Blue Yonder Makes Transportation a Resilient Element

Today’s dynamic supply chains increasingly make it difficult for logistics companies to minimize costs, meet internal and external service standards, or reduce emissions to comply with corporate and regulatory requirements. At the same time, they must try to keep disruptions from tariffs and other geopolitical changes to a minimum. By integrating a cross-company network framework, machine-readable precision, and cognitive intelligence, Blue Yonder transforms the transportation process into a resilient, efficient, and intelligent element of the supply chain.

(Dallas) Blue Yonder Transportation Management, one of the company’s cognitive solutions, offers retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers (LSPs) unprecedented operational efficiency and cross-company collaboration in a resilient supply chain. The solution is based on the Blue Yonder Network and utilizes generative agents for artificial intelligence (AI) with predictive analytics and a conversational interface designed for easy, user-friendly interaction. The enhanced solution goes beyond traditional transportation management offerings, focusing on higher precision, improved sustainability, and reduced risk of failure.

Transportation Management is part of Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions and is based on the Blue Yonder platform. The solution leverages a scalable, AI-powered data cloud that overcomes silos within the supply chain ecosystem and enables seamless end-to-end interoperability with unified decision-making processes in a cross-company network.

List of Current and Future Innovations:

• Networked Transportation: Through the seamless integration of Blue Yonder’s transportation management solutions and the Blue Yonder Network, customers can efficiently manage their data across various systems and partners and optimize their scheduling or collaboration with carriers. Real-time transparency (including telematics) ensures smooth and coordinated processes in all logistical inbound operations. Customers can quickly adapt to changes and disruptions, optimizing reliability, cost efficiency, delivery times, and collaboration.
• Sustainability Optimization and Insights: Blue Yonder’s new logistics emissions calculator, part of the Sustainable Supply Chain Manager solution, is integrated into the transportation management solutions. Customers can track transportation emission factors and costs and seamlessly consider sustainability goals when dispatching loads in the optimization engine. Logistics managers can thus directly incorporate emission requirements into the optimization of transports and routes, leading to intelligent, emissions-oriented decisions that positively impact sustainability goals.
• AI Agent: The Logistics Ops Agent provides persona-based daily briefings for the transportation sector. It notifies users in real-time about issues and alternative options and makes recommendations on how to resolve or handle them, such as in matters like return transport or shipping route planning. Issues can thus be addressed more quickly, avoiding operational disruptions.
• Embedded Predictive AI Insights: By embedding predictive AI into the transportation planning process, customers can quickly locate loads that require route adjustments and identify hazardous shipments based on, for example, proper labeling or securing by carriers, and take proactive measures before the load leaves the facility. The optimization engine continuously connects executed real-world processes, ensuring high quality. This way, future planning decisions also benefit from these improved, data-driven decisions.
• Role-Specific Experience: Users manage transportation through the Conversational AI agent and the new User Experience (UX). This offers personalized alerts, dynamic, role-based views, access to KPI measurements, and more.

Unwavering Support for Digital Change and Innovation

“With solutions like Blue Yonder Transportation Management and Blue Yonder Network, Bayer demonstrates its unwavering support for digital change and innovation. Transformative measures like these go beyond traditional technological upgrades and act as strategic pioneers that redefine supply chain management in a rapidly evolving environment. By fostering agility, collaboration, and cutting-edge technology, Bayer can build a resilient, efficient, and customer-centric logistics network that is prepared for future challenges,” said Johnny Ivanyi, Global Head of Logistics COE, Bayer Crop Science.

With the current enhancements, leaders in transportation and logistics as well as supply chain transformation can guide their teams as follows:

• Increase precision through intelligent and agent-based processes. This expands traditional working methods through machine learning, AI, and intelligent design.
• Enhance agility with predictive, AI-driven optimization. Better align service levels, reduce costs, and more easily achieve sustainability goals. Dynamic optimization algorithms enable rapid responses to disruptions.
• Make intelligent decisions and execute them immediately with scalable, adaptable solutions. Users have access to unlimited scalability, secure operations, and seamless updates. Innovations can be implemented instantly.
• Manage disruptions using a collaborative ecosystem. Users can bring together their network of carriers and suppliers, share key insights, and make optimized decisions.

Transition from Reactive to Proactive and Prescriptive Operations

“In today’s disruption-driven world, leaders need business continuity and transportation solutions that provide reliability, cost savings, and efficiency while meeting regulatory requirements,” said Gurdip Singh, Chief Product Officer at Blue Yonder. “Our latest enhancements and visions enable customers to transition from reactive to proactive and prescriptive operations with real-time transparency and optimization based on AI and a cross-company network. Whether by sea or road – with our transportation management solutions, shipment volumes can be seamlessly scaled from anywhere and at any time.”
Photo: © Loginfo24