Blue Yonder Network FAQs

Multi-Enterprise Collaboration Services (MECS) are cloud-based platforms that enable real-time data sharing, workflow coordination, and joint decision-making across disparate organizations—manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers, and retailers—within a unified supply chain network.

A Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Network Platform is a unified, cloud-based digital environment that connects independent organizations - manufacturers, suppliers, carriers, and retailers - onto a single data model, enabling them to orchestrate supply chain processes, manage inventory, and execute transactions in real time. 

Platform Extensibility Services are the Blue Yonder Platform capabilities that let organizations extend Blue Yonder solutions—adding data, business logic, workflows and user experience extensions—without modifying the core product, so extensions remain upgrade-safe.

Blue Yonder Chain of Custody provides the provenance of components, raw materials and finished goods, with a complete audit trail for serialized and lot-tracked items, on the multi-enterprise Blue Yonder Network.

Blue Yonder Monitor is a management tool that lets users define their own business rules to test for exception conditions in supply chain data and alert the right stakeholders—online or by email—when exceptions occur.

Blue Yonder Multi-Dimensional Monitoring helps manufacturers monitor parts supply across global production networks, recognizing critical parts with long supply chains and creating transparency into requirements, inventories and transports for the entire planning period so supply risks and bottlenecks are detected early.

Blue Yonder Network Planning is a strategic modeling and optimization solution that enables organizations to design the optimal footprint for their supply chain—determining the best number, location, and size of factories, distribution centers (DCs), and stock points to balance cost, service, and risk.

Blue Yonder Network Risk Resilience is a Blue Yonder Network capability that provides real-time risk monitoring to identify, assess and proactively address potential disruptions across a multi-tier supply chain network, helping protect supply chain continuity.

Blue Yonder Network Stock Management is a Blue Yonder Network capability that enables warehouse stock management operations for smaller warehouses that do not require sophisticated equipment automation or labor management.

Blue Yonder Network Telematics provides in-transit GPS location tracking of movements, assets and containers by connecting with third-party telematics, IoT services and visibility providers, delivering more precise, near-real-time visibility and temperature tracking on the Blue Yonder Network.

Blue Yonder Supply Chain Strategist is a comprehensive network design and scenario planning application that enables organizations to create a 'digital twin' of their entire supply chain to model, analyze, and optimize their physical footprint for cost, service, and sustainability.

Logistics Telematics is the integration of telecommunications and informatics technologies to monitor, track, and manage commercial fleets and assets in real-time.

Logistics Visibility is the capability to track and monitor the real-time status, location, and condition of inventory, orders and shipments across the entire supply chain—from the supplier's dock to the end customer's door. 

Multi-Echelon Inventory Management (MEIM) is a holistic optimization strategy that right-sizes inventory levels across every tier of the supply chain—from raw material suppliers and factories to central distribution centers (DCs), regional hubs, and retail stores—to minimize total network cost while guaranteeing service levels.

Network Design (often called Supply Chain Network Design) is the strategic process of modeling and optimizing the physical footprint of a supply chain—determining the optimal number, location, and function of factories, distribution centers (DCs), and cross-docks to balance cost, service, and risk. 

Network Optimization is the analytical process of using mathematical solvers and digital models to determine the most efficient flow of goods through a supply chain—balancing constraints like capacity, lead times, and carbon emissions to minimize Total Landed Cost (TLC) while meeting service level targets.

Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) is the systematic process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating internal and external risks that threaten the integrity, continuity, and profitability of the supply chain.

Supply Chain Traceability is the capability to document and verify the history, location, and application of products and materials as they move through the supply chain, creating an immutable record of custody from raw material origin to the end consumer.

The Blue Yonder Network Foundation is a real-time, multi-enterprise digital platform that connects all trading partners—suppliers, carriers, and customers—onto a single network, enabling them to share a common 'master data' language and collaborate on live transactions.

The Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning Foundation provides the foundational infrastructure and database deployment on which Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning applications run, and enables organizations to add further Supply Chain Planning applications as their needs grow.