Industrial Manufacturing Supply Chain Software

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.

Industrial Manufacturing

Industry Challenges
Case Studies
Business Impact
Capabilities
Industry Insights

Industry Challenges

Rapidly changing market conditions

Consistently addressing component shortages, complex product portfolios, and omni-channel growth requires real-time supply chain insights and accurate forecasts.

Actual results from Industrial Manufacturing customers

fewer changeovers

less planning time

fewer days of inventory

Case Studies

Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing

BIC customers purchase 32 million BIC shavers, lighters and promotional products every day. Making sure BIC has the right products in the right places to support this enormous demand takes precise planning. To make this happen, BIC recently deployed factory planning and sequencing application from Blue Yonder in their Charlotte packaging facility, which replaced a manual rolling schedule with an automated process. In this video, Cindy Banks, BIC Global Planning System Manager, explains how the production visibility this provided allowed BIC to collaborate across departments, resulting in a reduction of 40% in changeover time by eliminating one-to-two changeovers per week.
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Headquartered in Tokyo, JFE Steel Group is one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers, producing 30 million tons of steel products annually. The organization recognized the need to overhaul their outdated, manual and time-consuming sales processes. Learn how Blue Yonder helped JFE implement best-in-class software to match their own highly innovative steel products in order to plan more accurately and effectively.
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Business Impact

Strengthen your resilience amid disruptions while optimizing efficiency and agility

Improve customer service

Blue Yonder solutions help companies better manage order expectations, inventories, and lead times, improving customer service with greater efficiency and lower cost.

Real-time inventory insights

Blue Yonder's solutions help you navigate material shortages, capacity challenges, and supplier issues, so you can minimize production delays and optimize material flows to meet market demands.

Optimal resource allocation

Blue Yonder's supply chain software uses advanced algorithms for cost-effective resource management. Identify where robotics or automation can help deliver more efficient manufacturing and limit the impact of labor and skills shortages.

Capabilities

Transform your business

Optimize decisions with connected, agile supply chains

Optimize your planning and end-to-end decisions by quickly evaluating production cycles, product handling, and transportation times. With Blue Yonder’s digital connectivity between multi-tiered suppliers, you can work collaboratively to improve agility, sustainability, and competitiveness by flexibly aligning business strategies within your network.

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Automated forecasting for faster, smarter 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.

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Enhance operations with smarter, ML-based demand forecasting

Enhance demand forecasting with Blue Yonder's leading-edge, ML-based planning that gathers real-time data on customer demand that you can use to strategically allocate resources, optimize inventory placement, beter plan supply, and boost productivity for the most efficient and cost-effective operations.

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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.

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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 allocation, enabling employees to work smarter, increase productivity, and deliver superior service.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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