JDA recognized by Gartner for ability to execute and completeness of
vision. JDA was also recognized by Forrester for customer-centric
planning strategy.
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Retail.me addresses many of these challenges by enabling retail
planners to visually plan their stores based on consumers’ actual buying
behaviors, guided by big data intelligence. And today, JDA
Software Group, Inc. is being recognized by two leading
independent analyst firms for its JDA Retail.me applications.
JDA named a Leader for retail planning by Forrester Research
Forrester Wave™: Retail Planning, Q3 2017 report names JDA a Leader
in retail planning: “[JDA] shows impressive capabilities in inventory
planning, scalability, and allocation on the basis of scientifically
modelled customer segment behavior and machine learning. The company
exhibited a strong strategy, standing out for its vision and execution
road map that offers a compelling blueprint for customer-centric
planning…The solution is particularly suited to retailers that look to
develop assortments with synchronized marketing, merchandising, and
inventory plans, based on statistically derived customer segmentation.”
JDA’s Retail Planning solutions include JDA
Retail.me, which reinvents retail planning from the ground up,
replacing clunky, complex spreadsheets with simple, highly visual,
online shopping-like workspaces that enable users to think like their
customers shop as they’re planning. JDA
Retail.me Assortment Planning, introduced in 2016, enables 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 through
intelligent, data science scoring.
JDA positioned as a Leader in “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Retail
Assortment Management Applications (RAMA)”
In the Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Retail Assortment Management Applications Leaders’
Quadrant, JDA has again been placed the furthest along the completeness
of vision axis. Published on September 28, 2017, Gartner’s Magic
Quadrant for Retail Assortment Management Applications report positions
vendors within one of four quadrants based on their completeness of
vision and ability to execute.
JDA believes it was named as a vendor in the Leaders Quadrant for
completeness of vision because of its unique ability to help companies
capitalize on the digital transformation affecting today’s supply chain
with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data and
advanced analytics.
With this most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Retail Assortment
Management Applications (RAMA) recognition, JDA is the only company
named a leader in all five Gartner Magic Quadrants covering supply chain
and retail merchandising solutions, inclusive of the “Magic Quadrant for
Supply Chain Planning System of Record (SCP SOR)” January 19, 2016,
“Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS)” March 19,
2017, “Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)”February
13, 2017, and the May 1, 2017 “Magic Quadrant for Sales and Operations
Planning (S&OP) Systems of Differentiation (SOD).”
“We have entered a new retail paradigm as the digital transformation
continues to put the power in the hands of the consumer when it comes to
their shopping preferences and buying habits,” said Badri
Krishnamachari, vice president, solutions strategy, JDA. “We believe our
industry recognition validates our innovative approach to retail
planning that leverages low touch, data science intelligence,
underscored by the highly responsive and flexible Google Cloud Platform.”
Additional Resources:
Forrester Wave: JDA
named a leader among retail planning vendors
JDA
named a leader in five Gartner magic quadrants focused on supply
chain and retail merchandise solutions
Watch JDA’s Kevin Sterneckert talk about JDA’s market leadership in
this video
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About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA Software is the leading supply chain provider powering today’s
digital transformation. We enable companies to improve their ability to
plan, execute and deliver by better predicting and shaping demand,
fulfilling more intelligently and quickly, and improving customer
experiences and loyalty. More than 4,000 global customers use our
unmatched end-to-end solutions portfolio to shorten their supply chains,
increase speed of execution and profitably deliver to their customers.
Our world-class client roster includes 72 of the top 100 retailers, 71
of the top 100 consumer goods companies, and 13 of the top 16 3PLs.
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