Case Study: Americold achieves 5–10% labor cost savings and supply‑chain transformation with Blue Yonder

Americold Empowers Their Workforce by Creating an Agile Work Environment with Blue Yonder’s Warehouse Management and Warehouse Labor Management systems

Americold, the world’s largest temperature‑controlled warehousing and distribution provider with over 150 locations, faced inflexible legacy warehouse and labor systems that couldn’t keep pace with rapidly evolving customer needs or support its goal of driving cold‑chain innovation (including cross‑docking and value‑add services). The company needed greater productivity, scalability and real‑time visibility to meet rising demand and maintain its role as the hub between food manufacturers and retailers.

Americold implemented Blue Yonder’s warehouse management and warehouse labor management solutions to modernize operations, gain real‑time visibility, optimize order configurations (from pallets to mixed cases and eaches), and deploy workforce incentives and KPIs. The solution improved associate productivity by up to 5%, is projected to yield as much as 10% in labor‑cost savings in some sites, reduced overall labor costs 5–10%, enabled reinvestment in cold‑chain innovation, and earned national recognition for supply‑chain transformation.

Americold

Fred Boehler

President and Chief Executive Officer