JDA Software has unveiled a new version, 9.0 of supply chain management solution.
By enabling a seamless supply chain that spans the end-to-end customer journey ranging from suppliers to end consumers, the release supports profitable omni-channel, improves visibility to drive intelligent fulfillment decisions, and creates an adaptable manufacturing environment that’s risk-aware and highly responsive to ever-changing conditions.
The release is focused on addressing challenges facing businesses today like serving multiple channels profitably. Retailers can achieve this by apply customer insights for personalized experience, locating current and future inventory, making cost-to-serve commitments, etc.
Retailers can also make intelligent fulfillment decisions by planning storage and transportation of goods at low cost, enabling workflows like Click & Collect, providing profit-, constraint-, and allocation-based available-to-promise capabilities that supports omni-channel selling and manufacturing segmentation, etc.
Retailers can also create an adaptive manufacturing environment by improved accuracy in demand plans through automatically determining the best level in the hierarchy to forecast, using highly responsive predictive analytics to orchestrate sales and operations planning (S&OP) process achieving a single, global view of constraint management across the entire manufacturing and distribution network, proactive scenario planning to minimize supply chain risks and disruptions, etc., according to a company press release.
Kelly Thomas, chief product officer at JDA said, “Today’s retailers, third-party logistics providers and manufacturers are serving a complex global marketplace and leveraging an equally complex set of resources to meet that demand. With this next-generation software release, JDA is helping to manage that complexity on both the supply and demand sides — creating a seamless supply chain focused on anticipating and serving personalized demand, while still honouring a company’s profitability targets. The latest release from JDA represents a powerful new solution that can help forward-looking companies seize leadership in today’s incredibly challenging omni-channel landscape.”
