Solutions offered by JDA Software offer Australian manufacturers the ability to optimise their supply chains from raw materials to the shelf
February 18, 2011
Solutions offered by JDA Software offer Australian manufacturers the ability to optimise their supply chains from raw materials to the shelf.
The solutions leverage the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders, including i2 Technologies, Manugistics, E3, Intactix and Arthur.
They are designed to connect manufacturers and distributors with retailers so that consumer demand signals can be sensed at the store level.
This connection allows manufacturing and distribution companies to gain early insight into replenishment requirements, ensure shelf presence to maximise sales, reduce network inventory and provide manufacturing with advanced notice of production requirements and changes.
JDA’s supply chain management solutions are ideal for manufacturers with 50 employees and upwards.
They integrate seamlessly with SAP and other leading enterprise applications to suit the requirements of companies dependent on a legacy system.
JDA Software Regional Vice President
Asia Pacific Stephen McNulty says before JDA brought Manugistics to Australia, there was very little choice in software for manufacturers immersed in a logistics environment.
“The fact that our solution, powered by Manugistics is designed to integrate seamlessly with SAP software ensures applicability right across the manufacturing spectrum,”
he says.
“Certainly in the small to medium-sized business sector, the emergence of Manugistics on the Australian manufacturing logistics scene means that even the midmarket companies can take a massive step forward and away from the relatively simple ERP platform which they now operate.
“The return on investment is extremely clear and quantifiable in only three months. It shows how supply chain improvements can help reduce inventories and increase sales.”
By understanding how certain business levers interact managers can quickly model projected savings in inventories and increases in sales.
As such, JDA solutions have been used by some of the largest companies in the world.
The scalability of JDA solutions makes them perfectly suited to the mid-sized companies, which are prominent in Australian manufacturing.
“JDA solutions impact a wide range of business areas, from point-of-sale forecasting and promotions planning all the way through replenishment, and from transportation management to optimised, constrained and sequenced production planning,” McNulty says.
The JDA solution is platform agnostic and designed to operate with any number of ERP systems to deliver a streamlined and optimised operation.
It is designed to dramatically improve performance and visibility at all stages of the manufacturing process and across the extended supply chain from raw materials to the point store shelf.
JDA solutions feature all of the planning, analysis and optimisation capabilities required to solve the complex supply chain challenges encountered by Australian manufacturers today.
“JDA solutions aren’t
a replacement for ERP systems,” McNulty says.
“Instead they co-exist and integrate with those systems to enable companies to gain more from their existing ERP investment by an overall view of supply and demand.”