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Blue Yonder Luminate Logistics

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What is Blue Yonder Luminate Logistics?

Luminate Logistics, from Blue Yonder headquartered in Scottsdale (formerly JDA Software Group) provides an end-to-end execution platform to help drive flexible, fully autonomous distribution networks. Built on top of their AI/ML-based supply chain platform, Luminate Logistics helps organizations recognize problems before they happen, get machine-learning-based recommendations for action, and minimize risk while capitalizing on opportunities. It supports management of warehouse operations, and logistics networks. The software integrates and supersedes the former Red Prairie warehouse management system, acquired and integrated into the portfolio of the former JDA Software Group in 2012.

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Blue Yonder to resolve all your logistics woes!

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Shivom VaradarajanView profile
Business Analyst in Sales at DTDC Express Limited (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The software helps in developing company-specific solutions to typical day-to-day problems in warehousing & logistics as well as helps in making sure that the daily operations are running at optimum levels & no hiccups are faced by the ops team in arranging, sorting & processing the pickups & deliveries. The ability to develop solutions for very specific use cases is a major plus for this service.

Pros

  • Designing use case specific solutions to warehousing problems.
  • Ability to mold the current software as per specific client requirements.
  • Excellent back end and after sale services & support.

Cons

  • User Interface has too much info at a given time which can be broken down further to reduce clutter.
  • End-user needs to have more customizable options to design the page as per their comfort.
  • Changes made can be updated quicker, as of now it takes too much time to reflect the same in live sessions.

Most Important Features

  • Flexibility at a large scale to tackle your company specific warehousing needs.
  • Ability to design the current modules as per your liking & requirements.
  • Support to end user after sale services & quick query resolution.

Return on Investment

  • Warehousing errors were reduced by almost 12% with Blue Yonder Luminate Logistics.
  • Order processing was done at more than 7% of the average TAT with the use of this service.
  • End-user & ops team had higher productivity by almost 15% after integrating the service in day-to-day activities.

Other Software Used

Bridge LCS - Logistics Software, Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning (Llamasoft), Adobe Analytics

RedPrarie for the Win!

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Scott StraderView profile
General Manager in Customer Service at Polypore (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Allows access from anywhere
  • 24/7 Support
  • Reliability

Cons

  • Compability with newer browsers
  • Less setup on new machines

Return on Investment

  • Less time crunching numbers
  • Less Report Building
  • Less time being at a specific site for access

Alternatives Considered

Aloha POS

RedPraire for 3PLs

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Dan BlackView profile
IT Manager in Information Technology at Greatwide Logistics Services (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • RedPrairie is very customizable by internal staff. Being a 3PL, we have many different customer requirements. RedPrairie has easily met them all. We try not to customize, as the product works well out of the box. But we do create custom reports and data extracts that customers require. And we can do those modifications ourselves with no RedPrairie support or additional cost.
  • RedPrairie allows for accurate and efficient use of warehouse labor. Transactions are tracked and rules are in place to keep inventory accurate. RedPrairie has a sophisticated work queue engine that hands out the best piece of work to warehouse workers and allows them to work as efficiently as possible.
  • RedPrairie has a robust integration layer that allows for data input and output to nearly any host or destination.

Cons

  • RedPrairie is complicated due to all of the customer requirements. There isn't really a "RedPrairie light" for simple, small customers.
  • RedPrairie is a client/server application. They are working towards a web interface.

Return on Investment

  • RedPrairie (JDA WMS) is a known brand, and is known as a tier 1 WMS. Mentioning that we use the software has helped during the sales process. It has kept us in bids that we wouldn't have been involved with if we didn't have RedPrairie.
  • Inventory accuracy improved dramatically when we converted from our legacy WMS to RedPrairie in 2007. After the conversion to RedPrairie, physical inventory numbers have never been lower than 99.5% accurate.
  • Having relevant data and customized reports has helped our CSRs when dealing with our customers.

RP LMS Review

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Todd Craig
Operations Manager at Timken Super Precision (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • It is a relatively cheap and basic LMS.
  • If customization is not required it can be dropped into an operation quickly.
  • Attractive starter program for organizations with limited engineered labor standards experience.

Cons

  • Engineered labor standards are very generic and times/elements could be tightened up.
  • Customization of the programs throws them a curve. logically they are resistant to rewrite what is already written, but meeting the needs of a more sophisticated customer requires greater flexibility and investment.
  • On site support needs to be more robust. It is dictated up front in the project plan, but needs to be flexible to meet customer needs, based on their demands.
  • Supervisor level time required to maintain the system (punches, etc) is significant and not a value-add use of their time.

JDA WMS (was RedPrairie): How to complicate simple things.

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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Directed work.
  • Highly customizable

Cons

  • Quite user un-friendly database design; DB table names and column names don't give any clue about their purpose.
  • Data separation is non-effective. This is NOT a software for a 3PL (3rd party logistics company). Multiple clients sharing the same warehouse share tables - such as the Item Master table - without a clear indication of the client's name.
  • Several different tables for ItemMaster, way too complicated.
  • System would reject new Items if the Item Color sent via EDI hasn't been codified before the Item Master upload. That is a problem for fashion clients that create many new color codes every season.
  • Software requires SERVER reboot for every new change in order for the change to be effective. Unacceptable when many clients are on the same server and on a distributed organization.

Return on Investment

  • Slower implementation / conversion
  • Decreased productivity
  • Highly increased implementation costs

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Workfront, Jabber, SAP Crystal Reports

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