Shoppers alternating between in-store, online, and home delivery options, complicating inventory management. Retail stores evolving into multi-functional spaces serving as distribution centers, “buy online and pick up in store” locations, and return hubs, requiring adjustments in layout and staffing. In this complex environment, retailers must leverage integrated merchandise operations systems to optimize performance and control inventory. Blue Yonder provides the seamless planning suite to deliver pinpoint accuracy when it comes to getting the right inventory in the right place at the right time and the right price.
- Retail Planning & Category Management
Retail Planning & Category Management
Optimizing store space, inventory, and on-shelf availability
What you can achieve with Blue Yonder
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increase in annual and/or comp store sales
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decrease in inventory levels
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shrink reduction
Adored by brands, recognized by analysts
Blue Yonder has been named a Leader in three 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Reports
Capabilities
Efficient Control and Agile Intelligence
Merchandising
Drive sales growth and customer loyalty
Increase annual and comp-store sales, improve selling pattern analysis, conversion rates, revenue and loyalty with our integrated retail merchandising system.
Space Management
Maximize revenue and track important KPIs
Optimize store space, inventory, and on-shelf availability with smarter, more accurate merchandise space allocation decisions that drive revenue growth and measure KPIs using robust analytics.
Demand Planning
Improve customer service and optimize inventory
Boost customer service while reducing inventory with demand planning tools using artificial intelligence, machine learning, market proven algorithms and intelligent insights.
Allocation & Replenishment
Boost accuracy, improve margins, and satisfy customers
Optimize your distribution network inventory with Blue Yonder's automated replenishment inventory planning system solution: Better More accurate planning, profitable stock improved margins and satisfied customers.
Benefits
Transform Retail Planning & Category Management with Blue Yonder
Enhanced agility and resilience
Blue Yonder allows rapid adaptation to market changes and unexpected events, ensuring retailers can swiftly adjust assortments and strategies to meet evolving consumer demands.
AI-assisted planning
Benefit from faster and more accurate forecasting and decision-making processes, leveraging data insights to optimize inventory levels, promotional strategies, and pricing, thereby improving overall operational efficiency.
Shopping made to measure
By tying decisions back to the shopper through category management solutions, retailers can create more personalized experiences, increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty while driving higher sales and profitability.
Minimize margin loss maximize profitability
Retail planning software provides real-time visibility into product performance, enabling proactive adjustments to pricing, promotions, and inventory levels to maximize margins and reduce markdowns.
Lower inventory levels
Optimized demand forecasting and inventory management capabilities reduce carrying costs and free up capital for strategic investments while ensuring product availability and minimizing stockouts.
Higher levels of automation
Streamline routine tasks and enable retail teams to focus more on strategic initiatives and shopper-centric activities, facilitating better alignment between planning and execution across warehouses, transportation, and labor resources for improved operational efficiency and cost savings.
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