Grocery supply chain solutions

Grocery & Convenience

Minimize grocery waste and maximize availability

Master uncertainty by adjusting plans and execution across their networks seamlessly—ensuring availability, cutting costs and earning shopper loyalty.

Industry challenges

Gain speed, precision and coordination to stay ahead of change

Grocers face relentless uncertainty, from unpredictable shopper behavior and supply disruptions to cost pressures, labor shortages and tightening regulations. Outdated planning tools, siloed teams and disconnected systems make it impossible to respond in real time.

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Fresh food waste and shelf gaps

A lack of high-quality real-time data leads to mismatched fresh food supply and demand, creating waste, quality issues and empty shelves.

Rapidly shifting shopper behaviors

Shoppers switch channels, change habits and expect personalization, making demand hard to predict.

Ranging vs. space constraints

Limited shelf space must now serve in-store shoppers and support omni-channel growth, creating tough trade-offs as product ranges are defined.

Capabilities

Synchronized supply chain capabilities for Grocery & Convenience

Order Management & Commerce
Inventory Availability
Allocation & Replenishment
Workforce & Labor Management
Retail Planning & Category Management
Platform
Returns Management
Blue Yonder Network

Accurate forecasts, happier customers, less waste

Elevate customer satisfaction and minimize waste with Blue Yonder’s AI-driven customer insights and accurate forecasting to optimize planning, merchandising, assortment, and space management to meet customer preferences and demand.

Smart inventory and logistics

Create a shared single source of truth for inventory and availability across all channels to satisfy both store visitors and digital shoppers. Ensure efficient transportation chains for perishable goods to enable on-time delivery regardless of shopping channel and at the lowest cost to serve.

Omni-channel engagement

Serve your customers faster and more efficiently by using our AI- and ML-based data analysis tools for precise forecasting, a true one view of inventory and accurate visualization of the flow of goods across the supply chain.

Hedging against labor shortages

Optimize your labor resource allocation with integrated automation processes that reduce the risk of labor shortages, integrate digital shopping processes, and upskill your workforce to meet changing business processes.

AI-enhanced category management

Boost customer loyalty and sales with Blue Yonder’s AI-based solutions that can identify localized demand patterns, provide customer-driven assortments, and increase profit with optimal use of warehouse and retail space and inventory replenishment.

One platform, full control

Synchronize your entire retail ecosystem within a single technology platform that brings together suppliers, logistics companies, warehouse managers, transportation, and customer service to enable extended collaboration and process orchestration.

Streamline returns for increased efficiency and customer satisfaction

Digitize the entire process of returns management so your customers have a convenient returns experience that delights them, while ensuring every returned item reaches the right place at the right time. Empower staff with the step-by-step instructions they need to rapidly disposition every returned item on the optimal route so you can maximize resale value.

Break enterprise boundaries to increase agility

Coordinate efforts across your complex fabric of trading partners for improved return on capital, lower cost to serve, and faster time to market. As variability and volatility increase, digital supply chain networks are critical to adjust to change faster and smarter.

Proven results in grocery & convenience

+0% on-shelf availability
0% fast delivery
0% ROI*
*12 months after solution implementation

Business Impact

Integrate demand, inventory, labor, and fulfillment for responsive and sustainable processes

Optimal quality and logistics

Serve customers with fresh and high-quality items with real-time tracking and orchestration of logistics for fast distribution of perishable goods at optimal quality. With Blue Yonder you can plan, orchestrate, and adapt logistics, supply sources and warehouse management for optimal performance.

Precise forecasting for improving customer satisfaction

Smart data analysis and Blue Yonder's intelligent and AI-driven solutions enable you to achieve the right product mix to meet local preferences, the best quality at optimal cost, and the required logistics to cope with changing customer trends, market fluctuations, or seasonal influences, thus preventing misorders.

Guarantee fulfillment and win customer loyalty

To strengthen customer loyalty and trust, depend on AI designed for the supply chain for smarter warehousing, logistics, and planning for more accurate forecasting and flexible real-time decisions to guarantee fulfillment with the right products at the right time.

Case Studies

Success stories in Grocery & Convenience

AEON

As a leading multiple-format retailer in Malaysia, AEON needed to improve assortments and on-shelf availability based on local demand in order to deliver on their customer first strategy. Discover how Blue Yonder’s suite of category management capabilities helped AEON make better assortment decisions, maintain schematic plans and more.

PepsiCo Latin America

PepsiCo Latin America modernizes its supply chain using Blue Yonder, enhancing visibility, agility, and sustainability for a resilient, efficient logistics network.

dm

Blue Yonder optimized external product supply for dm by creating demand predictions at SKU level for the distribution centers for 52 weeks. The weekly predictions of article demand were based on 2.5 years of historical data for each particular distribution center.

Paradies Lagardere

Learn how Paradies Lagardere reduced administrative burdens of associate scheduling and enhanced customer service with Blue Yonder workforce management.