Transportation and Logistics Software provides global solution.October 9, 2008 -
JDA Transportation & Logistics Management v7.5 help shippers and logistics providers effectively manage complexities of global, multi-modal network - from strategic transportation sourcing, planning and optimization, through shipment visibility and performance analysis. Scalable, grid-computing architecture targets customers working in collaborative, distributed environments across multiple enterprises, helping them balance cost, asset utilization, and customer service.
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JDA Software Group, Inc.
14400 N. 87th Street
Scottsdale, AZ, 85260
USA
JDA Software Launches State-of-the-Art Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5) Solutions
Transportation & Logistics Management Solution Targets Advanced Usability and Workflow, Further Improves Ability to Combat Rising Fuel and Logistics Costs
Scottsdale, Ariz. - September 29, 2008 - JDAź Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced the latest release of JDA Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5), a software solution suite designed to provide integrated enterprise transportation planning optimization and execution, including robust global optimization and visibility, shipment execution, contract administration, freight audit and payment, and performance management. JDA Software's comprehensive Transportation & Logistics Management suite provides an end-to-end transportation and optimization solution for over 300 successful customer implementations around the globe. The solution is designed to help shippers and logistics providers more effectively manage the complexities of a global, multi-modal network - from strategic transportation sourcing, planning and optimization, through shipment visibility and performance analysis.
"To achieve the right blend of functionality and exceed expectations for usability and productivity for this solution upgrade, we tapped into the insights and expertise of our industry-leading manufacturing and retail customer base," says David Johnston, senior vice president manufacturing and wholesale distribution at JDA Software. "The result is an enhanced array of features including unique navigation options, intelligent page formats and rich user workbenches that will help set the industry standard for usability and productivity."
JDA Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5) leverages a powerful enterprise platform - the JDA Enterprise Architecture - which includes JDA's secure, high-performance, scalable grid-computing architecture already deployed in other modular, yet integrated JDA solutions. This enhanced Transportation & Logistics Management suite blends the robustness of a client-server application, with rich user functionality allowing greater processing speed and remote accessibility, and is ideal for customers working in collaborative, distributed environments across multiple enterprises. Additionally, the Web-based platform reduces the cost and complexity of installation, eliminates the need for additional network bandwidth and provides ease of maintenance, without added cost or system downtime.
Advanced Transportation Solutions Help Keep Costs in Check in Tough Economic Conditions
JDA's Transportation & Logistics Management solutions provide the visibility and agility to help companies control costs by streamlining freight management, shipment planning and execution, and carrier selection. Using a single multi-modal, multi-carrier transportation and logistics platform, logistics planners and managers can achieve a better balance of cost, asset utilization and customer service. A single monitoring and alerting environment across the enterprise allows adjustments to be made quickly and easily as today's economic conditions and fuel prices fluctuate.
"We have seen firsthand how the right transportation and logistics planning and execution solutions can drive bottom-line results in challenging economic times and assist companies as they reconsider their global strategies to offset rising fuel and logistics costs," added Johnston. "In complex supply chain operations, process automation, enterprise-wide integration, and real-time information flow provided by advanced technology, software applications have become essential business tools."
Rich User Interface Capabilities Enhance Workflow for all Users
JDA's Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5) offers an intelligent user interface that helps minimize training needs, thereby expediting and maximizing employee productivity. For example, a decision support engine dynamically manages light loads by graphically displaying the current utilization of the truck and makes recommendations on how the empty space can be optimally consumed. Powerful, task-driven workflows allow planners to define the scope of their daily job responsibility by a particular geographic area, transportation mode, customer group and operations type. And, automated exception management capabilities monitor real-time events, proactively generating user alerts to 'hot issues' in time to avert process breakdowns or the escalation of problems.
"This new release meets a critical marketplace demand, providing robust usability and accessibility that transportation managers and planners need in conjunction with the best-of-breed planning, optimization, execution and analysis capabilities. These capabilities are included with JDA Transportation & Logistics solutions which Manugistics, now JDA, has delivered for more than 23 years. We have synchronized all logistics functions under one umbrella, keeping our commitment to integrate our solutions onto a single proven supply chain planning and execution platform," said Namita Dhallan, group vice president, product management at JDA Software. "It will enable our customers to implement world-class transportation and logistics processes across globally distributed networks, with high performance and rich user interactivity at a low cost of deployment and ownership."
Dwight Klappich, research VP at Gartner, commented, "User productivity and a user's ability to personalize and easily exploit the often hidden power of business applications are increasingly important to enterprises. Because of this, we find that user interfaces are now a more important consideration when evaluating business applications."
Solution Upgrade Delivers Real-World Business Benefits
JDA's Business Requirements Group (BRG), comprised of customers who collaborated throughout the v7.5 development process including requirements definition, design reviews, site visits, usability workshops and beta testing, provided valuable insights into how real end users would benefit from the upgraded software solutions. As a result, this upgrade includes key user benefits such as:
o Synchronizes the global movement of goods and information, driving smarter decisions faster
o Optimizes supply chain execution by managing complex, dynamic demand-driven logistics networks
o Automates transportation and logistics processes to help lower freight costs, increase productivity, and maximize asset utilization, while maintaining delivery schedules and high levels of customer service
o Proactively manages supplier and carrier relationships, helping to reduce carrier turn-down rates, decrease expediting costs, and improve customer fill rates and service levels
o Generates optimized plans based on real business constraints, to help reduce freight expense and aid in improving inventory turns and sales
o Rapid implementation and deployment allows users to respond faster and more efficiently to changes in their business and distribution network
o Provides a robust platform with 360 degree visibility and 24/7 accessibility for effective execution and monitoring of the transportation and logistics network
One of JDA's BRG customers commented, "The newly enhanced functionalities of JDA's Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5) really reflect the user community input," said Frederick Hammer, corporate traffic manager, Shopko Stores Operating Co., LLC. "The solution's navigation is much more intuitive for our planners and how they actually work. This enables Shopko Stores to have the visibility and scalability needed to optimize shipment planning and execution to deliver the right product to the right place at the right time. As a result, we expect to realize reduced transportation and freight costs and improved customer service levels, all of which help position Shopko Stores for profitable growth."
JDA Software's Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5) suite is now available for general release and consists of the following newly released components: JDAź Transportation Planning, JDAź Shipment Execution and JDAź Monitor. For more information on JDA Software's Transportation & Logistics Management (v7.5), call +1.800.479.7382 or visit www.jda.com.
About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDAź Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) is focused on helping companies realize real supply chain and revenue management results - fast. JDA Software delivers integrated supply chain as well as merchandising and revenue management planning, execution, and optimization solutions for the consumer-driven supply chain and services industries. Through its industry leading solutions, leading manufacturers, distributors, retailers and services companies around the world are growing their businesses with greater predictability and more profitably. For more information on JDA Software, visit www.jda.com or contact us at info@jda.com or call +1.800.479.7382.
JDA Software Group, Inc.
14400 North 87th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Karen Kislin
Public Relations Coordinator
JDA Software Group, Inc.
14400 N. 87th ST
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480-308-3214
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