Grocery Supply Chain 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.

Grocery & Convenience

Industry Challenges
Capabilities
Business Impact
Case Studies
Industry Insights

Industry challenges

Gain speed, precision and coordination to stay ahead of change

Grocers face relentless uncertainty, from unpredictable shopper behavior and supply disruptions to cost pressures, labor shortages and tightening regulations. Outdated planning tools, siloed teams and disconnected systems make it impossible to respond in real time.

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Capabilities

Synchronized supply chain capabilities for Grocery & Convenience

Accurate forecasts, happier customers, less waste

Elevate customer satisfaction and minimize waste with Blue Yonder’s AI-driven customer insights and accurate forecasting to optimize planning, merchandising, assortment, and space management to meet customer preferences and demand.

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Smart inventory and logistics

Create a shared single source of truth for inventory and availability across all channels to satisfy both store visitors and digital shoppers. Ensure efficient transportation chains for perishable goods to enable on-time delivery regardless of shopping channel and at the lowest cost to serve

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Omni-channel engagement

Serve your customers faster and more efficiently by using our AI- and ML-based data analysis tools for precise forecasting, a true one view of inventory and accurate visualization of the flow of goods across the supply chain.

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Hedging against labor shortages

Optimize your labor resource allocation with integrated automation processes that reduce the risk of labor shortages, integrate digital shopping processes, and upskill your workforce to meet changing business processes.

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AI-enhanced category management

Boost customer loyalty and sales with Blue Yonder’s AI-based solutions that can identify localized demand patterns, provide customer-driven assortments, and increase profit with optimal use of warehouse and retail space and inventory replenishment.

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One platform, full control

Synchronize your entire retail ecosystem within a single technology platform that brings together suppliers, logistics companies, warehouse managers, transportation, and customer service to enable extended collaboration and process orchestration.

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Streamline returns for increased efficiency and customer satisfaction

Digitize the entire process of returns management so your customers have a convenient returns experience that delights them, while ensuring every returned item reaches the right place at the right time. Empower staff with the step-by-step instructions they need to rapidly disposition every returned item on the optimal route so you can maximize resale value.

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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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Proven results in grocery & convenience

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Business Impact

Integrate demand, inventory, labor, and fulfillment for responsive and sustainable processes

Optimal quality and logistics

Serve customers with fresh and high-quality items with real-time tracking and orchestration of logistics for fast distribution of perishable goods at optimal quality. With Blue Yonder you can plan, orchestrate, and adapt logistics, supply sources and warehouse management for optimal performance.

Precise forecasting for improving customer satisfaction

Smart data analysis and Blue Yonder's intelligent and AI-driven solutions enable you to achieve the right product mix to meet local preferences, the best quality at optimal cost, and the required logistics to cope with changing customer trends, market fluctuations, or seasonal influences, thus preventing misorders.

Guarantee fulfillment and win customer loyalty

To strengthen customer loyalty and trust, depend on AI designed for the supply chain for smarter warehousing, logistics, and planning for more accurate forecasting and flexible real-time decisions to guarantee fulfillment with the right products at the right time.

Grocery & Convenience

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

Turning uncertainty into opportunity

Gain speed, precision and coordination to stay ahead of change

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Synchronized supply chain capabilities for Grocery & Convenience

Accurate forecasts, happier customers, less waste

Smart inventory and logistics

Omni-channel engagement

Hedging against labor shortages

AI-enhanced category management

One platform, full control

Streamline returns for increased efficiency and customer satisfaction

Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility

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Proven results in grocery & convenience

Integrate demand, inventory, labor, and fulfillment for responsive and sustainable processes

Optimal quality and logistics

Precise forecasting for improving customer satisfaction

Guarantee fulfillment and win customer loyalty

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Success stories in Grocery & Convenience

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Industry insights

Any questions?

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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

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Synchronized supply chain capabilities for Grocery & Convenience

Accurate forecasts, happier customers, less waste

Smart inventory and logistics

Omni-channel engagement