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Blue Yonder WMS to Hibob integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob share in real time, so the people Hibob manages stay current in the system that runs finance and operations.

Hibob is the system of record for people: who was hired, which department and location they sit in, who they report to, and how they are paid. Blue Yonder WMS runs finance and operations, and much of what it does depends on that same information, from booking labor cost to approving an expense report to staffing a project. Where the two are bridged by re-keying or an overnight file, each side spends the day out of step, with new hires missing from the systems they need and leavers still active where they should not be.

Stacksync syncs Items / SKUs, Inventory balances, Inbound shipments (ASNs), Purchase orders in Blue Yonder WMS with People (Employees), Employment, Work, Salaries in Hibob field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so the people side stays authoritative for worker data while Blue Yonder WMS keeps its own accounting and operational detail, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.

Common use cases

  • 01 Feed shipment events into a customer-facing database for order tracking.
  • 02 Sync purchase orders from an ERP into Blue Yonder WMS as expected receipts, and write confirmed receipts back.
  • 03 Push Salaries and Variable Pay from Bob into a payroll provider or warehouse each pay cycle, using the Payroll-permitted service user.
  • 04 Mirror Work data (department, site, manager, title) into an org-chart or reporting warehouse for headcount and structure analysis.

Common sync patterns

Reporting lines drive approvals

Manager and reporting-hierarchy changes in Hibob keep expense and purchase approval chains in Blue Yonder WMS pointed at the right people.

Where Hibob runs payroll: labor cost in the books

Pay and compensation data from Hibob posts into Blue Yonder WMS as labor cost, so finance sees workforce spend without re-entering it by hand.

Where Hibob is the worker system of record: one employee master

When a worker is hired, moved, or offboarded in Hibob, the matching employee record in Blue Yonder WMS is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

What you can sync between Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Blue Yonder WMS objects Hibob objects How this pairing syncs
Locations and facilities Warehouse, zone, and bin structures referenced by every inventory transaction. Named lists Dropdown option lists such as departments and sites used to resolve field values when mapping People records during sync. Locations and facilities is specific to Blue Yonder WMS and Named lists to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Receipts Confirmed inbound quantities written back to close purchase order lines. People (Employees) Core employee records with out-of-the-box and custom fields; read via POST /people/search, created and updated through the /people endpoints. Receipts is specific to Blue Yonder WMS and People (Employees) to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Items / SKUs Product master records that must match the ERP item master for warehouse operations to reconcile. Employment Historical table of job terms, contract, and working pattern under /people/{id}/employment; full CRUD, entries keyed by effectiveDate. Items / SKUs is specific to Blue Yonder WMS and Employment to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Inventory balances On-hand quantities by location and lot, synced outward for availability and planning. Work Reporting line, department, site, and title under /people/{id}/work; drives the org chart and is synced two-way to directories. Inventory balances is specific to Blue Yonder WMS and Work to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Inbound shipments (ASNs) Advance ship notices created from purchase orders to drive receiving. Salaries Compensation history at /people/{id}/salaries; full CRUD but gated behind the Payroll permission on the service user. Inbound shipments (ASNs) is specific to Blue Yonder WMS and Salaries to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Purchase orders Expected receipts pushed from the ERP so the warehouse can plan inbound work. Time off Absence requests and who's-out data via /timeoff/employees/{id}/requests and /timeoff/whosout; submit new requests and read balances. Purchase orders is specific to Blue Yonder WMS and Time off to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Blue Yonder WMS Hibob Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Blue Yonder WMS for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling and scheduled extracts.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Hibob through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Hibob Blue Yonder WMS Sub-second propagation

DetectionHibob notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Blue Yonder WMS through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Blue Yonder WMS: Subject to the platform's API rate limits, which vary by contract and hosting model.
  • Hibob: Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
What ships with Blue Yonder WMS ⇄ Hibob

Connect Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Blue Yonder WMS–Hibob connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Blue Yonder WMS or Hibob instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Blue Yonder WMS or Hibob data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Blue Yonder WMS or Hibob record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Blue Yonder WMS ⇄ Hibob sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob.

How the Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob connectors work

Blue Yonder WMS

Integration surface
REST APIs on Blue Yonder's cloud platform (formerly branded Luminate); long-standing WMS deployments also expose MOCA-based integration interfaces
Authentication
Token-based authentication; specifics vary by deployment and platform edition
Change detection
Polling and scheduled extracts; event-style feeds depend on the deployment
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits, which vary by contract and hosting model

Hibob

Integration surface
REST API (the Bob API)
Authentication
Service User credentials over HTTP Basic auth (Base64-encoded serviceUserId:serviceUserToken); permissions granted per data category (People, Payroll, Documents) in Bob admin
Change detection
Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events; the employee.updated payload flags which fields changed and Bob recommends an API call for the full record. There is no CDC stream, and deleting a table entry fires no webhook (Bob has no table-entry deletion event).
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
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How it works

How to connect Blue Yonder WMS to Hibob — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Blue Yonder WMS connected
    Hibob connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Blue Yonder WMS and Hibob objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Blue Yonder WMS ⇄ Hibob
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Blue Yonder WMS Hibob
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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