LOGISTICS
Blue Yonder | March 17, 2023
Serta Simmons Bedding (SSB), a leading global sleep company, today announced that it is digitally transforming its supply chain planning capabilities with Blue Yonder. SSB is in the process of implementing Blue Yonder’s SaaS-based Integrated Demand and Supply Planning solution, part of Luminate® Planning, into its existing Advanced Planning System (APS) to improve manufacturing efficiency and meet ongoing customer demand, as well as support the company’s ongoing growth efforts.
“At Serta Simmons Bedding, we are focused on helping people sleep better so that they can live healthier lives, and we are continuing to enhance our supply chain capabilities to ensure we deliver on that promise,” said Bhavani Subramanian, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Serta Simmons Bedding. “The implementation of Blue Yonder’s solution is the latest step in our effort to further build a high-performing and resilient supply chain so that we can continue providing excellent, on-time in full service to our retail partners and, ultimately, sleepers.”
Blue Yonder’s Integrated Demand and Supply Planning solution will enable SSB to better understand changing demand patterns and support advanced planning of raw materials. Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning prescriptive recommendations, the solution offers a holistic and connected view of the supply chain planning process supporting the company’s forecast accuracy and inventory management efforts.
“We developed the Blue Yonder solution to help companies optimize their planning capabilities and improve manufacturing efficiencies,” said Terry Turner, President - Manufacturing, Blue Yonder. “We are excited to team up with Serta Simmons Bedding to enhance their supply chain and support their efforts to deliver industry-leading sleep solutions to both retailers and consumers.”
About Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain transformations and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Our end-to-end, cognitive business platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to best fulfill customer demand from planning through delivery. With Blue Yonder, you’ll unify your data, supply chain and retail commerce operations to unlock new business opportunities and drive automation, control and orchestration to enable more profitable, sustainable business decisions.
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SUPPLY CHAIN
KlearNow.AI | March 14, 2023
KlearNow, smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) platform, announced the rebranding of KlearNow as KlearNow.AI. The rebranding is to better reflect the company's mission towards advancing the global logistics industry with cutting-edge AI and ML technologies.
KlearNow.AI has become a global leader in LaaS with a rapid 30x revenue growth in the past two years. It offers smart solutions that assist businesses in addressing the increasingly complex challenges that supply chain industries face. This rebranding signifies a turning point in the company's journey and underscores its dedication to utilizing AI and ML to bring greater innovation and automating workflows in the logistics sector.
Since its establishment in 2018, KlearNow.AI's AI and ML-powered platform has accelerated customs entry, and drayage processes, boosted productivity for freight brokers, forwarders, importers/exporters, and truckers by identifying exceptions, automating data capture, and eliminating defects, waiting time, overproduction, and manual rework. It also offers end-to-end shipment visibility to the related parties simultaneously. In addition to the speed and precision of its customs clearance and drayage process, which eliminates bottlenecks and costly delays, over one thousand organizations have already adopted its AI and ML-based platform.
By digitizing and automating import processes, KlearNow.AI enables industry 4.0 by dynamically connecting customs brokers, importers, freight forwarders, carriers, and truckers with shipments. This delivers real-time tracking of containers from origin to destination, extending shipment data connectivity and visibility.
About KlearNow.AI
KlearNow.AI is a smart Logistics as a Service (LaaS) platform committed to simplifying global trade with AI and ML-driven products, making logistics cost-effective, clear and transparent by transforming B2B supply chains. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and is rapidly expanding its presence beyond the U.S. to the U.K., Canada, Spain, India, and now the Netherlands. It has doubled its global workforce and added over a thousand new customers across various industries, including furniture, industrial/manufacturing, food & beverage, automotive/transportation, apparel/footwear, and chemicals.
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SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY
Shipium | March 15, 2023
One of the premier shipping platforms for e-commerce, Shipium, announced a partnership with CDL, one of the leading carriers servicing the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Through this partnership, CDL's world-class logistics network will enable access to Shipium's e-commerce shipping platform.
CDL, based in New York City, operates out of nine distribution centers strategically located with its central sorting hubs in Kearny, New Jersey and Glendale, New York. The company has served the region for nearly seven decades and provides daily coverage to over 50 million consumers.
A significant surge in customer interest is found due to the rapid growth of e-commerce, amid Covid-19. As shippers seek to diversify their networks, they increasingly turn to established regional carriers such as CDL to accommodate their growing shipment volumes. One of the primary challenges new CDL customers face is using outdated technologies, which often leads to delayed availability. However, by forming a partnership with Shipium, customers can now quickly and efficiently onboard CDL services at all warehouse locations, with the process taking mere hours rather than months.
The customers of Shipium and CDL have experienced improved performance results related to accuracy, cost and speed. In addition, retailers who have diversified their shipping needs by utilizing a combination of regional carriers, including CDL, on the Shipium platform have observed a reduction in their annual shipping costs by an average of over 20%.
CEO of Shipium, Jason Murray, said, "Budgets are being crunched while customer experience is becoming a bigger priority. Shippers who move to regional carriers like CDL to diversify their volume will see dramatic cost improvements, while deliveries will be faster and more accurate which will make for happier customers." He also said, "We are excited to be the modern way to utilize such an important carrier partner like CDL."
(Source – Cision PR Newswire)
About Shipium
Established in 2019, Shipium is an e-commerce shipping platform that streamlines the supply chain by integrating previously disconnected steps. This innovative solution enables enhanced delivery speed and accuracy while concurrently reducing shipping costs by an average of 12%. Doing so empowers retailers to leverage logistics as a strategic differentiator for growth. As a result, retailers choose to employ Shipium's cutting-edge shipping software when striving to uphold precise delivery timelines and successfully fulfill their commitments to their customers.
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