Blue Yonder Cognitive Supply Chain Planning

Blue Yonder is a supply chain software company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with close to 40 years of customer engagements and more than 3,000 customers across 81 countries and territories. It has offices worldwide, including Singapore, India and Japan, and helps retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers plan and run supply chains from forecasting through fulfilment, delivery and returns.

Its Cognitive Solutions for Planning run on the Blue Yonder Platform with a common data model and the multi-enterprise Blue Yonder Network. Capabilities include integrated business planning, AI-powered demand and supply planning with constraint-aware planning and multi-echelon inventory optimization, production planning and scheduling, order promising, and an inventory operations agent. The 2026.2 release added forecast transparency, gross-to-net financial simulation and multi-step agentic inventory resolution. Customers include DHL, Carlsberg, Walgreens and Royal Mail.

• Integrated business planning: links finance, supply chain and operations scenarios.
• Demand and supply planning: AI forecasting with event cleansing and forecast driver visibility.
• Inventory optimization: multi-echelon optimization on the Blue Yonder Platform.
• Production planning and scheduling: constraint-aware plans for capacity and throughput.
• Inventory operations agent: monitors inventory and runs multi-step scenario resolution.
• Order promising: executable promises using Blue Yonder Network signals.

• A Vietnamese retail or grocery chain can forecast store demand and optimise inventory across DCs.
• A beverage or consumer goods manufacturer can run IBP with gross-to-net financial impact.
• A manufacturer can promise delivery dates to distributors based on real capacity.

• Gross-to-Net Impact shows the effect of demand, supply, inventory and capacity changes on revenue, margin, EBITDA and working capital before decisions are committed.
• Multi-echelon inventory optimization aims to cut inventory expenses while protecting service.
• The inventory operations agent surfaces risks and runs root-cause and scenario analysis to speed up response.
• Order promising uses real inventory, capacity and network data for commitments customers can trust.

Supply chain planning vendors are shipping agentic AI that moves from recommendations to multi-step execution, while buyers demand financial visibility of planning decisions. Retailers and manufacturers in Southeast Asia are consolidating planning, warehouse and transport on common cloud platforms.

Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona; CEO Duncan Angove. More than 3,000 customers in 81 countries and territories; nearly 1,300 WMS sites in the Blue Yonder cloud. Named a Leader in Nucleus Research's 2026 Enterprise Supply Chain Planning Technology Value Matrix for the fifth consecutive year. Website available in Japanese and Chinese.