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Techday NZ
29-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Blue Yonder remains a leader in Gartner's supply chain report
Blue Yonder has been positioned as a Leader for the fourteenth consecutive time in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Warehouse Management Systems based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. The assessment, conducted by research and advisory firm Gartner, evaluates warehouse management system providers from across the sector. Blue Yonder is among two companies to be recognised as a Leader in three of Gartner's Magic Quadrant reports for 2025, which also include Supply Chain Planning Solutions and Transportation Management Systems. Blue Yonder attributes its position in the report to its extensive range of warehouse management solutions, delivered through the Blue Yonder Platform. The company has recently launched a next-generation warehouse management solution as a part of its Cognitive Solutions offering, which integrates artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and cloud-native technology within a single solution. This new solution is designed to provide scalability, allow for low-code extensibility, enable code updates without downtime, and give streamlined access to AI and ML capabilities. Its aim is to assist businesses in improving warehouse efficiency, adaptability, visibility, and operational performance, as well as to lower cost-to-serve and cost per case metrics within warehouse environments. "The warehouse is a pivotal component of the supply chain, so companies should look to enhance resilience and sustainability across their warehouse, transportation, and planning sectors to better meet customer needs," said Wayne Usie, Chief Strategy Officer at Blue Yonder. "Blue Yonder's supply chain solutions empower companies to coordinate sourcing, production, logistics, and network strategies within a unified platform. This comprehensive approach enables companies to effectively plan their network, warehouse, and labour capacities from start to finish, resulting in shortened lead times, improved service levels, optimised operational efficiencies, maximised business opportunities, and reduced costs." Development of Blue Yonder's warehouse management solutions has been underway for more than two decades. The company is rolling out several new features in upcoming releases, including enhanced equipment tracking powered by computer vision and machine learning to automate monitoring in the yard and create 3D yard maps for operational oversight. Other planned enhancements include advanced people-robot collaboration, providing performance tracking for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automatic assignment reprocessing for transaction errors. Additional capabilities will support retail store replenishment with inventory visibility, garment handling, and ratio packing tools aimed at improving efficiency in store inventory management for both retailers and logistics service providers. Blue Yonder is also adding capabilities for returns processing and tracking, such as visibility into Returns Merchandise Authorisation and automated decisioning for faster returns processing. An announced Warehouse Ops Agent tool is designed to monitor real-time operational changes and identify trends for informed decision-making within the warehouse setting. The firm provides its warehouse management solutions to customers spanning 19 industry sectors, including consumer products, food and beverage, grocery, automotive, industrial, life sciences, and logistics service providers. Blue Yonder's delivery model includes a partner ecosystem and its own Blue Yonder Global Professional Services organisation. Recently, Blue Yonder signed a strategic agreement with GXO, described as the world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider. GXO will deploy Blue Yonder's logistics software solutions to improve speed, flexibility, and predictability for its client base. Under the agreement, Blue Yonder will be one of GXO's preferred software providers for warehouse management systems, supporting the logistics firm's need for scalable implementations across industries as it continues to grow. With its placement in the latest Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Blue Yonder has been recognised as a leader in all three of Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant reports relevant to supply chain execution: Supply Chain Planning, Transportation Management Systems, and Warehouse Management Systems.
Business Wire
19-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems Report for 14 th Time in a Row
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Yonder, the leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformations, has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the recently released 2025 Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems 2 (WMS) based on the Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Blue Yonder attributes its success to the depth and breadth of its warehouse management solutions – powered by the Blue Yonder Platform. Blue Yonder recently delivered its next-generation warehouse management solutions as part of its Cognitive Solutions launch, combining 25 years of proven capabilities and a cloud-native platform in one solution. This next-generation solution allows for effortless scalability, low-code extensibility, no downtime code updates and streamlined 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. Blue Yonder has been recognized as a Leader for the 14 th time in a row in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) 3. "The warehouse is a pivotal component of the supply chain, so companies should look to enhance resilience and sustainability across their warehouse, transportation, and planning sectors to better meet customer needs," said Wayne Usie, chief strategy officer, Blue Yonder. "Blue Yonder's supply chain solutions empower companies to coordinate sourcing, production, logistics, and network strategies within a unified platform. This comprehensive approach enables companies to effectively plan their network, warehouse, and labor capacities from start to finish, resulting in shortened lead times, improved service levels, optimized operational efficiencies, maximized business opportunities, and reduced costs." Blue Yonder's warehouse management solutions are shaped through decades of continuous product development to design the latest cutting-edge technology to meet the intricate needs of the world's most complex warehouse operations. Some of the new capabilities available soon include: Enhanced Equipment Tracking: Utilizes computer vision and machine learning to automatically monitor equipment in the yard, improving efficiency and trailer prioritization, as well as gaining the ability to create a 3D yard map for operational visibility. Advanced People-Robot Collaboration: Robotics performance tracking capabilities track autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) like labor resources, ensuring productivity and utilization. With automatic assignment reprocessing capabilities, warehouse managers can automatically attempt to reprocess failed or incorrect transactions to ensure data integrity. Retail Store Replenishment Support From the Warehouse: Integrates capabilities like chase pick, garment on hanger, ratio pack and more for improved inventory visibility and picking efficiency, aiding retailers and logistics service providers in stock management and store inventory replenishment. Returns Processing and Tracking: Offers visibility into Returns Merchandise Authorization (RMA), automating decisions for faster processing and quicker return of goods to sale. Warehouse Ops Agent: Announced at ICON 2025, the agent enhances daily warehouse operations by actively monitoring for changes in real-time and identifying important trends and causality for informed and impactful decision making. Blue Yonder's warehouse customers span 19 vertical industries, including consumer products, food & beverage, grocery, automotive, industrial, life-science, and logistics service providers. Blue Yonder has a solid history of delivering its warehouse management solutions to its customers through its strong partner ecosystem globally and its Blue Yonder Global Professional Services. Blue Yonder recently announced a strategic agreement with GXO, the world's largest pure-play contract logistics provider, who will deploy new end-to-end logistics software solutions that will enhance speed, flexibility and predictability for its customers. Under this agreement, Blue Yonder will serve as one of GXO's preferred software solution providers for WMS, supporting GXO's rapid growth and need for seamless implementations at scale for clients across industries. Learn more in the joint press release here. With this latest Gartner Warehouse Management System Magic Quadrant, Blue Yonder is one of only two evaluated companies recognized as a Leader in three Gartner Magic Quadrant reports covering Supply Chain Planning, Transportation Management Systems and Warehouse Management Systems 1. Additional Resources: Sources: 1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, Federica Stufano, 1 May 2025; Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 24 March 2025; Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Systems, Pia Orup Lund, Joe Graham, Caleb Thomson, Shane Brett, Eva Dawkins, 14 April 2025. 2 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall, Dwight Klappich, Rishabh Narang, Federica Stufano, 1 May 2025. 3 Blue Yonder was previously listed as JDA because the company rebranded in early 2020. Also, recognitions were in the post-JDA/RedPrairie acquisition timeframe announced in 2012. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. 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. About Blue Yonder Blue Yonder is the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation. With a unified, AI-driven platform and multi-tier network, Blue Yonder empowers businesses to operate sustainably, scale profitably, and delight their customers — all at machine speed. Blue Yonder's modern supply chain innovations and unmatched industry expertise help more than 3,000 retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers to confidently navigate supply chain complexity and disruption. 'Blue Yonder' is a trademark or registered trademark of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name 'Blue Yonder' is a trademark and/or property of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated.
Business Wire
06-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Blue Yonder Unveils Advanced AI-Driven Cognitive Solutions With Latest Product Release
NASHVILLE, Tenn. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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. 'By leveraging our AI-powered, platform-driven Cognitive Solutions, companies can achieve unprecedented agility and resilience, enabling them to anticipate and respond to market changes with speed and precision," said Duncan Angove, CEO, Blue Yonder. Share '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: Increased Agility To Address Mounting Business Uncertainty: Businesses can quickly evaluate risks and opportunities by aligning objectives and constraints using internal and external data sources, to reduce the time elapsed between planning and execution. Planners and operations managers can now build more scenarios on additional data in less time and then leverage the power of AI to quickly pinpoint the most effective path for optimized execution. And with a multi-enterprise network, businesses can use agentic AI to adjust operations in conjunction with trading partners to work around disruptions, optimize costs and more. Optimized Cost-to-Serve With Speed of Delivery: Businesses can optimize capital resource output, reduce inventory waste, and identify hidden inefficiencies to maximize profits and minimize cost-to-serve with AI- and machine learning (ML)-driven analysis across their supply chain. Simplified, AI- and ML-Driven Decisioning: Building on more than two decades of innovation in predictive analysis for supply chain management, Blue Yonder has expanded AI leverage across these Cognitive Solutions while also implementing more sophisticated ML techniques. AI agents enable businesses to utilize and act on vast amounts of supply chain data for optimizing decision-making, identifying patterns, and predicting disruptions – as well as opportunities – that humans might miss. Learn more about Blue Yonder's AI agents here. 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: AI-Driven Demand and Supply Planning: Introduced during the last product release, Demand and Supply Planning eliminates traditional planning silos and redefines the strategic planning process. This release introduces new features, including: New product introduction analysis 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. Multi-tier planning and orchestration 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. Solver enhancements, 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. Dynamic Integrated Business Planning: Enhancements to Integrated Business Planning 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, dynamic constraints and planning capabilities enable planners to identify supply chain limits and use AI to recommend scenarios that achieve supply chain goals while aligning with broader company objectives. Enhanced Inventory Management for Retail: Building on the previous release of a seamless Allocation and Replenishment solution that supports the entire lifecycle of a product from introduction to end-of-life, this release introduces new features. This includes enhanced best balance ordering that allows retail planners to improve inventory fit for regional demands and prevent spoilage for date-sensitive inventory, reducing waste. The addition of rule-based store grouping allows retailers to predefine which factors (such as product demand, store sales, etc.) determine inventory allocation across stores. And ML-based behavioral clustering 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. End-to-End Assortment Planning for Softlines Retail: This release introduces new features to Assortment Planning 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. 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: Improve Equipment Tracking in the Yard: Powered by computer vision and ML, businesses can automatically track equipment arriving and departing the yard, as well as the movement within the yard, resulting in increased efficiency and improved trailer prioritization. Computer vision technology detects equipment to create a 3D map of the yard, giving businesses operational visibility and the ability to search and identify available equipment to meet SLAs. Enable the Next Phase in People-Robot Collaboration: Warehouse managers can utilize the new robotics performance tracking capabilities to track their autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) like any other labor resource, with the ability to see productivity and utilization. And with automatic assignment reprocessing capabilities, warehouse managers can automatically attempt to reprocess failed or incorrect transactions to ensure data integrity. Support Retail Store Replenishment From the Warehouse: Using the new retail store replenishment capabilities, warehouse operators can integrate chase pick, garment on hanger, ratio packs, and more, enabling retailers and logistics service providers to replenish store inventory and stock levels across their store network. This improves inventory visibility and picking efficiency. Returns Process and Tracking for Added Visibility: The returns processing capability gives warehouses visibility into incoming Returns Merchandise Authorization (RMA) for more efficient returns, automates decision making, and enables faster processing to get goods back to sale more quickly. 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: Multi-Tier Networking for Blue Yonder Transportation Management: The integration of the Blue Yonder Network with Blue Yonder's transportation management solutions delivers access to advanced telematics, automation of transportation appointment scheduling, and RFQ collaboration with suppliers and carriers. This enables real-time tuning of transportation plans and schedules. Scalable, Permission-Based BOM View: The multi-tier Bill of Material (BOM) management capability enables rapid tracking and adjustment of raw materials and components across multiple suppliers to optimize for cost, time-to-market, and more. Analyze Root Cause Across Multi-Party Processes: The new risk impact analysis capability performs multi-party root cause analysis to identify issues and alternate suppliers and carriers to mitigate issues and improve resiliency. Support Alternate Vendor Selection: The dynamic order schedule management capability allows alternative vendor selection based on established contractual and component requirements for faster pivots, allowing retailers and manufacturers to address cost, time to market, and supply availability considerations. 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: Gain Control Over Returns and Refund Decisions: With the ability to tailor returns processes based on data such as product SKU, returns reason or customer profile, retailers can decide to issue refunds while excluding items, even in grouped orders, that are cost-prohibitive to return. They can do this without requiring the customer to return the item when it is unsellable or when the cost of return exceeds resale value to improve overall profitability. Increase Visibility With Analytics and Reporting Capabilities: The addition of returns analytics and customizable reporting in Blue Yonder Returns Management provides insights into frequently returned items, returns reasons, customers with high returns rates, volumes, and more to improve inventory management, inform future buying decisions, and stop revenue leakage. Improve Inventory Recovery: The introduction of the Warehouse Processing app offers new and enhanced grading functionality that enables retailers and logistics service providers (LSPs) to customize quality check instructions for warehouse workers, using data to determine the optimal disposition outcome. This ultimately leads to more consistent decision-making, increased inventory resale, and enhanced revenue recovery while minimizing waste. Dynamic Grading for Resale: Automatically determine the quality of returned goods — and whether they should be restocked, resold, or removed — to minimize return losses, and get goods back into sales inventory sooner. 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: Measure carbon emissions and proactively plan: The new Sustainable Supply Chain Manager solution embeds high-fidelity carbon emissions measurement into Blue Yonder's transportation management and supply chain planning solutions. Customers can calculate multimodal emissions across all transport modes, including air, inland (e.g., truck, rail, barges), and sea, as well as logistics hubs that align with the Global Logistics Emission Council (GLEC) framework, and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14083 (Greenhouse gases). This solution enhances proactive retail and manufacturing planning to reduce emissions by streamlining and providing accurate emissions data for regulatory compliance and ESG reporting without manual and fragmented data collection, saving time and costs. Optimize transportation carbon emissions scenario modeling: Blue Yonder's transportation management solution will now feature scenario modeling for carbon emissions optimization and trade-off analysis. This enhancement enables proactive planning and forecasting, driving progress on sustainability goals, reducing fuel usage and costs, and enhancing operational efficiency. 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 Advisory will 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." Additional Resources: Learn more about Blue Yonder's latest product release here Learn more about Blue Yonder's recent acquisition of Pledge's sustainability capabilities here About Blue Yonder Blue Yonder is the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation. With a unified, AI-driven platform and multi-tier network, Blue Yonder empowers businesses to operate sustainably, scale profitably, and delight their customers — all at machine speed. Blue Yonder's modern supply chain innovations and unmatched industry expertise help more than 3,000 retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers to confidently navigate supply chain complexity and disruption. 'Blue Yonder' is a trademark or registered trademark of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name 'Blue Yonder' is a trademark and/or property of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated.
Mid East Info
06-05-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Blue Yonder Acquires Pledge, Expanding Its End-to-End Supply Chain Platform With Accredited Carbon Emissions Reporting
The acquisition accelerates Blue Yonder's sustainability roadmap and gives customers comprehensive insight to reduce carbon footprint and supply chain inefficiencies DALLAS: Blue Yonder , the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation, today announced it acquired the business of Pledge Earth Technologies Ltd. ('Pledge') , including its global supply chain sustainability solution for beneficial cargo owners (BCOs), enterprise supply chain leaders and logistics service providers (LSPs). Blue Yonder's already robust platform will now expand to include globally accredited logistics CO2e emissions reporting that allows customers to monitor their own emissions and those of their trading partners and suppliers. Pledge provides software solutions to empower enterprise supply chain teams and LSPs to meet their sustainability goals and Scope 3 emissions reporting requirements. Established in 2021 in the UK, Pledge brings accessibility and transparency to freight emissions measurement and reporting, empowering businesses to confidently measure, manage and help reduce their carbon footprint. Pledge's capabilities automate the collection and exchange of shipment data from logistics suppliers to facilitate accredited and traceable emissions calculations across all transport modes, including air, inland (e.g., truck, rail, barges), and sea, as well as logistics hubs. Blue Yonder customers can extend their applicable Blue Yonder solutions to include this new capability, allowing them to receive emissions reporting that is in conformance with the Global Logistics Emission Council (GLEC) framework, developed by the Smart Freight Center (SFC), and aligned with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14083: Greenhouse gases, demonstrating accuracy and reliability. 'The ability to easily and accurately quantify precise emissions is a huge win for our customers' sustainability initiatives, but it's also more than that – it's about what you can do with that information,' said Saskia van Gendt, chief sustainability officer, Blue Yonder . 'By gaining more insight on the environmental impact of their logistics operations, businesses can find ways to reduce cost, improve accountability for logistics service providers' transportation emissions, and target specific inefficiencies for improvement. Blue Yonder's aim has always been to give customers much-needed visibility into their end-to-end supply chain; this new capability will pave the way for smarter, more efficient and greener supply chains.' Many carbon tracking tools are built to track single-party data and don't integrate into the carrier network, hence lacking the network effect and limiting the scope and accuracy of data. By embedding this data into the Blue Yonder Platform , Blue Yonder customers who choose to extend their applicable Blue Yonder solutions to include this new capability will be able to understand the timely and precise emissions impact of their supply chain decisions. This allows them to manage their end-to-end transportation and logistics practices and comply with global regulations and reporting obligations (including CSRD, SBTi and CDP) through proactive audit readiness. 'Blue Yonder's upcoming, strategic acquisition of Pledge's capabilities will aide in tackling the intricate challenges of modern supply chain and sustainability management,' said Bjoern Stengel, global sustainability research and practice lead, Sustainable Strategies and Technologies, IDC . 'In an era where corporate social responsibility and ESG initiatives are non-negotiable, accredited emissions reporting is the gold standard for high-quality data. By seamlessly integrating a proven, successful product into its platform, Blue Yonder will help propel its customers towards smarter, more impactful sustainability management.' Between avoiding empty miles, reducing fuel consumption, and utilizing resources/materials, there are countless areas of the supply chain that could be optimized through quantitative analysis, like carbon emissions tracking. With this new capability, businesses gain data-driven clarity on the carbon emissions and air pollution impacts from their operations and those of their trading partners. 'At Pledge, we believe that technology is a powerful catalyst in the fight against climate change,' said David de Picciotto, CEO and co-founder, Pledge . 'By joining forces with Blue Yonder, we are multiplying our reach and our impact, giving the largest enterprise supply chains on the planet access to the tools they need to measure, report, and cut carbon.' With a wealth of sustainability and software engineering expertise, the team at Pledge will join Blue Yonder to support its mission to transform global supply chain management. The new capability is now available to all Blue Yonder customers, and existing Pledge customers will continue to be supported by Blue Yonder. About Blue Yonder: Blue Yonder is the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation. With a unified, AI-driven platform and multi-tier network, Blue Yonder empowers businesses to operate sustainably, scale profitably, and delight their customers — all at machine speed. Blue Yonder's modern supply chain innovations and unmatched industry expertise help more than 3,000 retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers to confidently navigate supply chain complexity and disruption. 'Blue Yonder' is a trademark or registered trademark of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name 'Blue Yonder' is a trademark and/or property of Blue Yonder Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated.
Techday NZ
06-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Blue Yonder unveils AI agents to transform supply chain speed
Blue Yonder has announced new cognitive solutions and artificial intelligence agents designed to enhance speed and precision in supply chain management. During the opening session of its annual customer conference, Blue Yonder Chief Executive Officer Duncan Angove presented the company's new suite of Cognitive Solutions and five central AI agents that support businesses in making faster and more accurate decisions throughout the supply chain. Angove stated, "We are excited to launch our Blue Yonder AI agents that will revolutionize supply chain management. Built on over two decades of AI and machine learning expertise, these AI agents empower businesses to act with machine speed and precision, even in complex situations." "These new agents are groundbreaking in their approach, and will transform some of the key functions in the supply chain. And they've been thoughtfully developed to help reduce waste and costs. They optimize the entire supply chain and enable faster, smarter decision-making. Together with our customers, we are setting new benchmarks for addressing supply chain challenges to move beyond boundaries." Blue Yonder's Cognitive Solutions integrate AI technology to allow businesses to autonomously coordinate tasks, decisions and workflows across their entire supply chain. These solutions are constructed on the Blue Yonder Platform and Snowflake AI Data Cloud and leverage a multi-enterprise network for end-to-end interoperability and unified decision processes. The company emphasises reimagined user experiences through predictive, generative, and agentic AI capabilities. The Cognitive Solutions aim to help supply chain teams manage routine tasks more rapidly, analyse complex data efficiently, and move quickly from data insights to business actions. Additional details regarding these solutions are expected in further announcements. The release also introduced five new AI agents developed through collaboration with Blue Yonder's customers. These agents are engineered to give businesses the ability to detect, analyse, decide, and act at machine speed, with continuous optimisation supported by agentic AI within Blue Yonder's supply chain planning and execution applications. Blue Yonder outlined key benefits of its AI agents, stating they enable increased impact and return on investment. The company reported that the agents transform management of operations by empowering more informed and timely decisions; recommendations made by AI agents can be swiftly automated with human approval. In addition, AI agents offer real-time alerts and a mobile user experience, allowing teams to take prompt action and prioritise critical developments. The adaptive user experience allows team members to use the AI agents seamlessly whether they are in an office or onsite. The system also enables advanced visualisation of supply chain data, supporting both granular and macro-level analysis for more efficient and effective supply chain management. Among the five new agents are the Inventory Ops Agent, which assists planners in matching supply with demand, rapidly diagnosing root causes of mismatches, and recommending corrective measures such as alternate sourcing or demand swaps. The Shelf Ops Agent permits users to quickly edit planograms using natural language instructions, while the Logistics Ops Agent monitors logistics activities, recommends route changes, and identifies ways to optimise costs, deliveries, and emissions. The Warehouse Ops Agent is designed to support warehouse leaders by dynamically allocating labour, optimising layouts, identifying risks early to prevent delays, and improving service reliability. The Network Ops Agent allows businesses to monitor multi-enterprise supply chain operations, manage disruptions proactively, and automate tasks such as order confirmations and predictive updates. Angove commented, "With more than 25 billion AI predictions being delivered every day, Blue Yonder is taking supply chains to the next level with our AI agents." "The five new AI agents empower our customers to see, analyze, decide, and act, enabling them to respond swiftly to disruptions, minimize delays, uncover growth opportunities within their supply chain, and increase the return on investment in their solutions." "At ICON 2025, we also demonstrated our new Tariffs Agent to help customers quickly find solutions and alternatives to minimize the negative impact on their organizations. All of these AI agents are transforming the way businesses manage their supply chains." Blue Yonder has also introduced an Agent Activation Advisory service to support customers in deploying AI agents within six to twelve weeks. This initiative includes collaboration with Microsoft's AI Co-Innovation Labs to address complex supply chain challenges. A partnership with Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry will offer an expanded platform for developing and managing AI applications and agents, featuring a suite of tools for secure data integration, model customisation, and governance. The company further announced collaboration with Snowflake and RelationalAI to enhance its Cognitive Solutions using a supply chain knowledge graph. The knowledge graph records the structure of business relationships and processes in an accessible format, allowing for more intuitive engagement with data and improved reasoning by AI agents across the Blue Yonder Network ecosystem. This knowledge graph aims to help customers navigate supply chain uncertainty, rapidly adjust to changes like sourcing new suppliers, and shift towards insight-driven management. The system integrates the strengths of Blue Yonder's platform with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and RelationalAI's technology.
