Consumer Packed Goods Software

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

In this survey of nearly 700 businesses, we asked supply chain leaders about their ambitions, fears, goals and strategies. Find out the overall direction of the industry, the state of the art of supply chain management, why optimism remains strong and which key actions are being prioritized to achieve strategic goals like building resilience, implementing new technology, and becoming more sustainable.

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

Incisiv explores the significant transformation underway in modern supply chains, detailing the shift away from fragmented processes and point solutions to more agile platforms and collaborative workflows. This evolution addresses systemic issues such as inflexibility and disconnected communication, enhancing supply chain responsiveness, sustainability, and profitability.

Consumer Goods

Industry Challenges
Capabilities
Business Impact
Case Studies
Industry Insights

Industry Challenges

Build a smarter, customer-first supply chain to outpace the competition

Keep up with changing buying patterns, fickle brand loyalty and rising expectations by synchronizing planning and execution across demand, distribution, production and sourcing. Our integrated suite drives collaboration and alignment across the network to boost speed and agility.

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Capabilities

Critical capabilities for consumer goods supply chains

Harmonize decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

Increase profitability, productivity and customer satisfaction in the face of volatility by pairing planning efforts with advanced scenario planning, insight-driven planning and inventory optimization. Powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, market proven algorithms and intelligent insights.

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Gain deeper insights to optimize inventory and deployment

Analyze your extensive set of data including consumption patterns, volume, revenue, margin, cost-to serve, product maturity, channels, criticality, velocity, and seasonality. With deeper insight, you can make better, more informed deployment decisions, such as load building and inventory rebalancing.

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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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Optimize transportation and procurement decisions

Scale your transportation management solutions so you can leverage every available asset to reduce delays, navigate disruptions and drive profitability. You can transform transportation operations by managing both inbound and outbound transport and integrate supplier and carrier collaboration.

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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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Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility

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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AI-powered, real-time integrated business planning and monitoring

Increase planning speed and productivity with a highly automated forecasting process, better collaboration, less waste, optimized allocation management and improved sustainability. Benefit from an exception-based, real-time planning framework, enabled by AI, and identify supply-demand imbalances at the earliest possible moment, supported by continuous monitoring, real-time alerting and a continuous feedback loop.

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AI-enhanced category management

Foster strategic retail alliances, build customer loyalty, and boost sales with Blue Yonder’s AI-based solutions that identify localized demand patterns, deliver customer-driven assortments tailored to each store, increase profit with optimal trade promotions, and maximize retail space with industry-leading planograms.

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Real-time inventory, effortless fulfillment

Unify inventory availability and omni-channel fulfillment intelligence capabilities, so your reatailers can present real-time inventory views across their network and determine how best to fulfill orders based on cost, location, and transit times. Consumers will enjoy order fulfillment options such as ship to and from store, buy online pick up in-store (BOPUS), and last mile delivery – moving them from click to commit.

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Adapt and optimize your network to meet any challenge

Model and optimize the full breadth and depth of your supply chain network and scenarios. With powerful, yet flexible, what-if modeling capabilities that include multiple currencies, Blue Yonder can help you evaluate, design, optimize, and ultimately transform your supply chain network. Whether you are looking to expand, mitigate disruption, or optimize your current network resources, our solutions can help you reach your supply chain goals.

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Optimize your reverse logistics execution

Whether you're accepting returns from consumers or retailers, or sending materials back to suppliers, Blue Yonder’s returns orchestration engine uses data and decisioning to power workflows and improve the entire returns journey–reducing time, costs and goods in transit. Inventory is also handled faster, more accurately and with less waste as warehouse operators are given data-driven, guided steps how to handle returns.

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What Blue Yonder delivers for CPG customers

improvement in service levels

increase in forecast accuracy

reduction of transportation cost

Business Impact

Customer-centric transformation—from linear supply chains to adaptive networks

Extend seamless collaboration among internal and external teams

Enhance collaboration across internal supply chain functions as well as external networks from suppliers through distribution partners.

Hand in glove planning and execution

Bring together manufacturing, transportation, and warehouse execution in an end-to-end platform that can consistently meet shelf-life requirements for even highly perishable goods, improving service to intermediates and ensuring availability to consumers.

Better on-shelf availability

Fend off competitive threats and improve on-shelf availability (OSA) with enhanced demand forecasting, optimized inventory management and improved orchestration across suppliers, carriers and retail partners.

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Case Studies

Success stories in Consumer Goods

Explore the enduring 17-year partnership between Kimberly-Clark, a global consumer packaged goods leader, and Blue Yonder, focusing on the evolution of their collaboration in optimizing Kimberly-Clark's vast and complex global transportation network.
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Industry insights

Accelerate informed decisions with AI built for supply chain

Solution Overview

Accelerate informed decisions with AI built for supply chain

Supply chains produce overwhelming data, making quick, informed decision-making challenging. Built on decades of supply chain innovation and AI expertise, our predictive, generative and agentic AI solutions turn raw data into predictions and guidance ...

Consumer Packaged Goods: Gain a Competitive Edge With Blue Yonder's Comprehensive Supply Chain Solutions

Solution Overview

Consumer Packaged Goods: Gain a Competitive Edge With Blue Yonder's Comprehensive Supply Chain Solutions

CPG companies face demand volatility, rising costs and higher retailer expectations for on-shelf availability. Discover how Blue Yonder's supply chain solutions help CPG companies adapt to demand shifts and optimize production, inventory and ...

The Network Amplification Era: Reinventing Supply Chains for CPG & Grocery

Thought Leadership

The Network Amplification Era: Reinventing Supply Chains for CPG & Grocery

Grocery and CPG leaders must evolve their supply chains from traditional cost-efficiency models to AI-driven, adaptable networks that prioritize precision, sustainability and resilience. By embracing interconnected ecosystems and intelligent ...

From Static to Intelligent—5 Imperatives for the Future of CPG Supply Chains

Thought Leadership

From Static to Intelligent—5 Imperatives for the Future of CPG Supply Chains

For decades, CPG supply chains followed a predictable model—long production cycles, rigid planning and bulk replenishment. However, today’s market demands speed, precision and adaptability. Discover how businesses are moving beyond reactive planning and ...

Demand & Supply Planning for CPG, F&B and Life Sciences Industries

Thought Leadership

Demand & Supply Planning for CPG, F&B and Life Sciences Industries

As companies adjust to the changing market dynamics, a lack of visibility into demand drivers will result in a disconnect between demand & supply plans, causing misaligned inventory and stock outs. In this e-book, you'll discover how Blue Yonder’s Demand ...

Integrated Business Planning

Solution Overview

Integrated Business Planning

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a next-gen cloud-native SaaS strategic planning solutions that helps companies drive strategy and higher performance through real-time autonomous scenario planning, AI-powered insights and end-to-end process ...

Consumer Goods

Unlock 12x ROI with a true end-to-end supply chain platform

End-to-End Planning & Execution

Blue Yonder Network

AI & Machine Learning

Data Cloud & Platform

Composable Journeys

Professional Services

User Experience

Our solutions have the power to unveil the hidden.

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder unveils advanced AI-driven Cognitive Solutions

Accelerate Informed Decisions With AI Built for Supply Chain

Demystifying AI for Supply Chain Leaders

Reorganizing for AI: How Supply Chain Leaders Have to Adapt

Success stories showcase the transformative impact we've had on their businesses.

DHL

Carlsberg Group

Walgreens

Browse all our resources: whitepapers, guides, reports and more.

How AI-Enabled Planning Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

ICON 2026

Exceed consumer expectations with end-to-end connectivity beyond your four walls

Build a smarter, customer-first supply chain to outpace the competition

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Critical capabilities for consumer goods supply chains

Harmonize decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

Gain deeper insights to optimize inventory and deployment

Streamline operations with automated warehouse and labor solutions

Optimize transportation and procurement decisions

Next-generation Control Towers

Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility

AI-powered, real-time integrated business planning and monitoring

AI-enhanced category management

Real-time inventory, effortless fulfillment

Adapt and optimize your network to meet any challenge

Optimize your reverse logistics execution

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What Blue Yonder delivers for CPG customers

Customer-centric transformation—from linear supply chains to adaptive networks

Extend seamless collaboration among internal and external teams

Hand in glove planning and execution

Better on-shelf availability

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Success stories in Consumer Goods

Explore the enduring 17-year partnership between Kimberly-Clark, a global consumer packaged goods leader, and Blue Yonder, focusing on the evolution of their collaboration in optimizing Kimberly-Clark's vast and complex global transportation network.

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Industry insights

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Why Blue Yonder

About Blue Yonder

Partners

Unlock 12x ROI with a true end-to-end supply chain platform

End-to-End Planning & Execution

Blue Yonder Network

AI & Machine Learning

Data Cloud & Platform

Composable Journeys

Professional Services

User Experience

Our solutions have the power to unveil the hidden.

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder unveils advanced AI-driven Cognitive Solutions

Accelerate Informed Decisions With AI Built for Supply Chain

Demystifying AI for Supply Chain Leaders

Reorganizing for AI: How Supply Chain Leaders Have to Adapt

Success stories showcase the transformative impact we've had on their businesses.

DHL

Carlsberg Group

Walgreens

Browse all our resources: whitepapers, guides, reports and more.

How AI-Enabled Planning Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How Supply Chain Leaders Are Navigating Complexity

Beyond Silos: Evolving to an Enterprise Supply Chain

ICON 2026