Enterprise Planning Suite Training

JDA’s Assortment Planning education program enables students to translate high level financial plans into lower levels of detail. This enables planners to create effective assortments that produce positive ROI, meet customer needs, and accomplish multi-channel objectives. Buyers, Planners, Managers and Administrators will benefit by completing the Assortment Planning Certifications.

Assortment Planner - The Assortment Planner certification enables Buyers and Planners to create assortment plans by location to achieve strategic and financial objectives. You will be able to:

Match merchandise mix to store characteristics
Execute distribution strategies to maximize in-stock positions
Identify potential inventory liabilities and take appropriate action
Create appropriate business analysis to influence future purchases

Assortment Planning Administrator - The Assortment Planning Administrator certification enables administrators to maintain the application and modify the setup based on developing business needs. You will be able to:

Answer process and system questions from your assortment planning team
Create and maintain measures based on business needs
Better match product mix to store profiles through attributes
Execute merchandise mix strategies to location assortments

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Phone: 1-800-785-5063      Email: jdalearn@jda.com

Replace inefficient, traditional store clustering methods with a scientific approach. Channel Clustering provides you with the intelligent predictive and descriptive data mining algorithms and dynamic capabilities required to achieve assortment optimization. Training includes key Channel Clustering features:

• Groups stores based on consumer purchasing behavior
• Refines and improves clustering results
• Correlates census data attributes to more meaningfully characterize clusters
• Enables tailored assortments, including refined support for product launches
• Supports cluster-specific marketing strategies

Being able to develop specific business strategies and product assortments is a critical retail function. The Channel Clustering instructor-led workshop develops these skills in a hands-on environment. Students learn to create store groups and clusters, identify business drivers, analyze customer demographics, and learn to export store cluster output to other JDA applications.

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Phone: 1-800-785-5063      Email: jdalearn@jda.com

Stockouts are one of the quickest ways to disappoint your customers … and lose sales. Yet retailers have been forever challenged with conducting low-level analysis at frequent intervals to get the right sizes to each store.

With JDA Size Scaling, you will be able to work at this fine level of detail! By rapidly reviewing a massive input of POS data, Size Scaling will determine a best-fit size template for ordering, allocation and replenishment by style, class or department. By basing your decisions on sales patterns by store and time period, you’ll dramatically increase your in-stock position with the most profitable sizes on a store-by-store basis. Training includes key Size Scaling features:

• Store-level size demand history used to determine size scales by product by location:
  - Results in better accuracy of size scales and inventory targeting
• Pre-pack optimization to select optimal size/color packs:
  - Matches pack configuration for all stores to specific size demand
    for each store with minimal error
• Single set of pre-pack constraints can be applied to multiple size groupings simultaneously (styles, colors, etc.)
• Store-level volumes can be sourced from history or forecast
• Optimal packs generated for each size grouping and distribution error calculated

Understanding and managing multiple product sizes for a large number of stores is challenging in today’s environment. Students in the Size Scaling class will learn to identify store groups and customer size preferences in order to plan product purchases. This “Hands’On” workshop provides students critical practice developing store groups, analyzing size preferences, and developing pre-pack purchase quantities.

Call or email for details regarding on-site classes and volume discounts.

Phone: 1-800-785-5063      Email: jdalearn@jda.com