Pavilion
As the hub of JDAConnect, the Pavilion provides the focal point for networking, meeting:
- Colleagues
- Industry peers
- Industry leading solution providers and their latest innovations
- JDA Solution Experts including key members from our consulting, support, education and training teams
All refreshment breaks throughout the conference will be offered in the Pavilion as well as the Cocktail reception on Wednesday 21 October
Mini Briefing Programme
| Wednesday 21 October | |
15:10 - 15:25 |
Store SnapShot: an Easy Solution to Your Shelf Monitoring Needs Store SnapShot allows you to collect shelf data in full detail, from gondola to fixture to product and position information, and export them in a ready-to-open Space Planning planogram file. Monitoring the implementation of HQ category management decisions has just become easier. Paolo Malucelli, Managing Director, gCS Software |
18:40 - 18:55 |
Realising Retail Transformation – The Limited Brands Story Achieving a Consumer driven Supply Chain at Limited Brands by implementing JDA Integrated Planning and Execution. In a perfect world, the merchandise on a retailer's shelf exactly matches consumer demand. The closer a company can move its planning and execution to perfect, the greater its revenues, quicker its response and better its in-stock positions. Hear how Limited Brands designed and implemented an integrated planning and execution model that enables a demand chain focused on speed & agility in planning, informed execution, and adaptability to both the business and customer environment. Marcel Meijer, Retail Executive Consultant, Capgemini |
| Thursday 22 October | |
11:10 - 11:25 |
Production Planning & Scheduling - What Can it do for You? In today's business climate manufacturing faces tough decisions in order to compete or survive. Many initiatives are available to help improve efficiency, for example Lean, Kaizan, Six Sigma, TOC, JIT. JDA's Production Planning and Scheduling embraces these concepts to support your manufacturing efficiency drives and assist in resolving key business issues. Tony McEvoy, Director Business Development, DBO Services |
12:40 - 12:55 |
Advanced Supply Chain Planning – the Key to Sustainable Growth. The pressures in all sectors to improve customer service whilst reducing costs has never been greater. Effective planning and management of the end-to-end supply chain is critical for sustained growth - and in some cases survival. The pressures placed on today's supply chains by multiple stakeholders makes cost and service optimisation an order of magnitude more difficult. The planning systems used today need be responsive, flexible, multi-purpose and useable. In this briefing we explain some of these pressures in greater detail, map the evolution of supply chain planning systems, aid the understanding of the implementation road map and outline the business benefits of Advanced Supply Chain Planning. Steve Ellesmere, Senior Supply Chain Consultant, Thales Group |

