Workshops
As part of your JDA FocusConnect registration, you will get the chance to attend one of the following workshops on the 25 October:
To reserve your place, simply select your chosen workshop during the registration process or contact John Hinton at john.hinton@jda.com.
Last year's workshops filled very quickly, so we would suggest reserving your place early!
Integrated Assortment Management Workshop:
Connecting your Planning, Buying and Supply Chain
11:00 - 12:45 | Tuesday 25 October
Attend this session to learn how JDA can enrich your assortment management process though the use of:
- Product, location and customer attributes within Merchandise
- Financial planning to build customer centric merchandise targets
- Intelligent store clustering accounting for customer preferences
- Time Phased assortment plans that enable localised assortments
- Advanced allocation techniques that cater for store specific demand
Shelf Connected Supply Chain:
Seamlessly Flowing your Product from Supplier to the Shelf
14:00 - 16:30 | Thursday 27 October
Attend this session to learn how retailers are now linking their assortment decisions, store specific planogramm to guide their demand-driven supply chain. Discuss how the management of promotions is becoming an integrated process that spans across financial planning, promotion optimization, space and allocation / replenishment and supplier collaboration to enable a non disruptive and efficient promotional activity.
Advanced Sales & Operations Planning Interactive Workshop
hosted by Oliver Wight and JDA Software
11:00 - 15:00 | Tuesday 25 October
The difference between successful organisations and the rest is their ability to respond to changing conditions. At this workshop, you will learn how Integrated Business Planning (Advanced S&OP) will make sure your organisation is prepared for the future, whatever lies ahead:
- Transition S&OP into a rolling business management process
- Gain complete control of your supply chain
- Stay ahead of demand - and the competition
- Deploy and align your people behind your business strategy
- Identify performance gaps early
- Enable business scenario modelling
- Establish the optimum plan for your business
- Generate rolling business plans with a 24-36 month horizon
- Provide full financial appraisal of rolling business plans
- Leverage technology to enable mature S&OP process
- Realise sustainable growth
- Improved profitability
The process of S&OP was first designed to manage the balance of supply and demand but it has evolved into the business management process and, as such, is commonly understated and misrepresented. This workshop will demonstrate a simulation of best practice Integrated Business Planning and help you identify whether your existing processes are capable of supporting this world. It will show that moving from an operational focus to a fully integrated business process can give you absolute control over all your product, demand and supply chain activities, with clear articulation of the financial consequences and projections, to deliver substantial benefits straight to your bottom line.
It will enable an interactive exploration of best practice, providing the opportunity to explore common shortcomings, set appropriate ambition through role-play to demonstrate the potential of IBP and enable gap analysis.
One Stop Shop
Meeting the Challenges of Multi-Channel Retailing
13:00 - 15:00 | Tuesday 25 October
Multi-channel retailing is a deceptively easy concept. Simple in terminology, but complex to deliver. For the past few years, retail channel managers have had the luxury of choosing how multi-channel they want to be - they are about to lose that privilege.
This thought leadership session will provide an overview of the latest trends in multi-channel retailing, putting the Generation C (Connect, Community, Communicate, Content) consumer in the centre of the end-to-end planning / supply chain and order management processes.