Your Journey to the Cloud
Key to your transformation: becoming an autonomous enterprise
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Why now?
SaaS and the Digital Enterprise
End-to-End Visibility
Plays to Manage Processes
Build a Digital Culture
Value Accelerators
Collect the Dots to Connect the Dots
Journey to the Cloud with Blue Yonder
Why Blue Yonder
Rising Customer Expectations
Today’s customer experience is increasingly a “supply chain” experience. A fundamental set of macro trends are further impacting the future of supply chain. They include digitization with technology trends, industry convergence to move towards a direct-to-consumer model, importance of sustainability and most importantly customer experience.
Digital Transformation
From pandemics and natural disasters to geopolitical events, the many vulnerabilities of today’s global supply chains continue to morph and grow. While technology provides an answer, truly transforming supply chain processes and workflows is more than integrating next-gen tech; it’s about reimagining network models and user experiences to fulfill customer expectations like never before.
The Platform Economy
The modern business is more dependent than ever on technology with zero tolerance for outages and delays. Facing rising service demands, modern organizations struggle in a sea of legacy tools to manage increasingly complex, dynamic, and distributed environments.
Future-Proofing
As companies restart and rescale their operations, future-proofing the supply chain is imperative. Tomorrow’s supply chains must be connected, enabled by a core cloud-based central platform that will integrate, orchestrate and execute actions across each node of the value chain.
New Mandate: End-to-End Visibility
To stay ahead of today’s supply chain complexities, you need an intentional design with an end-to-end view of your operations and real-time information to help everyone understand impacts and prescriptive steps to mitigate risks and reduce disruptions. The majority of organizations recognize the crucial value of a unified view across processes. With digital transformation as a key imperative, migrating to SaaS solutions and cognitive technologies has become a mandate. Progressive strategies require a foundation for leveraging advanced technologies to help improve business performance. However, implementing and managing these technologies and business tools can be labor-intensive and slow if done in-house increasing the reliance on strategic technology partnerships. Companies need a simpler path to innovative technologies.
VISIBILITY
Real-time visibility across the end-to-end supply chains
PREDICTIVE
Improved by digital capabilities AI and what-if scenarios
PRESCRIPTIVE
AI, analytics and what-if scenarios provide prescriptive resolution to problems
AUTONOMOUS
An always-on, self-learning and self-healing supply chain
The Future of Supply Chains
SCALABILITY
COMPLIANCE
REDUCED COSTS
FASTER TIME TO VALUE
SECURITY
FLEXIBILITY
2020 proved the need to accomodate huge capacity jumps and many infrastructures require elasticity to rapidly increase or decrease compute. Dynamically scale with SaaS, based on your required needs with an easy consumption-based model.
Automated compliance checking and remediation solutions not only further increase efficiency and productivity, but let you maintain audit readiness and shift skilled resources to other projects.
Enterprises with on-prem solutions end up spending a lot of resources and time to upgrade and keep software and hardware up to date. With cloud, you can focus on your core business and delivering customer value, not on managing software and hardware.
Digital business needs to span a multitude of use cases across your organization. Moving to SaaS means enabling faster upgrades and access to innovations for your users. This means your organization saves time and money, but also realizes revenue faster.
With security threats only increasing in scale and severity, use migration as an opportunity to reengineer, automate, and strengthen your security. Cloud providers offer vast resources for protecting against threats—more than nearly any single company could invest in.
User access to services while they’re on the go, no matter the location is the rule, not the exception. Mobility gives you and your employees the flexibility to work from any location. Cloud computing enables you to monitor the operations in your business effectively.
security
SCALaBILITY
As you move to change the operational fabric of your enterprise, it’s crucial to ensure you have the right people to speed up transformation efforts. Cross-functional skills are in high demand with critical thinking and analysis, along with problem solving, leading the pack.
Analytical thinking and innovation Active learning and learning strategies Complex problem-solving Critical thinking and analysis Creativity, originality and initiative Leadership and social influence Technology use, monitoring and control Technology design and programming Resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility Reasoning, problem-solving and ideation Emotional intelligence Troubleshooting and user experience Service orientation Systems analysis and evaluation Persuasion and negotiation
Soft Skills
ADAPTABILITY
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
organization
situational awareness
• Adjusts easily to new ways of working • Makes use of available resources • Effectively articulates goals for different audiences • Instructs with clear and concise language
• Identifies solutions or key contacts to resolve issues
• Openness to learning from others
• Effectively interacts and communicates with others
relationship building
• Intrinsic values of empathy and emotional intelligence
• Aware of what elements contribute to the desired process and analyzes environment for business needs
• Able to read the room and navigate internal politics
• Knows who to trust with what
• Manages time and documentation easily
• Plans with the "end in mind" to meet holisitic goals
Source: World Economic Forum Jobs of 2020 Report
Plays to Manage Process
Build a diverse & collaborative team
Maximizing creativity, growing performance and productivity starts with a pool of diverse perspectives.
• Double down on talent: welcome outside perspectives from underrepresented groups to ensure parity
start small
Set the vision
A successful foundation begins with a strong vision backed by achievable objectives.
• Identifying c-level execs who can champion this vision • Set a vision that places your customer at the very center • Define success and how it will be measured
• Continuously iterate with regular feedback loops • Value collaboration over being right
encourage agile & resilient thinking
To align everyone around larger goals, start with smaller, achievable projects. This ensures that teams can scale up for larger wins.
• Use small projects to evaluate and align processes • Re-engineer processes with a regular cadence to talk about factoring in consumer-centric processes • Add tools that help teams to anticipate future needs
nurture a digitally minded culture
Agile transformation starts with critical thinking that helps teams build new mindsets and capabilities to transform themselves.
• Extend competencies for leaders to spearhead their teams to think and act in new ways • Embed accountability and resiliency into group thinking • Communicate frequently and transparently
set the vision
With teams transforming themselves, cultivate this growth by keeping everyone informed and engaged.
• Embrace transparency from top to bottom – ensure everyone understands how they contribute to business growth
• Nurture collaboration with modern, intuitive tools and engaging activities
• Re-engineer processes with a regular cadence to talk about factoring in consumer-centric processes
• Add tools that help teams to anticipate future needs
• Extend competencies for leaders to spearhead their teams to think and act in new ways
• Encourage risk taking with tools that optimize insights and prescribe recommendations
business outcomes with a unified platform
A robust platform enables actionability by aggregating data sources and tools to break down the silos involved with efficiently and effectively managing incidents. This end-to-end visibility from mobile to mainframe lets companies monitor real-time intelligence and use it to ensure applications and infrastructure are performing securely with the capability to be proactive—all in a single platform.
Satisfy the requirements of digital users Monitor and manage hybrid cloud and app stacks Support multi-cloud strategies AI/ML-driven automation for operational efficiencies Ensure performance using modern, open and extensible apps Open and highly scalable platform with 3rd-party data support
business automation & intelligence
Intelligently orchestrate resources across and outside the enterprise
single system of truth
Create business value from supply chain enabled services
single pane of glass
Drive adoption and collaboration to increase productivity
network effect
Create business value through agility & innovation
At Blue Yonder, we know moving you to the cloud opens up tremendous opportunity with our Luminate solutions. And with our Journey to the Cloud Program, we can get you to cloud native operations—cost effectively and quickly. We will help you get operational with your existing capabilities as well as give you options to introduce innovative products at your own pace.
The program consists of the following phases to get you to the cloud:
foundation
Migrate your applications, data customizations and integrations to the cloud.
modernize
Add capabilities that provide and modernize your supply chain footprint.
transform
Completely transform experiences with all cloud native solutions.
Working with us, you get
Working with us, you get:
• Expertise & infrastructure:
We capitalize on our global presence with deep expertise across all industries, underpinned by a joint enablement program and investments, to deliver our offerings at the scale our clients need.
• Innovation:
We jointly develop innovative solutions (including industry-specific ones for consumer-packaged goods, retail, and high tech) that leverage Blue Yonder’s Luminate platform and the full strength of AI/ML capabilities.
• End-to-end transformation:
We drive greater client value with a focus on end-to-end transformation to help you achieve your customer-centric supply chain vision, while reducing costs and increasing process efficiencies.
RAPID DETECTION
Extensive monitoring to enable rapid detection and resolution of issues
less downtime
Blue Yonder knowledge gained at many customers: Find once + fix everywhere = less downtime
proactive scaleup
Proactive scale-up during business-critical periods
multi-national operations
Global reach of public cloud backbone and Blue Yonder Data Center enable multinational operations
Continuous Integration & Delivery
Direct connection to Blue Yonder Development through the Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline
instances kept current
Customer instances kept current removing customer upgrade burden
Recommender Engine
Extensive ticket and case history leveraged in an AI/ML Recommender engine enables rapid resolution of new tickets and issues
You Focus on your Business
You focus on running your business; we focus on software operations
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Why Blue Yonder?
Single view. Single platform. Single data model.
Pervasive intelligence for your autonomous enterprise
Consumer-grade commerce experience for the enterprise
Built for the cloud, this reimagined customer-centric supply chain experience is unrivaled, and provides an intelligent, personalized and omnichannel experience. To address today’s e-commerce needs, Blue Yonder enables companies to integrate all their supply chain assets to deliver a differentiated experience to their customers right from the start of the shopping journey.
Demystifying digital transformation with pervasive intelligence that allows you to see around the corners. Luminate helps enterprises learn, analyze and predict through the system of intelligence. This helps organizations to proactively deliver real-time visibility into customer orders, inventory visibility, end-to-end network visibility, scale efficiencies with fast automation and grow the business by leveraging insights to innovate through new business models.
Enterprises have been crippled by silos within organizations both within IT and lines of business. With Luminate, organizations can enjoy the power of a single platform that delivers a system of intelligence to learn, analyze and predict, a system of record with a single data model to forecast, plan and fulfill customer needs within the supply chain and enable customers to deliver a single pane of glass to service your end-users.
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