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JDA Allocation

Challenge: Effectively Executing Assortment

Plans with Accurate Allocation
Today’s retailers are implementing advanced assortment systems
in order to gain more in-depth planning capabilities. The results
are more strategic and tailored inventory and assortment
plans. However, accurately executing these plans can prove
challenging. In order to streamline and optimize assortment plan
execution, retailers need a world-class allocation system that can
bring the assortment and allocation processes together while
also considering other information like size scale data.
Key JDA Allocation Capabilities:
• Creates allocations and executes allocation plans based on
inventory and/or assortment plans
• Delivers the ability to apply unlimited and configurable
allocation methodologies to the allocation process
• Tests allocation strategies prior to execution using robust
what-if analysis
• Provides seamless integration with JDA planning solutions

Solution: JDA Allocation • Allocates based on any hierarchy and non-hierarchical

JDA Software is recognized as an industry-leading provider of
retail merchandising planning and allocation software. JDA’s
extensive customer base includes almost all retail sectors, and
some of the world’s leading retailers rely on JDA® Allocation
to deliver optimized data and integrate their assortment and
allocation processes to achieve outstanding business results.
JDA Allocation helps you to keep the big plan in mind as it
considers the details to create accurate store-specific allocations.
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• Provides auto-allocation scheduling for “no touch”
allocation execution
• Allocates both bulk and packed merchandise
• Serves as an alternative mechanism for store-to-store
distribution of seasonal and other merchandise

Using up-to-date information from the JDA host systems to

generate store size profiles, JDA Allocation enhances and
translates key consumer insights into pinpointed allocations that
fine tune and optimize store-specific product assortments across
your entire retail organization.
common in other solutions. The highly configurable JDA
Allocation solution enables you to generate allocation results in
different ways for different types merchandise based on current
business conditions.

Supreme Scalability and Configurable Allocation

Methodologies
With most allocation systems, you can only select one or two
items to allocate at a time. But with JDA Allocation you can select
20, 40 or even 100 items at a time – or even an entire assortment
– to allocate and push through in one round. This supreme
scalability saves time and enables you to determine your ideal
product mix for each store as quickly and easily as possible.
Additionally, the solution provides you with the flexibility to
derive an allocated quantity by any form of calculation. This
means that you are free to create allocation details without
being limited to a prescribed library of calculation methods
Flexible Options to Suit Your Business
With JDA Allocation, you have the flexibility to conduct the
allocation function using either manual or automatic processes
to suit your business and the type of merchandise you’re
allocating. For example, you might leverage the auto-allocation
system to free up your allocators for other value-added duties
in circumstances requiring routine allocation of similar goods
using a standardized methodology. In other situations you might
prefer to process the allocations manually.
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