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Special Interest Groups

Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings are being held at JDA FocusConnect on 25 October 2011, between 15:30 and 18:30.

Become an active member of JDA's supply chain business and technology community through JDA Support. Our customer network provides you with a unique forum to collaborate on industry challenges and innovative solution usage. Product users, industry specialists, designers and developers gather to share ideas and questions through our discussion forums and Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

To participate in SIG meetings, you must be a maintenance-paying user of the JDA product for the SIG you wish to join. Visit JDAUser.com to complete the SIG registration.

SIG membership provides you with the opportunity to:

• Gain insight into JDA product enhancement plans
• Recommend enhancements that benefit members and other users
• Vote on and influence the priority of product enhancements
• Network and build relationships with other SIG members

E3 SIG

SIG Chair: Paul Longshaw –Iceland

E3 SIG General Session

• SIG Chair introduction
• Impact of SIG voting on new release
  • Review of this year’s E3 Voting List (i.e. what made the cut/what didn’t).
• Best Practices
  • Forecasting Accuracy
    • What each Company’s current process for measuring/monitoring this is
    • What functions (if any) are used within E3 to enable this (e.g. Forecasting Accuracy Report / Dashboard)
    • How much external KPI data is being used for this process (i.e. SQL’s, bespoke in-house systems etc)
• JDA Updates & Roadmap:
  • New features and functionality introduced in latest versions of E3 Suite
  • New features and functionality being introduced in future versions of E3 Suite

Special E3 Network Optimization (OPT) session

• JDA updates:
  • Network Optimization by E3 – ‘A closer look’
  • How to manage external/non-store related demand for a distribution center (DC) in OPT environment

Intactix SIG

SIG Chair: Gareth Thomas – B&Q

Intactix SIG Session:

• Welcome & Introduction
• SIG Chair Election
  • New SIG Chair Nomination
  • New SIG Chair Voting
  • New SIG Chair Appointment
• Open discussion on ITX SIG EMEA (SIG Membership)
  • Objectives
  • Communication & attendance
  • Timelines
• Impact of SIG voting on new releases
  • Run through examples of SIG voting lists to demonstrate impact of SIG voting in new commercial releases
• New Features of Intactix Enterprise Suite (IES) version 7.8
  • Major new feature enhancements in Space Planning 7.8
    • Label Management
    • Cap Tray or Case with Units
    • Database Assortment Library for Assortment Optimization
  • Major new feature enhancements in Floor Planning 7.8
    • Floorplan Space Allocation
    • Label Management
    • Update from fixture library
  • Major new feature enhancements in Intactix Knowledge Base 7.8
    • IKB Accounts
    • Intactix Batch Processing
    • Assortment Optimization Support
    • Analysis Reports NOLOCK
  • Major new feature enhancements in Assortment Optimization 7.8
    • Intactix Knowledge Base Integration
    • Space Definition IKB Planograms
  • Major new feature enhancements in Planogram Generator 7.8
    • Action List Enhancements
    • Fixture Types and Merchandising Styles
• JDA Updates & Product Roadmap
  • New features & functionality being introduced in future versions of the Intactix Enterprise Suite
  • Open discussion / comments / suggestions (SIG Membership)

Transportation SIG

SIG Chair: TBC

Transportation SIG Session:

• SIG Introduction and Chairperson election
• JDA Product updates and Roadmap
  • i2 and Manugistics Product convergence and long-term roadmap
  • New functionalities in the latest releases of i2 and Manu Transportation products
• Customer case study by Penske
• Enhancement voting overview
• Open discussion / comments / suggestions on EMEA Transportation SIG

Demand & Fulfilment (D&F) SIG

SIG Chair: Guillaume Pézieux – Keystone Foods

Demand & Fulfillment SIG Session:

• Introductions / Purpose of SIG
• EMEA Demand & Fullfilment SIG meetings since JDAConnect 2010
  • Plan from previous SIG
  • Meetings arranged
  • Proposal for 2011/12
• JDA updates & Roadmap
  • Major new feature enhancements in Demand & Fulfillment v7.8
  • Architecture Convergence plans
• SIG Voting process and timetable
• Customer presentations
  • Georgia Pacific – "Why continue investment with JDA vs. starting over with APO?"
  • Review of other presentations at JDA FocusConnect
• 'SIG Chair' election
  • Pre-nominations
  • Voting

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