Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the Inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries

Blue Yonder highlights its Cognitive Solutions and unified decisioning in AI-driven supply chain planning

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Yonder, the AI company for supply chain, was recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions (Discrete Industries)ⁱ based on Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Blue Yonder has been recognized for over a decade for Supply Chain Planning Solutions and is now named in this new report.ⁱⁱ Blue Yonder believes this new recognition reflects the strength and leadership of its solutions and their ability to support complex supply chain environments across industries, worldwide.

Blue Yonder attributes its position to its recently launched Cognitive Solutions. These are AI-native and designed to operate at machine speed, scale and precision, allowing teams to seamlessly coordinate decisions and quickly refine workflows across all parts of the supply chain from planning to execution. Built on a modern and true cloud architecture for scale and access to advanced AI capabilities, Cognitive Solutions sit on the Blue Yonder Platform, leverage the AI data cloud and the multi-enterprise Blue Yonder Network to break down silos and enable end-to-end interoperability. They are intelligent, agentic, and offer reimagined experiences for users.

Blue Yonder’s planning applications include Demand and Supply Planning, Integrated Business Planning, and Production Planning. These solutions are engineered to enable seamless and concurrent planning across every level of the supply chain, aligning teams and organizations through unified decisioning.

Blue Yonder highlights three areas of differentiation across its planning solutions:

• Blue Yonder combines predictive, generative and agentic AI with AI-driven insights, automated workflows and automations that eliminate manual bottlenecks, helping planners achieve faster planning cycles and respond rapidly to market changes.
• Blue Yonder’s platform is built on a shared data architecture for real-time decisions, with a common interface, workflows, in-memory cube, and database, and the ability to run hundreds of different scenarios in minutes instead of days or weeks.
• Blue Yonder offers intelligent supply chain planning across forecasting and demand planning, supply planning and optimization, inventory management and optimization, and production planning and scheduling on a cloud-native planning platform.

"Today’s supply chains face increasing disruptions, including tariffs, geopolitical changes, new demand patterns, and growing pressure to accomplish more with less," said Gurdip Singh, chief product officer, Blue Yonder. "We believe being recognized for over a decade for Supply Chain Planning Solutions and now in this inaugural report reflects the advancements we've made with our new AI-driven Cognitive Solutions. We've reimagined supply chain planning on the Blue Yonder Platform to enable unified decisioning across demand and supply so businesses can move at the speed, scale, and precision required by today's complex, volatile global supply chains.”

Blue Yonder continues to invest in Agentic AI and autonomous planning capabilities, which are intended to reduce the workload of human planners while supporting decision-making across demand, supply, inventory and production. The acquisitions of One Network Enterprises and flexis AG in 2024 have extended Blue Yonder’s ecosystem visibility and production scheduling capabilities and strengthened its position in end-to-end planning.

Additional Resources:

• Download a copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning (Discrete Industries) report here
• Learn more about Blue Yonder's supply chain planning solutions here

   

About Blue Yonder

Blue Yonder is the AI company for supply chain. As the world leader in end-to-end digital supply chain transformation, Blue Yonder offers a unified, AI-driven platform and multi-tier network that empowers businesses to operate sustainably, scale profitably, and delight their customers—all at machine speed. A pioneer in applying AI solutions to the most complicated supply chain challenges, Blue Yonder’s modern innovations and unmatched industry expertise help more than 3,000 retailers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers confidently navigate supply chain complexity and disruption. blueyonder.com

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^i Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries, Joe Graham, Pia Orup Lund, Buse Aras, Julia von Massow, Eva Dawkins, Jan Snoeckx, March 18, 2026.

^ii Blue Yonder was recognized as a Leader for 12 years in the Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning. Blue Yonder has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning since the report's inception. This includes consecutive recognitions in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions—Discrete Industries (2026), Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions (2021–2025), Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning System of Record (2014–2020) and Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations Planning Systems of Differentiation (2015–2019). Blue Yonder was previously listed as JDA; the company rebranded to Blue Yonder in February 2020.

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