Key Capabilities of JDA® Collaborate, powered by Manugistics®:
- Flexible hierarchies for viewing data
- Multiple data versions and tracking
- Flexible user view creation
- Joint business plan creation and monitoring
JDA Collaborate provides comprehensive capabilities that enable organizations to collaborate both internally and externally to synchronize their supply and demand chains.
From an internal perspective, JDA Collaborate allows stakeholders across your organization to collaborate on various time-phased data such as projected forecasts, merchandise plans and replenishment plans. For example, often the supply chain operations organization is creating a baseline forecast, and ideally, it requires input from the merchandise planning organization to ensure that promotional impacts are included and that the current plan matches the high-level merchandise plan. JDA Collaborate provides the platform to ensure that this vital internal alignment takes place. Leveraging an easy-to-use and web-native interface, users can view and create multiple versions of data streams and adjust the plan in real-time.
JDA Collaborate also powers external collaboration, enabling users to share key supply chain data and decisions with vendors. For example, you can collaborate with your suppliers on your forecasts and promotional activities, their replenishment plans, and on the status of inbound shipments. Processes and business rules can be tailored to monitor and maintain the desired relationship with each partner individually so that you can control exactly how closely you collaborate with each partner.
Overall, JDA Collaborate offers robust, role-based access, so all collaborative stakeholders can view and adjust data designed just for their products, customers and geographies. Using tools such as flexible hierarchies and conversion factors, users can also create their own views to present the data exactly as they want to see it.
