Blue Yonder, Inc., has extended its offerings to assist clients reduce the effects of COVID-19 on their global supply chains, while making sure essential materials get to the people that want them the most. These offerings assist organizations successfully mitigate disruptions and manipulate a multitude of rising challenges such as demand spikes, transportation disruptions, and stock and labor shortages, finally making their end-to-end supply chains more resilient.

It is severely essential to make sure that global supply chains are in a position to predict, pivot and react to potential disruptions and are aligned to main COVID-19 hotspots all over the world from demand and supply matching, labor optimization and state of affairs planning, stated Mark Morgan, executive vice president and chief revenue officer, Blue Yonder. We are customizing particular offerings that tackle the challenges taking place throughout the supply chain to assist our closely impacted clients around grocery, retail, manufacturing, food, consumer goods, and logistics operations to make sure that essential products are on shelves for consumers and that personal protective equipment, food and water is conveniently available during this pandemic.

Blue Yonders COVID-19-related offerings span the whole consumer experience right now from optimizing labor in warehouse and manufacturing success centers, to offering accelerated real-time demand and supply matching for grocers and shops such as what-if scenario response planning, to a real-time control tower offering entire visibility, orchestration and inventory/labor risk assurance based on COVID-19 hotspots. These offerings cover the whole value chain lifecycle so that retailers, producers and logistics agencies can best control the contemporary supply chain disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Blue Yonders modern elevated offerings include:

COVID-19 Supply Chain Risk Response: connects to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) live feed on the spread of COVID-19 and layers in client demand, supply, and stock data to give real-time visibility and potential supply chain impacts for correct decision-making

COVID-19 Scenario Planning: allows companies to run multiple, real-time scenarios to decide changes they may need to make to their network operations and rapidly adapt to ever-changing demand/supply situations

Warehouse Task Orchestration: enables warehouses that are experiencing historic volumes enhance choosing techniques to enhance throughput and minimize labor spend in a restrained labor and transportation surroundings

Retail Pricing: permits shops to optimize pricing and merchandising techniques for both in-store/in-distribution center inventory that is sitting idle due to store closures, and for a backlog of stock coming in that will not be cycled through

Labor Optimization - permits organizations to better manipulate staff labor schedules and gain required visibility into their staffs availability to see if they are available to work, swap and claim shifts and optimally distribute workforce to the area most in demand

Blue Yonder has created a COVID-19 Response Center that is often updated with sources and facts associated to the companys pandemic response. This consists of offering a range of discussion boards for its clients to have interaction with their peers, ask questions of company experts and more.