JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The
Supply Chain Company®, today announced that more than 1,800 of the
best supply chain, merchandising and pricing practitioners from
more than 460 companies representing 28 countries, shared supply
chain best practices for successful business transformation at JDA
FOCUS 2011, the company’s 21st annual global conference held May
1-4 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando,
Fla.
The content-rich event featured six General Session speakers and
a customer panel, in addition to more than 250 Breakout Sessions,
including 103 customer-led sessions and 43 Special Interest Group
sessions including:
- Hamish Brewer, president and chief
executive officer, JDA Software
- Meg Whitman, president and chief
executive officer, eBay (1998-2008)
- George Frongillo, president, JDA Users
Group
- Kevin O’Marah, group vice president,
Supply Chain Research, Gartner, and a panel featuring JDA customers
Karl Martin, director, consumer and retail, Dell; LeRoy Allen,
senior vice president, logistics, Lowe’s Companies; Dennis Mullahy,
group vice president, merchandise planning and supply chain,
Meijer; Louise Tang, director, customer supply chain operations,
Sony; and Wilfred Eijpen, director, supply chain, Stanley Black
& Decker
- David King, Ph.D., executive vice
president, product development and management, JDA Software
- Raghav Keshav, chief product officer,
JDA Software
“Without a doubt, FOCUS 2011 represented the most significant
forum for supply chain, merchandising and pricing excellence
anywhere,” said Tom Dziersk, executive vice president, sales and
marketing, JDA Software. “With more than 1,800 of the
industry’s leading practitioners globally from retail, wholesale
distribution and manufacturing talking openly about their success
and challenges and sharing best practices and real solutions, you
can certainly appreciate how FOCUS has become much more than just
another software conference. FOCUS reflects JDA’s commitment to
helping companies deliver on the promises they make to their
customers, suppliers and manufacturing partners each day.”
“This was the best conference to date; both the quality and
content of the presentations were excellent,” said George
Frongillo, JDA Software Users Group president. “JDA has made
tremendous progress in their integration efforts, and the customer
experience and ability to network with other supply chain
professionals was outstanding. I look forward to following up with
many of the new contacts I made at the event.”
JDA announced numerous product enhancements, benchmarking
results, Alliance Partner Leadership Awards and Real Results Awards
in conjunction with JDA FOCUS 2011. Highlights include:
- JDA announced a series of new
innovations around the following solutions: JDA Sales &
Operations Planning (S&OP), JDA® Advanced Marketplace
Collaboration, JDA® Demand and JDA® Fulfillment, Transportation
& Logistics Management, JDA® Freight Order Management, JDA®
Transportation Manager and JDA® Transportation Planner. These new
capabilities, derived from the multiyear product roadmap announced
in April 2010, continue the heritage of market-leading innovations
targeted specifically at creating real shareholder value through
supply chain excellence. To view the press release, click
here.
- JDA announced the release of JDA
Transportation & Logistics Management 6.3.4. This major
solution suite release is generally available and represents the
second phase of JDA’s post-i2 acquisition transportation and
logistics management product roadmap integration plan announced in
April 2010. To view the press release, click here.
- JDA 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. To view
the press release, click here.
- JDA announced the winners of its first
annual Alliance Partner Leadership Awards during an exclusive
Partner Executive Briefing. Alliance Partner Leadership Awards
recognize a variety of JDA Partners who were influential in helping
to advance JDA solutions, drive co-innovation and improve customer
return on investment. Ten different global partners were recognized
in 13 different award categories. To view the press release, click
here.
- JDA Real Results Award winners were
recognized from among the more than 6,000 JDA customers worldwide
with deployments in progress or completed with documented results
received. Selected by a panel of JDA executives, the 2011 Real
Results Award winners demonstrated exceptional increases in sales
and profits, business-process improvements and/or reductions in
inventory and overall costs. To view the press release announcing
the 2011 Real Results Award winners, click here.
FOCUS 2012 is scheduled for April 29-May 2, 2012, at the Aria
Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. To learn more, please go to
http://www.jda.com/focus/.
NOTE TO EDITORS: JDA had an expanded social media
presence around FOCUS 2011. Following are “tweets” from several
third-party experts who attended the event.
Nari Viswanathan, industry analyst, supply chain solution
architect, product manager, strategy consultant,
@Nariv
- Keynote from Hamish CEO #JDA talking
about the fact that change today is happening exponentially. #SCM
more critical than ever #JDAFOCUS11
- #supplychain folks automatically think
about the end to end process. Unfortunately other functions do not.
Well said @komarah #JDAFOCUS11
Jeff Ashcroft, logistics, supply chain and SM explorer,
analyst at Constellation Research Group,
@JeffAschroft
- Listening to Hamish Brewer President
& CEO of @JDASoftware talking about Challenges of Change at
kick off for #JDAFOCUS11 “Change or be Changed.”
- The @JDAsoftware Private Cloud now has
1 million users globally spread across 193 countries
#ManagedServices #StrategicServces #JDAfocus11
Leslie Hand, IDC Retail Insights research director,
@Lesliehand
- Hamish Brewer, CEO #JDA Companies want
to rewire business processes across the organization... Need to
optimize and synchronize for demand
- Stewart McCutcheon, CIO, Nalco –
already saved $20-30 million in networking capital with JDA
#JDAFOCUS11
- Stewart McCutcheon, CIO, Nalco
partnered w/#JDA to deliver functionality that added value every
2-4 weeks, JDA ILab functionality critical
- Reflections day 1 #jdafocus11 - JDA
leads with supply chain applications, an expanding partner
ecosystem and vertical thought leadership
- Reflections day 1 #jdafocus11 - i2
application and intellectual assets are successfully infusing an
innovative spirit into the DNA of JDA
STORES Media, the publishing group of the National Retail
Federation (NRF), reports on the broad spectrum of strategic issues
facing retailers, @Storesmedia
- #JDAFOCUS11, CEO Brewer said industry
is approaching inflection points: consumer expectations,
supply/demand dislocation, price volatility
- Gartner's O'Marah #jdaFOCUS11 on the
New Game for Supply Chain: Formalize/establish a S.C. org that
reports to the CEO, not manufacturing.
Nikki Baird, retail technology maven,
@nikkibaird
- Lowe's collaboration strategy: talk to
vendors about much more than just price. Great story.
#JDAFOCUS11
Reporters can follow and connect with JDA on an ongoing basis
via the following social media outlets:
- Twitter:
www.twitter.com/JDASoftware
- Facebook:
www.facebook.com/JDASoftwareGroup
- LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/company/JDA-Software
- YouTube:
www.youtube.com/user/JDASoftware
- SlideShare:
www.slideshare.net/JDASoftware
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain
Company®, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain
management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions
worldwide. 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, visit
www.jda.com or e-mail info@jda.com.
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