Blue Yonder Holding, Inc. (Blue Yonder), the AI company for supply chain, today released its Q3 2026 company highlights.

Quarterly Company Highlights

In Q3 2026, Blue Yonder continued to showcase its strong momentum in the market by:

  • Adding 21 new customer logos.

  • Announcing new retail innovations as part of its Cognitive Solutions portfolio.

  • Being named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Management Suites. And being named a Leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant®: Supply Chain Sustainability Software (2026).

  • Supporting Kuehne+Nagel’s global rollout of its cloud-native, agentic AI-enabled warehouse management system.

  • Building on its reputation as an industry leader with references in 40 key technology industry analyst reports, including 10 evaluative reports that recognized Blue Yonder as a Leader.

  • Releasing the findings of its 2026 Consumer Grocery and Protein Trends Survey.

New Retail Innovations

Blue Yonder announced new retail innovations as part of its Cognitive Solutions portfolio, designed to help hardlines and softlines retailers move from insight to action with agentic AI and unified decisioning. The latest enhancements create tighter alignment across forecasting, inventory planning, fulfillment, customer service and returns on the Blue Yonder Platform. Retailers can now respond faster to changing demand, improve inventory productivity and recover more value across the retail lifecycle.

The release included the following updates:

  • New predictive fulfillment intelligence and inventory network visibility in Order Management to help teams improve fill rates, service levels and fulfillment efficiency by identifying risks, bottlenecks and optimization opportunities across inventory, sourcing, fulfillment and network operations. For retailers, that means better availability, fewer missed promises and smarter fulfillment decisions across stores, distribution centers and digital channels.

  • A new unified customer service and assisted selling workspace streamlines customer identification, product discovery, inventory visibility, pricing, fulfillment options, payment capture and order management. Customer service and store teams can respond faster, improve conversion and resolve issues with better context.

  • New omni-inventory capabilities across online, warehouse and store returns, including personalized returns experiences, customer-specific returns policies, configurable store credit strategies, returns order receiving and receipt control, Smart Disposition and configuration, test and grade workflows and unit-level simulation of disposition outcomes. These capabilities help retailers reduce returns leakage, improve resale and recovery, cut fraud risk and keep shoppers satisfied.

  • Enhancements to Blue Yonder Orchestrator, which serves as the unified interaction and orchestration layer for workflows, insights, AI-powered guidance and actions. A new navigation experience combines traditional navigation with a prompt-driven, AI-first experience, so people move from decision to action faster across planning, execution and network operations.

  • Planning and forecasting updates, including assortment strategy and scoring guidance in Assortment Planning, returns projections and enhanced multichannel forecasting in Allocation and Replenishment, and closed-loop planogram execution and compliance capabilities in Space Planning.

Together, the updates give retailers one connected system to plan, decide and act on with speed and precision.

Learn more about Blue Yonder’s retail innovations here.

A Leader in the Inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites

Blue Yonder was recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites.ⁱ Blue Yonder was the only pure-play SCM vendor in the Leaders quadrant in this new report.

With this latest recognition, Blue Yonder was named a Leader in four Gartner Magic Quadrant reports covering Supply Chain Planning: Discrete Industries, Transportation Management Systems, Warehouse Management Systems and Supply Chain Management Suites.ⁱⁱ Blue Yonder attributes its success and this breadth of recognition to its intelligent, AI-powered Cognitive Solutions. Built on the Blue Yonder Platform and its AI data cloud, Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions unify data, decisions and execution across the end-to-end supply chain network, eliminating silos between planning and execution.

In our view, the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites evaluates SCM solutions across planning, logistics, production, sourcing, procurement and supply chain orchestration. Nine vendors were assessed on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, with the report identifying that “SCM suites are therefore becoming strategic platforms for improving end-to-end visibility, integrating data and processes across the supply chain, fostering collaboration across departments and trading partners, and digitizing and automating supply chain activities.”iii

A Leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant®: Supply Chain Sustainability Software

Blue Yonder was named a Leader in the Green Quadrant®: Supply Chain Sustainability Software (2026) report by Verdantix, an independent research and advisory firm. In the report, Verdantix found that Blue Yonder “integrates sustainability-related capabilities natively into the same applications and workflows that supply chain practitioners use for planning and execution.”

Blue Yonder helps companies operationalize sustainability in supply chain management by making it part of core operations, not a separate reporting exercise. It enables companies to manage and optimize carbon, waste and ESG risk alongside supply chain objectives like cost and service performance in their day-to-day decision-making.

This recognition from Verdantix spans across planning and execution applications of Blue Yonder Sustainable Supply Chain Management, giving companies planning tools, real-time insights and accredited reporting to reduce carbon emissions, waste and ESG risk. The Blue Yonder Logistics Emissions Calculator automates carbon measurement across multimodal transport with GLEC-accredited and ISO 14083-aligned methodology.

To learn more about Blue Yonder’s sustainability solutions, visit here.

Customer Momentum

Kuehne+Nagel is advancing its digital capabilities in Contract Logistics through the evolution of KN SwiftLOG, its warehouse management system, into a cloud-native platform with agentic AI capabilities. The deployment represents one of the most extensive transformations of warehouse operations in the logistics industry, according to Kuehne+Nagel.

To support this transformation, the platform is built on Blue Yonder’s Warehouse Management Solution, part of Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions. This brings KN SwiftLOG into a unified, cloud-based environment while continuing as Kuehne+Nagel’s established warehouse management system. The global rollout began in April 2026 and is being implemented in phases to ensure continuity of service. The platform lays the foundation for more efficient and coordinated operations across the network, connecting warehouse activities with data-driven insights and intelligent automation.

2026 Consumer Grocery and Protein Trends Survey

Blue Yonder released the findings of its 2026 Consumer Grocery and Protein Trends Survey, which polled over 1,000 consumers across the United States. The survey found that 55% of U.S. consumers are buying less beef or have stopped entirely amid rising prices, the New World screwworm outbreak and mounting global trade disruptions. At the same time, one-third of consumers have increased their overall protein purchases in the past six months, as health-conscious shoppers shift spending toward chicken, eggs, canned proteins and other alternatives.

Key findings from the survey include:

  • Seventy-eight percent of respondents say they are concerned the New World screwworm outbreak could further affect beef prices or availability.

  • As consumers cut back on beef, they are shifting to other protein sources. Forty-four percent are buying more chicken, pork and seafood, 28% are buying more canned or shelf-stable proteins and 22% are turning to egg-based proteins.

  • The survey revealed a generational divide in protein spending, with 54% of Gen Z consumers increasing their purchase of proteins in the last six months compared with 41% of millennials, 35% of Gen X and 20% of baby boomers.

  • When asked what they would do if their preferred whey protein product increased significantly in price, 20% said they would buy a generic or store-brand version, 20% would switch to a different protein source and 6% would stop buying protein supplements altogether. Only 14% said they would pay the higher price.

  • Eighty-five percent of respondents say they are concerned about the impact of grocery prices due to inflation. Consumers place the blame primarily on higher freight and transportation costs due to rising fuel prices (83%).

Read about the full 2026 Consumer Grocery and Protein Trends Survey here.

Industry Recognition

Technology industry analyst mentions in Q3 2026:

  • Gartner

    • Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management (WFM) Technology

    • Voice of the Customer for Warehouse Management Systems

    • Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites

    • Voice of the Customer for Transportation Management Systems

    • Market Overview for Supply Chain Orchestration Platforms

    • Critical Capabilities for Workforce Management (WFM) Technology

    • 4 Cool Ways Companies Are Enabling Agentic AI at Work

    • Gartner Critical Capabilities for Supply Chain Management Suites

    • Gartner Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling

    • 4 Actions CIOs Must Take to Redesign Human-AI Agent Work for AI Value

    • Market Overview for Retail Assortment Management Applications: Short Life Cycle Products

    • Market Guide for Supply Chain Planning Solutions System Integrators

    • Hype Cycle for Retail Technologies, 2026

    • Market Overview for Retail Assortment Management Applications: Long Life Cycle Products

    • 4 Things CHROs Should Know About CIOs to Drive AI Transformation Together

    • Coolest Vendor Innovations for Logistics and Fulfillment

    • Hype Cycle for AI in Supply Chain, 2026

    • Reference Architecture Brief: Agentic CRM Platforms

    • Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Planning Technologies, 2026

  • Forrester

    • Wave™ Supply Chain Platforms, Q3 2026

    • Order Management Systems Landscape, Q3 2026

    • Build Content and Creative Advantage Through Adaptability

    • Revenue Marketing Platforms Are Entering the Era of Agentic Orchestration

  • Nucleus

  • Verdantix

    • Verdantix Green Quadrant®: Supply Chain Sustainability Software (2026)

  • IHL

    • IHL Group Research: The Enterprise Order Management Market 2026

ⁱGartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites, Jan Snoeckx, et.al, 11 August 2026.

ⁱⁱGartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning Solutions: Discrete Industries, Joe Graham et.al, 18 March 2026. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns et.al, 30 March 2026. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems, Simon Tunstall et.al, 29 April 2026.

iiiGartner, Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Management Suites, Jan Snoeckx, et.al, 11 August 2026.

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About Verdantix

Verdantix is a trusted intelligence provider for software and services markets. Through its AI-enabled Voyager platform, Verdantix delivers insights and analysis that constitute the most granular intelligence available across the marketplaces it serves. This allows the firm to make highly accurate far-reaching forecasts and big-picture predictions.

With more than 3,000 subscribing organizations relying on Verdantix intelligence to make technology and market decisions, Verdantix’s work has a major influence on decision-making across Climate and Energy, EHS and Quality, Facilities and Real Estate, Industrial Transformation, Sustainability and Risk functions worldwide. verdantix.com.

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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