On the Importance of Building Powerful Teams and Driving Diversity Awareness
This week’s Wednesdays for Women blog is with JDA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Associate Success Officer Nathalie Carruthers. She recently participated in a podcast with Change Wave, discussing her passion for improving company culture, and diversity and inclusion (D&I). She shares her views on…
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…
Announcing the ICON 2020 Customer Keynote Speakers
This is the fourth blog in our ICON 2020: What’s New series. Stay in the know about the biggest and best supply chain conference of the year with our blog series highlighting the latest developments as they unfold. We hope your calendars are marked for…
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….
What is Your Legacy?
Nayana Kishore is a support lead on JDA’s Customer Success team, based in Hyderabad, India. Today she writes of a life-changing experience she had during a recent business trip. Her experience reveals two lessons: be open to exploration when you find yourself in a new…
Finding the Value in Your Control Tower
Talking with supply chain leaders across the industry, it’s clear that supply chain control towers are being tasked with more and more functionality. It’s a natural evolution. After all, control towers collect and leverage large data sets from across the end-to-end supply chain. If data…
Lead by Example
Lindsay Eavenson is a pre-sales director at JDA, beginning her career at RedPrairie [acquired by JDA] right out of college more than 16 years ago. She’s a huge proponent of leading by example and in her new leadership role at JDA keeps this in mind…
Mind the Gap: Closing the Hunger Gap in a World of Food Waste
It’s that time of year again. As we’ve entered the season of thanks and giving back, it creates a moment of pause of what is it that we are truly appreciative for, and how can we spread more cheer amongst those around us. Growing up…
Blessings in Disguise
With a season of giving on the horizon, we’re sharing a special edition of Wednesdays for Women themed around “blessings in disguise.” By definition, a blessing in disguise is an idiom referring to the idea that something appearing to be a misfortune can have unexpected…
Is S&OE the new S&OP?
During a recent dialog with a Vice President of Supply Chain for a major U.S. retailer, I had the opportunity to ask an important question. I asked how much of that Vice President’s time was spent on truly strategic supply chain planning projects vs tactical…