Blue Yonder makes software that companies use to run their supply chains and is owned by Panasonic. As of October 3, 2026, its locations page lists a Scottsdale office at 15059 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 350, which it labels an Administrative Office, and the newest Arizona headcount Arizona AI found is about 300 employees, a company figure reported in May 2022. The company says retailers, manufacturers and logistics service providers rely on its platform from planning through fulfillment, delivery and returns, including forecasting and managing capacity, inventory and transport, and it says it serves more than 3,000 such customers. When Panasonic agreed to buy the company in 2021, it named Albertsons, Best Buy, BP, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, DHL, Diageo, Lowes, Marks & Spencer, Mercedes Benz, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Unilever and Walmart among its customers. Blue Yonder Holding, Inc. is now a subsidiary of Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., part of Japan's Panasonic Group. According to the company's leadership page, its chief executive is Duncan Angove, and its board is chaired by Ken Sain, the chief executive of Panasonic Connect.
Blue Yonder's place in the AI economy is as a software supplier, not a hardware maker [not independently verified]. The Blue Yonder name itself came from a German artificial intelligence firm that JDA acquired in 2018 to power its growing need for predictive analytics and automated decision making. The company now says it embeds predictive, generative and agentic AI in its supply chain software, that its platform makes more than 25 billion predictions a day, and that it supports military logistics, sustainment and readiness missions. These describe the company's products as a whole, not work done in Arizona. Its defense unit is listed at Dallas and Arlington, Virginia addresses, not in Arizona [not independently verified]. Arizona AI found no source showing that the company designs, makes or packages chips or runs a data center in Arizona [not independently verified].
The company's Arizona history runs through Scottsdale. The business was founded in 1985 as JDA Software, a provider of inventory management software for the retail industry, and took the name Blue Yonder in February 2020. In its annual report for 2011, JDA listed its principal executive offices at 14400 North 87th Street in Scottsdale, where it owned a 136,000 square foot, three-story office building with a parking garage on about 8.8 acres. In September 2015 it signed a lease for about 55,530 square feet in a new building of about 170,000 square feet at Scottsdale Quarter, a move then expected in early 2016. According to a City of Scottsdale council report, JDA had weighed relocating to other parts of the country, worked with the city's economic development team and the Arizona Commerce Authority, and chose to stay. The city counted the opening of the Scottsdale Quarter offices among its accomplishments for fiscal year 2015/16, saying the decision retained the company's headquarters offices in Scottsdale and 347 jobs at an average annual wage of more than $100,000. The report does not say whether any incentive was paid.
In May 2022, Blue Yonder reported about 300 employees in Arizona, while putting its worldwide headcount at more than 5,700. Arizona AI found no newer Arizona count. As of October 3, 2026, the company's locations page lists its Scottsdale office at 15059 N Scottsdale Rd, Suite 350, and labels it an Administrative Office. The same page lists an office in Coppell, Texas as its Global Innovation Center and calls neither site the headquarters [not independently verified]. Because no current primary source names Scottsdale as the headquarters, Arizona AI describes it as the company's Scottsdale office.
JDA was listed on Nasdaq until December 2012, when it was taken private by an affiliate of RedPrairie at $45.00 per share [not independently verified]. Panasonic took a 20% minority stake and one board seat in July 2020. In April 2021 it announced it would buy the remaining 80% for $5.6 billion, an investment of $7.1 billion including repayment of outstanding debt, from New Mountain Capital and funds managed by Blackstone [not independently verified]. The purchase closed in September 2021 and valued Blue Yonder at $8.5 billion. These are prices for the whole worldwide company, not money invested in Arizona. At the time, Panasonic said Blue Yonder's revenue for 2020 was over $1 billion, 67% of it recurring, that it held 400+ patents granted and pending, and that it had been named a leader in all three Gartner Magic Quadrants covering supply chain planning, transportation management and warehouse management.
On November 21, 2024, Blue Yonder disclosed that a ransomware attack was disrupting its managed services hosted environment, causing significant disruptions for some customers. SecurityWeek reported that Starbucks said the incident affected its ability to pay baristas and manage employee schedules, and that UK grocers Morrisons and Sainsbury's were hit [not independently verified]. No Arizona-specific impact was reported. On August 1, 2024, the company completed its acquisition of One Network Enterprises, a U.S.-based company; Panasonic's report does not state the price. In May 2022, Panasonic said it planned to spin out a public company centered on Blue Yonder, but its results for the fiscal year ended March 2025 still describe Blue Yonder Holding as a Panasonic Connect subsidiary. As of October 2026 the company's leadership page said its board was chaired by the chief executive of Panasonic Connect, and no public listing was found [not independently verified]. For the fiscal year ended March 2026, Panasonic reported that Blue Yonder's sales increased on steady SaaS sales, without giving an amount.
Taken together, the facts show a supply chain software company that was founded in 1985 and had its principal offices in Scottsdale by 2011, considered leaving Arizona and stayed in 2016, and is now part of Panasonic, with a Scottsdale office the company labels administrative and an Arizona workforce last reported at about 300 people in 2022.