Industrial Manufacturing

Industrial Manufacturing

Forge ahead with greater resilience and precision

Tackle market volatility and product shortages head-on by fortifying resilience, optimizing inventory and production plans, and boosting agility throughout your supply chain.

Actual results from Industrial Manufacturing customers

Case Studies

Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing

  • Knauf selected Blue Yonder to support demand and supply planning transformation, beginning with the implementation of Demand Planning and Supply Planning in its insulation and ceilings businesses. These solutions enhance demand forecasting accuracy at the SKU level and streamline downstream supply chain processes, which enables Knauf to increase forecast accuracy and reduce working capital. By modernizing supply planning and order promising capabilities, the company is on track to deliver predictive insights on product availability, setting a new standard for customer fulfillment.

  • A multinational leader in both consumer and industrial goods, Henkel operates hundreds of busy distribution centers globally. Blue Yonder’s warehouse management and warehouse labor management solutions have helped Henkel improve the speed, accuracy, efficiency, service level, sustainability and profitability of these operations. With increased visibility, orchestration and control, Henkel can pivot its warehouse operations flexibly as supply and demand conditions change.

  • Cemex's Arnulfo Guevara sits down with Sarah Barnes-Humphrey, ICON reporter, to speak about the importance of cloud strategy in their processes. Cemex is a global leader in the building materials industry. As Digital Enablement & Technology Supply Chain Leader, Arnulfo explains how real-time visibility has been key for streamlining their internal processes.

  • Outokumpu is the sustainability leader in stainless steel, driven by their heritage, people and operations. In this Blue Yonder Live session, Outokumpu’s Ronald van Dodewaard, VP Logistics, shares how Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management System enables the company to drive an environmentally friendly transportation program.

    Business Impact

    Strengthen your resilience amid disruptions while optimizing efficiency and agility

    Capabilities

    Transform your business

    Automated forecasting for faster, smarter strategic planning

    Increase planning speed and productivity for you sales & operations planning with a highly automated forecasting process that supports better collaboration, reduces waste, optimizes allocation management, and improves sustainability.

    Optimize costs, deliver on promises

    Deliver accurate and reliable data and inventory commitments to your customers according to personal preferences, across every channel, in real time. With Blue Yonder, you can optimize the cost to fulfill by considering model and parts selection and location, cost of goods, profitability, and transportation – from production to delivery.

    Streamline operations with automated warehouse and labor solutions

    Boost efficiency with automation solutions for warehouse, labor, and transportation through reliable inventory handling, demand-driven planning, unified logistics, and smart labor and robotics collaboration , enabling teams and resources to work smarter, increase productivity, and deliver superior service.

    Next-generation Control Towers

    Network-wide visibility and orchestration for a continuously updated, shared version of end-to-end operations. Visualize the flow of orders, inventory and capacities – across the enterprise and partners - production, logistics, demand, supply, and space. Leverage intelligence to derive a coordinated response.

    Blue Yonder Network

    Coordinate efforts across your complex fabric of trading partners for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve, and faster time to market. As variability and volatility increase, digital supply chain networks are critical to adjust to change faster and smarter.

    Accelerate Production and Boost Resilience

    Streamline your industrial manufacturing processes with advanced planning and scheduling solutions that help unify data in real time, maximize machine utilization, and reduce setup times. Faster, more predictable planning keeps you agile and ensures on-time delivery—even as market demands shift.

    Harmonize decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

    With superior decision-making speed and precision, manufacturers can increase profitability, customer satisfaction and inventory turnover in the face of volatility. Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning is the only all-in-one solution for predictive forecasts, autonomous scenario planning, inventory optimization and insight-driven, end-to-end planning. Powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, market proven algorithms and intelligent insights.

    Transportation management optimizes all modes of transport

    Consider all transportation options to ensure lowest cost modes, routes, and carriers are evaluated to meet delivery commitments. The system optimizes global multi-leg, multi-modal shipments to local multi-stop fleet routing. Transportation is fully integrated with warehouse and labor management to synchronize operations based on priorities and constraints.

    Industry insights

    Knauf Leverages Blue Yonder for Predictive Supply Chain Transformation
    Customer Story
    Knauf Leverages Blue Yonder for Predictive Supply Chain Transformation
    Knauf selected Blue Yonder to support demand and supply planning transformation, beginning with the implementation of Demand Planning and Supply Planning in its insulation and ceilings businesses. These solutions enhance demand forecasting accuracy at ...
    Explore the Future of Industrial Manufacturers
    Thought Leadership
    Explore the Future of Industrial Manufacturers
    The global manufacturing industry is rapidly increasing in complexity. Various factors impact this growing complexity, including extended supply network from suppliers to customer, deep bills of material, and global footprint in manufacturing and ...
    2025 Supply Chain Compass: How supply chain leaders are navigating complexity
    Thought Leadership
    2025 Supply Chain Compass: How supply chain leaders are navigating complexity
    In this survey of nearly 700 businesses, we asked supply chain leaders about their ambitions, fears, goals and strategies. Find out the overall direction of the industry, the state of the art of supply chain management, why optimism remains strong and ...
    Achieving Seamless Orchestration by Synchronizing Execution
    Thought Leadership
    Achieving Seamless Orchestration by Synchronizing Execution
    Maximizing your technology investments and your logistics results requires careful orchestration of systems, data, and processes between tools such as your Order, Warehouse, and Transportation Management Systems. Learn how you can achieve supply chain ...
    Driving Success With Demand and Supply Planning
    Solution Overview
    Driving Success With Demand and Supply Planning
    Demand and Supply Planning enables customers to stay ahead of increasing planning complexity with AI backed and extensive scenario testing options and insight driven decision making that let customers quickly model demand changes, inventory and ...