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Inventory Visibility and Tracking with Freight Order Management

Solution Sheet
Blue Yonder Freight 
Order Management 
Challenge: Gaining Visibility into the Supply Chain to Track and Control 
Inventory Movements
In today’s business landscape, organizations increasingly operate in 
globally dispersed supply chains as their vendors move operations to 
low-cost regions across the world. In this environment, it is becoming more 
difficult to track freight orders. Because lead times are already longer, poor 
visibility into incoming orders leads to uncertainty in the supply chain. 
Companies often buffer this uncertainty with more networkwide inventory 
to ensure that their merchandise is available in their stores. The lack of 
timely visibility into accurate supplier shipment information can result in 
expediting costs, supply shortages, poor customer service and sub-par 
transportation plan quality based on assumptions about suppliers’ ability 
to meet shipment requirements.
Companies require a solution that provides clear freight order visibility in 
order to run their supply chains effectively and keep the right merchandise 
on store shelves without having to increase costly inventory.
Key Blue Yonder Freight Order Management Capabilities
 z Provide a real-time, centralized view of all aspects of the delivery 
process 
 z Enable collaboration with suppliers from order to delivery including:
• Requests for routing
• Routing instructions
• Advance shipment notifications
 z Provide case-level inbound visibility
 z Offer online generation of compliant shipment documentation 
(VICS® BOL, UCC-128 barcode labels)
Solution SheetSolution Sheet
Blue Yonder Freight 
Order Management 
Challenge: Gaining Visibility into the Supply Chain to Track and Control 
Inventory Movements
In today’s business landscape, organizations increasingly operate in 
globally dispersed supply chains as their vendors move operations to 
low-cost regions across the world. In this environment, it is becoming more 
difficult to track freight orders. Because lead times are already longer, poor 
visibility into incoming orders leads to uncertainty in the supply chain. 
Companies often buffer this uncertainty with more networkwide inventory 
to ensure that their merchandise is available in their stores. The lack of 
timely visibility into accurate supplier shipment information can result in 
expediting costs, supply shortages, poor customer service and sub-par 
transportation plan quality based on assumptions about suppliers’ ability 
to meet shipment requirements.
Companies require a solution that provides clear freight order visibility in 
order to run their supply chains effectively and keep the right merchandise 
on store shelves without having to increase costly inventory.
Key Blue Yonder Freight Order Management Capabilities
 z Provide a real-time, centralized view of all aspects of the delivery 
process 
 z Enable collaboration with suppliers from order to delivery including:
• Requests for routing
• Routing instructions
• Advance shipment notifications
 z Provide case-level inbound visibility
 z Offer online generation of compliant shipment documentation 
(VICS® BOL, UCC-128 barcode labels)
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Solution: Blue Yonder Freight Order Management
Blue Yonder Freight Order Management provides a 
platform for collaborating with suppliers on shipment 
activities. This collaboration provides needed visibility into 
this critical supply process, thus better synchronizing your 
operations with those of your key vendors.
The powerful Blue Yonder solution provides logistics 
organizations with a means to rapidly share and control 
detailed purchase order information directly with vendors 
via the Internet, electronic data interchange (EDI) or any 
method required by a vendor. You can quickly collaborate 
with vendors on important purchase order data related to 
logistics processing by providing configurable display and 
manipulation of order and item-level information from order 
origination to ultimate delivery.
Blue Yonder Freight Order Management follows business 
process logic that can be configured to match your process 
to ensure that you have full visibility into the important 
milestones that occur during ordering and delivery 
processes with your vendors. The solution is designed 
not only as a visibility tool for you, but as an easy-to-use 
collaboration platform where your vendors access their 
purchase orders to update you on their important activities 
related to your shipments.
The activities that Blue Yonder Freight Order Management 
handles include posting purchase orders online, vendor 
requests for order routing, routing instructions to your 
vendors, generation of compliant documentation such 
as carton labels and packing lists, viewing shipment 
confirmations and advance ship notices from vendors, and 
confirming receipt of the delivered products.
Blue Yonder Freight Order Management works in 
conjunction with Blue Yonder Transportation Planning to 
schedule orders in the most cost-effective manner while 
still adhering to both the vendor’s shipping needs and your 
organization’s service requirements. Vendors are notified of 
planned shipments, including carrier, authorization number 
and expected pick-up time using the same source from 
which they confirmed the order.
Real Results
The complete solution suite of Blue Yonder Transportation 
& Logistics Management solutions can help shippers, 
carriers and transportation service providers more 
effectively manage the complexities of a multi-modal 
logistics network. These comprehensive solutions 
cover the entire closed-loop transportation process – 
from strategic transportation sourcing, planning and 
optimization to shipment execution, payment and 
performance analysis.
Companies that rely on Blue Yonder Freight Order 
Management to deliver market-leading capabilities can 
realize significant benefits, including the following:
 z Reduced expediting costs
 z Increased value from existing transportation 
management systems driven by better understanding of 
critical information about outstanding orders
 z Reduced order cycle times
 z Increased vendor fill rates
 z Increased collaboration with key suppliers to minimize 
supply disruptions that cause downstream problems 
affecting supply chain-wide performance

Bestandstransparenz und -verfolgung mit Freight Order Management