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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has selected Blue Yonder’s Luminate Planning cloud-based solutions in order to reduce costs and improve stock flow by re-engineering its end-to-end supply chain. M&S is a leading and iconic British retailer. Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfilment, which is headquartered in the US.
Blue Yonder has now completed implementation of its demand and fulfilment capabilities through Luminate Planning so M&S can quickly pivot to consumers’ rapidly changing shopping patterns in order to address demand, particularly across online channels. Blue Yonder’s Luminate Planning, a cloud-based solutions portfolio built on Microsoft Azure, provides M&S with a more accurate view into demand by consolidating and synchronising demand signals, as well as external variables across the retailers’ 1,000 stores. M&S can now evaluate demand scenarios and use prescriptive recommendations to make more accurate decisions; from staging the right inventory through the distribution network to minimising stock-outs and maximising inventory turns, Blue Yonder said in a media statement.
Implementing Blue Yonder’s solution is an important early step in M&S’s supply chain modernisation and provides a strong foundation for its supply chain, removing barriers to further accelerate the supply chain speed to provide the best service for its customers. For M&S colleagues it offers a better experience with a modern, user-friendly and highly-configurable solution to respond to fast changes in the market, Blue Yonder said.
“As part of our fast-moving Never the Same Again programme we’re re-engineering our clothing & home supply chain, this means ensuring our market-leading demand platform remains up to date. We’ve worked collaboratively with Blue Yonder, our long-time supply chain provider, and other partners to digitally transform from on-premises to cloud-based architecture. The ability to access new Luminate Planning capabilities will help us increase the speed of our supply chain to be more agile, with a strong, modern, supply chain platform foundation, ultimately better serving our customer online and in-store,” Matt Horwood, chief technology officer, M&S clothing & home said in a statement.
“By migrating to our cloud-based solution built on Microsoft Azure, M&S now has a more adaptive supply chain that can quickly pivot as customer demand changes, whether in stores, online or other channels. M&S is a very strategic customer for Blue Yonder, we continue to enable the M&S transformation journey hand-in-hand with our strategic partners. It is exciting to participate in the acceleration of M&S’s transformation into a leaner, faster, bolder business,” Johan Reventberg, president, EMEA, Blue Yonder said.
The new deployment is the latest example of Blue Yonder working in collaboration with M&S and other tech partners as part of the retailer’s transformation. Last year, M&S combined Blue Yonder’s workforce management solution and Microsoft teams to ensure that each of its stores has the right colleague working the right shift at the right time; M&S’s workforce can see and swap shifts, review their schedule and make changes as needed no matter where they are.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has selected Blue Yonder's Luminate Planning cloud-based solutions in order to reduce costs and improve stock flow by re-engineering its end-to-end supply chain. M&S is a leading and iconic British retailer. Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfilment, which is headquartered in the US.