“Blue Yonder transportation management immediately began generating up to $14 million a year in freight cost reductions in North America compared to our previous manual methods. We were able to make better decisions via automation, while also eliminating days of manual effort. Those savings and efficiencies have continued to grow. Based on the success of Blue Yonder transportation management in NA, Kimberly-Clark rolled out the solution to LAO, APAC and EMEA in 2012. With the recent migration to the cloud, we’re implementing Transportation Smartbench to continue to gain efficiencies. Blue Yonder is also helping us improve our export process and reduce costs via a new booking process.”
Dynamic optimization reflects changing market conditions
“Our freight management and procurement practices are very different in a constrained market versus a soft market. We also need to adapt to cold and flu season, which is a peak demand time. Blue Yonder enables us to dynamically change our approach as conditions change, so we’re always getting an optimal balance of cost and service. We can define constraints, negotiate rates in real time, and choose the right carrier every time, with confidence.”
A foundation for “no touch” transportation management
“Our migration to the cloud is the first step in a digital transformation that will eventually create a ‘no touch,’ automated decision-making environment. All our systems will be connected, data will flow seamlessly among them, and we’ll manage by exception. It’s an ambitious vision, but Blue Yonder is helping to make it a reality.”
ソリューションのメリット
Kimberly-Clark relies on Blue Yonder’s transportation management platform to quantify savings and opportunities, balance service-level and cost tradeoffs, and prioritize execution across its worldwide logistics network. With real-time visibility enabled by Blue Yonder, Kimberly-Clark can sense disruptions and changing market conditions — and modify its transportation management practices to respond proactively, not reactively. Blue Yonder recently helped Kimberly-Clark migrate its solutions suite to the cloud for faster processing speeds, seamless upgrades and lower on-premise technology investments.
