What is Blue Yonder Transportation Manager?

Blue Yonder Transportation Manager is designed to execute, manage and monitor the entire transportation execution lifecycle, enabling proactive monitoring and intelligent exception management while synchronizing critical execution processes for optimal cost and service performance.

Transportation Manager replaces fragmented manual processes—emails, spreadsheets and phone calls—with one execution platform for shippers and logistics service providers, supporting common carrier operations as well as private and dedicated fleet operations.

Why It Matters: Centralized Logistics Control

Transportation is complex and volatile: rates change, capacity fluctuates and disruptions are constant. Transportation Manager helps teams stay in control by:

• Managing Execution End to End: Tendering, tracking, exception management and freight payment are handled in one system.
• Monitoring Proactively: Intelligent exception management alerts planners to the shipments that need attention.
• Using Fleets Efficiently: For private and dedicated fleets, the Logistics Ops agent observes, recommends and executes continuous-move (backhaul) opportunities as plans change.
• Controlling Freight Spend: Carrier invoices are checked against agreed rates and charges before payment.

Key Capabilities

• Carrier Connectivity and Tendering: Offer loads to carriers electronically and move to the next carrier in the routing guide when a load is rejected.
• Visibility and Event Management: Track the location and status of shipments and manage exceptions.
• Freight Audit and Payment: Manage accessorial charges and freight bills, including accounts payable and receivable processes for logistics service providers.
• Fleet Dispatch: Insight into asset availability and freight opportunities for private and dedicated fleets.

The Blue Yonder Difference

Transportation Manager is part of Blue Yonder’s cloud-native Cognitive Solutions for Execution on Microsoft Azure. Through the Blue Yonder Platform it connects with Blue Yonder warehouse management, planning and the Blue Yonder Network, where carriers can be onboarded once and connected to their shippers. AI agents such as the Logistics Ops agent help find backhaul opportunities and resolve unroutable shipments.

Kimberly-Clark reported $14 million in initial cost savings using Blue Yonder Transportation Management.