As the battle for consumer loyalty continues to escalate, retailers are increasingly focused on understanding, and meeting, the targeted needs of local shoppers in all their markets. They have a wealth of data on how consumer needs vary from store to store — but the challenge lies in profitably transforming those insights into localised merchandise assortments and planograms. Now JDA Software Group, Inc., has announced new capabilities in JDA Category Management that make it easier than ever to automatically generate tailored planograms and assortments that reflect the needs of local shoppers.
The industry's most widely used space and category management solution, JDA Category Management, delivers the end-to-end capabilities that retailers need to excel in today's consumer-centric, highly competitive environment. The JDA Category Management suite enables retailers to achieve profitable store-level growth by generating highly localized assortments and space plans via an efficient, automated process — replacing manually intensive customisation tasks and significantly reducing resource needs.
The newest release of JDA Category Management features three key enhancements that simplify and accelerate the process of generating localised space plans, displays and merchandise assortments. These new capabilities include:
- Store Clustering – through enhancements to JDA Assortment Optimization, users can more easily define strategies and tactics for a group of stores, and then automatically apply these same tactics to a sub-cluster of stores, or even individual stores within the group with Assortment Generator.
- Customized Local Planograms – through enhancements in JDA Planogram Generator, users can more efficiently customize local planograms to incorporate signage and other non-merchandise elements, as well as allow for some "flex" space, even during the automated planogram generation process.
- Flexible Scalable Code Base – the new release of JDA Space Automation Professional features a flexible, scalable code base and delivers faster performance, making it easier to automate all JDA Category Management applications to target individual store needs.
"Our retail customers and their trading partners know that the key to winning consumer loyalty is having precisely targeted assortments in every store," said David Johnston, senior vice president of Global Industry Strategies at JDA Software. "Our job as a technology partner is to make it as fast and cost-effective as possible to accommodate local shopper preferences. With the new enhancements in JDA Category Management, retailers can create tailored local assortments that are based on proven real-world shopper needs — without investing huge amounts of time and resources. With this release, JDA has made the production of customised plans and assortments faster and more automated than ever before, creating a real competitive advantage for our Category Management customers."
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