Key Capabilities of JDA® Marketplace Replenish:
- Establishes accurate demand forecast
- Ensures appropriate use of seasonal profiles
- Analyzes promotional data and effectiveness
- Supports order flow decisions
JDA Marketplace Replenish empowers trading pairs to improve their inventory position at stores and distribution centers. Supporting full-scale Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR®) programs, Marketplace Replenish follows the VICS CPFR model steps 3-5 and 9. Working collaboratively, you can create sales forecasts, identify sales forecast exceptions, collaborate on exception items and generate orders.
By sharing key inventory information, you’ll be primed to reap many of the same financial benefits that other trading pairs have realized. Our trading partners have reported increased consumer sales of 8-30 percent; reduced inventories of over 30 percent; decreased logistics and operational costs of 10-28 percent; lower returns of over 20 percent; and improved forecast accuracy of over 10 percent.
Another look at how trading pairs are using Marketplace Replenish for mutual gain is to improve the effectiveness of promotions and assortments by leveraging each side’s knowledge. Suppliers have a unique understanding of their products’ seasonality and causal effectiveness. Buyers have vast promotional experience. By working from the same page, they can create and optimize a consistent promotional execution process for the best possible results.
