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New Capabilities from JDA Create Transportation Resiliency - Enabling Shippers to Balance Service and Cost Pressures
JDA FOCUS--As variability escalates in the transportation function - and
the rise of omni-channel selling creates new cost and service pressures
- JDA
Software Group, Inc. today announced new capabilities in the JDA®
Transportation portfolio that help companies make smarter, more
strategic shipping and delivery decisions. By balancing internal
capacities and constraints with customer promises, this enhanced
functionality supports a new level of resiliency and agility that
companies need in today's complex business landscape.
JDA Transportation solutions are part of JDA's Intelligent
Fulfillment™ software portfolio, which delivers synchronization,
constraint awareness and zero latency to enable more profitable
fulfillment for both retailers and manufacturers in an omni-channel
world.
"In today's omni-channel selling environment, competitive pressures have
never been more intense - and customers have never been more demanding,"
noted Fabrizio Brasca, vice president of solution strategy for
Intelligent Fulfillment at JDA Software. "In planning loads and
scheduling deliveries, companies want to meet ambitious customer service
goals - but, at the same time, they need to recognize and honor
real-world execution constraints. They also need to protect their profit
margins by making decisions that balance service optimization with cost
control."
"The enhancements to the JDA Transportation portfolio in this new
release provide companies with exclusive new capabilities that allow
them to make more intelligent fulfillment decisions," noted Brasca. "For
example, for the first time JDA has introduced a way to dynamically
split shipments concurrent to routing to improve load efficiency.
Another exclusive capability is using warehouse aware, item definitions
to build more exact loads, so that resources are utilized optimally.
These are game-changing software functionalities that ensure JDA
customers are using every inch of available space, and every minute on
the clock, to best advantage."
Key enhancements to the JDA Transportation portfolio center around fixed
fleet routing with dynamic insertion, minimizing cost and maximizing
service levels in today's high pressure, omni-channel fulfillment
environment:
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More granular level of item-awareness during load building. With
this JDA-exclusive capability, shippers can apply granular,
warehouse-aware item definitions to improve load building, decrease
costs, and maximize equipment and resource utilization - as well as
increase visibility and exception management. Shippers can define
item-level details, including warehouse locations and constraints,
profiles, groupings, packaging hierarchies and loading factors. As a
result, loading efficiencies are improved at both shipping origin and
all destinations. In addition, lower-level packaging is automatically
rolled up into higher-level packaging for more efficient equipment
utilization and shipment handling. Load planners can maximize capacity
based on the number of stops, loading type and item type - leading to
more profitable, more executable loads.
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Dynamic shipment splitting that's concurrent with routing. New
functionality, exclusive to JDA, enables companies to strategically
split shipments into two or more sub-shipments to improve load
efficiency - and this splitting occurs concurrently with routing in a
seamless, fluid process. All sub-shipments reference the original
shipment for the purpose of tracking. Shipment splitting can be
configured at the container level and controlled at the origin and
destination locations. Splitting is applicable to both
greater-than-truckload and less-than-truckload shipments. Load
planners can control the number of times a shipment can be split, as
well as the minimum split size, to honor both physial and business
constraints.
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Shipment prioritization. A new capability in the JDA
Transportation portfolio considers the priority of shipments based on
system inputs that are provided by solutions like upstream
replenishment planning. This capability enables load planners to
differentiate high-priority shipments that must travel immediately
from less urgent shipments that can start later in the planning
horizon. Shipment prioritization drives resource, dock and throughput
optimization - while supporting the consolidation of shipments with
similar priorities during the load-building process.
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Enhancements to integrated fleet management. JDA Transportation
functionality allows planners to define "skeleton" routes, with stop
sequences and load characteristics that are best to service frequently
recurring freight movements. While these routes are predefined, JDA
now provides the flexibility to fill any available space in real time
as plans change. Capacity can be pre-booked for these shipments, then
an optimization process will fill empty stops on these skeleton routes
with eligible shipments when they become available. Planners can also
pre-book resources such as carrier capacity and dock capacity for
forecasted shipments. These new capabilities allow the integration of
all available resources, offering both flexibility and maximum cost
efficiency.
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Enhancements to Transportation Smartbench. This release
also includes new capabilities in Transportation Smartbench, JDA's
powerful user interface which provides data for real-time decision
making. In addition to various enhancements related to load building
and containerization; additional features include additional primary
entities, including shipments, trips and skeleton routes and all the
relevant functions associated with those entities, including trip rate
shopping as well as manual shipment splits.
"According to a recent JDA study,
only 16 percent of companies can fulfill omni-channel demand profitably
today," said Brasca. "One of the biggest obstacles for both retailers
and manufacturers is solving the transportation challenge - how to get
products to multiple destinations, across different time frames, in the
most profitable manner. The new functionality in the JDA Transportation
portfolio is specifically aimed at giving shippers the visibility to
make intelligent service/cost trade-offs - as well as the flexibility to
fully utilize all their available capacity and other resources. We
believe these new capabilities will be a game changer in mastering
profitable omni-channel fulfillment."
JDA Software was recently recognized by Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. as a leader in the
2015 "Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems" research
report.1 This is the ninth year in a row that JDA and
formerly, i2, has appeared in the Leaders quadrant, and of the nine
vendors evaluated for this report, JDA was one of only three vendors
featured in the Leaders quadrant.
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About JDA Software Group (News - Alert), Inc.
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end-to-end, integrated retail and supply chain planning and execution
solutions for more than 4,000 customers worldwide. Our unique solutions
empower our clients to achieve more by optimizing costs, increasing
revenue and reducing time to value so they can always deliver on their
customer promises. Using JDA, you can plan to deliver. www.jda.com
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1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management
Systems, C. Dwight Klappich, Bart De Muynck, March 24, 2015
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