About Blue Yonder Education Services

Blue Yonder Education Services provides training and certification programs that expand your human capital, enhance your processes and boost performance across your organization. Part of the global Blue Yonder Services organization, Blue Yonder Education Services is comprised of an expert team of professionals with an average tenure of more than 14 years. These knowledgeable experts apply their wealth of technology resources to deliver training in the most efficient, flexible and cost-effective manner for your organization. Our goal is to arm you with knowledge of business processes and best practices that can be used in combination with Blue Yonder software to help your organization meet real-world challenges and capitalize on market opportunities.

Our Differentiator

By increasing understanding of advanced technology solutions and leading-edge business processes, the Blue Yonder Education Services team has helped our customers’ employees maximize their own contribution to the shared success of the organization — which maximizes the overall return on investment for their employers. Blue Yonder customers typically realize the following business benefits:

  • Faster supply chain improvements that deliver rapid returns
  • Full utilization of new technologies and related processes
  • An immediate kick-start for key performance metrics
  • Broad cultural change tied to the new supply chain direction
  • Maximum employee participation and daily contribution

Blue Yonder Services Core Offering:
End to End Training

By increasing understanding of advanced technology solutions and leading-edge business processes, the Blue Yonder Education Services team has helped our customers’ employees maximize their own contribution to the shared success of the organization — which maximizes the overall return on investment for their employers. Blue Yonder customers typically realize the following business benefits:

A Blended Learning Approach

A variety of delivery options, such as face-to face, virtual classroom, and self-paced, ensures that your organization can minimize training time and associated cost, while you maximize value to your business. Whether you select the personal nature of instructor-led training, the efficiency and flexibility of self-paced, web-based e-learning, or a combined approach that blends the best of both methods, Blue Yonder Education Services has education and training alternatives that will fit your specific needs.

Blue Yonder Training

The most available Blue Yonder solution training content anywhere. For Blue Yonder software solution customers who need broadly encompassing training, Education Services provides enterprise access to the widest on-demand resources to ensure an educated workforce.

Getting Started

Getting starting can be hard – Blue Yonder provides the following quick guides to help navigate our product trainings to simplify your journey to elevate your knowledge and grow your expertise

Category Management - Category Knowledge Base

Education Services Onboarding

Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Category Knowledge Base through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Sample Topics Covered in Curriculum

  • Understand database and CKB fundamentals.
  • Learn to modify and add new objects.
  • Understand how to group objects in a hierarchy.
  • Comprehend object versions in CKB.
  • Interact with Space Planning and Floor Planning.
  • Make global changes across CKB.
  • Utilize reports, charts, printing in Data Manager
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Demand Management

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Demand through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Key Learning Objectives

  • Explain Demand models and their benefits.
  • Explain the roles and responsibilities of a Demand planner.
  • Understand Demand Data
  • Understand Product Lifecycle Management
  • Methods to include additional Market intelligence
  • Evaluating Forecast Performance
  • Utilize the following Demand models:
    • The Fourier Model
    • The AVS Graves Model
    • The Lewandowski Model
    • The Moving Average Model
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Enterprise Planning

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Enterprise Planning through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Other Courses

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Enterprise Supply Planning

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Enterprise Supply Planning through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Additional Courses Available

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Fulfillment

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Fulfillment through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Sample Topics Covered in Curriculum

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Category Management - Floor Planning

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Floor Planning through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Custom Topics Available

  • The import of CAD DXF trace files
  • Creation of fixtures from scratch and from the source trace file
  • Create and edit departments
  • Add planograms to fixtures to create sections
  • Joining, splitting and combining fixtures
  • Create and work with a Fixture Library
  • Import performance data to then analyze utilizing tables, charts and highlights.
  • Maneuvering the floorplan in 3D
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Sales and Operations Planning

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Sales and Operations Planning through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Topics Covered in Curriculum

  • Introduction to Blue Yonder Sales and Operations Planning
  • DA S&OP Excel Client Navigation
  • Handling Action Items and Exceptions
  • Blue Yonder S&OP Calendar
  • Approval Workflow
  • S&OP Data Modeling and Administration
  • Managing Users, User Groups, and Roles
  • Layout Specification
  • S&OP Maintenance
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Category Management - Space Planning

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Space Planning through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Topics Covered in Curriculum

  • Create Product Libraries from Your Planograms and Learn to Use Them Most Efficiently
  • Building a Space to Sales Report (Table) in Space Planning
  • Import Sales Data into Your Planograms from an Excel File and then Create a Report to Analyze that Data
  • Tips and Tricks in Space Planning
  • Create a Planogram in Space Planning from an Excel File
  • Understand How to Properly and Efficiently Use the Merchandising X, Y, Z Options to Best Merchandise Your Planogram
  • Working with Product Images in Space Planning
  • Building Highlights in Space Planning
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Transportation Management System

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Transportation Management Systems through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Additional Courses Available

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Warehouse Management System

Education Services Onboarding

Navigating the numerous training choices Education Services Training improves customer productivity by providing extensive training solutions. We provide a foundational understanding of Warehouse Management Systems through our standard trainings and build on that foundation with custom training options to achieve your desired outcomes. Our offerings include:

Onboarding Package

Additional Courses Available

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Course Catalog

Category Management

By leveraging analytics-driven insights about shopper behaviors at the macro and local market level, you’ll be able to develop localized, actionable assortment plans for more profitable growth. Blue Yonder’s Merchandise Operations provides the data foundation (store and item information), along with sales and inventory information to support Category Management.

Retail & Distribution Supply Planning

By leveraging analytics-driven insights about shopper behaviors at the macro and local market level, you’ll be able to develop localized, actionable assortment plans for more profitable growth. Blue Yonder’s Merchandise Operations provides the data foundation (store and item information), along with sales and inventory information to support Category Management.

Retail Planning

In today’s environment, retailers are faced with growing competition across channels. Merchandisers perform large amounts of manual, repetitive tasks without an understanding of history at a granular level which can identify missed business opportunities. A critical component is being able to understand the internal and external factors that influence customer demand. Blue Yonder’s Retail Planning suite of SaaS solutions aligns merchandise financial planning, assortment, allocation and pricing with AI/ML forecasts so that retailers can meet their financial goals and have better insight into their business on a store by store basis increasing profitability.

Store Operations

Changing customer preferences, new competitors, and growing sustainability needs are changing all aspects of store execution. In particular, this has a direct impact on restaurants and convenience stores. Store managers have to deal with the realities of increased demand for fresh and prepared food items while also making sure they are reducing waste. Blue Yonder Store Operations is designed to intelligently forecast customer demand throughout the day to help restaurants and C-stores maximize availability, optimize their inventory, and support sustainability efforts by reducing waste. It is an easy to use, mobile friendly, SaaS platform that can be rapidly adopted to address these challenges.

Blue Yonder Training

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Luminate

Category Management

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