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Supply Chain Now™
JDA Software helps midsized
companies increase profits and
cash flow to fuel growth
A supply chain
management solution
that delivers accelerated
ROI with reduced risk in
as fast as four months.
Impact Your Bottom Line – Now
Leverage Your Supply Chain to Fuel Growth in as Fast as Four Months
All companies in today’s business environment are faced with a number of difficult
and often conflicting challenges, including the need to:
• Rapidly increase product assortments in response to increasing consumer demand
• Maintain competitiveness by responding quicker to changing demand, as well as
continuously reducing inventory and the cost of operations
• Improve customer service and availability at the shelf to gain market share in a
tough economy
• Optimize supply chain strategies, which often involve complex global networks for
importing materials and distributing finished product
“JDA’s products provided clear
financial and operating results
while improving our [supply
chain] capabilities and capacity.
It has enabled us to take on the
future. All of JDA’s solutions
work in concert with each other.
We use an integrated system to
drive real results.”
Brett Frankenberg,
Vice President of Supply Chain
Management and Inventory Planning,
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
Eighty-three percent of the world’s top 100 consumer product goods manufacturers
rely on JDA Software to solve these challenges1. JDA recognizes that midsized
companies also have the same challenges but may not have the capacity or resources
to implement and support a solution in a traditional manner. In response, JDA
has assembled the industry’s first prescriptive supply chain solution offering that
combines unparalleled speed of deployment with the advanced capabilities that have
made JDA a leading provider of supply chain management technology.
JDA’s innovative new offering is called Supply Chain Now™. Delivered via the JDA®
Private Cloud, it is a fully maintained solution that delivers a return on investment in
as quickly as four months. You’ll be able to increase profits and achieve your business
objectives without burdening your already-taxed IT department with yet another
initiative. And, since Supply Chain Now is based on the same market-leading platform
used by the global top 100 companies, the solution capabilities can be expanded as
your business grows in volume and complexity.
Consider Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, a $1.4 billion beverage distributor: the
company needed to respond to escalating customer demand for more innovative
products on the retail shelf. To address this challenge, the leading Coke bottler turned
to JDA to successfully deliver a 300 percent increase in new product mix – all while
reducing inventory levels by 50 percent and improving customer service by
15 percent.
Results like Coca-Cola Bottling’s can provide the cash needed to accelerate
your growth. Industry-leading companies, including Stanley Black & Decker
Hardware & Home Improvement and The Sun Products Corporation, have
realized bottom-line business benefits through the use of JDA solutions and
services. Some of our customers’ improvements include:
• 80 percent increase in planning cycle speed
• 50 percent reduction in inventory levels
• 15 percent improvement in service levels
• Increased operating income while delaying or avoiding capital expenditures
JDA’s Supply Chain Now can help you:
• Reduce risk: Avoid a lengthy, potentially disruptive implementation by
letting JDA manage and maintain the solutions for you
“[JDA] exceeded our
expectations, ensuring that
we went live on time and
on budget. There wasn’t any
business interruption and we
have not experienced any
down time since day one.”
Joe Manco,
Director, IT Business Applications,
The Sun Products Corporation
• Ensure success: Implement a proven supply chain planning platform and
best practices used by some of the world’s foremost companies
• Grow as you go: Expand your supply chain capabilities to meet the needs
of your business as it grows in volume and complexity
Growth Strategies
New Products
New Channels/Customers
Market Expansion
Results Delivered
Market Challenges
Increased Inventory Turn
Improved Capacity Utilization
Successful New Product
Launches
Quicker Supply Chain
Response
Customer Expectations
Competitor Actions
Economic Uncertainty
Operational Challenges
Capacity Constraints
Logistics Delays
Inventory Issues
Late Supplies
Low Risk, Speed-to-Value Supply Chain Optimization
JDA Supply Chain Now is Your Foundation for Growth and Efficiency
The need for speed is critical when making business decisions
that impact the bottom line. JDA’s Supply Chain Now can help
your team make smarter decisions faster, as well as quickly
adjust when plans change abruptly or do not materialize as
expected. By enhancing your core supply chain management
capabilities, you will be better equipped to stay on top of
changing business conditions through:
• Automation of forecasting and inventory planning
• Reduced time-intensive data gathering and analysis
• Guided decisions that are quickly adopted by your supply
chain planners
• Advanced notice of potential supply chain issues, allowing
you to proactively avoid unnecessary expediting costs and
missed service level commitments
• Flexibility to replan the end-to-end supply chain when
business conditions change
Ensure Financial Success through a Proven, Low-Risk Delivery
Companies must constantly decide which initiatives to
pursue based on three main criteria: 1) the expected return
on investment; 2) the business processes, resources and skills
required to be successful; and 3) the time-to-benefit.
Introducing new technology to enhance your supply chain may
be difficult, or even prohibitive, based on the lack of available IT
resources – even if there is a clear and compelling business case.
Supply Chain Now is designed to overcome these barriers by:
• Eliminating the cost and effort required to install, run and
maintain your supply chain applications. This lowers the risk
and cost of delivery, as well as accelerates the time-to-value
so that you can focus on your business.
• Providing a prescriptive process based on JDA’s years of
experience that get you on the fast track to industry best
practice. In addition to offering a world-class process in a box,
Supply Chain Now is delivered by JDA’s consultants through a
streamlined optimized implementation process designed to
minimize risk and delivery timeframe.
• Staying by your side post implementation to monitor and
measure your progress against your goals
• Helping you develop a roadmap for additional business
improvement
• Delivering tangible benefits that impact your bottom line in
as fast as four months
The Sun Products Corporation, for example, lacked the IT
infrastructure and resources to quickly establish new supply
chain management capabilities. The leading laundry-care
manufacturer partnered with JDA to help run its day-to-day IT
operations, including disaster recovery, upgrades and expensive
server costs. As a result, Sun Products is free to focus on
managing its complex and global supply chain network.
Balance Your Supply and Demand While Driving
Out Costs
Supply Chain Now will help you meet customer expectations,
drive down operational costs and optimize inventory levels
through improved demand-supply alignment. The solution
offering will enhance your core supply chain management
processes from demand forecasting to supply planning.
You’ll benefit from:
• Better insight into customer demand patterns
• Improved inventory positioning across locations and time
to satisfy demand
• Synchronized inventory, distribution and production or
purchasing decisions
Like many other manufacturers, Oxford Industries needed to
streamline its global supply chain planning processes. The
company, which operates private-label and licensed-apparel
businesses under brands such as Tommy Bahama and Ben Sherman,
leverages JDA solutions to help it synchronize demand with sources of
supply. This has helped Oxford Industries increase forecast accuracy,
reduce operational costs and improve sales.
Similarly, The Glazer’s Family of Companies needed to overcome
challenges with stock-outs and product obsolescence, which were taking
a toll on the company’s vendor relationships. With the support of JDA’s
supply chains solutions, Glazer’s established key performance indicators
around customer service, inventory turns and forecast accuracy. Today,
the beverage distributor can proactively react to shifts in demand,
resulting in improved inventory management and collaboration with
internal and external stakeholders.
With Supply Chain Now, your organization will also be able to react to
customer demand faster and increase inventory turns so that you are
poised for future growth.
“The flexibility and scalability
of JDA’s solutions can serve
to improve the demand and
supply planning processes for
any company, as well as provide
the opportunity to increase
sales and reduce operational
costs through better inventory
management at the wholesale
and retail levels.”
John Baumgartner,
Chief Information Officer,
Oxford Industries
Key Supply Chain Now Capabilities
Demand Management
• Provides multi-level demand forecasting
• Enables statistical forecasting and market-event adjustment
• Facilitates top-down/bottom-up reconciliation
• Measures forecast performance
• Offers a 12 to 15 month forecast horizon
Replenishment and Inventory Planning
• Generates planned shipments from plants/suppliers to distribution centers
• Enables time-phased shipment and inventory plans
• Respects safety stocks, lead times, operation calendars, ordering and inventory policies
• Allocates inventory deployment in constrained supply conditions
• Builds transportation loads based on capacity constraints and order priorities
• Offers a 12 to 15 month planning horizon
Production Planning
• Generates planned orders for manufacturing
• Respects capacity constraints, production rates and bill of materials
• Automates load leveling
Order Optimization
• Generates optimized purchase orders to suppliers
• Respects order policies and constraints
• Considers ordering costs, inventory levels and service level targets
Reporting and Monitoring
• Offers built-in workbenches and flexible editors to display the plan
• Generates configurable stock-out, stock-low and stock-high exceptions
• Provides a summarized exception report
1. “Top 100: The Consumer Goods Registry,” Consumer Goods Technology, November 2009
Act Today with JDA’s Supply Chain Now
For more than 25 years, companies of all sizes have leveraged the power of JDA’s innovative supply chain
solutions and services. From raw materials to store shelf – and every step in between – JDA possesses
a unique understanding of supply chain obstacles and opportunities, helping thousands of diverse
companies around the world transform their supply chains into a powerful competitive advantage.
JDA’s Supply Chain Now delivered via the JDA Private Cloud combines unmatched heritage in providing
best-in-class solutions to companies like yours with rapid deployment methodology, managed services,
user education and ongoing support.
Find out how Supply Chain Now can provide your business with a low-risk, speed-to-value way
to optimize your supply chain and establish a strong foundation for growth.
Visit www.jda.com/solutions/supply-chain-now or e-mail [email protected] for more information.
“Shifting from a transaction-based replenishment execution to integrated supply
chain planning helped us reduce inventory levels, improve vendor collaboration
and focus on the customer. This supply chain transformation was pivotal to
establishing a foundation for future growth.”
Dave Christensen,
Supply Chain Strategy Manager,
The Glazer’s Family of Companies
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, is a
leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and
pricing excellence solutions. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes
to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the
discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail
and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire
supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage
and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies®,
Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. JDA’s multiple service options, delivered
via the JDA® Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid
time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical
support and expertise. To learn more about JDA Software, please visit www.jda.com,
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