JDA Software Enhances Network Design Solution With Strategic Inventory Modeling Features
New release of JDA Supply Chain Strategist adds innovation to help companies better understand the inventory impact of network design decisions
JDA Software Group, Inc., The Supply Chain Company, recently announced the release of JDA Supply Chain Strategist 6.3.4, a network design and optimization solution providing strategic, end-to-end capabilities to evaluate, design, optimize and ultimately transform a supply chain network. The new release, a part of JDA's ongoing commitment to product evolution and innovation, is a direct result of feedback gained through its user enhancement voting process.
Continuing Innovation
JDA's Supply Chain Strategist provides strategic, end-to-end capabilities to evaluate, design, optimize and ultimately transform a supply chain network. Supply Chain Strategist delivers a modeling and optimization environment capable of representing the breadth and depth of the supply chain required to answer the strategic questions confronting companies every day.
With the new Network Inventory Modeling capability, customers can understand and project the inventory costs of various network design decisions. This helps customers avoid using "rule-of-thumb" analysis to understand the inventory — and thus financial —impact of network design decisions. The new functionality provides an accurate and scientific way of analyzing inventory costs and parameters based on stochastic inputs and using algorithms that have been proven over the last decade as a part of JDA's industry-leading Inventory Optimization solution. This incorporation of new Inventory Analysis capabilities within JDA Supply Chain Strategist offers customers a more comprehensive and holistic strategic analysis tool to help validate network design decisions when faced with real-world uncertainties.
Companies in many diverse industries already use JDA Supply Chain Strategist to make strategic supply chain decisions around procurement, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
For example, HeidelbergCement AG operates a complex, geographically dispersed supply chain that serves the global building materials marketplace. By using Supply Chain Strategist to model supply, demand and capacity across this sophisticated network, HeidelbergCement makes intelligent decisions that match shifting customer demand with available regional capacity.
As a result, the company analyzes decisions such as the construction of new plants, acquisitions and other investments in a more strategic manner – including consideration of whether or not the selected routes are the most profitable ones to satisfy changing customer demand.
"With JDA Supply Chain Strategist, we can basically make much more informed decisions. It gives us much better insight into the behavior of our supply network, and enables us to allocate real values to different investment options," said Henrik Lenart, strategy analyst, logistics at HeidelbergCement. "We believe enhancing the solution to include inventory considerations will help deliver even greater value when making strategic supply chain decisions that can make a tremendous impact on our business."
"Our customers run the leading supply chains in the world and they count on JDA solutions to improve supply chain performance," said Raghav Keshav, chief product officer, JDA Software. "We believe superior supply chain performance begins with good network design. This release reiterates JDA's commitment to enhancing, innovating and integrating our strategic analysis solutions to provide significant competitive advantage to our customers."
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA Software Group, Inc, The Supply Chain Company, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions worldwide. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies, Manugistics, E3, Intactix and Arthur. JDA's multiple service options, delivered via the JDA®Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise. For more information, visit www.jda.comor.
SOURCE: JDA Software Group, Inc.