Based on retail best practices, metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), JDA Merchandise Performance Analysis / IDEAS provides retailers with the data they need to react quickly to changing market conditions and opportunities. As a result, monitoring daily sales, comp store sales, promotions and progress toward business goals has never been easier.

Business Challenges
Designed specifically for the retail business model, this robust data warehousing solution enables you to rapidly answer merchandising questions (e.g., which categories are the most profitable, what mix performs best at which store type, etc.). You can then leverage this insight to address issues and variances from your merchandise plan — ensuring that you continue to drive sales and maximize profits.

Bottom Line Benefits

• Immediate access to plan-versus-actual data
• Optimized product mix and inventory
• Increased productivity and efficiency
• Improved customer service
  

Why JDA
JDA Merchandise Performance Analysis / IDEAS integrates with JDA Merchandise Management System / MMS and JDA Portfolio Merchandise Management / PMM, providing you with a comprehensive solution for your merchandising operations. This prepackaged, vendor-supported solution features a metadata data model and On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine and administrative tools, as well as JDA's custom extract, transform and load (ETL) toolset to manage the loading and reclassification of your data.

Application
The biggest challenge retailers face implementing a data warehouse solution is determining what information should be included and what the reports (views) should look like. Most solutions take three to five years of design, configuration and interface work. By using input from its strong retail client base to pre-configure the software with standard categories and hundreds of stock views/queries, JDA has eliminated the long lead time. Installing and putting the solution into production can take as little as three days.

What makes this powerful, client/server data warehouse the first choice for so many global retailers is that it's a secure, scalable and centralized repository for consolidating enterprise data in a logical format. JDA Merchandise Performance Analysis / IDEAS features pre-packaged modules and closed-loop, action support functions. With hundreds of views available out-of-the-box, the solution can immediately be put to work.

Database (Master) Tables
Sales and inventory analysis is highly integrated. In addition to flash sales reporting, there are more than 20 categories (datamarts) that are fed from JDA Merchandise Management System / MMS.

Inventory Control and Procurement
Stock balances are fed to, and can be monitored. The action support and certain transactions such as stock balancing, purchase order creation, promotional pricing and many more can be created and sent back to JDA Merchandise Management System / MMS. There are more than 30 of these transaction types.

Buyer's Workbench
JDA Merchandise Performance Analysis / IDEAS tracks sales and inventory by color, size and dimension to the UPC and SKU levels. Colors, sizes and dimensions may be analyzed in aggregate or individually. The On Order category will display open purchase orders and transfer orders, as well as in transit inventory.

Vendor Management
JDA Merchandise Performance Analysis / IDEAS associates sales and inventory by primary vendor so that vendor profitability may be assessed.

Highly Integrated & Action Support
The software is highly integrated with JDA Merchandise Management System / MMS or JDA Portfolio Merchandise Management / PMM and often the reporting tool of choice for either solution. Action Support allows you to not just read and analyze a view/query, but to actually take action such as stock balancing, price adjustments, promotion creation and PO creation, to name a few.

Categories
Categories include Daily Flash Sales, Sales & Inventory, Events, On Order, Budget, Aged Inventory, Customer Relations, Distribution Center, GL, Loss Prevention, Merchandise Planning, Replenishment Analysis, Replenishment Suggested Orders and Vendor Performance.

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