MANUFACTURING PLANNING Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management JDA Software: Strategically Connecting All of the Stakeholders Within Your Extended Enterprise.
Companies are striving to achieve greater supply chain visibility for smarter decision making through integrated planning and execution. Why do companies worldwide rely on JDA Software to align planning and execution across their extended enterprises? Real Results. Fast. JDA Software helps the world s leading retailers, manufacturers and wholesaler-distributors to achieve tangible benefits by enabling visibility, collaboration and synchronization across their networks. Here are some real results that our customers have achieved with JDA s Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management solutions: Improved supply chain visibility and operations Improved forecast accuracy by more than 10 percent with some customers maintaining as high as 97.8 percent average forecast accuracy Increased fill rates by as much as 20-30 percent with some customers averaging performance of 99.1 percent Reduced supplier response time to order changes by 40-50 percent Improved material planner productivity by 50-60 percent Gained real-time views into partners demand forecasts, current orders and replenishment needs Decreased logistics and operational costs by 10-28 percent Cut transportation costs in half as company stopped shipping multiple pallets daily Optimized inventory investment and availability Reduced weeks of on-hand inventory by as much as 30 percent Decreased comparable store inventory by 32 percent on average per week Reduced excess and obsolete inventory as much as 15-30 percent Increased availability of high-demand inventory by 15 percent and stocking breadth by 12.5 percent Lowered returns by as much as 20 percent Supported higher sales and customer satisfaction Increased comparable store sales by as much as 24 percent Boosted inventory turns by as much as 42 percent Maintained in-stock levels in excess of 99 percent Increased sales by as much as 3-5 percent by gaining a complete picture of demand for regular and promotional items and current stock positions Improved consumer satisfaction by ensuring the optimal allocation of product to each store cluster and each individual store Reduced distribution center (DC) lost sales by up to 70 percent while maintaining optimum service levels * Represents actual results realized by JDA customers Challenge: Limited Supply Chain Visibility and Agility Both Internally and Between Trading Partners In today s global marketplace, retailers, wholesalerdistributors, manufacturers and suppliers have little room for error and no place for sluggish performance. A lack of consensus across key internal departments such as merchandising, marketing, replenishment, transportation and finance too often results in professionals trying to make timely decisions with latent and even inaccurate information. When factoring in trading partners, even more ramifications ensue. Visibility into seasonal promotions, sales fluctuations, supply interruptions, potential recalls and other supply chain disruptions comes too little, too late. Every link in the supply chain risks bottom-line consequences; from out-ofstocks and lost sales to excess inventory and lost profits. To optimize supply chain processes and decision making, retailers, manufacturers and wholesalerdistributors need a solution that enables effective and seamless collaboration among every key decision maker from planning, promotions and sales to operations, procurement and logistics teams. Solution: JDA Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management Solution Suite Now you can break down the silos that hinder communication and consensus building with JDA s Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management solution suite. Our award-winning offering aligns planning and execution across departments within your company and externally with your trading partners. With its comprehensive capabilities, Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management enables teams to synchronize any time-phased data such as projected forecasts, orders and plans related to merchandise, promotions, category or regional sales, transportation and replenishment activities. In addition, the JDA Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management solutions enable manufacturers to proactively work with their suppliers. The solutions address the issues that most companies face with fragmented supplier interactions across a number of different systems, portals and electronic data interchange (EDI) exchanges. With JDA s solution, manufacturers can tailor supply strategies for all purchased parts based on different criteria, including part characteristics, part demand profile, lead times and costs.
Leverage a Shared Synchronized View of Demand and Supply With constantly evolving product choices and trends, maintaining inventory levels that synchronize supply with demand has become increasingly difficult to do. More than ever companies need to collaborate across their functional areas to better predict future consumer demand. JDA is uniquely qualified to help your company transition to an integrated planning framework that facilitates the planning, development and execution of highly accurate, consolidated forecasts. Our statistical models can help to determine what the future of demand may be for your regular turn business and promotional items at the shelf or DC. JDA s Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management solution then accommodates the input of human intelligence and data from your functional departments and key trading partners. You ll have a collaborative platform to audit your demand streams and take action on any exceptions. Everyone will have access to the best possible view of timephased demand plans so you can synchronize with your sources of supply and better meet consumer preferences. Gain Supply Chain Visibility for Smarter Decisions and Integrated Execution Whether collaborating internally on projected forecasts and inventory plans or externally on the development, maintenance and measurement of joint business plans, your teams will see the big picture with JDA s Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management. Everyone can work smarter with these solutions supporting knowledge exchange on consumer demand signals and other key insights: Manufacturers can offer a unique understanding of their products seasonality, causal effectiveness and special terms and deals Wholesaler-distributors can look at existing inventories and make recommendations to adjust order shipments Merchants can tap into their vast promotional experience and unique knowledge to target local markets for growth strategies Store operations can provide alerts regarding how well products are moving off the shelf by sharing point-of-sale data and providing input on promotional display quantities Transportation service providers can offer strategies to help address fluctuating fuel prices Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers can better manage supply variability and increase their order fill rates In addition to providing a platform for extending visibility and sharing knowledge across teams and partners, JDA Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management facilitates consensus building and supply chain synchronization. Since these solutions are inherently integrated to our supply chain planning and execution suite, you ll confirm that the right level of inventory is appropriately positioned within your supply chain, ready for your customers to purchase. Now all sides can reap the benefits of more targeted promotions, assortments, pricing and replenishment processes. Act Fast, Intelligently on Plan Variances When working in a collaborative environment, you need the capability to consider what-if scenarios. JDA s solutions enable you to do this and more by allowing you to view and create multiple versions of a plan as it matures and becomes updated. Leveraging an easy-to-use and Web-native interface, your decision makers may notice, for example, that the sales department is consistently providing higher numbers than the statistical forecast each quarter. With JDA s versioning capability, your team can see multiple inputs over time and make judgments as to which departments are providing the most value. You can then adjust your plan in real time by properly weighing input across time horizons that drive the most accurate results. JDA Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management also provides flexibility when sharing information with your trading partners. You can tailor processes and business rules to monitor and maintain the desired relationship with each partner individually. For example, you may want to share replenishment, forecasting and manufacturing plans with one customer, but share only forecasting plans with another. By improving synchronization throughout your extended network, you can adapt to any changes and opportunities that come your way. Sample of JDA s Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management Customers Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd. ADTRAN, Inc. American Airlines Inc. AT&T Mobility LLC Avon Products, Inc. Bayer Corporation BIC Corporation BJ s Wholesale Club Inc. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Cadbury Adams USA LLC Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. Caterpillar Inc. Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Cooper Tires Operations LLC Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Coach, Inc. Corporate Express Office Products Inc. Coty Inc. Cummins Inc. Defense Logistics Agency DPMS Energizer Holdings Inc. Foster s Group Limited General Motors Corporation Georgia-Pacific Corporation Glazer s Wholesale Distribution IKEA IT AB James Hardie Building Products Inc. Lenovo Lowe s Companies Inc. Meijer Inc. Merck Serono S.A. Mr Price Group Ltd. OfficeMax Incorporated ON Semiconductor Corporation Perdue Farms RadioShack Corporation Revlon Inc. Rite Aid Corporation Robert Bosch LLC Ross Stores Inc. The Scotts Company LLC The Timberland Company The TJX Companies Inc. Tyson Foods Inc. Unilever Brasil Ltda. Wal-Mart.com USA LLC Westinghouse Lighting Corporation Now you can be among the JDA Visibility, Collaboration & Performance Management customers reporting outstanding results and an unsurpassed customer experience with the following components: Advanced Marketplace Collaboration Business Analysis Business Intelligence Cloud Connect Collaborate Collaborative Shelf Planning & Analytics Collaborative Supply Execution Marketplace Performance Management for Retail Performance Management for Supply Chain Supply Chain Visibility Track & Trace
JDA Delivers End-to-End Capabilities to Strategically Connect Your Extended Enterprise INTERNAL COLLABORATION (Sales & Operations Planning, Consensus Demand Planning) Enables seamless collaboration on any time-phased data such as Improves forecast accuracy category, region, key customer or distribution center forecasts, Reduces inventory investment replenishment plans, transportation plans and production schedules Enhances customer satisfaction Brings teams onto the same page by providing a foundation for consistent Drives sales and profits planning processes, metrics and reporting Decreases out-of-stocks Aligns operations with planning, sales and marketing teams to ensure that promotional impacts and key customer decisions are included in consensus forecasts Features single location to consolidate one version of the truth Ensures consistent communication and more effective consensus-building processes across the enterprise EXTERNAL COLLABORATION (CPFR, Supplier Collaboration) Supports the joint development, maintenance, monitoring and measurement of business plans, forecasts and replenishment programs Enables the consistent and automatic sharing of real-time data streams such as seasonal profiles and promotional data with key vendors and trading partners Improves synchronization on promotional, replenishment, forecasting and manufacturing plans throughout an extended network Supports end-to-end planning and execution workflows, including sharing of capacities, forecasts, orders, logistics and inventory Supports various collaborative inventory management programs SECURE PORTAL Features a private exchange that securely connects trading partners Delivers incremental security to host members existing firewalls and Internet protection Offers administrative assistance when adding or deleting trading partners Supports community atmosphere with list of participating hosts and vendors to drive adoption Provides links to educational materials to help sell the benefits of collaborative programs internally and with trading partners Ensures on-time order arrivals and higher order fill rates Reduces shipments and transportation costs Aligns inventory with channel consumption Improves utilization of production capacity Reduces supply chain variability Improves material planner efficiency Reduces procurement and logistics expenses as well as material grief reduction and error costs Facilitates knowledge sharing Contributes to consistent communication Supports quick access to information Decreases security risks CUSTOMIZED ALERTING Proactively monitors key business data and events in real time and then automatically reacts to predefined conditions as they occur Puts actionable information in the right hands by sending automated, color-coded priority alerts when a problem arises or data is out of tolerance Provides alerts to exceptions that may impact the sales forecast such as overstocks and SKUs performing differently than what was predefined in thresholds Automatically prioritizes items based on the highest profitability impact SCENARIO VERSIONING Enables users to view and create multiple versions of data streams without altering the inventory of record Supports making real-time adjustments to any key data such as material requirements, manufacturing plans, forecasts, merchandising and replenishment quantities Tracks inputs over time for a historical perspective Provides role-based access so users can control how they view data based on their most important requirements Features flexible hierarchies for viewing data in various units of measure and currencies REPORTING & ANALYTICS Provides dynamic navigation Includes custom key performance indicator-leveraging scorecards and dashboards Offers single user interface for cross-enterprise measurements Provides automated report distribution, exception detection and resolution Offers correlation analysis through predictive analytics TRACKING, TRACING & BRAND PROTECTION Provides powerful network-wide quality assurance (QA) management solution featuring robust reporting, holds execution, recall execution and reconciliation capabilities Automates the product recall process by precisely identifying the locations and customers that receive suspect lots, saving significant time and costs while protecting the brand Delivers a single solution for complete electronic traceability across the extended supply chain Provides a chain of custody for any item manufactured, stored or shipped within the supply chain, enabling regulatory compliance and effective execution of product holds and recalls Enables immediate action to critical issues Prevents exceptions from continuing for prolonged periods Keeps teams informed and on the same page Improves performance Improves material planner efficiency Reduces procurement and logistics expenses as well as material grief reduction and error costs Supports more informed decision making Provides a framework for what-if analysis Enables decision makers to instantly see the effects of any changes to key variables Promotes more creative thinking Provides increased network and trading partner visibility Enables company and supply chain performance monitoring and measurement against best practices Enables proactive issue circumvention with predictive analytics Minimizes losses associated with recall due to directed holds and recall communication and execution Improves risk mitigation, forecast accuracy and trading partner collaboration Expedites receiving processes and enhanced visibility and control Improves network-wide inventory accuracy Improves item freshness due to better visibility into accurate expiration date information Reduces overall inventory levels while increasing on-shelf availability
Deploy JDA Software Solutions via JDA Cloud Services Protect your JDA software investment and increase business agility by having JDA experts manage, monitor and maintain your JDA solutions. JDA Cloud Services reduces your implementation time and risk while enabling you to quickly and easily deploy new functionality to keep pace with your changing business needs. With your software running in the cloud and upgrades included in your service, you will benefit from solutions that are optimized for your specific business requirements to help ensure that you achieve and sustain a long-term return on your investment. About JDA Software Group, Inc. At JDA, we re fearless leaders. We re the leading provider of end-to-end, integrated retail and supply chain planning and execution solutions for more than 4,000 customers worldwide. Our unique solutions empower our clients to achieve more by optimizing costs, increasing revenue and reducing time to value so they can always deliver on their customer promises. Using JDA, you can plan to deliver. jda.com jda.com info@jda.com Americas Europe Asia Pacific US +1.800.479.7382 Canada & Latin America +1.480.308.3555 UK & Northern Europe +44 (0) 1344.354500 France & Southern Europe +33 (0) 1.56.79.27.00 Singapore +65.6305.4350 Australia +61.3.9860.1000 Japan +81.3.4461.1000 China +86.21.2327.9400 South Korea +82.2.3016.0700 India +91.22.6700.0794 Copyright 2014, JDA Software Group, Inc. All rights reserved. JDA is a Registered Trademark of JDA Software Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be Trademarks, Registered Trademarks or Service Marks of the companies with which they are associated. JDA reserves the right at any time and without notice to change these materials or any of the functions, features or specifications of any of the software described herein. JDA shall have no warranty obligation with respect to these materials or the software described herein, except as approved in JDA s Software License Agreement with an authorized licensee. 10.28.14