Blue Yonder deployed its 'Cognitive Solutions' framework in May 2025 — backed by a $2 billion investment — which is designed to make supply chains progressively self-managing by letting AI software monitor conditions, reason through options, make decisions, and take action across planning and operations.

At the center of Cognitive Solutions is a proprietary decision model called the SADA Loop (See, Analyze, Decide, Act), adapted from military decision-making frameworks. Blue Yonder rebuilt 28 planning applications onto a single cloud platform with a shared data model on Snowflake's AI Data Cloud and Microsoft Azure, removing the data silos that previously prevented AI from acting across the full supply chain. A supply chain knowledge graph — developed with Snowflake and RelationalAI — stores business relationships in a machine-readable form so AI agents can reason more accurately. Five domain-specific AI agents were launched alongside this framework, and Blue Yonder introduced an Agent Activation Advisory service to help customers deploy agents within 6–12 weeks. The platform processes more than 25 billion AI predictions every day.