EY–Blue Yonder Alliance: enabling your supply chain’s full potential

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The EY supply chain team is experienced in providing transformative strategies that harness the power of leading technology in the fields of supply chain planning, transportation management and warehouse operations.

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From planning to delivering, Blue Yonder’s solutions help to synchronize forecasting and planning to warehousing, transportation and order fulfillment.

As supply chain leaders leading your enterprises, you need an intelligent supply chain platform that provides insights and the full power of your data to make strategic decisions across your supply chain. In a rapidly changing business environment, it is key to combine resilience and agility to mitigate disruptions, while remaining customer-centric.

The EY-Blue Yonder Alliance extends during and beyond the supply chain implementation lifecycle

Together, we provide digital supply chain solutions to global enterprise clients, helping to optimize their operations and provide support throughout their supply chain transformation journey.

Our collaboration with EY continues to grow and delivers success with our mutual clients. Our team appreciates the industry knowledge that EY brings in Supply Chain Planning and Execution, their ability to successfully manage large transformations, and their vision for the next generation supply chain capabilities. We look forward to continuing our strategic partnership and delivering value to our mutual clients.

Wayne Usie

Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Yonder

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Collaboratively, we deliver digital transformation and help clients achieve resilient customer-centric supply chains from planning to execution through Blue Yonder’s supply chain management platform.

Blue Yonder’s Luminate Platform is reimagining how supply chains operate with a next-generation supply chain Data Cloud. The platform gives users easier access to more real-world data and infinite intelligence, enables higher quality decision-making, and delivers faster, more relevant insights by eliminating siloes, accelerating, and simplifying data sharing and making data more actionable. Luminate Platform helps companies better manage the growing complexities from supply disruptions, cost pressures, increasingly volatile customer preferences and proliferation of data. The platform aims to improve the way organizations plan, execute and deliver with greater speed, scale and agility than ever before.
Blue Yonder’s cognitive planning suite is the next evolution of cloud-native SaaS planning solutions. It is helping businesses realize their performance objectives in this increasingly complex and volatile environment by being aware of critical events and prescribing solutions to manage risks and opportunities in both demand and supply, improving planner productivity and supply chain resilience. Cognitive Planning combines the latest data management technology with Blue Yonder’s proven supply chain planning IP to achieve higher forecast accuracy, accelerate decision-making, increase productivity, and build a more resilient supply chain with fewer resources, resulting in increased revenue, better margins, and higher customer satisfaction.

Key capabilities enabled are cognitive demand planning, supply planning, integrated business planning, network design, and factory & production planning.
Blue Yonder’s cognitive merchandising and category management suite powers seamless global commerce with real-time, AI-driven insights that deliver connected, customer-centric supply chains that instantly respond to changes in demand to reduce cost, improve sell-through and increase conversion rates. Blue Yonder helps transform shopper experiences from browse to fulfillment, optimize customer offers, and increase speed and sustainability through intelligent automation that increases revenue and reduces cost-to-serve.

Key capabilities enabled are space & floor planning, assortment optimization, pricing & promotion, allocation, replenishment, planograms and merchandise financial planning.
Blue Yonder’s supply chain execution suite is the industry’s first AI/ML-based, interoperable suite from warehousing to resourcing to transportation that enable your business to navigate disruptions, optimize operations, and drive efficiency from first-to-last mile. Blue Yonder is removing silos and transforming traditional point solutions into a connected, composable ecosystem that helps create more flexible, cost-effective, and resilient supply chains with end-to-end visibility and agile decision-making. Blue Yonder helps you seamlessly respond to demand, unifying logistics and fulfillment, optimize transportation, maximize resources, and automate processes so you can recognize disruptions and pivot before they happen and minimize supply chain risk to turn uncertainty into opportunity.

Key capabilities enabled are transportation modeling, transportation management, carrier collaboration, yard management, load building, warehouse management, warehouse execution, labor management, and control tower.
Blue Yonder’s order management and fulfillment solutions create seamless customer-centric experiences that engage customers, deliver the right product, through the right channel, with the speed and convenience that consumers expect. Blue Yonder’s augmentative, domain-centric microservices deliver performance, scale, and flexibility, allowing businesses to start with what they need today knowing that they can add capabilities tomorrow. This modular architecture can operate independently or seamlessly integrate to provide the rapid time-to-market and performance businesses need to adapt and scale faster to keep pace to gain a competitive edge.

Key capabilities include order management, inventory availability, order fulfillment, commits, and returns.

The EY-Blue Yonder team’s experience across 50+ large Blue Yonder global transformations has enabled us to develop highly innovative and configurable digital transformation solution assets that help clients kick start and optimize their transformation journey.

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EY has been recognized with the following awards:

2022 Blue Yonder Digital Transformation Partner of the Year
2021 Blue Yonder Breakthrough Partner of the Year

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Vivek Chhaochharia

Principal, Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP; EY Global Blue Yonder Alliance Leader; EY US Digital Supply Chain Leader

Strategic thinker. Consulting executive with global experience. Transformation leader in digital supply chain. Passionate about emerging technologies. Film lover. Family man.

Dallas, USA

Gaurav Malhotra

Supply Chain Technology Leader and BY Global Alliance Executive Sponsor

Driving revenue, profit and customer satisfaction. Family. Ice hockey. Cricket. Reading. Exploring other cultures.

Chicago, USA

Zaid Duwayri

EY Americas Blue Yonder Go-To-Market Leader

Problem-solver, entrepreneur and a people person. Advisor and mentor for early-stage startups. Father. Husband.

Atlanta, USA

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