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Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend IE Group’s S&OP Innovation Summit in Boston, along with industry thought leader and JBF alliance partner Bill Nienburg, CEO of Integrated Business Planning Associates (IBP2).

Click this link for the video: Audit Trail Video will take about 20 seconds to load. In this video, I demonstrate how to create a load-level audit trail for the DSW Action ‘Disband Freight Movement.’ I’m often asked by clients how they can track changes made to loads by users. The built-in Audit Trail functionality [...]

I’m often asked by clients whether the JDA Transport module is capable of handling ‘Standing Orders’ or ‘Static Orders’ (meaning orders that repeat on a set frequency, often daily, and usually to the same origin:destination). My response has historically been ‘no’, but lately I’ve been saying ‘it is possible.’ Here is a summary of the [...]

In a recent project, our team was tasked to design and implement a solution for a client that would drive Load Building functionality with Recommended Shipments from Fulfillment. Through a detailed analysis, we ended up selecting Transport as the engine for Load Building these RecShips from Fulfillment. The end solution was well received, and offered [...]

In Part One of this feature, I described the first two benefits of private fleet centralization – Cross Facility Optimization and Operational Expertise. These two benefits usually provide the tangible and quantifiable benefits or return necessary to fund this type of project. There are also soft benefits to centralization that should be considered, including System [...]