Pep wins JDA 2013 Real Results Award

The 'Real Results Award' winners were selected from among the group's more than 3200 global customers and represent companies that have the best supply chain success stories. Selected by a panel of its executives, these winners achieved measurable return on investment, developed innovative approaches to supply chain processes and collaborated beyond traditional supply chain boundaries.

"Congratulations to the winners," said Hamish Brewer, chief executive officer, JDA Software. "We continue to be impressed by the remarkable business transformations demonstrated by our customers and the real results they are achieving for their businesses and their customers. We salute this year's winners and are proud they have chosen the group's solutions and services to drive greater value and efficiency within their businesses."

Winners

• Pep is the largest single brand retailer in Southern Africa with more than 1500 stores. To improve its planning accuracy and reduce stock-outs, the retailer turned to JDA for a more advanced approach to forecasting and replenishment. Today, it maintains high levels of on-shelf availability, enabling it to provide excellent service to its customers. In addition to capturing market share, it increased annual sales by 15% for the associated product categories in fiscal 2012.
  
• Advance Auto Parts is a leading automotive aftermarket retailer, with more than 3800 stores. Embarking on a supply chain transformation project to address changing customer needs, it partnered with JDA to improve supply chain capacity and efficiency. By adding network capacity, along with new processes and systems, it has added over 20% more stock-keeping units (SKUs) to the stores serviced by the new distribution centre. The retailer has also significantly reduced its store replenishment cycle time, resulting in greater inventory availability and increased sales.
  
• Alsea is Latin America's largest operator of fast food, cafeteria and casual dining restaurants, with more than 1400 stores in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Its diversified brand portfolio includes Domino's Pizza, Burger King, Starbucks, PF Chang's, California Pizza Kitchen, Pei Wei, The Cheesecake Factory, Italianni's and Chili's. With four distribution centres, more than 3200 SKUs, and more than 100 transportation units, it partnered to optimise its supply chain costs and improve service to its stores. As a result, the company has increased its warehouse utilisation and labour productivity and minimised inventory losses by 40%.
  
• Butterball is the largest US producer of turkey products, distributing one billion pounds of turkey annually throughout the US and in more than 30 countries. The company turned to JDA to transform its manually intensive forecasting process and improve its date-sensitive inventory management, using the supplier's demand management and replenishment technology. Today, it proactively plans its capacity while balancing against inventory risk. It has reduced its distressed obsolescent inventory by 28% and exceeded its year-one projected savings by 75%.
  
• Hibbett Sports operates more than 870 sporting goods stores in small and mid-sized markets, and is expanding its presence beyond its traditional regional markets. To prove the sustainability of its expansion strategy, the retailer turned to JDA to ensure that its products were priced appropriately given regional differences. It deployed Markdown Optimisation as part of a pilot programme to approximately 20 merchandise subclasses, yielding promising results. During the pilot, in those subclasses, sales increased by 25% and inventory turns increased by 20.5%.
  
• Infineon Technologies AG offers semiconductor and system solutions that address energy efficiency, mobility and security. Because of its partnership, its sales and operations planning process enables global collaboration across regions and departments and synchronises demand, supply, capacity and load planning into one plan. In addition to improving forecast accuracy, the company reduced planning errors by 90% and decreased planning effort by more than 30%. Lead-time for its volume rolling forecast process was also cut by 50%.
  
• Mark's is one of Canada's leading apparel retailers, offering high-quality work wear, casual and business wear, and outdoor apparel for both men and women across its 385 stores. It partnered to reengineer its retail enterprise to be more responsive to demand. Today, the retailer uses the forecasting, replenishment and size-scaling solutions to manage its 26 million demand forecasting units effectively. Results include three quarters of record top-line sales, strong profit performance and an 8.3% reduction in inventory units.
  
• NFT is the leading provider of chilled logistics solutions for the UK's food retail and manufacturing sectors, providing primary and secondary chilled services through its transport, warehousing and logistics solutions. It delivers more than 120 000 pallets of chilled food each week. To improve warehouse utilisation and stock availability and to reduce waste at its Daventry site, it replaced its traditional pick-face approach with an automated warehousing solution. Today, thanks to the JDA enhancement, SKU-picking capability at Daventry has increased more than fifteen fold to an average of 1.8 million cases per week, peaking at 2 million. Furthermore, misrotation and multi shelf-life issues by customer have been eliminated.
  
• Pepsi-Cola & National Brands is an independent retail distributor and bottler of Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple Group brands, as well as many other nationally distributed waters and teas. To address rising labour costs and lack of inventory visibility, the company partnered to transform its warehouse operations. Leveraging the warehouse and workforce management solutions, it decreased warehouse labour costs to 85% of what they were four years ago. The company also reduced its breakage category by 15-20%.