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Without a clearly defined strategic direction across the supply chain, businesses may be missing opportunities, operating inefficiently and even working at cross purposes, with misaligned objectives. JDA Enterprise Planning / Arthur Planning allows companies to easily tie enterprise-wide strategic plans to the execution of shared goals. JDA Enterprise Planning / Arthur Planning helps produce the most accurate, insightful, coordinated plans possible, while eliminating duplicate data sources.
Business Challenge
As economies expand and borders blur, it has become critical to optimize all of the strategic, merchandise, assortment, operational and resource planning activities across your supply and demand chain. JDA Enterprise Planning / Arthur Planning identify your common financial objectives for sales, inventory, receipt flow, margin and other key performance indicators (KPIs) via workflow-driven processes. This flexible, scalable solution seamlessly incorporates statistical sales forecasts and consumer-driven channel clusters while maximizing inventory productivity.
 Bottom Line Benefits
- Increased productivity, efficiency and accuracy of plans
- Optimized inventories
- Balanced sales goals
- Reduced markdowns, resulting in higher profits
Why JDA
JDA Enterprise Planning / Arthur Planning features attribute functionality that allows you to dynamically group product, location and time hierarchy members. Attribute-based planning creates truly consumer-driven plans by consolidating planning and spreading data by key attributes, both Product and Store. Exception management capabilities highlight specific areas that require analysis, review or approval — enabling you to quickly address issues across every channel, category and store.
Application
Arthur® was purchased by JDA in the late 1990s. It is unique to the Unix-based platforms (pSeries, Sun, etc.) and runs on the Oracle database. The suite is comprised of several solutions that can be implemented individually or as a suite. For retailers who want advanced and in-depth planning, assortment plans and allocations, the Arthur® suite is a leading choice among retailers. The RAPID package is available which is an easy-to-use application based upon best practices and a proven implementation methodology that drives users through a step-by-step process of planning.
The suite is comprised of the following solutions:
Advanced Allocation
The art of merchandise allocation demands that key consumer insights are transformed into the right mix of products at each store. With Advanced Allocation, retailers can optimize store-specific product assortments across the entire retail organization. Customizable to accommodate a broad range of allocation techniques, Advanced Allocation helps keep the big plan in mind as it allocates the details.
The features allow retailers to:
- Allocate merchandise in eaches, bulk or pre-pack
- Allocate multiple styles at the same time
- Group stores based on attributes such as demographics, climate, grade and location
- Schedule and automatically allocate merchandise using established allocation methods
- Use templates, grading or model stock as well as minimum and maximum quantities to control allocations
- Allows for saved Allocation Methods to perform predetermined methodologies on a single click
Assortment Planning
As part of the overall merchandising process, Assortment Planning allows retailers to take the budget for a particular group of items and fine-tune the merchandise mix by store, looking at which items will sell at which stores and in what quantities. Assortment Planning helps optimize merchandise selection, bridging the gap between plan and purchase order.
The features allow retailers to:
- Import company goals and determine whether a planned assortment is in line with goals
- Plan at a low level of detail to achieve the optimum merchandise mix
- Review planned assortments from every angle, use of store groups and store grades for each product and store attribute
- Create consolidations of assortments, view collections or get a view of the big picture
Performance Analysis Web
This is a Web-enabled analysis tool to view planning data in standard Web pages utilizing the intranet. It works with standard browsers and standard HTML editors and provides dynamic drill-down and rotation capabilities through a drag and drop interface.
Key benefits include:
- Fast implementations
- Intuitive interface/short learning curve
- Adhoc calculations
- Topic driven navigation that focuses on key issues
- Exception based reporting to help pinpoint areas needing attention
Merchandise Planning
The Planning solution is a multi-dimensional client-server based merchandise planning application, capable of handling large volumes of data while providing ease of use and maintaining data integrity.
The features allow retailers to:
- Spread strategic plans down to any or all lower detail levels or work from bottom up depending on the organization objectives and culture
- Develop plans in dollars and units, considering cross channel customer trends and location specific concerns
- Uses advanced, customizable planning measures to assist in coordination between merchandising, operations and distribution functions
- Allows the effective integration of process, team and support systems
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