Blue Yonder Warehouse Management
Part of Blue Yonder’s Intelligent Fulfillment TM solution, Blue Yonder Warehouse Management is a comprehensive, real-time warehouse and distribution center management system that skillfully handles real-world disruptions to help drive improved performance and competitive edge. Blue Yonder Warehouse Management helps manufacturers, retailers, distributors and third-party logistics providers thrive in an ever-changing and hyper-connected omni-channel world by providing the power to quickly adapt to change and optimize and execute the tasks to get the right inventory, at the right location, at the right time. Users are empowered with more flexibility , real-time responsiveness and the ability to easily manage complex warehouse operations.
- Fulfillment cost reductions of 10-50%
- Inventory storage and handling cost reductions of 10-35%
- Throughput increases of 10-40%
- Inventory visibility and accuracy of nearly 100%
- Inventory reductions of 5-25%
- Credit reductions of 75-95%
- Dock-to-stock time reductions of 25-50%
- Receiving dwell-time reductions of 25-50%
Blue Yonder Warehouse Management Features:
Blue Yonder’s Warehouse Management technology and services provide a comprehensive, mobile-ready solution for distribution and inventory management covering
Labor represents 50-75 percent of non-inventory costs in most distribution centers, so optimizing each and every task is critical to achieving agile, efficient and lean operations. This requires consistency and control over what tasks are assigned and how they are carried out. Labor visibility is now integrated within Blue Yonder Warehouse Management. You can grab a quick workforce view to see whether workers regoing to complete their tasks in time or if you have to adjust waves or tasks with the labor available in the warehouse. Blue Yonder is a long-time leader in labor and workforce management, transforming your workplace into a self-accountable, performance-focused culture. This transformation is accomplished through a proven, step-by-step methodology that incorporates culture altering change management and strategic project management programs.
Once you have visibility into inbound shipments, there are many asks that should be optimized to streamline inbound operations. JDA’s Warehouse Management solution provides optimization capabilities.
- Appointment scheduling
- Yard and dock management
- Cross – docking
- Receiving and put away
- Retail store – flow through processing
- Inbound services
- Reverse logistics / returns processing
Effective inventory management requires visibility and control from suppliers’ production all the way through to the end user. Blue Yonder provides this real-time visibility and control to optimize the tracking, movement, handling, storage, and if necessary, recall of all types of raw materials, work-in-process and finished goods inventory. Key functions include:
- Supplier collaboration
- Asset management
- Slotting
- Replenishment
- Inventory control
- Special handling
- Cycle counting
A lot more goes on in distribution centers today than simple pick, pack and ship. Through postponement strategies, customer service requirements and tore-ready processing, DCs are becoming limited production centers, requiring skills, equipment, work orders and management practices not seen in traditional warehouses. Work Order processing in these DCs can be more akin to manufacturing processes than traditional distribution functions. JDA’s Work Order Processing solution assigns, sequences and directs tasks to ensure timely, consistent and accurate completion of work order production. In many ways it can be thought of as a manufacturing execution system for the DC.
From pre-pack top roof of delivery, Blue Yonder optimizes every step of outbound operations to ensure accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, compliance and optimal customer service. The breadth of capabilities include:
- Task management and interleaving
- Multiple pick methods
- Packing and shipping
- Parcel manifesting
- Shipment documentation
- Logistics billing