JDA Software is uniquely positioned to address the key challenges and strategic initiatives of food retailers worldwide. Some crucial areas in which JDA can provide competitive advantage solutions that deliver high return on investment include:
- Leveraging One Synchronized View of Demand: Grocery retailers must have visibility into consumer demand signals as the primary demand management driver. By accurately pinpointing and predicting consumer demand and synchronizing all planning metrics across the enterprise, grocers can respond and execute proactively and profitably, making fine-tuned, demand-driven decisions.
- Managing Inventory, Including Perishables: Grocery retailers must negotiate the unique challenges of effectively managing an inventory mix of tens of thousands of SKUs consisting of perishable and nonperishable foods along with nonfood merchandise, including managing the supply and demand of products that can be shipped in one UPC code form and sold in another once processed.
- Managing Multi-Vendor Sourcing, Replenishment and Delivery: Grocery challenges intensify when factoring in multiple delivery methods/sources to manage numerous and widely dispersed stores of varying sizes and formats. Food retailers must manage continuous replenishment distribution networks and negotiate sourcing requirements from several vendors and third-party rack jobbers/general merchandise distributors, as well as direct store delivery.
- Managing Price and Promotions: Considering razor-thin grocery margins, it is imperative that food retailers optimize product pricing and promotions to achieve maximum returns.
- Optimizing Space and Localizing Assortments: Grocers are aiming to achieve precision merchandising to better identify demand and execute efficient assortments and categories that are tailored to local tastes - all while optimally and profitably using constrained space.
- Managing Labor: Maintaining and managing the right workforce effectively and economically - while increasing employee satisfaction and performance - substantially boosts grocery bottom- and top-line benefits.
- Managing Transportation and Logistics: The transportation landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, forcing grocery retailers to rethink their strategies to address imports, increasing freight costs, weak freight network infrastructure, constrained network-wide capacity, new government and environmental regulations as well as an overall increased awareness of and demand for better logistics data.
Helping Food Retailers Worldwide Achieve Real Results
JDA Software has the expertise and proven solutions that address the critical needs of the grocery industry. We can help you reap the benefits of optimizing your two largest costs: inventory and people. We can also help you better connect with consumers to drive more localized assortments and boost shelf productivity while responding quickly to market trends. Count on JDA solutions to meet your business requirements and achieve real results.
JDA Addresses Your Business Requirements:
Benefits Delivered (Actual results realized by JDA Software customers):
- Achieved workforce management solution ROI of 100 percent
- Reduced labor by 100 hours per week
- Decreased weeks of on-hand inventory by more than 29 percent
- Increased comp store sales by more than 23 percent
- Achieved average forecast accuracy of more than 97 percent
- Maintained store in-stocks of 99 percent during first full year
- Increased inventory turns by 42 percent
- Reduced freight expense up to 30 percent
