Wholesale Distribution

JDA Software is uniquely positioned to address the key challenges and strategic initiatives of wholesaler-distributors worldwide. Some crucial areas in which JDA can provide competitive advantage solutions that deliver high return on investment include:

• Managing Global Sourcing: There is a massive shift in sourcing product internationally. The import landscape creates challenges with longer lead times, tracking visibility and the creation of multi-tier distribution center networks to support inventory distribution.
• Managing Growth: Overall wholesale distribution industry revenue is experiencing robust growth of over 8 percent. Growth and consolidation are creating challenges in the design of an optimal distribution network to support these changes and determine the most strategic way to invest in inventory placement throughout the network.
• Managing Demand: Wholesaler-distributors are challenged to manage the ongoing shifts of their current customer bases, accurately predict the reactions to promotional campaigns and gain consensus on a single view of demand across multiple channels and internal departments.
• Managing Transportation and Logistics: The transportation landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, forcing wholesaler-distributors to rethink their strategies in addressing 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.
• Creating Competitive Differentiation: Many wholesaler-distributors are providing key services in replenishment, assortment optimization, shelf space layout and competitive pricing analysis to build loyalty with their most strategic customers.

Helping Wholesaler-Distributors Worldwide Achieve Real Results

JDA Software has the expertise and proven solutions that address the critical needs of the wholesale distribution industry. We’ll help you better serve your customers with differentiated services while responding quickly to market trends. We can also enable you to optimize your two largest costs: inventory and transportation. Count on JDA solutions to meet your business requirements and achieve real results.

JDA Addresses Your Business Requirements:

• Demand management
• Promotional management
• Strategic network design
• Supply chain planning
• Replenishment optimization, including retail partner replenishment services 
• Global transportation optimization and visibility for inbound, outbound and inter-facility freight movements
• Collaboration, including collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR)
• Differentiating space and category management services for key retail partners
• Performance management

Benefits Delivered (Actual results realized by JDA Software customers):

• Reduced inventory levels by 10-50 percent
• Improved service levels ranging from 15-97 percent
• Decreased days of inventory by over 8 percent
• Improved inventory turns sevenfold
• Improved inbound freight efficiencies from 55 to 75 percent of capacity
• Decreased total freight expense of up to 30 percent
• Improved on-time performance of up to 40 percent
• Reduced order cycle times by as much as 75 percent