Supply Chain Leaders Share Insights on Business Transformation and Supply Chain Innovation at JDA FOCUS 2011

JDA^® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company^®, today announced that more than 1,800 of the best supply chain, merchandising and pricing practitioners from more than 460 companies representing 28 countries, shared supply chain best practices for successful business transformation at JDA FOCUS 2011, the company’s 21^st annual global conference held May 1-4 at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Fla.

The content-rich event featured six General Session speakers and a customer panel, in addition to more than 250 Breakout Sessions, including 103 customer-led sessions and 43 Special Interest Group sessions including:

• Hamish Brewer, president and chief executive officer, JDA Software
• Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer, eBay (1998-2008)
• George Frongillo, president, JDA Users Group
• Kevin O’Marah, group vice president, Supply Chain Research, Gartner, and a panel featuring JDA customers Karl Martin, director, consumer and retail, Dell; LeRoy Allen, senior vice president, logistics, Lowe’s Companies; Dennis Mullahy, group vice president, merchandise planning and supply chain, Meijer; Louise Tang, director, customer supply chain operations, Sony; and Wilfred Eijpen, director, supply chain, Stanley Black & Decker
• David King, Ph.D., executive vice president, product development and management, JDA Software
• Raghav Keshav, chief product officer, JDA Software

"Without a doubt, FOCUS 2011 represented the most significant forum for supply chain, merchandising and pricing excellence anywhere,” said Tom Dziersk, executive vice president, sales and marketing, JDA Software. "With more than 1,800 of the industry’s leading practitioners globally from retail, wholesale distribution and manufacturing talking openly about their success and challenges and sharing best practices and real solutions, you can certainly appreciate how FOCUS has become much more than just another software conference. FOCUS reflects JDA’s commitment to helping companies deliver on the promises they make to their customers, suppliers and manufacturing partners each day.”

"This was the best conference to date; both the quality and content of the presentations were excellent,” said George Frongillo, JDA Software Users Group president. "JDA has made tremendous progress in their integration efforts, and the customer experience and ability to network with other supply chain professionals was outstanding. I look forward to following up with many of the new contacts I made at the event.”

JDA announced numerous product enhancements, benchmarking results, Alliance Partner Leadership Awards and Real Results Awards in conjunction with JDA FOCUS 2011. Highlights include:

• JDA announced a series of new innovations around the following solutions: JDA Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), JDA^® Advanced Marketplace Collaboration, JDA^® Demand and JDA^® Fulfillment, Transportation & Logistics Management, JDA^® Freight Order Management, JDA^® Transportation Manager and JDA^® Transportation Planner. These new capabilities, derived from the multiyear product roadmap announced in April 2010, continue the heritage of market-leading innovations targeted specifically at creating real shareholder value through supply chain excellence. To view the press release, click here.
• JDA announced the release of JDA Transportation & Logistics Management 6.3.4. This major solution suite release is generally available and represents the second phase of JDA’s post-i2 acquisition transportation and logistics management product roadmap integration plan announced in April 2010. To view the press release, click here.
• JDA announced the results of JDA’s largest, most complex supply chain benchmarking study to date. JDA’s Performance Engineering team tested version 7.7 of the JDA^® Demand and JDA^® Fulfillment supply chain planning and optimization solutions leveraging real-world complexities, scale and process flows representative of today’s largest-volume businesses. To view the press release, click here.
• JDA announced the winners of its first annual Alliance Partner Leadership Awards during an exclusive Partner Executive Briefing. Alliance Partner Leadership Awards recognize a variety of JDA Partners who were influential in helping to advance JDA solutions, drive co-innovation and improve customer return on investment. Ten different global partners were recognized in 13 different award categories. To view the press release, click here.
• JDA Real Results Award winners were recognized from among the more than 6,000 JDA customers worldwide with deployments in progress or completed with documented results received. Selected by a panel of JDA executives, the 2011 Real Results Award winners demonstrated exceptional increases in sales and profits, business-process improvements and/or reductions in inventory and overall costs. To view the press release announcing the 2011 Real Results Award winners, click here.

FOCUS 2012 is scheduled for April 29-May 2, 2012, at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. To learn more, please go to http://www.jda.com/focus/.

NOTE TO EDITORS: JDA had an expanded social media presence around FOCUS 2011. Following are "tweets” from several third-party experts who attended the event.

Nari Viswanathan, industry analyst, supply chain solution architect, product manager, strategy consultant, @Nariv

• Keynote from Hamish CEO #JDA talking about the fact that change today is happening exponentially. #SCM more critical than ever #JDAFOCUS11
• #supplychain folks automatically think about the end to end process. Unfortunately other functions do not. Well said @komarah #JDAFOCUS11

Jeff Ashcroft, logistics, supply chain and SM explorer, analyst at Constellation Research Group, @JeffAschroft

• Listening to Hamish Brewer President & CEO of @JDASoftware talking about Challenges of Change at kick off for #JDAFOCUS11 "Change or be Changed.”
• The @JDAsoftware Private Cloud now has 1 million users globally spread across 193 countries #ManagedServices #StrategicServces #JDAfocus11

Leslie Hand, IDC Retail Insights research director, @Lesliehand

• Hamish Brewer, CEO #JDA Companies want to rewire business processes across the organization... Need to optimize and synchronize for demand
• Stewart McCutcheon, CIO, Nalco – already saved $20-30 million in networking capital with JDA #JDAFOCUS11
• Stewart McCutcheon, CIO, Nalco partnered w/#JDA to deliver functionality that added value every 2-4 weeks, JDA ILab functionality critical
• Reflections day 1 #jdafocus11 - JDA leads with supply chain applications, an expanding partner ecosystem and vertical thought leadership
• Reflections day 1 #jdafocus11 - i2 application and intellectual assets are successfully infusing an innovative spirit into the DNA of JDA

STORES Media, the publishing group of the National Retail Federation (NRF), reports on the broad spectrum of strategic issues facing retailers, @Storesmedia

• #JDAFOCUS11, CEO Brewer said industry is approaching inflection points: consumer expectations, supply/demand dislocation, price volatility
• Gartner's O'Marah #jdaFOCUS11 on the New Game for Supply Chain: Formalize/establish a S.C. org that reports to the CEO, not manufacturing.

Nikki Baird, retail technology maven, @nikkibaird

• Lowe's collaboration strategy: talk to vendors about much more than just price. Great story. #JDAFOCUS11

Reporters can follow and connect with JDA on an ongoing basis via the following social media outlets:

• Twitter: www.twitter.com/JDASoftware
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/JDASoftwareGroup
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/JDA-Software
• YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/JDASoftware
• SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/JDASoftware

About JDA Software Group, Inc.

JDA^® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company^®, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions worldwide. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies^®, Manugistics^®, E3^®, Intactix^® and Arthur^®. JDA’s multiple service options, delivered via the JDA^® Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise. To learn more, visit www.jda.com or e-mail info@jda.com.

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