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– Smart Garden Products
“By upgrading to the latest version of Dispatcher WMS we have been able to fully leverage the power and flexibility of this platform … and ensure we deliver the best possible service in a highly efficient manner.”
– Versteijnen
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Awards recognize solutions and services providers playing a pivotal role in elevating the customer experience while helping to drive their digital supply chain transformations.
JDA FocusConnect 2017, London and Scottsdale, Ariz. – November 16, 2017 –JDA Software Group, Inc. today announced the winners of its Partner Awards, who were honored at JDA FocusConnect 2017 earlier this week in London.
The JDA Partner Awards recognize solutions and services providers in Europe, Middle East and Africa, who partner with JDA to deliver enhanced value to customers as they leverage JDA software to transform their supply chains, as well as their manufacturing and retail planning and execution efforts and unified commerce programs. This enhanced value delivers increased operations performance, higher levels of innovation or greater financial returns. In tandem with JDA, these partners help customers embark on their digital supply chain journeys, driving value out of their businesses and making them even more competitive in the market.
“Our annual Partner Awards highlight the strategic alliance partners that help us drive customer value and truly elevate the customer experience each and every day,” said Rolf Donslund, vice president, partner alliances & channel sales, EMEA, JDA. “As the digitalization of the supply chain continues, with the Internet of Things, big data and advanced analytics emerging, it is pertinent that we enable our customers to take advantage of these technologies. Congratulations to our Partner Award winners – as well as to our broad partner network – for playing a pivotal role in this transformation.”
The winners of the 2017 Partner Awards are:
- Reseller Partner of the Year: Socius24
- Sales Collaboration Partner of the Year: Ágora Europe
- Consulting Retail Partner of the Year: Cognizant
- Consulting Manufacturing Partner of the Year: Accenture
- Best New Partner of the Year: First Friday
- Best Technology Partner of the Year: Centiro
JDA FocusConnect 2017 highlights how some of the world’s most admired companies are reimagining their current business processes to create real competitive advantage by shortening their supply chains and delivering more efficiently to their end-customers. JDA FocusConnect will also highlight how JDA clients can elevate their customer experience by embracing digital transformation. Now more than ever, JDA’s solutions portfolio is harnessing the power of advanced data, analytics and machine learning capabilities to enable companies to streamline their supply chains, increase speed to market and create superior customer experiences and competitive advantage.
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About JDA Software Group, Inc.
JDA Software is the leading supply chain provider powering today’s digital transformation. We enable companies to improve their ability to plan, execute and deliver by better predicting and shaping demand, fulfilling more intelligently and quickly, and improving customer experiences and loyalty. More than 4,000 global customers use our unmatched end-to-end solutions portfolio to shorten their supply chains, increase speed of execution and
profitably deliver to their customers. Our world-class client roster includes 72 of the top 100 retailers, 71 of the top 100 consumer goods companies, and 13 of the top 16 3PLs. Running JDA, you can plan to deliver.
www.jda.com
JDA Focus Connect 2017, London and Scottsdale, Ariz. – November 16, 2017 – JDA Software Group, Inc. today announced the winners of its Partner Awards, who were honored at JDA Focus Connect 2017 earlier this week in London.
The JDA Partner Awards recognize solutions and services providers in Europe, Middle East and Africa, who partner with JDA to deliver enhanced value to customers as they leverage JDA software to transform their supply chains, as well as their manufacturing and retail planning and execution efforts and unified commerce programs. This enhanced value delivers increased operations performance, higher levels of innovation or greater financial returns. In tandem with JDA, these partners help customers embark on their digital supply chain journeys, driving value out of their businesses and making them even more competitive in the market.
“Our annual Partner Awards highlight the strategic alliance partners that help us drive customer value and truly elevate the customer experience each and every day,” said Rolf Donslund, vice president, partner alliances & channel sales, EMEA, JDA. “As the digitalization of the supply chain continues, with the Internet of Things, big data and advanced analytics emerging, it is pertinent that we enable our customers to take advantage of these technologies. Congratulations to our Partner Award winners – as well as to our broad partner network – for playing a pivotal role in this transformation.”
The winners of the 2017 Partner Awards are:
- Reseller Partner of the Year: Socius24
- Sales Collaboration Partner of the Year: Ágora Europe
- Consulting Retail Partner of the Year: Cognizant
- Consulting Manufacturing Partner of the Year: Accenture
- Best New Partner of the Year: First Friday
- Best Technology Partner of the Year: Centiro
JDA Focus Connect 2017 highlights how some of the world’s most admired companies are reimagining their current business processes to create real competitive advantage by shortening their supply chains and delivering more efficiently to their end-customers. JDA Focus Connect will also highlight how JDA clients can elevate their customer experience by embracing digital transformation. Now more than ever, JDA’s solutions portfolio is harnessing the power of advanced data, analytics and machine learning capabilities to enable companies to streamline their supply chains, increase speed to market and create superior customer experiences and competitive advantage.
We have picked up an award at this year’s Focus Connect event at the Intercontinental Hotel at the O2.
Over the past 12 months we have grown JDA’s license revenue by 50% to a new high compared to last 2 years. This is a significant achievement and underlines our commitment to the JDA business and our knowledge and skills in the WMS business.
JDA said:
“Winning a number of new customers for JDA on WMS while also bringing customers live at a rate we have never seen before, this partner is the true winner of this Award in 2017.”
See the full press release here.
FocusConnect 2017
November 13th-15th
FocusConnect Returns to London in 2017!
New Keynote and Session Speakers Announced with Socius24 as the Sponsor. Register Today and Save Over £300
Join 450 Supply Chain, Logistics and Retail professionals in London for 3 days of networking, knowledge sharing and learning. With more than 80 sessions & workshops, speakers from market leaders and plenty of networking sessions, FocusConnect 2017 is the perfect opportunity to gain insight into the latest supply chain innovations.
Keynote Speaker:
We are delighted to announce Johan Smits, Director Global Planning, HEINEKEN as a keynote speaker for FocusConnect 2017. Johan Smits started his career working with a Strategy and Change Management consultancy, focussed on Supply Chain transformations in FMGC.
In 2000 he started to support the HEINEKEN Global Executive Team to run their Global Programme Portfolio Management organisation and Financial Management – putting Strategy into Action.
Session Speakers:
Hear presentations by inspired leaders and visionaries in supply chain who will share their best practices, experiences and success stories. Recently confirmed speakers include:
- Co-op
- DHL
- Lego
- Michelin
- RS Components
- Safilo
- Waitrose
Interactive Workshops and Educational Sessions
Get valuable insight into best practices and industry trends by attending our workshops and educational sessions on a variety of topics including:
- 3PL & Logistics
- Category Management
- Innovation and Technology
- Integrated Business Planning
- Intelligent Fulfillment
- Manufacturing Planning
- Omni-Channel Fulfillment
- Professional Development
- Retail Planning and Store Operations
- Segmented Supply Chain
Book Your Hotel And Arrange Travel
Get ahead of the game! Book your room at The Intercontinental London now via the FocusConnect Website to secure our exclusive conference rate of £209 (Excluding 20% VAT).
When booking your flights we recommend that you arrive at London City airport, it is a 20 minute taxi journey to the venue. If you would like any advice on your travel arrangements to the event please contact us on focusconnect@jda.com
We look forward to seeing you at FocusConnect 2017!
Having worked in Warehouse Management System (WMS) delivery for twenty plus years I have seen a few interesting challenges. The JDA/RedPrairie Dispatcher WMS solution originally developed in the UK, owned by LIS in the 80’s and 90’s, bought by RedPrairie in 2004 and now part of the one Billion $+ Company JDA Software; has been implemented in forty-two counties around the Globe. My claim to fame (if fame is of any value) is many of the countries (42) this solution has been installed into, I have been heavily involved with. This was achieved by working with local experts supported by the people that are now, some years later, working within the Socius24 team.
In my experience over these year, and within a large business, we may have had a new customer go-live every few months. Often RedPrairie would kick start a roll-out for say a major 3PL and then they themselves would, over time, implement several more additional sites.
So why am I telling you this? In the month of October 2017 Socius24 Implemented Four New Dispatcher WMS sites within an amazing six days! This was not by design, ideally, we like go-lives to be staged for planning, resourcing, physical coverage, contingency planning, customer business continuity etc.
But, each customer had compelling reasons why they had to be live before the Christmas rush, system change lock-down, budgeting and system go-live readiness. The risks to go or not to go were discussed and although Soicus24 are a relatively small team we agreed that each individual business had to meet their system go-live and business objectives/deadlines. The question was could a relatively small (albeit highly experienced and seasoned) team achieve what no one else had ever managed in the past…
More to follow…
ROHLIG SUUS Logistics is one of the leading logistics providers in Poland, with worldwide operations. As a trusted freight forwarder across land, sea and air, the company also provides contract logistics and warehousing services. JDA Warehouse Management has provided ROHLIG SUUS with a stable and an easily configurable solution that can be seamlessly integrated into existing IT environments, enabling the company to grow their contract logistics business while establishing themselves as true transport logistics experts and a partner their customers can trust.
Socius24 and JDA this year saw record attendance at the IntralogisteX 2017 show. For the third year running we were back at the Ericsson Exhibition Hall in the Ricoh Arena, home of the Wasps Rugby team and Coventry City Football Club.
With JDA supporting our stand we were demonstrating JDA RedPrairie software resulting in us securing a large number of quality Warehouse Management, Warehouse Labour, TMS and services enquiries in our busiest ever event.
Thank you to all those that visited us over the two days and for sharing your supply chain challenges. We look forward to working a lot closer with you in the coming weeks.
Socius24 demonstrates JDA RedPrairie at IntralogisteX 2017
Once again Socius24 will be exhibiting at IntralogisteX.
IntraLogisteX is taking place in Ericsson Hall 2 of the Ricoh Arena, Coventry UK on the 15th and 16th March 2017. The show floor will be packed with industry leading companies who have gathered together to display the latest logistics innovations available to improve your operations.
As well as this, there will be there will be an on-floor seminar theatre with interactive sessions that promise to educate visitors on how to best utilise the latest technology to make real, tangible improvements to their warehouse. These sessions also offer CPD hours so you can keep up with your professional qualifications.
Register free now at www.intralogistex.co.uk
Socius24 will be located at Stand 115. We look forward to seeing you there!
The User Service Portal (USP) extends the WMS by providing additional visibility and functionality both to warehouse users and other non-warehouse application users such as Customer Services, on the road Van Sales, Satellite or remote storage facilities, IT immature manufacturing facilities or temporary locations such as emergency reaction/relief stations.
The user interacts with light HTML5 web pages allowing access from any device that has a browser installed. The screens are easily modified via a cascading style sheet (CSS) to include the customer’s logo, colours and fonts to fit in with a customer’s environment. Functionality and screens are granted or restricted to end users based on familiar Function Access concepts and screen results can be edited to allow for end user preferences.
Consider the following scenarios to reduce work and cost to your business:
Customer Services
Instead of phoning your Customer Services department Order Visibility screens allow end customers to connect and view how their orders are doing; the current order progress and if there are shortages against the order. Drill downs are available to the order lines and once shipped the inventory shipped for an order can be viewed giving details such as batch, expiry dates, quantities and containers shipped in.
3PL Client
A 3PL client can view their inventory, seeing views of inventory summary, inventory balances across a time period, inventory due to expire and views of individual inventory records. Additionally you may allow them to see transactions against their inventory such as adjustments.
3PL clients can manage their own SKUs by using the SKU Entry and or SKU Deletion screens. Additionally Order Entry and Pre-advice Entry screens are available. For larger numbers of records where there is no interface in place a Data Import page allows the bulk upload of SJKUs, Orders, Pre-advice and other data.
The Business Executive
Visibility can be provided of that day’s transactions to your CEO or your Customer’s representative. USP gives you access to transaction screens, the Dispatcher WMS Reports for download in PDF format and graphical views of KPIs are available.
Functionality
In addition to the above, USP provides enhanced functionality not available in the WMS this includes:
- Grid Picking – enhanced visibility of Grid Picking progress, showing progress in easy to interpret graphical views. Drill downs are available to give the end user a view of exactly how much work and inventory is required to complete a grid.
- Repacking – cut down, simpler repacking. Allowing item by item scanning of the use of touch screen buttons.
- Rework – conversion of inventory from one SKU to another where exact quantities are not known.
Following on from the success of 2015 Socius24 will again be exhibiting with JDA at IntraLogistex on the 16th and 17th March.
This has always been a busy show for Socius24 with good footfall and great interest in the JDA solutions so please come along and see us on stand 93.
