supply_chain · ecommerce · workflow
Sally Beauty partners with Blue Yonder for demand planning, fulfillment, and category management
Sally Beauty faced complexity managing demand planning, fulfillment execution, and category management across two distinct business units — a consumer retail chain and a professional stylist supply division — each with different purchasing behaviors and channel requirements.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Demand signal consolidation
Blue Yonder consolidates and synchronizes demand signals and external variables across two businesses and multiple sales channels.
Tools used
Blue Yonder
Outcome
Blue Yonder gave Sally Beauty more flexible and profitable fulfillment, improved merchandising effectiveness, and increased insight into customer needs, including support for a BOPIS rate that grew 30% during pandemic-driven demand shifts.
Results
Volume30%
Cost replacedminimize costs and maximize service
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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