JDA Software - The Supply Chain Company

JDA Demand

As product options have grown, so has the difficulty in predicting which products customers will buy. Poor sales forecasts lead to too much inventory — which ties up capital — or too little inventory, which results in stock-outs and unhappy customers. JDA Demand can help businesses create forecasts that accurately predict and shape demand across a product’s complete lifecycle and across the supply chain.

How does it solve your business challenges?

Demand and supply mismatches are costly, damaging both customer and trading partner relationships. JDA Demand can help your business move from demand forecasting to demand management by creating a synchronized view of demand across the supply chain. This shared view enables you to integrate a consolidated forecast with traditional activities such as replenishment and warehousing, as well as transportation planning, rough-cut financial planning, promotions and customer assortments.

What are the benefits?

  • Improved forecast accuracy
  • Optimized inventory resulting from improved demand-supply matching
  • Increased inventory turns
  • Enhanced pricing and promotions strategies

Why JDA?

JDA Demand provides companies with the unparalleled ability to economically scale to hundreds of millions of stock-keeping units without sacrificing critical functionality. A Web-native solution, JDA Demand enables your organization to create a consensus demand plan through collaboration with internal stakeholders and external trading partners. JDA Demand’s robust demand segmentation and classification functionality identifies individual product demand patterns, and determines the appropriate forecasting methodology for every stage of the product lifecycle.

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What Customers Are Saying

The implementation of the JDA solution has also taken [James Hardie's] carrier relationships to a whole new level. By allowing the system to ensure that the lowest cost, best-performing carriers always have first right of refusal, the company has been able to maximize freight savings and service. Additionally, the transportation planners are able to shift time that would have previously been spent manually planning the loads to performing more proactive carrier management activities and building stronger logistics infrastructure to support the growing business.

James Hardie Building Products, Inc.