Retail assortment management applications (RAMAs) are a foundational component of modern category management solutions for long life cycle products. Using data & analytics and AI technology, RAMAs can curate targeted assortments to create compelling customer experiences, leading to an increase in sales conversion. Long life cycle products in retail include categories such as grocery, consumables and hard goods. The long life cycle retailers’ traditionally broad approach to assortments is not satisfying customers’ demands for more curated assortments to match their lifestyles. Local trends mean that even more granular store-specific assortments are necessary. Advanced analytics, algorithms, AI and automation will play pivotal roles in driving this transformation through better customer understanding and alignment.
"Modernizing Merchandise Efficiency through Seamless Integration"
Till now one of the best experiences in terms Inventory control
"powerfull and flexible tools for analysis and planning"
the overall experience with board has been excellent. the platform offers powerful analytic capabilities and a flexible interface
"Implementation in line with expectations, Analysis phase,.. the hardest part"
The experience was very good, we worked very well with the consultants team and thanks to the tool we also improved our internal process and organization. The hardest phase was at the beginning since we had to find the right "alchemy" between the business team and the consultants team, after this initial calibration we found a perfect tuning.
"Smooth implementation that saw an increase in our pre-packing capabilities & reduced costs"
JDA did a great job of assessing our current internal capabilities and needs and translated that into the tool so we could drive the most benefit with the simplest approach and least amount of business disruption. We scaled our deployment slowly to learn and adjust and found this approach very successful. JDA has some very good resources who know the tool inside and out; this allowed us to complete the project with fewer resources (a single functional/technical combined) vs. multiple resources. This also kep our overall cost down. We handled the data integration and JDA handled the application configuration and implementation. Post install, JDA did a nice job of knowledge transfer with our internal team so we could support the tool on a go foward basis. We now leverage JDA Support and have had good results from that team (in fact better than the support we get on their other apps) and are overall very satisfied with our results.
"Great Team results in a Great Implementation"
The IBM team is professional and helpful. They understand my business and have worked hard to help the integration go smoothly.
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See All Alternatives"Strong responsive team with an elegant solution."
o9 has been a pleasure to work with. They are responsive to our needs and have been great partners in supporting our ongoing implementation roadmap.
"Product is robust and stable but new features need to be well tested before rollout"
The product is robust, relatively stable and provides a lot of functions that most products don't. Users love the product as it meets their requirements and is user friendly. There are not a lot of planning applications in the world that are as successful as Oracle RPAS. RPAS installation is simple and easy and is not sophisticated as a typical Oracle database and application installation. RPAS batch utilities are also very easy to use and deploy without the need for multiple lines of code. New features released as part of the product like HSA(Hybrid storage architecture) should be well tested before releasing to the customer. We had to abandon HSA due to the intricacies and limits imposed Product support needs a lot of improvement. Product support personnel can be a lot more courteous and helpful. If the customer is new to the product and is picking up expertise, the customer will have a tough time working with the RPAS product support team
"Relex Implementation"
We are in the process of migrating all our solutions to cloud. We carefully reviewed various vendors and products in this space. So far liked only Relex for our allocation and happy with the implementation so far.
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See All Alternatives"Collaborative Partner solving for best in class Assortment planning"
Infor/Predictix has been a good partner on the journey of enhancement. Over past years we have struggled with performance or speed of the tool tranactions
"On the tech side, the best and the brightest. On the business side, business as usual "
Individual contributors at SAS are largely helpful and eager to share their expertise. With some solution providers, we feel like we're providing on the job training; this has never been the case with my interactions with SAS technical and business resources. The business side, however, is a challenge. SOWs change, contracts change, it's difficult to find an authority to 'approve' things, etc. We're also forced to hire a business/project manager for any business services contract, which is expensive and provides little or no value to the project.
"The Business Experts are really strong and were critical to successful implementation."
The Business Experts from Logility are really strong. They are great strategic partners and offer a wealth of knowledge to make our system processes and implementations a success.
"good experience for a brand new product"
A very good experience knowing that the product was launched but had never been implemented before (brand new product, no experience, ...) Very high reactivity to enhance APR Product and related roadmap (since the very beginning of the Project) Tight relationship with the Solution Management team (regular meetings and participation to Satisfaction Acceptance Tests) On-site support from SAP consultants before and after go-live
"Decoding the Spaceman User Experience: Highlights and Drawbacks"
The Spaceman team has been incredibly helpful to work with and their products provide a lot of useful technology in the planogram space, but there are slight limitations with the product that I think could really make it shine.
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See All Alternatives"System development and support is highly customer-driven, innovative and reliable"
Strong partner in providing valuable business tools for decision-making that support the process, and are highly agile. Customer-driven approach in providing comprehensive business process tools.
"Great vendor and fully functional product"
Great vendor to work with and for the price, the best product on the market for merchandise planning!
"Post Implementation Support was Great"
customer service and partnership post implementation has been critical for us given our global team and very few resources internally.
"Easy implementation, the complexity was in the supporting business and data processes."
JDA's software is industry leading and their technical staff are highly knowledgeable about the applications they're implementing and about the industry they serve (retail)
"Make sure the business is ready for the change"
technology and implementation went well. Business take up did not go well due to various reasons
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See All Alternatives"Executing tests in First Insight's testing platform is simple and results are predictive."
After a comprehensive Proof of Concept, we signed a contract with First Insight. There was no implementation issues as First Insight host the system. First Insight provided resources dedicated to our organization to help construct strategic, deploy-able tests. In addition, they always built and executed tests in timely and thorough fashion. The challenging part was around process integration and training. Digital testing is new to our organization and disruptive to current testing practices, in a good way. First Insight did provide support during the introduction of the digital testing but we could have used more of their industry knowledge and experience to engage better with various product categories.
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