Manufacturing

JDA Software is uniquely positioned to address the key challenges and strategic initiatives of manufacturers worldwide. Some crucial areas in which JDA can provide competitive advantage solutions that deliver high return on investment include:

• Managing Global Demand and Fulfillment: There is a massive shift in managing demand and fulfillment processes to the global stage. It is more critical than ever to generate the most accurate view possible of both short- and long-term demand in order to drive optimized order fulfillment in serving local markets.
• Managing Growth: Significant growth over the past few years has been largely driven by new product innovations and globalization effects. Key challenges presented by these factors include determining the most optimal product launch strategies and most strategic way to invest in capacity, logistics and inventory placement throughout the network.
• Improving Responsiveness and Flexibility while Staying Lean: Manufacturers face the ongoing challenge of optimizing the cost tradeoffs associated with responsiveness and flexibility gains. In a global environment with increased competition, manufacturers must move beyond outdated practices in order to stay lean while maximizing profit.
• Managing Working Capital: High product proliferations, consolidations and third parties have substantially increased supply chain complexity. It is critical to consistently evaluate and optimize the total working capital invested in the supply chain.
• Managing Transportation and Logistics: The transportation landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, forcing manufacturers to rethink their strategies to address imports and exports, increasing freight costs, weak freight network infrastructure, constrained network-wide capacity, new government and environmental regulations as well as an overall increased awareness of and demand for better logistics data.
• Adopting Lean and Green Initiatives: Today’s manufacturers are increasingly involved in the expanding industry trend to adopt a socially responsible supply chain that minimizes waste and optimizes energy utilization from production to logistics operations.

Helping Manufacturers Worldwide Achieve Real Results

JDA Software has the expertise and proven solutions that address the critical needs of the manufacturing industry. We’ll help you better connect with consumers to drive more localized assortments and boost shelf productivity while responding quickly to market trends. We can also enable you to optimize your three largest costs: transportation, inventory and production. Count on JDA solutions to meet your business requirements and achieve real results.

JDA Addresses Your Business Requirements:

• Demand management
• Promotional forecasting and trade fund management
• Allocation and replenishment, including fulfillment and deployment, vendor-managed inventory (VMI), dynamic demand response, warehouse forecasting and replenishment
• Strategic network design and inventory policy optimization
• Supply and manufacturing management
• Global transportation management for inbound and outbound freight
• Collaboration, including collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR)
• Space and category management and optimization
• Performance management

Benefits Delivered (Actual results realized by JDA Software customers):

• Improved service levels up to 15 percent
• Reduced global raw materials and finished goods up to 35 percent
• Decreased production and logistics costs up to 25 percent
• Improved production throughput by 40 percent
• Increased supply chain planning productivity, especially in managing new product introductions and highly seasonal and promoted demand