Leading supply chain company’s intelligent, AI-powered, platform-driven solutions help businesses rapidly adjust to demand and disruptions while driving cost efficiency and resiliency.
As volatility increases and economic concerns grow, supply chain leaders are under intense pressure to optimize every aspect of their supply chain to maximize profits and avoid bottlenecks. With its latest product release that was showcased at its annual customer conference, ICON 2025, Blue Yonder delivers several artificial intelligence (AI)-infused Cognitive Solutions, accelerating long-range and intraday decision making, even in the most complex situations, for increased resiliency, resource leverage, and cost control.
»Our latest product release helps businesses tackle volatility, improve profit margins, and reduce complexity,« said Duncan Angove, CEO, Blue Yonder. »By leveraging our AI-powered, platform-driven Cognitive Solutions, directly connected to the Blue Yonder Network, companies can achieve unprecedented agility and resilience, enabling them to anticipate and respond to market changes with speed and precision. This empowers our customers to not only meet current demands but also to strategically position themselves for future growth and success.«
With this product release, Blue Yonder advancements are focused on the following key areas:
Cognitive Solutions Reimagine Supply Chain Management
Cognitive Solutions are designed to operate at machine speed, scale and precision with AI natively built-in, allowing supply chain teams and AI to seamlessly coordinate decisions and quickly refine workflows across all parts of their supply chain from planning to execution to returns management. Built on a modern and true cloud architecture for scale and access to advanced AI capabilities, the Cognitive Solutions on the Blue Yonder Platform leverage the AI data cloud to breakdown silos in the supply chain ecosystem and enable end-to-end interoperability through the power of unified decisioning on a multi-enterprise network. Cognitive Solutions are intelligent and agentic, offering reimagined experiences for users.
With Cognitive Solutions, Blue Yonder customers will receive the following benefits:
Cognitive Solutions support the high-speed decision-making required of today’s supply chain teams. These interoperable solutions span business processes and break down silos, supporting efficient collaboration.
Unified Planning and Streamlined Decisioning Across the Supply Chain for Manufacturers and Retailers
With Cognitive Solutions for supply chain planning, Blue Yonder delivers end-to-end, concurrent planning based on a common set of services and data. Both manufacturers and retailers gain new capabilities in this release. Manufacturers can optimize planning and boost profits by swiftly analyzing demand in unison with supply from across a multi-tier network of supply partners, and collaborating easily with suppliers and carriers to ensure they have the right materials that meet their specific requirements. Retailers can enhance ranging decisions in near real-time across sales, stock buying, inventory management, and financial management processes using the Blue Yonder Platform’s unified and centralized data management structure. This gives retailers the planning speed and flexibility they need to accelerate inventory turnover and minimize waste, even as customer and business demands evolve. New offerings in this release include:
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<li><strong>New product introduction analysis</strong> uses AI to analyze how the introduction of new products impacts supply requirements, production, and sourcing, as well as how to align with real-time consumer and market changes for more successful product launches.</li>
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<li><strong>Multi-tier planning and orchestration</strong> expands the supply chain planning process by connecting supply, demand and inventory planning with the Blue Yonder Network, enabling multi-tier planning, responsiveness and supplier collaboration.</li>
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<li><strong>Solver enhancements</strong>, along with new insight and optimization tools, enable planners to reduce excess inventory and safety stock costs while improving delivery accuracy and reducing production delays.</li>
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<li><strong>Dynamic Integrated Business Planning: </strong>Enhancements to <strong><a href="https://blueyonder.com/solutions/supply-chain-planning/integrated-business-planning?utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_source=pressrelease" target="_blank">Integrated Business Planning</a></strong> automatically create risk and opportunity corridors that enable planners to explore a range of possible situations to assist them in creating more accurate plans in today’s age of uncertainty. In addition, <strong>dynamic constraints and planning capabilities</strong> enable planners to identify supply chain limits and use AI to recommend scenarios that achieve supply chain goals while aligning with broader company objectives.</li>
<li><strong>Enhanced Inventory Management for Retail: </strong>Building on the previous release of a seamless <strong><a href="https://blueyonder.com/solutions/retail-planning-and-category-management/allocation-and-replenishment?utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_source=pressrelease" target="_blank">Allocation and Replenishment</a></strong>solution that supports the entire lifecycle of a product from introduction to end-of-life, this release introduces new features. This includes enhanced <strong>best balance ordering </strong>that allows retail planners to improve inventory fit for regional demands and prevent spoilage for date-sensitive inventory, reducing waste. The addition of <strong>rule-based store grouping</strong> allows retailers to predefine which factors (such as product demand, store sales, etc.) determine inventory allocation across stores. And ML-based <strong>behavioral clustering</strong> enables planners to analyze more supply chain planning data than legacy, rule-based systems, improving assortment mapping to seasonal buying trends and accelerating inventory turnover.</li>
<li><strong>End-to-End Assortment Planning for Softlines Retail:</strong> This release introduces new features to <strong><a href="https://blueyonder.com/solutions/retail-planning-and-category-management?utm_medium=pressrelease&utm_source=pressrelease" target="_blank">Assortment Planning</a> </strong>targeted to softlines. Merchants and planners can better understand and manage the impact of their assortment decisions by leveraging its built-in AI agent, which analyzes historical performance, subscriptions, and fashion trends to determine the likelihood of future product sales against customer preferences, channel or regional idiosyncrasies, and events, amongst other causals.</li>Maximize Warehouse Efficiency and Speed With AI and ML
Blue Yonder is delivering its next-generation warehouse management solution built natively on the Blue Yonder Platform – combining 25 years of proven capabilities and a cloud-native platform in one solution. This allows effortless scalability and extensibility, no downtime code updates, and immediate access to AI and ML innovation. Businesses will dramatically improve warehouse efficiency with unprecedented adaptability and visibility, accelerated receipt and movement of goods, and optimized workforce performance. And it allows them to deliver optimized cost-to-serve metrics, in addition to reducing the cost per case metric within the warehouse. The new capabilities available for consumption at customer warehouses include:
Extend Supply Chain Visibility and Orchestration With a Multi-Enterprise Network
The Blue Yonder Network enables businesses to swiftly coordinate with suppliers, customers and carriers, optimizing the flow of goods and improving time to market to support profitable growth. With this release, the Blue Yonder Network now offers:
Optimize Returns To Get Goods Back Into Inventory Faster
With the latest release, retailers can empower a circular supply chain that reduces waste and increases profits:
Enhanced Capabilities That Promote Sustainable Abundance
Blue Yonder also introduced a new sustainability offering, called Sustainable Supply Chain Manager, which integrates carbon and waste management with supply chain management. This new integration will help Blue Yonder customers reduce waste and pollution while cutting costs – a win-win for the business and the environment.
»Over the past few years, businesses have been able to scale global supply chains through technology; however, this progress has come at a cost to the environment as supply chains today account for most of global carbon emissions,« said Saskia van Gendt, chief sustainability officer, Blue Yonder. »The good news is that this same technology can be used to address sustainability impacts in the supply chain. We’re excited by our new offering that provides actionable data and optimization capabilities to address emissions and waste in the supply chain, helping businesses meet their sustainability goals.«
Blue Yonder’s Sustainable Supply Chain Manager allows customers to:
In addition, as previously announced, Blue Yonder acquired the business of Pledge Earth Technologies Ltd. (»Pledge«), which will enhance its already robust platform to include globally accredited logistics CO2e emissions reporting that allows customers to monitor their own emissions and those of their trading partners and suppliers. Learn more here.
Blue Yonder Launches Supply Chain Advisory
Also, at ICON, Blue Yonder unveiled its newly formed Supply Chain Advisory, which offers deep industry, solutions and data science expertise to guide customers through their digital transformation journeys and adoption of Blue Yonder’s solutions and AI agents.
The Supply Chain Advisory helps customers cut through supply chain complexity, tackle tough challenges, avoid potential missteps, and keep ahead of what’s next. The team engages customers from the beginning of their project via workshops to guide their digital transformation and remains a strategic advisor throughout their entire lifecycle. The team signifies the next phase in Blue Yonder’s Customer Experience strategy, engaging in close collaboration with the implementation team, Customer Success, and partners to advance customer success.
The Supply Chain Advisory will help customers at every stage of their adoption of Blue Yonder’s solutions, including offering transformation blueprints and guidance on change management. An Agent Activation Advisorywill work closely with customers to develop AI agents that help them unlock even greater value from their Blue Yonder solutions.
»We understand the growing complexity of modern supply chains and the transformative potential of AI,« said Andrea Morgan Vandome, chief innovation officer, Blue Yonder. »Our customers look to Blue Yonder as a trusted advisor to navigate tough challenges and identify opportunities. The Supply Chain Advisory is here to help them embrace innovation and rethink how work is done, ensuring they achieve their vision with the guidance of experienced professionals.«
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