JDA Unleashes New Capabilities to Enable the Seamless Supply Chain

JDA Software Group, Inc. announced its latest release, version 9.0, aimed at addressing huge challenges, by enabling a seamless supply chain that spans the end-to-end customer journey ranging from suppliers to end consumers. This 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.

This release is focused on addressing the three biggest challenges facing businesses today:

• Serving multiple channels profitably. The rapid emergence of omni-channel selling has left companies struggling to serve conflicting demand signals, maintain high inventory availability, process orders rapidly and move inventory quickly, while also making a profit. With new capabilities in this release, retailers can profitably serve an end-to-end omni-channel experience.
• Making intelligent and profitable fulfillment decisions. Increasingly, customers are asking for a “selfie” supply chain that’s focused on addressing their own unique product and service needs. In serving this highly specific, ‘me commerce’ demand, companies are frequently forced to make trade-offs between service level and profit margin. JDA’s latest release helps manufacturers, retailers, third-party logistics providers and wholesale distributors make optimal fulfillment decisions that protect margins.
• Creating an adaptive manufacturing environment. In today’s fast-changing demand landscape, rigid production and delivery schedules are a thing of the past. JDA’s next-generation software enables companies to create a seamless, highly adaptive supply chain that spans upstream suppliers and downstream distributors, enabling an agile and profitable response as demand and supply conditions change. With capabilities delivered in this release, manufacturers can now create an agile, risk-aware supply chain.

The underpinnings of this latest release leverages JDA FLEX technology, which brings together disparate technology systems and physical resources, to create highly connected, end-to-end workflows that span the entire supply chain. Because JDA FLEX is platform technology agnostic, it seamlessly connects business processes across heterogeneous systems, facilities, enterprises and devices. JDA FLEX supports new levels of agility and responsiveness by integrating planning with execution in real-time by seamlessly synchronizing information across the systems and applications that support supply chain operations. One of the core tenets of JDA FLEX is to allow tailoring of business processes to meet the unique needs of a customer’s business while ensuring ease of upgrade and ongoing support. JDA FLEX leverages open industry standards, rather than proprietary technology to adapt to a wide range of supply chain environments, therefore reducing time to value and total cost of ownership.