Blue Yonder Releases Q2 2026 Company Highlights

Innovation momentum continues with NVIDIA-powered Model Training Factory, new Cognitive Solutions, Syndigo partnership and new sustainability research

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Yonder Holding, Inc. (Blue Yonder), the AI company for supply chain, today released its Q2 2026 company highlights.

Quarterly Company Highlights

In Q2 2026, Blue Yonder continued to showcase its strong momentum in the market by:

• Adding 27 new customer logos
• Announcing strategic partnerships with NVIDIA and Syndigo (details below)
• Building on its reputation as an industry leader with inclusion in 24 key technology industry analyst reports in Q2 2026 (see full list below)
• Releasing the findings of its 2026 Supply Chain Compass: Spotlight on Sustainability report (details below)

ICON 2026

Blue Yonder hosted ICON 2026, the premier conference for supply chain and retail professionals, May 17-20 in San Diego. In addition to the product and partnership announcements detailed below, CEO Duncan Angove introduced the Frictionless Outcomes manifesto, Blue Yonder's commitment to speed up time-to-value and enable continuous improvement for customers through AI agents and other tools across the entire software lifecycle. Blue Yonder also recognized the winners of its 2026 ICONic Customer Awards, honoring customers that are driving digital transformations of their supply chains and delivering measurable impact through exceptional use of Blue Yonder solutions. This year's winners included Linfox, Under Armour, FedEx, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Conagra Brands, Zabka Polska, Compañía Cervecerías Unidas, Knauf, Novolex, PepsiCo, Crate & Barrel and Chalhoub Group.

Model Training Factory

Blue Yonder announced its Model Training Factory, built on NVIDIA Nemotron, to accelerate the development of specialized AI agents for the autonomous supply chain. Unveiled at ICON 2026, Blue Yonder's annual customer conference, the Model Training Factory is a repeatable system for fine-tuning and testing highly specialized supply chain models. These models are built to execute complex, multi-step supply chain workflows, working alongside human operators and then graded to ensure high-quality outcomes. Accessed via agentic AI, they will ultimately enable supply chain processes to run autonomously, driving decisions across warehouse management, supply and demand planning, transportation, merchandising and network operations.

The Model Training Factory takes a hybrid approach: frontier models where their breadth is needed, and custom supply chain models trained to work alongside them, delivering the precision and speed individual workflows demand at a fraction of the cost. Blue Yonder is using NVIDIA's agentic AI stack, including Nemotron open models and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit for building, evaluating and orchestrating agents. Each model is trained to become an expert in specific tasks, deliver specific outcomes of agentic decisioning and is held to strict evaluation criteria before deployment and as it improves over time. Models are trained on synthetic data, not customer data.

The first models will target warehouse management workflows, including allocation shorts, inventory exceptions, due-time urgency and inventory across yard and receiving trailers. These are high-frequency decisions where speed and accuracy directly drive on-time performance and order cycle times. The first models are expected to enter customer production through Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions later this year.

Syndigo Partnership

Blue Yonder and Syndigo, a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) and product content solutions, announced a strategic partnership at ICON 2026 to improve the efficiency of supply chain and store operations while improving customer satisfaction. The partnership combines Syndigo's enriched, GS1-aligned product content, including validated attributes, standardized images and accurate dimensions, with Blue Yonder's supply chain solutions to help retailers and brands plan smarter and execute faster. That trusted data foundation also powers the next generation of agentic commerce, from product discovery through fulfillment.

Through the partnership, Syndigo's trusted, enriched and validated product content integrates with Cognitive Solutions built on the Blue Yonder Platform, making it available across the entire digital supply chain, including network partners. Syndigo's trusted and validated GS1-aligned product data flows directly into Blue Yonder workflows in real time, eliminating the manual data cleansing that delays onboarding, distorts demand signals and creates planning exceptions. One update within Syndigo cascades to every partner within the Blue Yonder Network, resulting in significant efficiencies, cost savings and prevention of lost sales. Within Blue Yonder Space Planning, the integration provides validated attributes and standardized images that support planogram creation, optimization and compliance monitoring.

Solution Highlights

At ICON 2026, Blue Yonder announced new Cognitive Solutions for Space Planning and Production Planning and Scheduling, along with new AI agents, user experience enhancements, and updates to its planning, warehouse and commerce solutions. The updates are designed to help customers improve decision-making, automate complex processes, enhance workforce productivity, and respond to disruption with greater speed and precision.

• New Cognitive Solutions for Space Planning and Category Management, now available on the Blue Yonder Platform and AI data cloud, aligning planograms across assortment and allocation, replenishment, warehousing and transportation. A change on the store shelf now flows directly into forecasts, ordering and load builds. Built on the Blue Yonder Network, suppliers, store teams and category managers can co-create planograms in real time.
• New Cognitive Solutions for Production Planning and Scheduling, designed to close the gap between strategic planning and the factory floor. The solutions connect demand-driven supply planning bi-directionally to the factory floor, enabling planners to generate feasible plans that account for real material and capacity availability and resource constraints, while minimizing changeovers and maximizing throughput.
• New and enhanced AI agents, including a Workforce Management Knowledge Agent, enhanced Inventory Ops Agent ordering workflows, and a unified user experience across desktop and mobile with custom avatars, a new command bar, and comprehensive localization so global operators can engage with full AI functionality in their native language.
• New planning capabilities to strengthen auditability and trust, with AI that explains optimization decisions in plain language and captures root causes at a more granular level. Manufacturing audit and traceability capabilities maintain a defensible, audit-ready trail of every forecast change, override and approval.
• Warehouse and commerce enhancements, including advanced slotting for fast and efficient fulfillment, vendor-agnostic automation extensions that simplify and reduce the cost of automation integration, return-to-vendor dispositioning, a new fulfillment commits service for proactive SLA management, and enhanced online returns with personalized, margin-aware return journeys.

Supply Chain Compass: Spotlight on Sustainability Report

Blue Yonder released the findings of its 2026 Supply Chain Compass: Spotlight on Sustainability report, which examines North American and European supply chain leaders’ prioritization and perception of sustainability initiatives. The research found that two-thirds (66%) of leaders are actively working to reduce their supply chain’s impact, nearly half (47%) of large enterprises have created dedicated sustainability teams, and more than half (56%) agree that supply chain operators bear responsibility to help solve problems like inflation and climate change.

Key findings from the report include:

• Only one in five supply chain leaders say they are confident in achieving their sustainability objectives.
• More than one-quarter (26%) of respondents say data and traceability are the primary actions needed to further sustainability efforts, while 33% identify forecasting technology as a sustainability opportunity.
• Only 12% of supply chain leaders list sustainability among their top three strategic priorities, down from 24% last year. Yet nearly half (47%) say their companies have created dedicated sustainability teams, signaling a shift from a standalone priority to an operational practice.
• One-quarter (25%) of respondents said that current sustainability targets do not go far enough. Another 25% said the right sustainability initiatives will disrupt current processes.

Read the full 2026 Supply Chain Compass: Spotlight on Sustainability report here.

Industry Recognition

• Blue Yonder was honored with key industry awards in Q2 2026, including:
  • Named a 2026 Top 100 Logistics & Supply Chain Technology Provider by Inbound Logistics
  • Saskia van Gendt, chief sustainability officer, was named a 2026 Top 250 Sustainability Leader by Sustainability Magazine

Technology industry analyst mentions in Q2 2026:

• Gartner
  • Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems
  • Market Share Analysis: Supply Chain Management Software, Worldwide, 2025
  • Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Execution and Logistics Technologies, 2026
  • Critical Capabilities for Warehouse Management Systems
  • Market Guide for Multienterprise Collaboration Networks
  • Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies, 2026
  • How AI Helps Government CIOs Mitigate IT Supply Chain Risks
  • Market Guide for Logistics Network Visibility Solutions
  • Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management, 2026
  • Hype Cycle for Digital Commerce, 2026
  • Market Guide for Warehouse Automation Consultants and System Integrators

• IDC
  • Market Glance: Physical AI — Embodied Intelligence, 2Q26
  • Same Models, Same Data, and Same Results: Why Retail AI Needs Competitive Potency
  • AI-Driven Demand Forecasting: What to Expect in the Near Future
  • ProductScape: Worldwide Retail Price Optimization and Management Solutions, 2025–2026
  • From Disclosure to Decision: How AI, Regulation, and Data Integration Are Reshaping the Sustainability Software Market
  • ProductScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network (MESCCN), 2025–2026
  • IDC's Worldwide Software Taxonomy, 2026

• Forrester
  • The ROI Of Supply Chain Management
  • The Warehouse Management Systems Landscape, Q2 2026
  • The Supply Chain Platforms Landscape, Q2 2026

• Nucleus
  • Blue Yonder ICON 2026 updates and announcements
  • Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning drives resilience across industries
  • OMS Technology Value Matrix 2026

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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