Service offerings better predict, prescribe and model scenarios to reduce disruptions and ensure complete supply chain resiliency
Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software) has expanded its offerings to help customers minimize the impacts of COVID-19 on their global supply chains, while ensuring critical supplies get to the people that need them the most.
These offerings help organizations effectively mitigate disruptions and manage a multitude of emerging challenges such as demand spikes, transportation disruptions, and inventory and labour shortages, ultimately making their end-to-end supply chains more resilient.
“It is critically important to ensure that global supply chains are able to predict, pivot and respond to potential disruptions and are aligned to major Covid-19 hotspots all over the world – from demand and supply matching, labor optimization and scenario planning,” commented Mark Morgan, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder’s Covid-19-related offerings span the entire customer journey right now – from optimizing labor in warehouse and manufacturing fulfillment centers, to providing increased real-time demand and supply matching for grocers and retailers including ‘what-if’ scenario response planning, to a real-time control tower providing complete visibility, orchestration and inventory/labor risk assurance based on pandemic hotspots, a company press communique explained.
According to a corporate statement, Blue Yonder’s latest expanded offerings include:
Covid-19 Supply Chain Risk Response: Connects to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) live feed on the spread of Covid-19 and layers in customer demand, supply, and inventory information to provide real-time visibility and potential supply chain impacts for accurate decision-making
Covid-19 Scenario Planning: Permits companies to run multiple, real-time scenarios to determine changes they may need to make to their network operations and quickly adapt to ever-changing demand/supply situations
Warehouse Task Orchestration: Enables warehouses that are experiencing historic volumes improve picking strategies to advance throughput and reduce labor spend in a constrained labor and transportation environment
Retail Pricing: Allows retailers to optimize pricing and promotion strategies for both in-store/in-distribution center inventory that is sitting idle due to store closures, and for a backlog of inventory coming in that will not be cycled through
Labour Optimization: Enables companies to better manage workforce labor schedules and gain needed visibility into their staff’s availability to see if they are available to work, swap and claim shifts and optimally distribute workforce to the locations most in demand
Additionally, Blue Yonder has created a ‘Covid-19 Response Centre’ that is regularly updated with resources and information related to the company’s pandemic response. This includes providing a variety of discussion forums for its customers to engage with their peers, ask questions of company experts and more.
