Reinvent retail supply chains with an end-to-end AI-driven, multi-enterprise platform that brings together merchandising, planning, logistics, commerce, and returns to deliver exceptional customer experiences

Over the past few years, disruptions and disconnected systems have pushed retail supply chains to their limits, exposing the confines of point solutions. Retailers need to transform their operations to seamlessly connect teams, systems and workflows to deliver smarter decisions - from source to shelf and back. At the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2025: Retail's Big Show Jan. 12-14, 2025, in New York City, Blue Yonder (Booth # 4538) will showcase how the company can empower retailers to enhance supply chain efficiency, reduce cost, and boost speed to continuously deliver the exceptional shopping experiences their customers expect.

"Retailers today face unprecedented challenges from fluctuating consumer behavior and demand to supply chain volatility, disconnected point solutions, competitive pressures, and rising sustainability expectations," said Vince Beacom, president, Global Retail, Blue Yonder. "To thrive in this landscape, retailers must transform how they plan and execute to keep customers coming back. Blue Yonder is the only technology partner offering an end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven, multi-enterprise platform that seamlessly connects retailers and their teams, vendors, carriers, systems, inventory, and workflows to enable smarter, faster decisions and outcomes. We look forward to showcasing how the Blue Yonder Platform enables retailers to achieve intelligent, sustainable and responsive operations by reducing inventory, transportation expense, and carbon footprint while improving in-stock availability, customer loyalty, and profitability."

Reinventing Retail Supply Chain

Retailers need a connected network from supplier to store that optimizes and accelerates their supply chain from planning through fulfillment, delivery, and returns to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and boost speed so they can deliver exceptional customer experiences. With Blue Yonder, retailers can:

Make smarter decisions. Retailers can leverage AI to optimize plans and make more intelligent data-driven decisions. With adaptable AI, retailers can focus on outcomes with optimized plans that anticipate needs and drive real-time actions to stay ahead. This includes ensuring optimal stock levels, preventing lost sales, and minimizing markdowns.
Respond faster. Retailers can create a single, real-time source of truth to eliminate barriers and latency so they can adjust as conditions change to deliver greater resilience and provide end-to-end visibility to serve their customers. This unparalleled efficiency and agility allows retailers to meet the demands of today while anticipating the needs of tomorrow.
Connect outcomes. Retailers can align actions across their teams and functions to shared goals, connecting enterprises, fulfillment, and inventory, so all resources are at their fingertips. By gaining real-time visibility and control, retailers can proactively address disruptions and improve service levels in demand-driven supply chains.
At Retail's Big Show, Blue Yonder will showcase its AI-driven, multi-enterprise platform at its booth and in NRF programming, including:

Big Ideas Session: Not to be missed is Blue Yonder's Big Ideas Session on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, at 2:45 p.m. ET featuring Blue Yonder customers: Rob Bogan, chief technology officer, DXL, and Nik Haggerty, director of Transformation Program Delivery, Chalhoub Group. At the session titled "The Supply Chain Revolution: Can Your Organization Succeed in the Age of AI?" Blue Yonder's chief innovation officer Andrea Morgan-Vandome will moderate a discussion about how AI and connected data are the driving forces behind a revolutionary shift in supply chain management. As retailers face increasing pressure to stay competitive and drive value and efficiency, the ability to harness these technologies is essential for better planning and execution. The session will explore how AI and unified data are opening new opportunities to create flexible supply chain workflows and how your organization can adapt to thrive in this new era.
Expo Booth: Stop by Blue Yonder's booth (#4538) in the Expo Hall to learn how retailers can reinvent their supply chain. Attendees can schedule a one-on-one meeting and see the latest product innovations from Blue Yonder. At the booth, Blue Yonder will be showcasing the following:
Multi-Enterprise Network: Integrate planning and execution end-to-end to allow for near real-time collaboration across all trading partners with Blue Yonder's multi-enterprise, multi-tier network. Tied into the Blue Yonder Platform, the network ensures a secure common source of truth and complete master data for all trading partners, providing real-time visibility into inventory, movements, purchases, and orders for retailers. Utilizing AI-driven insights, retailers can enable quick understanding, scenario assessment, and informed decision-making to optimize outcomes. In addition, adaptive flows built on AI-powered supply chain agents continuously recommend optimal routings and movements across the network.
Cognitive Planning: Retailers can learn how to anticipate needs and drive action to stay ahead of change, create new opportunities, and manage costs with Blue Yonder's cognitive planning capabilities. These capabilities allow retailers to gain access to industry-focused insights that enable faster decision-making and more precise forecasting. Retailers can optimize plans and decisions based on real-time market factors and supply chain constraints while also aligning actions across functions and enterprises toward a shared goal. In addition, retailers can break down silos between people, data, and enterprises to drive more collaboration and reduce friction. The result is connected customers, inventory, and fulfillment across all channels, putting all their resources at their fingertips.
Synchronized Execution: Learn how Blue Yonder's synchronized execution capabilities enable superior performance through advanced interoperability across systems and processes. By synchronizing workflows across order, warehouse, transportation, returns management, and resource domains, retailers and logistics service providers can optimize performance across all supply chain nodes and fulfillment services. It also delivers ecosystem extensibility to unify data, suppliers, partners, organizations, and systems while remaining flexible and adaptable to changing business needs.
Merchandise Operations: Drive optimal performance, inventory control, and profitable growth with Blue Yonder Merchandise Operations. The solution integrates a retailer's merchandise management processes across departments onto a single enterprise-wide information system, seamlessly connecting to Blue Yonder's multi-enterprise network. With greater visibility and flexibility to adapt to change, retailers can more accurately, intelligently, and profitably control inventory throughout their enterprise while supporting corporate initiatives.
Blue Yonder at the Microsoft Booth: In addition to its own booth, Blue Yonder will have two demonstrations inside the Microsoft booth (#4503). The first will showcase Blue Yonder's warehouse management solutions. Running on Microsoft Azure, the solution allows companies to have a real-time view of inventory positions, rapidly onboard robotics vendors, and improve visibility across warehouse automation solutions - without vendor lock-in. It also enhances productivity, increases accuracy, and improves inventory management within the supply chain. The second demonstration will showcase Blue Yonder's generative AI agents for warehouse management and merchandise operations. Booth visitors will learn how they can use a dedicated AI agent to quickly access recommendations, predictive insights, and intelligent decisions to ensure they generate the best outcomes to positively impact their supply chain.
Playoff Football Watch Party: Blue Yonder will host a Playoff Football Watch Party on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, from 6-9 p.m. ET for retail supply chain executives. This invite-only event is sponsored by Microsoft and Snowflake. The watch party will include a meet and greet with two former NFL pro football players: two-time Super Bowl champion Phil Simms and NFL MVP and four-time Pro Bowler Boomer Esiason.
Women in Retail: Store Takeover: This private, invite-only executive event will take place at a flagship New York City retail store, which will be closed for the occasion. Attendees will enjoy an evening of content, cocktails, and shopping on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, from 5:30-8 p.m. ET. Store and event details will be shared upon registration.
Engage with Blue Yonder at NRF:

Join Blue Yonder at NRF 2025:
Schedule a one-on-one meeting
Attend the Big Ideas Session "The Supply Chain Revolution: Can Your Organization Succeed in the Age of AI?" on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, at 2:45 p.m. ET in Expo Level 1, Expo Stage 2.
Learn more about Blue Yonder's cognitive planning and synchronized execution capabilities, multi-enterprise network, and Merchandise Operations.
About Blue Yonder

Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformation. Retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers worldwide rely on Blue Yonder to optimize and accelerate their supply chain from planning through fulfillment, delivery, and returns. Blue Yonder's AI-driven supply chain platform and multi-enterprise, multi-tier network enable more accurate forecasting and dynamic management of capacity, inventory and transport. Blue Yonder helps businesses navigate modern supply chain complexity and volatility with more resilient, sustainable supply chains to delight customers, scale profitably, and run flawlessly. blueyonder.com

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