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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.
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.
Business Wire
05-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Blue Yonder Transforms Supply Chain Management With New AI Agents and Supply Chain Knowledge Graph at ICON 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Yonder, the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation, launched several new solutions and showcased its vision to build the supply chain of the future at ICON 2025, its annual customer conference, taking place in Nashville, Tennessee. During the opening keynote session, Blue Yonder's CEO Duncan Angove launched the company's new Cognitive Solutions and five critical artificial intelligence (AI) agents that enhance speed and agility in supply chain management. "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," said Duncan Angove, CEO, Blue Yonder. 'We are excited to launch our Blue Yonder AI agents that will revolutionize supply chain management,' said Angove. '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.' AI-Enabled Next Generation Cognitive Solutions Blue Yonder's Cognitive Solutions are more intelligent and precise with AI natively built-in, allowing businesses to autonomously coordinate tasks, decisions and workflows across all parts of their supply chain. These solutions are built on a modern and true cloud architecture, sit on the Blue Yonder Platform and Snowflake AI Data Cloud, have access to a multi-enterprise network, and offer end-to-end interoperability and unified decisioning. The Cognitive Solutions also offer reimagined experiences for users through innovative uses of predictive, generative and agentic AI. Cognitive Solutions support supply chain teams by expediting routine tasks, helping solve problems, and analyzing complex data quickly. With these enhanced capabilities, Cognitive Solutions empower supply chain teams to move more quickly from data to real-world action. More information on Blue Yonder's Cognitive Solutions will be available in tomorrow's ICON announcement. Machine-Speed Decisioning With AI Agents Blue Yonder's new AI agents, built in collaboration with customers, enable businesses to see, analyze, decide, and act with machine speed and precision, even amid disruptions and evolving geopolitical situations. Agentic AI is also infused throughout Blue Yonder's supply chain planning and execution solutions, offering continuous optimization of the end-to-end supply chain network. Customers can unlock additional agentic functionality with Cognitive Solutions, including the ability to: Increase the impact and return on investment: AI agents are transforming how organizations manage their operations by analyzing a wide range of planning and execution data, enabling more informed and comprehensive decision-making. AI agent recommendations can be swiftly automated with human approval, ensuring faster response times and enhancing operational agility. Reduce decision-making lag and potential missed issues: Supply chain teams are empowered to take action from anywhere, at any time thanks to a mobile user experience (UX) for AI agents, ensuring that critical decisions are made promptly. Also, real-time push notifications and alerts from the AI agent provide a quick overview of developments, allowing teams to prioritize actions effectively and promptly address urgent matters. Accelerate human decision-making and expert analysis: The AI agents operate within an adaptive UX that adjusts to a user's device and working location (whether in an office, on location, in a car/truck, etc.), enabling supply chain teams to seamlessly zoom in and out with the speed and flexibility needed to analyze plans and take action at both granular and macro levels. Additionally, visualization of supply chain data and activities by the AI agents offers comprehensive end-to-end modeling, helping teams identify opportunities and make informed decisions that drive efficiency and growth. Blue Yonder's AI agents include: Inventory Ops Agent: Thanks to the Inventory Ops Agent, planners can match supply with demand by guiding attention to mismatches, exceptions, and systemic issues. The agent rapidly diagnoses root causes — from material or capacity constraints to parameter or configuration errors — and recommends actionable solutions like alternate sourcing, expediting, or demand swaps. It also highlights necessary plan adjustments based on real-time conditions and communicates changes to ensure downstream alignment. Shelf Ops Agent: Planograms are an important part of visualizing the in-store experience, yet they can be time-consuming for planners to create. With the Shelf Ops Agent, planners can rapidly perform at-scale planogram edits with simple, natural-language interactions. Actions such as swapping a product with another in many planograms, updating planograms in a project, analyzing performance, and creating custom reports can now be performed with a few instructions, boosting user productivity. Logistics Ops Agent: Logistics is a key part of any supply chain, yet with so many moving pieces and constant disruptions, it can be daunting to keep track of operations. The Logistics Ops Agent helps logistics teams monitor conditions and recommend route changes to prevent delivery disruptions, as well as automate appointment scheduling changes to speed execution. It also identifies ways to optimize transport costs, on-time deliveries and emissions. Warehouse Ops Agent: Executing intraday plans with precision remains a significant challenge in dynamic warehouse environments. Success hinges on the ability to adapt to real-time changes and make informed decisions at both strategic and operational levels. The Warehouse Ops Agent empowers warehouse leaders to drive consistent performance every day. By intelligently coordinating highly interdependent tasks, the agent enables faster, more confident decision-making. It dynamically reallocates labor in response to shifting priorities, optimizes warehouse layouts based on predictive demand and supply insights, identifies outbound risks early to prevent delays, streamlines trailer docking and unloading according to content urgency and staffing levels, and proactively mitigates risks associated with on time in full (OTIF) compliance. The result is greater agility, higher throughput, and improved service reliability — delivered seamlessly at scale. Network Ops Agent: With the help of the Network Ops Agent, customers can effectively monitor supply chain operations across the multi-enterprise network, proactively manage disruptions, and optimize inbound supply and logistics by automating order confirmations, stockout resolutions, carrier assignments, predictive ETA updates, container prioritizations, appointment re-scheduling and performance analysis. This allows businesses to pivot quickly to avoid delays, ensuring that raw materials, components and finished goods arrive on time, in full at low cost. Users can have multi-modal interactions with the agent to gain real-time insights and collaboratively orchestrate problem resolutions. "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," said Angove. "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.' Advancing AI Agents and Solutions With Microsoft During the keynote session, Blue Yonder announced its Agent Activation Advisory, designed to get customers successfully running agents for their organization in 6-12 weeks, ensuring customers maximize the benefits, speed, and precision of the Blue Yonder Platform and Cognitive Solutions. The Agent Activation Advisory will also work with the Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs to co-innovate groundbreaking AI supply chain solutions to tackle the world's most challenging supply chain issues. In addition, Blue Yonder announced a partnership with Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry, a trusted, integrated platform that allows for the design, customization, and management of AI applications and agents. Blue Yonder will leverage the Azure AI Foundry to build AI agents. The Azure AI Foundry offers a rich set of AI capabilities and tools through a simple portal, unified software development kit (SDK), and APIs, facilitating secure data integration, model customization, and enterprise-grade governance to accelerate the path to production. Knowledge Graph Powers Cognitive Solutions Supported by Snowflake and RelationalAI Blue Yonder also announced a collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and RelationalAI to enhance its Cognitive Solutions with a supply chain knowledge graph. Leveraging the features of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, the Blue Yonder supply chain knowledge graph records the structure of business relationships and processes declaratively and in human-readable form. Users can engage with complex supply chain data more intuitively and contextually, while AI agents are capable of reasoning more effectively, including with the extended ecosystem on the Blue Yonder Network. The supply chain knowledge graph helps customers to: Navigate uncertainty by efficiently understanding and modifying key relationships within the supply chain, such as rapidly shifting to a new supplier if an existing one becomes unavailable. Shift from reactive, exception-based supply chain management toward an insight-driven approach, with the knowledge graph underpinning AI that can evaluate the impact of every supply chain event in near real-time. Extend Blue Yonder's Cognitive Solutions by leveraging the combined strengths of the Blue Yonder Platform, the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, and RelationalAI's technology. Blue Yonder will demonstrate these supply chain knowledge graph-based Cognitive Solution capabilities during a breakout session and in the Innovation Experience at ICON 2025. 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.
