Blue Yonder integrates data cloud platform with supply chain solution

The Blue Yonder Luminate end-to-end supply chain platform is running on a new cloud-based data foundation.

The digital supply chain and omnichannel commerce fulfillment technology provider is partnering with data cloud company Snowflake. Now, Blue Yonder’s Luminate platform is known as Luminate, powered by Snowflake. The end-to-end supply chain solution is designed to enable retailers, manufacturers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to better predict, prevent and resolve disruptions in order to mitigate supply chain risks and challenges.

Blue Yonder is partnering with Snowflake based on its ability to meet the diverse requirements of Luminate users, and its shared goal of eliminating data silos in the retail industry.

Starting with the Luminate Control Tower and Luminate Demand Edge solutions, joint retail users will be able to use a single-source data infrastructure that is designed to eliminate workstream siloes and provides real-time, end-to-end orchestration across planning, execution, and e-commerce.

In addition, as part of the partnership, Blue Yonder will leverage Snowflake’s newly announced Retail Data Cloud, which combines Snowflake’s integrated data platform, Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-specific datasets and models. As a result, Blue Yonder intends to enable Luminate Platform users to aggregate and transform data, build out machine learning (ML) models, and ingest data into the platform for faster processing and better scalability.

Blue Yonder also intends to enable users of the platform to process data faster, as well as create a “single source of the truth” to support common data usage and integrated workflows.

Blue Yonder’s Luminate Platform is a single-source data infrastructure designed to eliminate workstream silos and provide end-to-end supply chain visibility and orchestration. Luminate Platform leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide prescriptive resolutions that are based on prioritization and impact analysis, to help retailers reduce supply chain risks, optimize inventory positions, and reduce logistics costs.

In September 2021, Panasonic acquired Blue Yonder in a deal that totaled $7.1 billion in purchase value and outstanding debt. This followed an initial purchase of 20% of Blue Yonder’s shares by Panasonic in July 2020.

“In today’s dynamic environment, our customers need to have a single source of truth at their fingertips to better manage disruptions and understand the impacts – both short- and long-term – of decisions made within their supply chains,” said Mark Morgan, interim CEO, Blue Yonder. “By partnering with Snowflake, we are able to help our customers transform their access to disparate data – and how they leverage it – so they can better predict and pivot before disruptions occur, understand any potential impacts, and put in place prescriptive steps to mitigate risks to get back on-track to meet customer expectations,”

“Our partnership with Blue Yonder will help prepare the supply chain across retailers, brands, manufacturers, and 3PLs with a data-driven future,” said Rosemary Hua, global industry lead, retail and CPG at Snowflake. “With Luminate Platform, Powered by Snowflake, joint customers can uncover a single source of truth from planning through execution, connecting their business from end-to-end to reduce supply chain risks, enhance customer experiences, and help drive business growth.”