Industrial Manufacturing

  • Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial Manufacturing

Forge ahead with greater resilience and precision

Tackle market volatility and product shortages head-on by fortifying resilience, optimizing inventory and production plans, and boosting agility throughout your supply chain.

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Industry Challenges

Rapidly changing market conditions

Consistently addressing component shortages, complex product portfolios, and omni-channel growth requires real-time supply chain insights and accurate forecasts.
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Inventory management

Supply chain disruptions and material shortages have created increased pressure to balance inventory and satisfy demand without overconsuming valuable space, capacity, and cash.

Productivity

Supply chain visibility

Your customers expect on-time order fulfillment, yet data and organizational siloes obstruct visibility, increase cost and complexity, and make it difficult to meet expectations.
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Production planning and scheduling

Manufacturers constantly juggle change requests, expedites, and capacity constraints while trying to plan schedules, optimize availability, minimize downtime, and meet demand.

Actual results from Industrial Manufacturing customers

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Case Studies

Success stories in Industrial Manufacturing

    • BIC Adopts a Single Production Plan, Reduces Changeover Times by 40% and Identifies Extra Weekly Capacity with Blue Yonder
      BIC Adopts a Single Production Plan, Reduces Changeover Times by 40% and Identifies Extra Weekly Capacity with Blue Yonder


      BIC customers purchase 32 million BIC shavers, lighters and promotional products every day. Making sure BIC has the right products in the right places to support this enormous demand takes precise planning. To make this happen, BIC recently deployed factory planning and sequencing application from Blue Yonder in their Charlotte packaging facility, which replaced a manual rolling schedule with an automated process. In this video, Cindy Banks, BIC Global Planning System Manager, explains how the production visibility this provided allowed BIC to collaborate across departments, resulting in a reduction of 40% in changeover time by eliminating one-to-two changeovers per week.

    • JFE Steel Reduces Planning Time by 50%  and Increases Visibility with Blue Yonder Integrated Business Planning Solution
      JFE Steel Reduces Planning Time by 50%  and Increases Visibility with Blue Yonder Integrated Business Planning Solution

      Headquartered in Tokyo, JFE Steel Group is one of the world’s leading steel manufacturers, producing 30 million tons of steel products annually. The organization recognized the need to overhaul their outdated, manual and time-consuming sales processes. Learn how Blue Yonder helped JFE implement best-in-class software to match their own highly innovative steel products in order to plan more accurately and effectively.

    • Asian Paints Saved Over $720,000 by Reducing Unnecessary Production with Improved Planning From Blue Yonder
      Asian Paints Saved Over $720,000 by Reducing Unnecessary Production with Improved Planning From Blue Yonder

      Asian Paints’ decorative division produces offers both standard paint products as well as more made-to-order formulations, requiring a sophisticated and robust supply chain. Discover how Blue Yonder helped Asian Paints improve production and safety stock planning, reduced inventory, and more.

    Business Impact

    Strengthen your resilience amid disruptions while optimizing efficiency and agility

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    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.
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    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.
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    Optimal resource allocation

    Blue Yonder's supply chain software uses advanced algorithms for cost-effective resource management. Identify where robotics or automation can help deliver more efficient manufacturing and limit the impact of labor and skills shortages.

    Capabilities

    Transform your business

    Supply Chain Planning

    Optimize decisions with connected, agile supply chains

    Optimize your planning and end-to-end decisions by quickly evaluating production cycles, product handling, and transportation times. With Blue Yonder’s digital connectivity between multi-tiered suppliers, you can work collaboratively to improve agility, sustainability, and competitiveness by flexibly aligning business strategies within your network.
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    Integrated Business Planning

    Automated forecasting for faster, smarter 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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    Demand Planning

    Enhance operations with smarter, ML-based demand forecasting

    Enhance demand forecasting with Blue Yonder's leading-edge, ML-based planning that gathers real-time data on customer demand that you can use to strategically allocate resources, optimize inventory placement, beter plan supply, and boost productivity for the most efficient and cost-effective operations.
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    Order Promising & Optimization

    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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    Warehouse Management

    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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    Control Tower

    Gain real-time control and transparency across your supply chain

    Gain comprehensive control and real-time, end-to-end supply chain transparency by sharing information and visualizing the current flow of goods across your entire network from suppliers, factories, distribution centers, to customers. Blue Yonder enables you to work collaboratively to identify and remedy issues before they become bigger problems.
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    Industry insights

    Merck Serono Increase Supply Chain Visibility with Blue Yonder Forecasting
    Merck Serono Increase Supply Chain Visibility with Blue Yonder Forecasting
    Customer Story
    Merck Serono, the Geneva-based division of a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology leader, was facing a significant challenge: how to ...
    Explore the Future of Industrial Manufacturers
    Explore the Future of Industrial Manufacturers
    Thought Leadership
    The global manufacturing industry is rapidly increasing in complexity. Various factors impact this growing complexity, including extended ...
    Breaking Down Silos in Supply Chain Execution
    Breaking Down Silos in Supply Chain Execution
    Thought Leadership
    In this eBook, explore how Blue Yonder, EY and Microsoft address supply chain execution challenges. Discover how leaders can further explore
    Introducing First to Last Mile Optimization for Retail
    Introducing First to Last Mile Optimization for Retail
    Infographic
    This infographic provides an overview into six advanced technologies designed to work together to create a truly digital supply chain for ...

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