Blue Yonder Luminate Planning

Transportation Management

Includes carrier and fleet management, as well as routing and scheduling.

Order Management

Includes order entry, order processing, order tracking, and parts management.

Supplier Management

Ability to generate, sort and categorize vendor profiles and/or including supplier collaboration, quarterly Business Review Meetings, Scorecards, KPI and SLA's.

Returns Management

Includes returns quality check, pending returns, and dispute case tracking.

Inventory Management

Includes units tracking and purchasing, backorder status, and product history through barcodes, RFID, IoT and other methods of tracking inventory

Forecasting and Planning

Includes historical "what-if" analysis, data separation, and demand shaping capacity.

Procurement Management

Includes purchasing and procurement management, as well as supplier management and optimization.

Shipping Management

Includes batch orders, packing slips and labels, rate calculations and tracking details.

Warehouse Management

Includes 3PL management, inventory tracking, and demand planning.

Collaboration

Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Business Value Created

Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration

This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training

Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features

Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation

Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness

End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support

The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Customization

Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features

Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration

Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.