JDA v/s i2

1. ANALYZING ENTERPRISE APPLICATION
VENDORS
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2. PRESENTED BY
Akshay Sharma - 189
Alankar Das - 190
Amit Kumar - 191
Aridman Pal - 192
Asad Ahmad - 193
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3. CONTENTS
 About JDA
 Integrated Brands of JDA
 Supply Chain Softwares of JDA
 JDA’s Strength & Weakness
 About i2 Technologies
 Supply Chain Softwares of i2
 I2’s Strength & Weakness
 Financing SCM Systems/Softwares
 Comparison between JDA & i2
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4. WHAT IS JDA ?
 JDA Software Group, Inc. is a leading provider of supply
chain solutions named after JAMES DONALD ARMSTRONG
 More than 6,000 users worldwide have adopted JDA’s
supply chain software to achieve increased visibility
across entire supply chain, from raw materials to the
store shelf & improve profits
 Users in manufacturing, retail, transportation, wholesale
distribution & service industries have all found success
with JDA
 Their supply chain software features supply chain
planning, demand planning, supplier
management, sourcing & procurement, order fulfilment
and inventory management on a best of breed basis4/30/201
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 We found that some of industry leaders in
manufacturing, retail & logistics use JDA software
 83% of top manufacturers, 72% of Gartner’s top
Supply Chain Top 25 & 70% of top retailers use
JDA software
 JDA has leveraged itself into a supply chain super-
power through acquisitions of market leaders
such as E3, Arthur, i2 Technologies, Manugistics,
Intactix
 When you combine this with over 3,000
employees & 23 international locations, it’s clear
to us why so many have found success with JDA
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6. JDA INTEGRATED BRANDS
 Merged with JDA in December 2012. Positions the
combined company as leader in global supply chain
management, offering a broad portfolio of integrated
planning & execution solutions & services to help global
firms manage their supply chains – from raw materials to
finished products & into the hands of consumers –
through any channel
 Acquired by JDA in January 2010. Strengthens market
position to more than 6,000 global customers, offering
unparalleled supply chain optimization solutions spanning
from materials to the consumer
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7. JDA INTEGRATED BRANDS
 Acquired by JDA in July 2006. Enabled JDA to grow its
demand management, pricing optimization &
transportation & logistics offerings
 E3 was acquired by JDA in September 2001. This leader
of inventory optimization systems added customers in
retail and wholesale distribution in 20 countries
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8. JDA INTEGRATED BRANDS
 Acquired by JDA in April 2000. Solidly positioned JDA to
provide most comprehensive, integrated merchandise
planning & business-to-business solution for retailers &
their suppliers
 Acquired by JDA in June 1998. Enabled JDA customers
to proactively manage their businesses and find new
ways to optimize their revenue sources.
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9. SUPPLY CHAIN SOFTWARES OF JDA
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JDA Sales & Operations Planning
JDA Demand Planning
JDA Sequencing
JDA Supply Planning
JDA Transportation

10. JDA SALES & OPERATIONS PLANNING
● JDA’s Sales & Operations Planning solution can
empower executive-level decision making on corporate,
financial & operational plans by enabling integrated
business planning & management
● Enhance data visibility across all departments for
greater corporate accountability and productivity
● Create a series of planned, repeatable processes that
can be implemented quickly to reduce or eliminate plan
deviations
● Promote continuous process refinement by
incorporating plan-do-check-act capabilities
● Identify critical demand and supply gaps and assign
associated action items, as well as analyse different
demand and supply scenarios to bridge gaps in revenue
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11. JDA DEMAND PLANNING
•In order to create a sustained competitive advantage, it’s critical
for companies to rapidly synchronize their global supply with
changing customer demand
•JDA’s Planning on Demand solutions provide growing companies
with integrated demand & supply planning capabilities through a
hosted, low-cost subscription environment
 Reduce total cost of ownership with its software-as-a-service
model
 Quickly generate a consensus demand forecast and an optimized
master production plan
 Dramatically improve forecasting accuracy and delivery
performance
 Optimize inventory and capacity investments
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12. JDA SEQUENCING
•Increased competition is forcing businesses to deliver
products faster & with greater flexibility, while
simultaneously reducing operating cost
•JDA Sequencing intelligently balances manufacturing,
material usage & service objectives based on
predefined strategic priorities
 Optimized plant operations
 Management of both material and resource
constraints
 Production smoothing across multiple resources
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13. JDA SUPPLY PLANNING
 In order to create a sustained competitive advantage,
it’s critical for companies to rapidly synchronize their
global supply with changing customer demand
 JDA’s Planning on Demand solutions provide growing
companies with integrated demand and supply planning
capabilities through a hosted, low-cost subscription
environment
 Reduce total cost of ownership with its software-as-a-
service model
 Quickly generate a consensus demand forecast and an
optimized master production plan
 Dramatically improve forecasting accuracy and delivery
performance
 Optimize inventory and capacity investments4/30/201
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14. JDA TRANSPORTATION
Companies today are challenged to streamline their transportation
and logistics management processes to maximize
efficiencies, customer satisfaction and profit margins. Transportation
Management and Logistics Management solutions from JDA Software
effectively manage the entire closed-loop transportation process —
from long-range strategies and operational planning to day-to-day
execution
 Implement transportation plans driven by consumer demand and
replenishment policies
 Control costs and streamline productivity
 Leverage logistics to support profitable growth
 Improve trading partner relationships with effective collaboration
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15. JDA’S STRENGTH & WEAKNESS
 JDA’s tradition & strengths are in retail systems & their merchandise &
store planning systems are leading products for the retail industry.
Manugistics is considered a leader and innovator in SCM for manufacturing
and distribution companies.
 Their combined enterprise software products, best practices & industry
knowledge put JDA in a leadership position in S&OP, Demand Management
and Supply Management. The TMS product acquired through the Manugistics
acquisition is a full featured and top calibre transportation management
system.
 JDA’s weakness is the absence of WMS, CRM and SRM products. Without a
complete integrated suite of SCM products, JDA is at a disadvantage when
competing against vendors for who have integrated WMS, CRM and SRM.
 The JDA software architecture & cross application support lacks the
features & functionality of the other enterprise software solutions,
including advanced functionality for system integration, web services &
data management.
 With their diverse technologies (including IBM midrange, Microsoft .NET
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17. I2 TECHNOLOGIES
 i2 Technologies was a supply chain management software & services
company, founded in 1988 by Sanjiv Sidhu and Ken Sharma in
Dallas, Texas (USA)
 JDA Software Group acquired i2 Technologies in January 2010
 Throughout its more than 20-year history i2 invested in excess of $1
billion in research and development, resulting in a broad solution
footprint delivering some of the industry’s leading supply chain
management technology
 The company held more than 160 patents related to
planning, scheduling optimization, demand
fulfilment, collaboration, e-commerce & data management &
reporting in its solution portfolio.
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18. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE & CROSS
APPLICATION SOLUTIONS
 I2’s Agile Business Process Platform provides support for
standardized software components such as data models,
business rules, user interfaces & workflows
 The platform also serves as a system integration platform
for data, messaging & web services
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19. SALES AND OPERATION PLANNING
 i2’s solution was developed for automotive industry & is
called Sales & Operational Management (S&OM)
 Features include process setup, demand & supply
planning, what if analysis & an audit of plan versus
actual performance
 i2 does not market their S&OP solution to non-
automotive companies
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20. DEMAND MANAGEMENT
 Demand planning & forecasting includes segmentation,
demand optimization & analysis, new product planning &
what if analysis for demand shaping
 Order fulfilment supports allocations based on available-
to-promise (ATP) & capable-to- promise (CTP)
 A demand shaping solution called Promotion Optimizer is
available for the retail industry
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21. SUPPLY MANAGEMENT
 Strategic Network Planning – i2’s solution for SNP is i2
Supply Chain Planners
 The network design component models locations,
transportation modes & production capacity for planning
mid-term & long term sourcing decisions
 Optimization features support allocations & distribution
planning
 Analysing Product Mix Constraints
 Planning Alternative Sources
 Setting Demand Priorities
 Analysing Resource Constraints
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22. TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
 Planning – i2’s features include a modeling tool for:
 Least Cost Options
 Multi-Modal Options
 Zone Routing and Multi Drops Analysis
 Carrier Selection Analysis
 Cross Dock Options
 Merge In Transit Options
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23. SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
 Catalog Management – A key feature of catalog management software suite
is the search capability on internal & supplier databases, based on keywords
& attribute values. Also, catalog management supports functionality to
categorize search results
 Sourcing – The i2 sourcing strategy focuses on spend analysis (keeping cost
down) & providing tools to evaluate categories, supplier selection & supplier
performance
 Contract Management – Supplier contracts are monitored to identify &
resolve performance & compliance issues
 Supplier Compliance – Qualitative & quantitative data is collected & updated
to supplier scorecards. The scorecards are integrated with sourcing spend
analysis
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24. I2’S STRENGTH & WEAKNESS
 i2 is considered an industry leader & innovator in SCM systems.
Their SCM planning products are considered best in class calibre
solutions.
 The TMS solution has been ranked as the top rated
transportation solution in a Gartner study. The Software
Architecture has been recognized as a top tier SOA (Service
Oriented Architecture) platform for SCM
 i2’s weakness is the absence of WMS and Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) software suite
 Without an integrated suite of products, i2 is at a disadvantage
when competing against vendors with an enterprise-wide suite
of integrated applications
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25. FINANCING SCM SYSTEMS
 Once you add up planning, training, customization,
interfaces & configuring software, implementing SCM
software is almost always more costly than actual
software license
 Some of cost can be amortized over life of application
software or built into a lease
 In addition to onetime charge for licensing &
implementation cost, software vendors charge annual or
monthly fees for software maintenance & support
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26. COMPARISON OF JDA & I2
 COST – JDA is far more costlier than i2. Cost
depends on the ‘Type of industry’ & ‘No. of
employees
 EASE OF USE – JDA is more easy to use than i2 & is
widely used by renowned companies like ‘Nokia’
& ‘Essar Telecom’ in their supply chain
management
 VENDOR SELECTION – Of course one would chose
JDA over i2, as i2 is now a part of JDA & hence
integrated with it. JDA had wider variety of
supply chain softwares like
RedPrairie, i2, Manugistics, E3, Intactix &
Arthur. Also one can select JDA for small as well
as large business
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