JDA Reinvents Retail Planning with New JDA Retail.me Assortment Planning Solution

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Now available, JDA Retail.me Assortment Planning matches the DNA of

shopper behavior to help retailers make rapid decisions; bevy of

sessions to be held at JDA FOCUS 2016

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JDA

Software Group, Inc. today announced the general availability of JDA

Retail.me Assortment Planning, a unique new SaaS-based offering

Cloud technology. JDA Retail.me delivers intelligent,

customer-centric assortment planning capabilities, combining the art and

science of retail planning, enabling retailers to connect product

selection, ranging and buying decisions with customers through big data

intelligence.

“There is a fundamental shift in the retail planning paradigm; customer

expectations have changed as a result of the internet and mobility,

users expect highly interactive, visual and instantly responsive

applications, and retailers expect rapidly available, lower cost

solutions that provide the agility they need to respond to today’s

fast-paced retail environment. Now is the time to revolutionize retail

planning to truly meet the expectations of today’s omni-channel

customer, users and retail operating model,” said Anand Medepalli, vice

president of retail planning product strategy, JDA. “JDA Retail.me

addresses these challenges by innovating everything about today’s

solutions, with a new approach to technology that delivers unprecedented

time-to-value and continuous upgrades, a new planning paradigm that

starts with the customer and replaces today’s intuition-based

spreadsheets with low touch, data science intelligence and a user

experience akin to online shopping, all powered by a highly responsive

Google Cloud Platform.”

Reinvented User Experience & Planning Paradigm

JDA Retail.me Assortment Planning is the first of several planned

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

generation retail planning solution. JDA Retail.me Assortment Planning

replaces clunky, complex spreadsheets with simple, highly visual, online

shopping-like workspaces that enable users to think like their customers

shop as they’re planning. Intelligent, data science scores each item in

the assortment by customer segment and cluster, using historical buying

behaviors to forecast their predicted performance, enabling planners to

align product selection with customer preferences, while maximizing

sales, margin and inventory productivity by aligning purchase plans,

ranging and inventory placement with expected local demand. New

real-time collaboration capabilities will increase productivity and

organizational alignment by enabling merchants and planners to

collaborate on assortment plans, tailoring offers for each customer

segment retailers serve.

Leveraging the Power of the Cloud and Data Science

Retail.me uses 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 new products to

the market. Staffed by data scientists, user experience researchers and

cutting edge software developers, JDA Labs uses the latest machine

learning and visualization techniques to deliver an advanced, innovative

solution to retailers.

Retail.me was designed and built for Google Cloud Platform, and delivers

the flexibility and ease of access required in today’s fast-paced,

volatile, always-on retail environment. Retail.me can be onboarded

rapidly, while providing near-limitless scalability, real-time updates

and continuous ‘no downtime’ upgrades for unprecedented business agility.

Retail.me on ‘Stage’ at JDA FOCUS 2016

Attendees at JDA

FOCUS 2016 – held May 1-4, in Nashville – will have the opportunity

to experience the capabilities of JDA Retail.me via hands-on

demonstrations. workshops and solution updates, and hear first-hand

perspectives from several major retailers on the importance of

customer-centricity to retail planning:

Changing the Retail Game where it matters most – A Blueprint for
Today’s Retail Planning Reality & Beyond: Monday, May 2,
2:45-3:45 p.m.: Learn how Retail.me revolutionizes everything you know
about retail planning solutions through data science, technology and
user experience innovation to meet truly meet the expectations of your
customers, users and CIOs – today and into the future, see our first
application, Retail.me Assortment Planning live in action and preview
our holistic vision for the future.
The Top 7 Trends in Omni-Channel Retail: Monday, May 2, 4:15 –
5:15 p.m.: Join Adam Silverman, principal analyst at Forrester, as he
discusses the top seven trends in omni-channel retailing and how these
trends will impact the retail landscape over the next few years.
Re-envisioning the Retail Planning User Experience with JDA Labs:
Monday, May 2, 4:15 – 5:15 p.m.: Join us for a glimpse into how the
JDA Lab's User Experience team is re-envisioning JDA's Retail Planning
solutions to blend the art of retail with the analytics of planning
and advanced retail data science insights, and how you can have direct
input into these designs.
Kurt Salmon’s HD Merchandising and JDA’s Retail.me: An aligned
vision of customer centric retailing: Tuesday, May 3, 9:45 –
10:45 a.m.: Senior executives from Kurt Salmon and JDA will present
practical, take-back-and-use methods and processes to get closer to
your customer, increase your profits and improve efficiency.
Retail.me Simply Smarter, Simply Faster, Simply Easier:
Tuesday, May 3, 11:00 – 12:00 p.m.: In Retail.me, data science
insights underpin everything, to allow merchants to make better
decisions faster, and to deal with the massive amounts of data that is
the new reality of omni-channel retailing. Learn from JDA's Data
Science team how Retail.me is bringing real innovation to
merchandising, truly unleashing the art of retail with low-touch data
science.
Discovering the DNA of our Most Important Customers – A Story of
Segmentation at Caleres: Tuesday, May 3, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.: This
session will showcase how JDA Labs is using data science to help
Caleres discover their most important customer segments and share some
of the early insights found. Caleres will share their point of view on
using analytics to help drive customer centric assortments versus the
historical attribute-based approach.
Transitioning Merchandise Planning from Evolutionary to
Revolutionary to meet Today’s Customer Expectations: Tuesday, May
3, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.: Join Sonia Peres-Dufour, Head of Merchandise
Planning Systems at The Foschini Group, as she shares her insights
from over 14 years of experience leading Merchandising systems and
process re-engineering into how merchandise planning needs to be
revolutionized to meet customer's expectations in today's world.
Planning Your Path to a Simply Faster, Simply Easier,
Customer-Centric Next Generation Retail Planning Solution: JDA
Retail.me Interactive Workshop: On Wednesday, May 3, at 9:45 a.m., explore
how to get started with adopting Retail.me. Learn about the
paradigm shifts that need to take place in Retail Planning to meet
today’s omni-channel customer expectations, take home an understanding
of resource, data, technology and training requirements, and
participate in an assortment planning challenge.
JDA Retail.me ‘Test Drive’ in the Delivery Zone: Try out
Retail.me Assortment Planning, meet the JDA Labs product management,
data science and user experience teams, and watch a behind the scenes
video of a ‘day in the life’ of the JDA Labs Retail.me team.