JDA Software Announces Industry-Leading Demand Management and Supply Chain Planning Scalability Benchmarking Results
May 02 2011 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS),
The Supply Chain Company®, today announced the results of JDA’s
largest, most complex supply chain benchmarking study to date.
JDA’s Performance Engineering team tested version 7.7 of the JDA®
Demand and JDA® Fulfillment supply chain planning and optimization
solutions leveraging real-world complexities, scale and process
flows representative of today’s largest-volume businesses. Running
on IBM Power 750 and IBM Power 780 servers with IBM AIX operating
system and IBM WebSphere Application Server, JDA successfully
demonstrated the ground-breaking benchmark for the JDA Demand and
JDA Fulfillment complete week-end batch flow in less time than the
typical week-end processing window for more than 200 million demand
forecasting units (DFUs) and stock-keeping units (SKUs).
Raising the Bar in Demand Management and End-to-End Supply
Chain Planning Practices
JDA Demand and JDA Fulfillment are part of JDA’s
industry-leading supply chain planning and optimization solution
set. These comprehensive solutions enable the world’s leading
retailers and suppliers to optimize supply chain decisions with
accurate, integrated demand visibility and management along with
the ability to profitably balance supply and demand for maximum
supply chain cost savings. Reflecting JDA’s ongoing organic
investment in supply chain planning and optimization solution
innovation, the latest releases of JDA Demand and JDA Fulfillment,
version 7.7, raise the bar on these industry-proven solutions.
Architectural enhancements enable unparalleled scalability gained
through compressed data storage. The ability to support this
extreme level of scalability without compromising on depth of
functionality further reinforces JDA’s position as an industry
leader.
“While the ability to scale will benefit any company engaged in
demand management or end-to-end supply chain planning, the biggest
benefits will be for the large retailers that work with hundreds of
millions of SKUs,” said Wayne Usie, senior vice president,
retail, JDA Software. “Retailers looking to leverage advanced
planning tools for store-level forecasting and replenishment need
technology platforms that can support their performance
requirements in an economical manner. The right technology enables
scaling across the entire network down to the SKU/store level. JDA
is excited to provide unrivaled scalability without sacrificing
critical pieces of functionality that differentiate our customers’
supply chains.”
About the Benchmarking Study: Setting New Standards
Using a “retail” data model significantly more complex and
computationally intensive than models used in earlier JDA
benchmarks, the study involved more than 200 million SKUs including
40,000 items at 5,000 stores sourced from 20 distribution centers
and 205 vendor locations. The batch flow consisted of processes
required to complete an end-to-end weekly cycle including, but not
limited to, aggregating history across multiple hierarchy levels,
calculating the time-phased statistical forecasts, reconciling the
forecasts across multiple levels and generating a time-phased
replenishment plan with optimized orders. The performance,
scalability and reliability test results demonstrate that the JDA
processes scale for large enterprise implementations and can meet
the performance needs of leading high-volume companies.
“This benchmarking study validated the significant performance
enhancements in JDA Demand 7.7 over the last version of this
leading product as evidenced by staggering demand-side processing
time improvements that more than doubled prior performance
throughput,” said Dave King, executive vice president, product
development and management, JDA Software. According to King,
these improvements include:
- History aggregation processing at a
rate of 1.3 billion DFUs per hour
- Generate weekly statistical forecast
processing at a rate of 85 million DFUs per hour
- Reconcile forecast processing at a rate
of 155 million DFUs per hour
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain
Company®, is a leading provider of innovative supply chain
management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions. JDA
empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal
decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in
the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution,
transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated
solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from
materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and
knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2
Technologies®, Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. JDA’s
multiple service options, delivered via the JDA® Private Cloud,
provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid
time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional
and technical support and expertise. To learn more about JDA
Software, please visit www.jda.com or e-mail info@jda.com.
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