At Blue Yonder, our focus on helping customers navigate growing transportation complexity continues to shape how we innovate and invest in our Transportation Management solutions. We are proud to share that Blue Yonder has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report for the 19th consecutive year2. We believe this recognition reflects both our Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision as organizations look for resilient, intelligent transportation solutions that can scale with their global operations.
As supply chains face ongoing disruption, rising cost pressures and increasing sustainability expectations, transportation leaders are seeking solutions that go beyond execution to enable proactive decision-making and orchestration. Blue Yonder Transportation Management is purpose built to support these needs across the most complex transportation environments.
Transportation management designed for complexity at scale
Transportation management requirements vary widely based on the operational complexity, geographic footprint, and industry demands of an organization. Blue Yonder designed our Transportation Management solution to support the full spectrum of complexity, from foundational domestic execution to highly advanced, global, multimodal transportation networks.
We believe the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Transportation Management Systems report3 underscores the effectiveness of our transportation management solutions for organizations operating complex transportation environments that require advanced planning, modeling, optimization, and international capabilities. High shipment volumes, multiple transportation modes, multileg movements and large, diverse carrier networks often characterize these environments.
Blue Yonder Transportation Management delivers comprehensive core transportation capabilities, including multimodal planning and execution, freight audit and settlement, and integrated end-to-end visibility. Our TMS solution also offers a broad set of extended capabilities, including transportation modeling, logistics procurement support, and advanced optimization, that enable organizations to move beyond execution centric operations toward more strategic, resilient transportation planning.
Strength in advanced planning, optimization, and international capabilities
As transportation networks grow in scale and complexity, organizations increasingly need solutions that move beyond execution to support advanced planning, optimization, and global operations. Our strengths are rooted in comprehensive global transportation planning, advanced network modeling, multileg optimization, and robust integration capabilities, making the solution well-suited for organizations operating across regions, modes and trading partners.
Blue Yonder Transportation Management delivers strong capabilities across the areas that matter most in higher complexity transportation environments, including core transportation management functionality for planning, execution and settlement across both domestic and international movements. Our solution supports global, multileg shipments and complex transportation networks through advanced international capabilities. Extended functionality includes transportation modeling, scenario analysis, data driven procurement, and tactical decision support, enabling more informed decision-making across the network. Integrated visibility and analytics further help organizations shift from reactive execution to proactive exception management.
Together, these capabilities help transportation leaders balance cost, service, and risk while navigating ongoing market volatility and disruption.
Blue Yonder Transportation Modeling helped Wegmans analyze and optimize its complex transportation network by simulating alternative fleet and routing strategies, enabling data-driven decisions on how best to utilize assets. Discover more about how Wegman’s drives 4.75% cost savings.
AI driven innovation and network enabled collaboration
Artificial intelligence, agentic AI and tighter ecosystem integration are central to how Blue Yonder is advancing transportation management. Our strategy reflects sustained investment in AI powered transportation execution, optimization and orchestration to help organizations operate with greater intelligence, agility, and resilience. Included in our AI strategy is our new Logistics Ops Agent, which helps customers stay ahead of change and increase profitability by alerting to and suggesting resolutions to unrouteable loads, backhauls and other critical opportunities.
Blue Yonder Transportation Management is deeply integrated with the Blue Yonder Platform and the Blue Yonder Network, enabling seamless interoperability across planning, execution, and customers’ multi-enterprise network. This foundation supports ongoing innovation across AI driven capabilities that help identify risks, surface opportunities and enable exception based management. AI assisted workflows improve the user experience by reducing manual effort for planners and operators. Network centric interoperability further connects shippers, carriers and other trading partners through a shared data foundation, enabling more coordinated and data driven transportation operations including global visibility and digital collaboration.
We believe that together, these capabilities help our customers accelerate time to value, strengthen resilience, and operate more connected, intelligent transportation networks.
Embedding sustainability into transportation execution
Our Transportation Management Solution embeds sustainability directly into day-to-day transportation execution, helping organizations reduce emissions while improving cost and service. Through close connectivity to the Blue Yonder Sustainable Supply Chain Manager our TMS provides visibility into transportation-related CO₂ output across modes, lanes, and carriers, enabling teams to measure, track, and report on environmental impact with greater confidence. Optional connectivity to the Blue Yonder Logistics Emissions calculator provides streamlined emissions data collection and audit ready reporting for detailed emissions analysis. Beyond measurement, Blue Yonder TMS utilizes advanced optimization, network modeling, 3-D load building, and scenario analysis to reduce empty miles, improve load consolidation, and support more sustainable mode and routing decisions. These capabilities enable companies to balance cost, service, and sustainability objectives, turning emissions management from a reporting exercise into an actionable part of transportation strategy.
“Our relationship with Blue Yonder drives visibility and value for our clients, equipping them with a sustainability toolkit to measure, reduce, and offset scope 3 supply chain emissions. As sustainability is a priority for supply chain decision-makers, we can drive forward key offsetting and insetting initiatives with clients as a true partner." – James Fry, VP Product, Zencargo. Learn more about how Zencargo makes supply chains more sustainable with Blue Yonder.
Supporting end to end supply chain execution
Blue Yonder Transportation Management is part of a broader suite of connected supply chain solutions, covering warehouse management, supply chain planning, production management, order management and returns. We believe that this unified approach supports the Gartner view that transportation is increasingly central to end to end supply chain execution and orchestration. By connecting transportation, planning, and execution across upstream and downstream processes, Blue Yonder improves service levels, removes silos, reduces costs, and enables organizations to respond faster to disruption without adding operational complexity.
Empowering transportation leaders for what comes next
We believe the continued recognition from Gartner of Blue Yonder as a Leader in Transportation Management Systems reflects our long standing commitment to helping customers manage transportation challenges while preparing for what comes next. As transportation networks become more global, dynamic, and interconnected, Blue Yonder remains focused on delivering intelligent, scalable and future ready transportation management solutions.
We extend our thanks to our customers and partners whose trust and collaboration continue to shape our innovation journey. If you are exploring how to modernize your transportation operations or support higher levels of complexity, we invite you to learn more about Blue Yonder Transportation Management and how it can support your organization’s transportation strategy.
ICON 2026
If you are looking to learn more about the innovations shaping the future of transportation, join us at Blue Yonder ICON, our annual conference for supply chain leaders and practitioners. ICON 2026 brings together customers, partners, and Blue Yonder experts for immersive sessions, hands on learning, and peer-to-peer networking, focusing on the real world challenges and outcomes across the end to end supply chain.
For those especially interested in transportation management, be sure to explore the session catalog, which includes dedicated TMS sessions designed to share practical insights on optimizing transportation operations, improving efficiency, and driving measurable cost savings.
Sources :
1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Manav Jain, 30 March 2026.
2 Blue Yonder was previously listed as i2/i2 Technologies/JDA/JDA Software; the company rebranded to Blue Yonder in February 2020.
3 Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Transportation Management Systems, Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Manav Jain, 30 March 2026.
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