Retail Planning Gets Personal - JDA Helps Retailers Tackle the ‘Me’ Generation With Powerful New Retail.me Personalized Assortment Solution

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Attendees at NRF Big Show to ‘Test Drive’ First SaaS-based Retail.me

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NEW YORK & SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JDA

Software Group, Inc., today unveiled its latest innovation

within its next generation retail planning solution “Retail.me,”

a one-of-its-kind, new SaaS-based offering powered by Google

Cloud Platform that delivers intelligent, personalized and

customer-centric retail planning capabilities. Retail.me is the first

JDA SaaS solution built on Google Cloud Platform and is a result of JDA’s

strategic collaboration with Google. Attendees at the NRF

Big Show in New York next week will have the opportunity to "test

drive" Retail.me Assortment at JDA’s booth #2817.

“The consumer demand for ‘me’ retailing is transforming everything from

the role of the store to how retailers select, plan, distribute, promote

and price products to match unique shopper demand. Retail.me is next

generation retail planning software that combines the art and science of

merchandising to help retailers see their business the way their

customers see it, in an intuitive, online shopping-like view based on

actionable big data intelligence,” said Wayne Usie, senior vice

president of Global Industries and Value Delivery at JDA. “The

hyper-connected omni-channel consumer is retailers’ new boss, and

Retail.me is the answer to helping them plan like their customers like

to shop. It brings the art of retailing back to the merchant, delivers

localized assortments and personalized offers, in an easy-to-use, highly

visual and quick-to-implement solution, providing increased profits and

margins to the retailer.”

Retail.me – First Cloud Offering Built In “JDA Labs” Environment

In today’s "me" commerce environment, technology-enabled consumers have

enormous expectations that impact every aspect of retail. To survive in

this new era, retailers need to understand shoppers’ DNA throughout

their shopping journey. Understanding the what, why, where, how and when

of their buying behaviors gives retailers the agility to rapidly apply

these insights to every planning and execution decision, the ability to

see offers as customers do, and the ability to think like a customer

when making a purchase. Retail.me addresses these needs through its

low-touch machine learning algorithms pioneered by JDA Labs, a dedicated

research and development group within JDA committed to delivering

patentable innovations, best practices and entirely new products to the

market. Staffed by data scientists, user experience researchers and

cutting edge software developers, this group uses the latest machine

learning and visualization techniques to deliver an advanced, innovative

solution – Retail.me – to retailers.

A New Level of Personalized Assortment Capabilities

This new release of Retail.me Assortment is the first of several planned

innovations JDA will be introducing this year as part of this next

generation retail planning solution. Retail.me has been designed to

leverage retailers’ big data sources, enabling better merchandise

financial planning, assortments, promotions, inventory investment and

inventory placement. Future capabilities will further the user

experience through a collaboration framework allowing merchants and

planners to collaborate in real time on item selection, and ranging and

buy planning decisions, and ultimately, delivering tailored offers for

each customer segment retailers serve.

As a SaaS solution leveraging the power of Google Cloud Platform,

retailers will be able to onboard Retail.me rapidly. And, unlike today’s

retail planning systems that are not only too expensive to implement but

also hard to use, Retail.me provides near-limitless scalability,

real-time updates, and continuous "no downtime" upgrades for

unprecedented business agility.

“The analytical approach JDA is taking to customer segmentation and its

application of the buying habits of consumers to key buying, ranging and

merchandising decisions with Retail.me is to be welcomed. Its

development represents a considerable step towards more dynamic, and

less spreadsheet-dominated, retail planning environments,” said Miya

Knights, Global Technology Research Director, Planet Retail.

Additional Resources:

Read our Supply Chain Nation blog on today’s news: The
Assortment Paradigm Shift
Read our Supply Chain Nation blog: Take
a Retail Test Drive at NRF!
See JDA Retail.me in action in
this video.

See it at NRF! Join JDA at the NRF
Big Show in booth #2817 and take a test drive of Retail.me.
JDA is a leader in all five
Gartner Magic Quadrants in part due to Retail.me’s innovative
capabilities; learn more!
Learn more about Retail.me
here.