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JDA Software Group Inc. has added a tool to its
transportation portfolio that the software developer said would help manufacturers and e-tailers
meet ever-tighter delivery deadlines while reining
in shipping costs.
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based JDA said the upgrade,
which became available in late April, allows custom-
ers to solve a common transportation challenge of
the e-commerce era, namely how to get products to
multiple destinations across different time frames
in the most profitable manner. “In today’s omni-
channel selling environment, competitive pressures
have never been more intense—and customers
have never been more demanding,” said Fabrizio
Brasca, JDA’s vice president of solution strategy for
intelligent fulfillment. “The enhancements to the
… portfolio in this new release provide companies
with exclusive new capabilities that allow them to
make more intelligent fulfillment decisions.”
JDA’s transportation solutions are part of an
application suite the company said is built to
promote more profitable fulfillment practices by
balancing warehouse constraints with shipping
deadlines, prioritizing loads by upstream replenish-
ment schedules, and managing fleets according to
customizable truck routes.
With the upgraded transportation portfolio
of software tools, shippers can balance service
demands with cost pressures to make smarter, more
strategic shipping and delivery decisions, JDA said.
The software’s increased flexibility allows users to
make real-time adjustments such as shipment prior-itization, dynamic shipment splitting, and building
“item-aware” loads, JDA said.
“In planning loads and scheduling deliveries,
companies want to meet ambitious customer service
goals—but, at the same time, they need to recog-
nize and honor real-world execution constraints,”
Brasca said. “They also need to protect their profit
margins by making decisions that balance service
optimization with cost control.”
Retailers and manufacturers can push back against
those forces and regain control of their shipping
cycle by applying the new capabilities, JDA said.
A recent JDA study found that only 16 percent
of companies can meet omnichannel demand profitably, partly because they can’t make intelligent
tradeoffs between transportation service and cost.
(Read the full study at http://now.jda.com/ceo2015.
html?&utm_campaign=ceo2015.)
JDA upgrades transportation
software The U.S. industrial market saw the lowest vacancy rates in more than a decade during the first quarter
of 2015, according to commercial real estate services
firm Cushman & Wakefield. … Technology company
Barcoding Inc. has created a new practice, Supply Chain
Analytics by Barcoding, dedicated to the holistic exam-
ination and improvement of technology, process, and
people in a supply chain. ... Wynright Corp., a provider
of intelligent material handling systems, is expanding its
after-sales market support program with its new Client
Asset Modernization initiative. The program is aimed at
extending the useful life of material handling systems. …
The MOL Northern Juvenile, capa-
ble of carrying 8,800 twenty-foot
equivalent units, set a record as the
largest containership to ever call on
the Port of Jacksonville in Florida.
… RoadOne IntermodaLogistics, a
logistics services company, has launched a Road-Pay
Referral Program, which provides incentives to RoadOne
drivers for recruiting and supporting independent contractors. ... C.H. Robinson has opened a new global
forwarding office in Antwerp, Belgium. The company
is also now operating out of a fully owned global forwarding office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. … Zebra
Technologies Corp. has created a new channel partner
program. … Logistics Plus has published a case study on
its website describing the fourth-party logistics service
that it provides for Hero BX, a producer of biodiesel
fuels. … Third-party logistics service provider Kenco,
which sponsored the Sunbelt Bakery Ironman 70.3
Chattanooga (Tenn.) triathlon in May, will also sponsor
the Little Debbie Ironman Chattanooga triathlon in the
fall. … Raymond Handling Concepts Corp. celebrated
its Idaho expansion with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony and lift truck driving demonstration. … Mark
Babbitt, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and mentor, will
deliver the keynote presentation at Elemica’s upcoming
European and North American Ignite Supply Chain conferences. ... Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc.
(MCFA) recently manufactured its 400,000th forklift at
the company’s Houston headquarters and production
facility. To mark the occasion, the company applied a
Texas flag wrap and other special decals to the 4,500-
pound capacity reach truck, which was put to work in
MCFA’s production parts warehouse. … Llamasoft, a
developer of supply chain design software solutions,
has acquired IBM’s Logic Tools supply chain applications
business unit. … AirBridgeCargo Airlines is extending its global network to Vietnam with the launch of
twice-weekly freighter services from Hanoi.
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