Blue Yonders’ Supply Chain Agents Are Getting Really Smart

InnovationTransportationBlue Yonders’ Supply Chain Agents Are Getting Really SmartBySteve Banker,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management.Follow AuthorJun 05, 2026, 10:48am EDTJun 05, 2026, 10:50am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Gundip Singh, Chief Product Officer at Blue Yonder. Blue YonderBlue Yonder had its ICON event for customers and partners in the middle of May. Blue Yonder, is one of the largest providers of supply chain software. The company has spent the better part of four years and $2.5 billion to rebuild its technology stack from the ground up. Unfortunately, there are several supply chain events in May, and I missed ICON this year. Nevertheless, Blue Yonder recently provided an update on key announcements for analysts that missed the show. Demystifying AgentsBlue Yonder is still committed to an agentic framework. There has been a trend among enterprise companies to break their code into smaller components. These components, which are now called “agents,” have entry and exit points. Data goes in one end; and an output flows out the other. That output is routed to other agents in situations where getting an answer involves several steps. Or it is routed to a user when the answer is complete. The term “orchestration” is now being widely used. An agent framework is flexible. For example, agents inside what used to be a warehouse management system can be combined with agents in transportation management to provide optimized execution across logistics. Thus, an orchestrated workflow allows agents to be combined like Lego blocks to build more holistic, industry specific, or even customer specific solutions. Orchestration requires a unified data model, ideally supported with a knowledge graph with a semantic understanding of how data is related. Blue Yonder has partnered with Snowflake...