BLUE YONDER HELPS POWER DOLE FOOD & BEVERAGES GROUP DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Dole Food & Beverages Group to digitally transform its supply chain to predict shipment delays and sense, prescribe and optimise demand, enabled with two Blue Yonder cloud-based solutions: Luminate™ Control Tower and the Luminate Planning portfolio.

“We are excited that Dole Food & Beverages Group has put their trust in our cloud-based solutions to help power their digital supply chain transformation,” said Blue Yonder group vice president, Growth Markets, Vishal Dhawan.

Dole Food & Beverages Group, a division of The Dole Sunshine Company, is one of the world's largest producers and marketers of high-quality packaged fresh fruit and fruit-based products.

The company was looking for end-to-end visibility and forecasting, a sales and operations planning (S&OP) and a sales and operations execution (S&OE) process, and control tower capabilities.

A 20-plus year Blue Yonder customer, Dole Food & Beverages Group went through a comprehensive evaluation process to select its long-time supply chain provider for a solution that could meet their newer requirements and support its journey towards the Dole Promise.

According to a statement, the digital transformation project will allow Dole Food & Beverages Group to build an agile supply chain with focus on three core components: people, process and systems.

By implementing the Blue Yonder solutions powered by Luminate Platform, the company plans to align future supply chain structure with global and local control towers that work seamlessly together to gain end-to-end accountability across the supply chain.

It also plans to enhance customer satisfaction and cost savings through lower inventory levels and inventory optimisation; increase flexibility and agility in the planning process; and, enables data-driven decision-making capabilities through an end-to-end integrated platform, among others.

Blue Yonder is the world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment. Its intelligent, end-to-end platform enables retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers to seamlessly predict, pivot and fulfill customer demand.

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