Industrial Manufacturing 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.

Industrial Manufacturing

Industry Challenges
Capabilities
Business Impact
Case Studies
Industry Insights

Industry Challenges

Volatility and disruption

Rising costs and changing regulations, worsened by increasing global disruption, product and network complexity, shortages, and sustainability demands require real-time supply chain insights and accurate forecasts.

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Capabilities

Transform your business

Automated forecasting for faster, smarter strategic planning

Increase planning speed and productivity for you sales & operations planning with a highly automated forecasting process that supports better collaboration, reduces waste, optimizes allocation management, and improves sustainability.

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Optimize costs, deliver on promises

Deliver accurate and reliable data and inventory commitments to your customers according to personal preferences, across every channel, in real time. With Blue Yonder, you can optimize the cost to fulfill by considering model and parts selection and location, cost of goods, profitability, and transportation – from production to delivery.

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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 and robotics collaboration , enabling teams and resources to work smarter, increase productivity, and deliver superior service.

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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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Blue Yonder Network

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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Accelerate Production and Boost Resilience

Streamline your industrial manufacturing processes with advanced planning and scheduling solutions that help unify data in real time, maximize machine utilization, and reduce setup times. Faster, more predictable planning keeps you agile and ensures on-time delivery—even as market demands shift.

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Harmonize decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

With superior decision-making speed and precision, manufacturers can increase profitability, customer satisfaction and inventory turnover in the face of volatility. Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning is the only all-in-one solution for predictive forecasts, autonomous scenario planning, inventory optimization and insight-driven, end-to-end planning. Powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, market proven algorithms and intelligent insights.

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Transportation management optimizes all modes of transport

Consider all transportation options to ensure lowest cost modes, routes, and carriers are evaluated to meet delivery commitments. The system optimizes global multi-leg, multi-modal shipments to local multi-stop fleet routing. Transportation is fully integrated with warehouse and labor management to synchronize operations based on priorities and constraints.

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Actual results from Industrial Manufacturing customers

fewer changeovers

less planning time

fewer days of inventory

Business Impact

Strengthen your resilience amid disruptions while optimizing efficiency and agility

Improve customer service

Blue Yonder solutions help companies better manage order expectations, inventories, and lead times, improving customer service with greater efficiency and lower cost.

Real-time inventory insights

Blue Yonder's solutions help you navigate material shortages, capacity challenges, and supplier issues, so you can minimize production delays and optimize material flows to meet market demands.

End-to-end connectivity and control

Blue Yonder enables collaboration spanning, demand and supply planning, production planning, and tactical execution, such as order management, multi-enterprise transportation management and load level returns, backed by n-tier, multimode, global network visibility.

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Case Studies

Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing

Cemex's Arnulfo Guevara sits down with Sarah Barnes-Humphrey, ICON reporter, to speak about the importance of cloud strategy in their processes. Cemex is a global leader in the building materials industry. As Digital Enablement & Technology Supply Chain Leader, Arnulfo explains how real-time visibility has been key for streamlining their internal processes.
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Outokumpu is the sustainability leader in stainless steel, driven by their heritage, people and operations. In this Blue Yonder Live session, Outokumpu’s Ronald van Dodewaard, VP Logistics, shares how Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management System enables the company to drive an environmentally friendly transportation program.
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PACCAR manufacturers Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF brand trucks in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil and the UK. It needed an Advanced Planning & Scheduling system to match its complex operations with shifting global dema
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Industry insights

Explore the Future of Industrial Manufacturers

Thought Leadership

Explore the Future of Industrial Manufacturers

The global manufacturing industry is rapidly increasing in complexity. Various factors impact this growing complexity, including extended supply network from suppliers to customer, deep bills of material, and global footprint in manufacturing and ...

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How supply chain leaders are navigating complexity

Thought Leadership

2025 Supply Chain Compass: How supply chain leaders are navigating complexity

Achieving Seamless Orchestration by Synchronizing Execution

Thought Leadership

Achieving Seamless Orchestration by Synchronizing Execution

Maximizing your technology investments and your logistics results requires careful orchestration of systems, data, and processes between tools such as your Order, Warehouse, and Transportation Management Systems. Learn how you can achieve supply chain ...

Driving Success With Demand and Supply Planning

Solution Overview

Driving Success With Demand and Supply Planning

Demand and Supply Planning enables customers to stay ahead of increasing planning complexity with AI backed and extensive scenario testing options and insight driven decision making that let customers quickly model demand changes, inventory and ...

Industrial Manufacturing

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

Forge ahead with greater resilience and precision

Volatility and disruption

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Transform your business

Automated forecasting for faster, smarter strategic planning

Optimize costs, deliver on promises

Streamline operations with automated warehouse and labor solutions

Next-generation Control Towers

Blue Yonder Network

Accelerate Production and Boost Resilience

Harmonize decision-making when demand and supply planning are one

Transportation management optimizes all modes of transport

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Actual results from Industrial Manufacturing customers

Strengthen your resilience amid disruptions while optimizing efficiency and agility

Improve customer service

Real-time inventory insights

End-to-end connectivity and control

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Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing

PACCAR manufacturers Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF brand trucks in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil and the UK. It needed an Advanced Planning & Scheduling system to match its complex operations with shifting global dema

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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

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Transform your business

Automated forecasting for faster, smarter strategic planning