# Blue Yonder Demand Planning Reviews **Vendor:** Blue Yonder **Category:** [Demand Planning Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/demand-planning) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 30 ## About Blue Yonder Demand Planning Demand planning ingests hundreds of demand-driving variables and uses machine learning to provide a unique, unbiased demand projection with calculated business impact and risk. This enables higher planner productivity, better inventory management and an improved understanding of demand drivers and customer behavior. ## Blue Yonder Demand Planning Reviews ### 1. Akash's Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Consultation during process and after-sales support and ease of the product. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Lengthy process. Make the process as short as possible. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has made Supply chain management easy. ### 2. Ravi **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Focus and forecasting we need to follow up. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Zero negligence and not predict where I will not happy. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Very good **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Financial prediction and growth strategy ### 3. Great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan M. | Channel Manager/Merchandise Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** I've been using JDA for over 5 years now. Very easy program once you learn the ins and outs. Would recommend. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The learning curve. Can be a little confusing at first. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed it takes to complete my work. I'm able to complete projects at a faster pace than I used to a couple years ago. ### 4. Go-Live Jda for 3 months **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abisatya Narariya W. | Demand Planning Coordinator , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** JDA demand is basically so user-friendly, we can manage the DFU so simultaneously, re-arange the view of the tables or demand worksheet, easy to use export and import in .csv **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** In demand worksheet it is limited to open DFU in a largest data (row is limited), and **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** JDA has an accuracy for forecast better eventhought you have make effort to maintain the data **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think its make easier to override the data, It is reduce the risk of manual calculation of user ### 5. Amazing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ABID HUSSAIN S. | ACCOUNTANT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** User Friendly. Very good for retail sector specially hypermarket and supermarket. Easy to understand and implement as well. Best for time management. Good for inventory and stock taking. I love to work with JDA. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Till now i did not face any major issue. but it will be more user friendly in the matter of creating and editing.It will be great if prices will be competitive. Nothing major issue. thanks **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** USEFUL AND AUTHENTIC **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vendor related. it's reduces time and work consumption. ### 6. Optimize your supply chain in the Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | Business Operations Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The Demand Planning on Cloud platform streamlines operations removing data silos, automating core processes and better decision making **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Pretty Hard to make it agile across the team. Need training ! **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** All you need for optimizing you demand planning solutions ! **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated forecast for products with seasonality and trends ### 7. It very good. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Debasish S. | Project Lead, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** JDA Demand Planning is very good and mostly useful for eCommerce business. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Nothing like this that I disliked about the product. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Nothing **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** floor plan, space plan etc ### 8. Demand Planner role used JDA tool daily **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** I like the fact that JDA projects decent forecast based on historical data. Also, I really like the ability to adjust any anomalies in historical data so that the ongoing forecast remains unaffected. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Version that I used did not allow mass update of promo periods so all the dates had to be manually entered one by one for each sku which took significant amount of time. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having JDA definitely helped forecast large number of sku's within each category. ### 9. Jda is the best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aiesha C. | Store Manager, Retail, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The convenience and time saving aspects. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** There ya nothing about the program that I dislike per say, still getting used to it. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Start today. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has streamlined my day, I’m more organized and efficient. ### 10. I was both a student in JDA Planning classes as well as a Space Planning intern **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The upsides are knowing that the stores or areas will be set to the way that you and your team wants them set **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Sometimes it's not very user friendly. If someone steps into the roll that uses JDA, it takes a lot of training before they're able to use JDA on their own. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Do your research! **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems I'm solving is how to best visually display products in stores. The benefits are being able to set multiple different square foot stores in one day without being in front of each store physically. ### 11. Interaction with the software is very smooth, clever and fast **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ioannis G. | Demand Planner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** There as so many parameters that you can modify in order to get what you want. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The amount of details that it takes to update all the data. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** takes a lot of work to update the data but it is accurate and fast **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Safety stock, forecast accuracy, improved service level and OTIFs ### 12. JDA is smart and timesaving inventory management tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** In case of fashion retail where you function on WSSI, JDA helps to create the process frame that functions as per your required frequency **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** I feel the UI is still little complicated for new users and can be simplified further to ensure quick and simple result based training can be programmed **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** JDA tool has many uses and if one explores it's entire potential then JDA can be quite an extensive addition to business **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use JDA for Auto replenishments and Auto PO process to manage inventory in fashion retail segment ### 13. Capable of performing numerous tasks without the concern that they are irreversible and cannot be amended. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Data is accurate and real-time across different environments. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** To many different DDAs that are presenting the same information and inventory attributes. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** none **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventory control and management. Real-time accuracy. ### 14. One of the best tool for Supply Chain **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** I like the simplicity of UI part of this tool the most. It has user friendly menu items and understandable even for not experienced users. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Actually I liked almost everything about the tool itself. Sometimes the tool was a little bit slow. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** It's definitely one of the best tools on a market. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Warehousing supply chain related problems. ### 15. Best of Breed Planning Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Multi-level, multi-channel forecast management, Automated demand classification and statistical forecasting algorithms, Promotion and event intelligence, Web-based demand planning for collaboration with external trading partners **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The robustness of the product provides a lot of configuration points to utilize that can be quite daunting to new users. Luckily JDA Support is willing to help guide and explain the process. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improved forecasting accuracy and planning cycle time, Increased customer satisfaction through improved inventory availability,Increased effectiveness of pricing and promotions ### 16. JDA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Very easy to figure out the amount of live inventory in several locations making a lot easier to plan the right amount of material needed for distribution. Reliable tool for material planning and uploading production unlike SAP. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Nothing to dislike JDA is a tool like no other! **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Excellent tool for demand planning **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Huge shortcut to finalize planning and send materials to production in a jiffy ### 17. I am basically a JDA SCPO Techno functional consultant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** JDA Demand Planning is very effective tool for Forecasting Demand **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** There is nothing that I dislike.It an amazing product to work with **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Definately , I would recommend business to use JDA demand planning product **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Demand planning has improved accuracy of business and inventory plans by building an incorporated ,synchronized picture of true demand sugnals across your training network. ### 18. JDA Demand Planning software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Addison W. | Customer service representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** This software tool helps with consolidating an accurate demand forecast. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The only dislike about the software is that sometimes it will generate a number out of the blue that is not accurate. This has only happened twice and it was easily fixed. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** JDA Demand Planning helps provide accurate forecasts and will help better a company with planning inventory. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increased inventory turns and availability through inventory optimization and decreased overall supply chain costs, due to accurate demand-supply matching ### 19. Merchandise Planner likes this tool **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Projections seemed to be pretty on target to actuals. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Wish it would have helped to be easier to utilize for down-trending categories. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pretty easy to use. ### 20. planning **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** That you can see which products are selling and which are not big sellers **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** that I could not figure out how to add pictures of the site **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** it helps you keep track of the inventory that you are selling. this way you can see what products are big sellers and no what items you should be keeping in stock. The items that are not big sellers you can see to stop selling them. This way you can pick other items that can be big sellers **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** that it cut down on ordering items that where not big seller ### 21. Easy once you get the hang of it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** JDA makes it easy for me to see my demand plans for all of our different channels of business right in the same place. It’s also easy to compare data. I like that you can change your view and customize it to how you work best. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** I don’t like that it takes a weekend job to run to create skus in the system and then another weekend job to flow my forecast into SAP. It essentially takes 3 weeks because of system processes to create a forecast for a new product. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** It’s an easy software to use and will get the job done. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can create my forecast, change my forecast or take out my forecast and it flows directly into the next person’s data, making it easy and painless to create PO’s and get product ordered. ### 22. Great Allocation Software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeffrey D. | Allocation Planner, Apparel & Fashion, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Allowed for custom settings based on sales indexes, size, and locations to be automated. Made work much easier when dealing with trends within like scenarios with the many SKUs per department **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Cumbersome to get started in. Like all softwares, took time to learn all the ins and outs well enough to function. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** Great for customization for all levels of Supply Chain planning **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allocations based on size and store. Needing to accurately send hundreds/thousands of units to multiple SKUs. Allowed for more efficient planning and execution. The ability to group stores by custom location lists built off of demand planning trends is execellent. ### 23. muttiple algorithm available **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** JDA Demand has multiple algorithm to cater various demand planning scenarios like slow movers fast movers intermittent demand which is very helpful **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** JDA demand is not capable for have multiple measures across different dimensions, a functionality which was very useful and was available in i2 demand **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** future demand need ### 24. Easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The concept of the application. Its great if it evolves more. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Its not user friendly until trained. So there should be more training on the software. **Recommendations to others considering Blue Yonder Demand Planning:** I think JDA needs improvement so invest wisely. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventory Management and ease of inventory flow. ### 25. integraton with ERP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** jda demand does not have very smooth integration with ERP like SAP for getting master data like sales order **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** jda demand does not have very good reporting capabilities **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** forecasting for slow movers ### 26. complicated **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Cosmetics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** I really don't like this software as a whole **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** not user friendly, and very slow on our end at least **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** demand planning and forecast flow ### 27. Great program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2017 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Jda is a very intuitive program, easy to use. **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Many unneeded options, sometimes difficult to weed through. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us in our purchasing decisions ### 28. Great software for automated planning **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Planogram generator and the ability to design personalized rules to database **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** The ability to manipulate is it a bit too much **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Store planogram writing ### 29. Good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Integrated with Oracle, ease of use, user interface, customizable **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** None. I do not have enough experience in programming to find any issues. **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sales transaction audit. Inventory allocation. ### 30. Good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016 **What do you like best about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** Integrated with SAP, user interface, ease of use, customizable **What do you dislike about Blue Yonder Demand Planning?** none, i didnt work deep into the software yet to find any issues or dislikes **What problems is Blue Yonder Demand Planning solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allocation... ## Blue Yonder Demand Planning Discussions - [What are the components of demand planning?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-components-of-demand-planning) - [What are the features of demand management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/blue-yonder-demand-planning-what-are-the-features-of-demand-management) - [What is demand planning software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-demand-planning-software) - [With what products could be Demand Planning integrated?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/13866-with-what-products-could-be-demand-planning-integrated) - 1 upvote - [What is the best way to add product to JDA Demand Planning](https://www.g2.com/discussions/13108-what-is-the-best-way-to-add-product-to-jda-demand-planning) - 1 upvote - [View Blue Yonder Demand Planning pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/blue-yonder-demand-planning/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+10%3A20%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=dd77ffdc-0a3a-400c-b349-d205364b5cc8&secure%5Btoken%5D=c67c01d5e40fb3f8a2cdcb5c7ff570162ba219832fcb4b3a831963c3ac5a9448&format=llm_user) ## Blue Yonder Demand Planning Features **Analytics** - Reporting - Segmentation analysis - Product lifecycle - Simulation - Historical Forecast **Collaboration** - Integrations - Multiple users - Forecast collaboration - Inventory collaboration **Planning** - Planning dashboard - Capacity Planning - Assortment Planning - Business functions - Goal planning - Comprehensive Planning - Workflow ## Top Blue Yonder Demand Planning Alternatives - [SAP Integrated Business Planning](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-integrated-business-planning/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (207 reviews) - [Kinaxis](https://www.g2.com/products/kinaxis/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (12 reviews) - [Logility Solutions](https://www.g2.com/products/logility-solutions/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (113 reviews)