Demand and Supply Planning

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Demand and Supply Planning

Market-leading, all-in-one solution to control supply chain risks, capture missed opportunities and improve production responsiveness and efficiency.

Match the market with machine-speed decisioning

Insight infused planning allows you to meet demand, minimize excess inventory and maximize inventory turnover while cognitively adapting to changing market conditions.
Features & Capabilities

Transform how you interact with inventory, demand and supply with one, cognitive planning solution

Achieve precise artificial intelligence (AI)-driven forecasts by leveraging data for any demand driver

Increase forecasting confidence with explainability, understand the underlying causal factors of demand, leverage micro-segmentation and the combined power of statistical methods, machine learning (ML) and AI for accurate and transparent demand sensing and forecasting.

Intelligent supply planning to optimally produce and supply the world.

Best-in-class predictive insights and orchestrated collaboration enable you to move faster and leverage a holistic view of your operations. Intelligent planner workflows provide consolidated actions to recommend resolutions, resolve issues and achieve critical KPIs, at a global scale.

Powerful scenario planning to control risks and costs.

Only Blue Yonder can enable you to navigate global volatility by assessing your options in real time with omnipresent, boundaryless scenario analysis and planning insights, with the power to answer any what-if question.

Capture more revenue with better customer service and inventory turnover.

Boost customer service while reducing inventory with demand planning capabilities to forecast and collaboratively plan for demand using artificial intelligence, machine learning, market proven algorithms and intelligent insights.

Boost productivity, outcomes and efficiency across supply planning.

Supply accurately against demand with optimal inventory at every level of the supply chain. Create shared production plans to optimize utilization rates that maximizes inventory turnover and exceeds customer service levels.

Streamline inventory outcomes with cognitive inventory capabilities.

Increase inventory turnover and reduce operational costs with optimized inventory. Dynamically segmented and staged inventory throughout the supply chain network drives significant reduction in total inventory costs.

Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility at scale.

Tackle all of your supply chain challenges with the only scalable, end-to-end platform that leverages a common data cloud, integrated AI insights and ML forecasting. Coordinate efforts across your complex supply chain ecosystem for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve and faster time to market.
Benefits

Achieve consistency and resiliency, empower agility and adaptability with Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning

Enhanced forecast accuracy with advanced AI and ML

With cognitive demand planning, businesses can achieve a 12% improvement in forecast accuracy. By integrating patented algorithms and advanced ML models, this solution ensures that demand forecasting is not only highly accurate, but also reliable. The AI-driven feature accelerates decision-making and optimizes forecast.

Increased efficiency, productivity and cost savings

Cognitive demand planning leads to a 75% improvement in planner efficiency and a 50% reduction in costs and expenses. This is achieved through the automation of routine tasks and the real-time simulation of demand drivers, which empower planners to respond swiftly and strategically. Additionally, the solution offers significant savings of up to 30% such as through a one-time inventory reduction.

Collaborative and unified planning and strategic decision-making

Enable real-time, collaborative consensus planning and communication across the business by integrating inputs from sales, marketing, and operations into a unified, flexible process. This multidimensional analysis improves visibility and enables faster, more informed decision-making, leading to a 2% increase in revenue and a 1.5% rise in gross margin.

Elevate your supply chain strategy from planning to manufacturing

Stage the right inventory at the right time so you can minimize stockouts and get a higher return on invested capital. By leveraging advanced machine learning, Blue Yonder’s inventory optimization capabilities strategically groups customers based on updated data, allowing you to tailor operations to specific needs. Ensuring efficient inventory allocation and enhanced service levels, balancing cost and value seamlessly.

Reduce excess inventory and obsolescence costs through network resilience

Inventory optimization eliminates excess inventory and reduces obsolescence costs while maintaining high customer service levels. By leveraging advanced ML cognitive microservices, Blue Yonder’s solution takes a strategic approach to ensure efficient use of resources and minimizes waste, leading to significant cost savings.

Enhance flexibility and decision-making for higher profitability

Proactively adapt to markets to ensure robust supply while reducing escalations and cost to maximize delivery performance. Blue Yonder leverages advanced micro-segmentation and cross-industry adaptability to improve decision-making and inventory management accuracy, ensuring a flexible and responsive supply chain strategy.

Fulfill your potential with Blue Yonder

Demand Planner

Gain accurate forecasts to ensure the right products are available at the right time, minimizing stockouts and overstock situations.

Increased profitability
Achieve higher availability and lower costs through micro-segmented demand and AI powered forecasting.

Optimized inventory and minimized waste
Align inventory deployment to market to reduce overstocking and stockouts and reduce the waste in your supply chain.

Increased revenue
Top line growth through a more accurate view of the market and higher customer satisfaction.
 

Success stories in Demand and Supply Planning

  • Learn how Micron tackled extreme cyclical demand volatility, long lead times, materials shortages and multinational operations, and was able to balance inventory levels, customer service and costs with Blue Yonder.

  • Lenovo operates 30 manufacturing facilities, serves customers in 180 markets, and makes an astounding three devices every second. Not only is Lenovo’s product line broad and complex, but its production model is equally complex, based on both build-to-plan and configure-to-order. Jack Fiedler, VP of Digital Transformation for the Global Supply Chain at Lenovo, discusses how Blue Yonder solutions help ensure the right products are in the right place, leading to faster turns, higher service levels and reduced costs.

  • Learn how Mexican sports retailer Grupo Martí reduced their out-of-stocks and achieved a 56% year-on-year increase in sales with the help of Blue Yonder inventory visibility and enterprise planning capabilities.

  • As Western Digital’s business grew, they needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support their expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. Western Digital sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help them maintain profitable growth and maximize margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction. They chose Blue Yonder’s Planning solution to transform their planning processes.

    Adored by brands, recognized by analysts

    Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions

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