The Value Realization Imperative: Optimizing the Value of SaaS Investments
Understanding the value realized from investments in SaaS platform solutions is a strategic imperative in today’s economy. Many organizations, however, find it challenging to accurately determine the strategic, operational, and financial benefits of these solutions. Justifying the initial financial commitment is hard enough; being able…
Leveraging AI to Minimize Markdowns [Video]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the face of the markdown process today. By gathering real-time demand data — and combining it with data on current inventory levels and margin targets — AI-enabled solutions from JDA can replace permanent markdowns with short-term promotional prices that maximize…
Getting Proactive with Markdowns [Video]
Predicting demand, and creating markdown strategies, for items with short life cycles — such as winter apparel — have traditionally depended on historic sales data and regression analysis. Today, clustering algorithms from JDA can help you predict demand and create markdowns more accurately, based on…
Price Elasticity: Your New Strategic Weapon [Video]
How much are consumers really willing to pay? And which products can capitalize on flexible pricing to stimulate demand? New capabilities from JDA leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to support fact-based decisions about price elasticity, helping you transform agile pricing into a competitive weapon. Explore how…
Next-Gen Pricing, Next-Level Profits [Video]
While past pricing solutions were focused on execution, today’s next-generation pricing solutions from JDA are more strategic in nature — considering both internal constraints and external factors, such as weather, that can affect demand. Discover how you can leverage these next-gen solutions to take your…
Sustainability: A Fresh Opportunity for Convenience Stores
How can convenience store owners and managers contribute to sustainability — and increase their own profits? The answer is surprisingly simple. Statistics show that about 795 million people worldwide are undernourished — which is about one in nine people. At the same time, about one-third…
Getting Smarter About AI in Retail Planning [Video]
Volatile consumer demand. Soaring expectations for service and responsiveness. Endless purchasing options. How can retailers expect to succeed? The answer lies in using artificial intelligence (AI) to gather data and make fact-based, strategic decisions — no matter how many internal and external factors are involved….
It’s Time to Demand More from Your Supply Chain Control Tower
Supply chains are getting more and more complex, thanks to soaring customer expectations for service and responsiveness and endless purchasing options. In this environment, how can a company manage what it can’t see, plan for what it doesn’t know, or execute a business plan if…
Tariffs and 5 Areas Retailers Need to Focus on Now
For decades, from hardware to electronics, textiles, food, household goods, and general merchandise; retailers have been offering lower prices on goods sourced overseas. Though there has been some change in recent years, most imported goods to the United States originate in China. China’s cost base,…
5 Answers Every Retailer Needs from Our Q&A with Microsoft’s Global Retail Strategy Director
This week we sat down with ShiSh Shridhar, Microsoft’s Global Retail Strategy Director. We learned more about JDA’s partnership with Microsoft and how AI is quickly going from big picture to best practice. Here are the five insights he shared about how artificial intelligence (AI)…