Both mid-term (18 months) and Long-term strategic planning (5 years) Sales & Operations Planning
- Sales & Operations Execution: Focused, short-term planning to predict and resolve challenges faster
Digital Transformation with best-in-class AI and ML capabilities
- Luminate Demand Edge: Demand sensing through external sensors such as connected machines for predictive maintenance
- Order Promiser: Prioritise allocation to your best customers
- Luminate Control Tower: End-to-end visibility of supply chain from supplier to customer. Including supplier collaboration
One Partner for the Future
- End-to-End Coverage: Integrated planning and execution with e2e supply chain visibility
- Best-in-Class Planning: Exception management and what-if planning capabilities to simulate scenarios, analyse benefits/costs
- AI/ML Powered: Latest technology to drive the autonomous supply chain

Real Results with Luminate™

Luminate Planning, the next-gen planning platform

Leverage the Power of Intelligent Real-Time Planning - What if your planning bridged time and organizational silos, closing the gaps between demand and supply planning, and the upstream and downstream supply chain? Discover the industry’s most powerful, intelligent end-to-end supply chain solution that your customers and teams will love.

Speed in Planning

Multiple planning engines

The industry-leading set of plan-generation capabilities. Suited to the different business characteristics and always online for accurate ad-hoc and agile reaction to events through Fast Heuristics and Linear Programming based Optimisation
Automation

Process optimisation, ML and workflows

Reducing cost, better control and improved shareholder return through higher degrees of automation from optimisation, machine learning and workflows
Digital Transformation

Fast, industry-leading innovation

Supporting business transformation in the Automotive, Industrial Applications and Consumer Products industries through Digital Transformation of the supply chain – leveraging SaaS, public cloud, AI/ML, and fast innovation
User Experience

A single, intuitive platform

Ensuring adoption through a superior user experience for 'Next-Gen' planners assuring the value is realised

Analyst Recognition

Leader in 3 Gartner Magic Quadrants

Discover how automotive and aftermarket manufacturers can optimize everything from supply chain planning, to warehouse, inventory and transportation, all with one partner.

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Supply Chain Planning
Solutions

Make faster, more informed decisions and identify opportunities early.
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Transportation Management Systems

Achieve seamless control over all your inbound and outbound transportation.
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Warehouse Management Systems

Optimize warehouse operations from storage to profitability and much more.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions. Amber Salley, Tim Payne & Pia Orup Lund, Published 2/22/21. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems. Bart de Muynck, Brock Johns & Oscar Sanchez Duran, Published 3/25/20. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. Dwight Klappich & Simon Tunstall, Published 5/6/21. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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Forrester TEI Report; Luminate™ Planning

Commissioned by Blue Yonder, a Forrester Consulting study found diverse customers in the manufacturing and distribution sectors achieved compelling economic benefits and return on investment by replacing their labor-intensive, spreadsheet-based supply chain planning processes or legacy applications with Blue Yonder Luminate Planning™.
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Supply chains have the ability to positively or negatively affect a company’s sustainability position. There is however a lot of complexity, and a number of contributing themes, that affect this position.
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