The emergence of the hyper-connected consumer and continued evolution of omni-channel commerce have left more than a few retailers struggling to differentiate themselves and survive. In order to remain competitive and relevant, companies are waking up to the fact that they must quickly adapt and center their organizations around consumer-centric processes and organizational alignment.

With that in mind, JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, today announced a new solution designed to improve and personalize the customer shopping experience, build consumer loyalty and drive profitability. JDA® Customer Engagement is a single solution that addresses omni-channel commerce and optimization logic in real time. It helps optimize not only how retailers deliver goods to customers, but also the alignment of real-time supply processes and inventory to effectively source those goods.

"The retail industry is at a critical juncture in its history. Consumers today -- empowered with mobile technology -- have instant access to information that shapes what they buy, when and where they buy it, and at what price," said Hamish Brewer, president and CEO, JDA Software. "These connected consumers determine which retail enterprises succeed and which fail. With JDA Customer Engagement we have developed a comprehensive approach to address this challenge now, in order to help retailers avoid becoming a victim in this rapidly changing retail environment."

The Solution: JDA Customer Engagement

JDA Customer Engagement is designed to help retailers profitably achieve customer-centricity in every interaction through the following key capabilities:

Omni-Channel Commerce

JDA Customer Engagement offers the ability to provide critical information to everyone who interacts with the omni-channel customer. The solution is designed to enable in-store associates real-time access to customer details, understand cross-channel customer preferences and turn in-store visits into profitable, cross-channel customer engagements.

Profitable Promising

The profitable promising capabilities within JDA Customer Engagement help shape inventory utilization with days-of-supply calculations and profitability algorithms that ensure customer satisfaction. It offers visibility into what inventory is available in the store today and what will be available tomorrow, fulfilling customer needs for immediacy while improving profitability and consumer engagement opportunities.

Allocated Inventory Optimization

Delivering profitable promises requires both an understanding of real-time demand shifts and customer profitability, and the capability to respond strategically and dynamically to changes. Driven initially from the intended forecast for different channels and promotions, allocation optimization evaluates when inventory and demand shifts warrant changes in execution. This capability, designed to automate the alignment of inventory to customer demand in real time, is enabled by JDA's patented allocated available-to-promise technology, successfully developed for a manufacturing environment and now optimized for retail.

Customer Order Management

Support for expanded customer touchpoints demands an order orchestration workflow flexible enough to support process steps that are configurable by interaction point as well as by fulfillment method. JDA Customer Engagement helps retailers avoid costly system replacements in favor of a configurable order lifecycle management tool designed specifically for the omni-channel environment.

Cross-Channel Price Execution

Cross-channel retailing requires the ability to develop consistent cross-channel pricing strategies that support growing promotional complexity and diverse delivery mechanisms. JDA Customer Engagement offers pricing capabilities that consider customer profitability and support multidimensional pricing rules, including rules for business-to-business and loyalty environments.

"While much past effort has been made to capture customer transactions within business intelligence tools, retailers still struggle to deliver that knowledge in real time to those interacting with customers," said Wayne Usie, senior vice president, retail, JDA Software. "Consumers no longer have the time or patience for that old way of doing business -- retailers must be able to operate in real time to avoid being left behind. JDA's rich heritage of successfully transforming retail supply chains around the world makes us uniquely qualified to help retailers succeed in today's consumer-connected environment. JDA Customer Engagement is designed to help them do just that."

Delivered by JDA Cloud Services

JDA Customer Engagement is delivered by JDA® Cloud Services, which offers continuous value and investment protection for some of the world's largest global supply chains. This means retailers can focus on their customers, rather than technology, to drive profitability throughout the retail supply chain. JDA Cloud Services offers retailers:

  • Rapid deployment
  • Faster time-to-value
  • Improved cost structure
  • Timely software upgrades
  • Risk mitigation
  • Solution confidence and technical peace of mind

Designed to Integrate With an Existing Infrastructure

Transformation to an omni-channel business model could seem like a daunting task for most retailers when they know that their IT infrastructure was never designed for this kind of challenge. JDA Customer Engagement has been built with this in mind, allowing retailers to deploy a state-of-the-art, real-time, omni-channel commerce platform on top of their existing legacy inventory and order management systems.

Check Out a Demo of JDA Customer Engagement at NRF

JDA will showcase JDA Customer Engagement at the National Retail Federation's (NRF) 101st Annual Convention and Expo in New York City, Jan. 15-18, 2012. Attendees can visit JDA at booth No. 403 to learn more about the new solution and see a live demonstration. Additional information can also be found in the JDA Customer Engagement solution brochure available at www.jda.com.

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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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