Case Study: Core-Mark achieves 40% greater planogram coverage with Blue Yonder

Core-Mark boosts planogram coverage by 40% with Blue Yonder, enabling faster, smarter store shelving execution

Core-Mark faced major category management and planogram challenges after acquiring Eby-Brown, which doubled both its team size and its mix of legacy tools. Analysts were working across time zones with disconnected, desktop-based workflows, creating risks of slower refresh cycles, inconsistent merchandising, and losing customers who expected localized assortments. Core-Mark turned to Blue Yonder and its space planning/category management capabilities to create a unified, cloud-based approach.

Blue Yonder helped Core-Mark migrate legacy planogram data to a SaaS platform, standardize processes company-wide, and build a central library of 525 gold-standard planograms. The result was a single source of shelf truth that improved execution at scale: each analyst can now manage 40% more stores, planogram collaboration is up 10% annually, slow movers were reduced by 4%, and turnaround time for a 70-store chain dropped from two weeks to three days. Blue Yonder’s professional services training also helped drive adoption and operational consistency.

Core-Mark

Jim Hachtel

Senior Director, Category Management