The hottest trend in supply chain management is omni-channel. Five years ago it was shelf-level collaboration. But really, these initiatives should be seen as mutually reinforcing. Omni-channel is retailing is based on providing consumers with a better shopping experience by leveraging both stores and the e-commerce channel. The idea is that a customer should be […]

Last Tuesday it was announced that the CEO of JDA had been replaced with an interim CEO. Perhaps because I tend to be product focused, I find the most significant recent announcement the news that JDA had productized a Flowcasting solution. Previously, RedPrairie, a firm acquired by JDA, had a joint partnership to provide consulting […]

Last week, several colleagues and I attended JDA’s annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was “Outperform” and had over 2200 customer attendees. The customer case studies were very informative, and could pique the curiosity of executives from every walk of life or industry. The show stopper for Day 2 […]