Interoperability the key focus

LEANING INTO interoperability allows Blue Yonder to provide its customers with increased productivity, reduced waste, and more resilient supply chains, says the firm.

Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove, says: “Today’s supply chains are operated by a fragmented ecosystem of legacy solutions, with many being stitched together over time with custom configurations and code.

“While many supply chain solution providers claim to offer end-to-end capabilities, it is typically confined to planning or execution spaces where they’ve integrated their own product suites. Blue Yonder is changing that. With this release, we are redefining end-to-end supply chains, and establishing a new category of solutions with interoperable capabilities aligned with our vision to create the supply chain operating system for the world.”  

Blue Yonder’s interoperable solutions aims to solve the challenge of silo-ed processes by:

●     Connecting processes, systems, and data seamlessly across Blue Yonder’s Supply Chain Planning and Execution solutions, providing a smarter, more scalable, real-time digital twin to streamline and accelerate enterprise-wide decision-making.

●     Offering the end-to-end visibility needed to understand how decisions or actions impact adjacent teams so businesses can work synchronously toward a unified goal.

●     Deeply embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within the systems to drive decisioning, recommendations, and actions to support a future of autonomous supply chains.

●     Ensuring all solutions connect through a single source of data, allowing true real-time collaboration across functions.

Investments

Blue Yonder’s interoperable solutions are made possible as a result of three key strategic investments in cloud native architecture on a Cognitive platform; composable Microservices; and a Platform Data Cloud, powered by Snowflake.

“For years, the supply chain industry has had a data problem – there’s too much of it, it’s scattered across disparate solutions, and sharing has become so risky that some organisations have simply come to avoid it. By partnering with Blue Yonder, Snowflake is helping joint customers address these challenges by centralising data into a single source of truth, reducing the latency in decision-making, and making sharing secure, fast and easy,” says Tim Long, global head of manufacturing, Snowflake. 

Solutions launched include:

●     Analyst Workbench delivers a new, user-friendly experience to explore data, visualise metrics and generate insights. These new, innovative capabilities deliver end-to-end visibility across the network and the ability to mix, match, and analyse data from any digital touch point driving more informed decisions and actions. 

●     Unified Commerce Simulator empowers businesses to create, analyse, and refine fulfillment sourcing strategies driving more predictable fulfillment results with less risk to the business.

For more information, visit blueyonder.com