Metals

Achieve operational alignment to optimize financial performance

Many top metals companies worldwide — including Deutsche Edelstahlwerke GmbH, JFE Steel, Kaiser Aluminum Corporation and SSAB Oxelösund — have turned to JDA for its supply chain management solutions and domain expertise in demand management, master planning and distribution planning, sales and operations planning, factory planning, scheduling and material allocation, and inventory optimization.

JDA’s innovative software and services enable metals companies to:

• Improve visibility and capitalize on growth opportunities. With solutions for master planning, companies can minimize costs, shorten lead times and maximize utilization within their distributed network.
• Increase order promising accuracy for customers with a streamlined approach. By incorporating capable-to-order promising and intelligent allocation management capabilities, companies can generate real-time order promises.
• Reduce unassigned inventory and improve material matching. Companies can leverage an attribute-based system for matching customer order requirements with material supply.
• Reduce working capital while improving customer service. By balancing resources across plants and streamlining factory operations with factory planning, scheduling and material allocation, companies can increase on-time deliveries while limiting overtime costs.
• Improve forecast accuracy with a better understanding of demand. Companies can improve planning effectiveness while addressing market uncertainties with enhanced demand management.
• Optimize inventory levels across the supply chain. Companies can leverage advanced, scientific algorithms for inventory optimization to account for the complexities and impacts on manufacturing costs in today’s dynamic market.

JDA offers additional solutions tailored to the needs of metals companies, including JDA’s solutions for hot mill scheduling, cold mill scheduling and sales and operations planning.

Why JDA?

JDA solutions are built on an in-depth understanding of your supply chain needs, and feature configurable, best practice processes and workflows developed in conjunction with leading metals companies. With JDA solutions, you can leverage advanced supply chain management solutions to align your operations and improve performance.