Sainsbury's has selected Blue Yonder to transform its supply chain management.

The supermarket will deploy new technology to power its end-to-end strategy on a single artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform.

Current and new capabilities will now span demand forecasting and replenishment, macro space planning, range, warehouse and yard management.

By partnering with the in-house engineering expertise of Sainsbury’s Tech, the two businesses will create an autonomous self-learning supply chain platform. This should let Sainsbury’s colleagues spend more time serving customers.

John Elliott, chief technology officer for retail at Sainsbury’s, explained: “Having a predictive, autonomous and adaptive supply chain powered by world class technology products and Sainsbury’s Tech engineering means we can show up for our customers whenever and however they shop with us."

Blue Yonder’s Luminate platform includes machine learning-based forecasting and ordering solutions that help stores better manage fresh and perishable products. It also includes Blue Yonder’s crisis control centre, Luminate Control Tower, which provides complete supply chain visibility, orchestration, and collaboration; prescribing more automated business decisions.

Mark Morgan, executive vice president and chief revenue officer at Blue Yonder, added: “Our goal is to make AI and ML become key enablers of Sainsbury’s future digital transformation as the company expands its remarkable, trusted, multi brand, multi channel business.”

As Retail Systems recently reported, the Coronavirus crisis has hit grocers hard, as supply chain management systems have not been able to cope with self-isolation and lockdown-driven surges in demand for certain essential items.

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