417: Fulfill Your Potential, with Blue Yonder
Ann Marie Jonkman is the Vice President of Industry Strategies at Blue Yonder. With over 20 years of experience, she has a deep background in operations, consulting, continuous improvement, 3PL, e-commerce, and transportation. Jonkman is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex industry challenges, particularly in labor management and operational efficiency. She emphasizes a partnership approach, working with clients to understand their maturity level and co-create solutions that empower teams and help organizations fulfill their potential.
Today I’m joined by leading software brand, Blue Yonder – the number one supply chain platform delivering more growth, less waste, and amazing customer experiences.
Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Its intelligent, end-to-end platform enables retailers, manufacturers, and logistics providers to seamlessly predict, pivot, and fulfill customer demand. So, with Blue Yonder, you can make more automated, profitable business decisions that deliver greater growth and re-imagined customer experiences.
Today, Ann Marie Jonkman, Vice President of Industry Strategies at Blue Yonder, will be talking all about Blue Yonder and what they do; using technology to help brands solve some of the industry’s biggest labor challenges; empowering teams and organizations to fulfill their potential; and how they’re creating the supply chains of the future.
Guest bio:
Ann Marie brings 20-plus years of experience leading teams in Continuous Improvement and 3PL E-commerce, Warehousing, Transportation, and Shared Services. Her scope ranges from Private Equity, Food, CPG, and Retail B2B/B2C operations with full P-L ownership. She has also served as a Technology Strategy Consultant and Inventory/Retail Solutions Leader identifying automation, solutions, and service level drivers to bring end-to-end value to your supply chain. Ann Marie has a passion for delivering results for her clients through technology solutions and innovation. Prior to joining Blue Yonder, Ann Marie held roles at XPO Logistics, Syncreon, RR Donnelley, RGIS-WIS owned by Blackstone, and most recently, Radial. As Vice of President of Industry strategies at Blue Yonder, she counsels 3PLs on industry-leading solutions to get ahead of the market with creating value to solve business problems. She collaborates with Blue Yonder’s product development and innovation teams to create winning opportunities for customers.
An introduction to Blue Yonder, what they do, and how they help their customers.
The ideal client for Blue Yonder.
The current landscape of supply chain, and the biggest challenges faced by Blue Yonder customers.
Blue Yonder’s transportation management solution, and how it’s helping customers to overcome challenges, as well as transform their transportation operations.
The evolution of warehousing, and how Blue Yonder’s range of warehouse management and execution solutions are helping customers to keep up with rapid change, pivot, and set themselves up for the future.
Blue Yonder’s Edge technology solutions, how they integrate into customer organizations, and the incredible results they can help customers achieve.
How Blue Yonder helps customers with labor management, helping them to find the balance between people and technology, and achieve employee engagement as well as peak operational performance.
A case study exploring how Blue Yonder provided solutions to allow a key client to better understand and utilize analytics, helping them to make operational changes and achieve a 25-30% reduction in labor cost, worth millions of dollars.
Why Blue Yonder is committed to helping customers fulfill their potential, and the impact that empowering people and organizations is having on the industry.
The supply chains of the future, and the Blue Yonder innovations that are helping to drive the industry forward. “That’s the next vision – it’s not just the products and solutions, it’s connecting them. And it’s not just visibility – it’s decisioning, its orchestration, where we’re all working collaboratively.”
Resources & Links Mentioned
- Head over to Blue Yonder’s website now to find out more, and discover how they could help you too. You can also connect with Blue Yonder and keep up to date with the latest over on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and X (Twitter), or you can connect with Ann Marie on LinkedIn.
- If you enjoyed this episode and want to hear more amazing supply chain content, check out 377: How AI is Improving Supply Chain Sustainability, with Dyci Sfregola and Hope White or Nicole Glenn on the Power of Hope and Transforming the Logistics Industry.
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