2026.2 Release Details - Cognitive Core & Professional Services | Blue Yonder
Cognitive Core & Professional Services
What’s new for Cognitive Core and Professional Services
Blue Yonder Orchestrator
A smarter, more personalized supply chain management experience
Blue Yonder 2026.2 enables supply chain work to become more intuitive, intelligent, and flexible by bringing AI-powered navigation, briefings, and guided actions directly into the flow of work.
Key enhancements include:
Blue Yonder Navigator: Delivers an AI-powered conversational experience that helps users access insights, navigate workflows, and take action across Blue Yonder solutions. By combining traditional navigation with prompt-driven interaction, users can access agents, system guidance, and workflows from one unified interaction layer, reducing friction and improving productivity.
Read Aloud Briefings: Transforms AI-generated briefings into natural, audio-based experiences so users can stay informed wherever work happens. Users can listen to key insights while multitasking, commuting, or exploring related data and visualizations. Playback controls allow users to skip forward or backward, use scrubber controls, and review supporting data while listening.
Blue Yonder Platform and Data Cloud
A more resilient cloud-native supply chain platform
Blue Yonder 2026.2 strengthens the digital foundation for the Agentic Supply Chain through enhanced connectivity, governance, and resilience that enable trusted data, intelligent orchestration, and scalable AI across planning, execution, commerce, and network operations.
Key enhancements include:
Unified Data Foundation: Creates a common source of truth across planning, execution, commerce, and network operations.
Cloud-Native Scalability: Provides the resiliency, flexibility, and performance needed to support increasing data volumes, users, workflows, and AI-powered applications.
AI-Ready Data and Governance: Improves visibility, traceability, governance, and trust across supply chain data.
Connected Decision Intelligence: Brings together data, business processes, and workflows across supply chain functions to support coordinated decision-making.
Blue Yonder Differentiation: Blue Yonder combines planning, execution, network, AI, and analytics capabilities on a common cloud-native platform and data foundation, enabling coordinated decision-making across the end-to-end supply chain.
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Sustainability built into supply chain planning and logistics decisions
Blue Yonder 2026.2 embeds sustainability intelligence into planning, transportation, and network operations, automating emissions measurement and reporting while helping organizations balance environmental goals with business performance.
Key enhancements include:
Logistics Emissions Calculator: Automates accredited emissions measurement and reporting, reducing manual effort while improving visibility into planned-versus-actual transportation emissions.
Sustainable Supply Chain Manager: Expands sustainability visibility across transportation, procurement, production, and inventory workflows, enabling organizations to incorporate emissions and waste impacts into everyday decision-making.
Professional Services and AI Powered Support
Expert services and AI-powered support to accelerate your success
Blue Yonder 2026.2 helps organizations accelerate the adoption of AI-powered supply chain capabilities through expert services, intelligent support, and continuous optimization. By combining proven implementation expertise with AI-powered assistance and migration accelerators, organizations can reduce deployment risk, speed time-to-value, improve user adoption, and maximize the impact of their 26.2 innovations.
Key enhancements include:
Warehouse Migration Services: Reduce time and effort to modernize warehouse operations by migrating to the cloud faster through AI-powered accelerators, proven migration methodologies, and Blue Yonder expertise.
Applied Data Science: Deliver sustainable ROI through continuous AI-driven insights, expert tuning cycles, and ongoing optimization that improve forecasting accuracy, inventory performance, replenishment outcomes, and overall supply chain effectiveness.
AI-Powered Support: Minimize resolution time through a digital assistant that searches the Blue Yonder knowledge base, surfaces relevant information, and helps users resolve issues more quickly while improving support intelligent support resources that reduce risk and improve adoption across the solution lifecycle.