JDA Software Group, Inc. is a global leader in delivering integrated software and professional services for the retail demand chain. By capitalizing on its substantial market position and financial strength, JDA commits significant resources to advancing its best-of-class collection of solutions that address a wide array of critical business functions including merchandise and inventory management, store operations and point-of-sale, supply chain collaboration, and business analysis.

Across the global ERP landscape, JDA Software Group supplies the links in the supply chain. The company’s supply and demand optimization (SDO) software helps retailers and other businesses manage supply and demand chains, as well as business processes ranging from planning and forecasting to e-commerce and store operations. The company also offers point-of-sale applications to handle back-office functions, including inventory management, receipts, and returns. Other products include analytic applications for decision support and collaborative tools for maintaining product and catalog information with partners, distributors, and suppliers. JDA boasts more than 5,400 customers worldwide.

With North American operations established in 1985, JDA is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and employs more than 1,200 associates operating from 32 offices in major cities throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

JDA Key Strengths

• JDA has been serving the supply and demand chain for nearly 30 years.
  
• The company’s Supply & Demand Optimization solution set is powered by a collection of best-in-class products designed to enable retailers, manufacturers and wholesale-distributors to more profitably anticipate, create and satisfy customer demand.
  
• This comprehensive solution integrates JDA’s proven planning, analysis, optimization and execution capabilities with collaborative workflow, for seamless integration and interoperation spanning a wide range of processes across the Customer-Driven Value Chain.
  
• With Supply & Demand Optimization, decision makers can work together to reduce operational costs and increase top line revenues across the enterprise, and down to the store level.
  
• JDA customers represent more than 65% of software license sales each quarter, a testament to the real demand chain results that JDA repeatedly delivers.
  
• JDA acquired Manugistics in July 2006. This provider of demand and supply chain solutions enabled JDA to grow its product line with supply management, demand management and pricing, and transportation and logistics applications.
  
• JDA is uniquely positioned to support an optimized Customer-Driven Value Chain. It can help its customers to optimally plan various aspects of their business – from raw materials acquisition, through manufacturing and replenishment, to the shelf.