Blue Yonder Luminate Planning vs. SAP Integrated Business Planning

JDA WMS is a tier 1 solution for warehousing environments. Due to its price, it may not be suitable for smaller operations. Since the system allows for multiple clients, and since my company is a 3PL, JDA WMS works well for 3PL providers.

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Integrate SAP Integrated Business Planning in the daily operation of the core business is easy if the use of SAP HANA Cloud requires to increase in budget and is not possible for all types or sizes of organisations, but if your IT department requires to connect to on-premise data, connect to other data repositories on cloud or off-premise and customize reports for specific businesses cases, these tasks can increase the projected costs and require to adopt other SAP modules that can not be required at all.

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• Great customer facing implementation team.
• Predictable and communicated improvement processes.
• Constant roll out of new features with a strong SIG committee.

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• Comfortable database, it adjusts to what we know how to use.
• The platform acts quickly, and throws metrics and analysis adjusted to the times we need, thus automating the results.
• Complete and detailed reports, we can dynamically evaluate all the information.

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• Efficiency - At times the response time to retrieve the data from DB could be improved.
• Cheaper pricing - can provide some concession with the pricing.
• Training - JDA could offer more free training programs.

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• The trial version is very limited, but it's a trial! But for the awareness of the platform, SAP could improve the free version.
• SAP IBP has a lot of functions, but not all are easy to understand and put into practice. Maybe a better demo would be a plus for the awareness of all of them.

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Because It is is a cloud-based platform that can be accessed from anywhere and also it has a user-friendly which is great for navigation within the software. As it offers a wide range of features including demand forecasting, supply chain planning, and collaboration tools which makes it even more powerful

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It's still an older system which could use some updating.

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JDA WMS was a large step up from our legacy Infor solution. It filled many gaps that we couldn't fill with Infor's system. Rather than continuing to build solutions in-house to account for customer requirements, we decided to implement JDA WMS and use all of that system's capabilities to handled what we needed in our warehouses. Granted, Infor's solutions have probably improved since 2007 when we changed, but those were my experiences back when we changed WMS providers.

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They are entirely different solutions so ‘stacking them up’ doesn’t make sense. I raise this solution because PaPM is a highly-scalable analytics engine. If SAP sold IBP with PaPM it would eliminate the issues we have with scalability as we develop our top-down, bottom-up planning structure. Yes, it would raise the price, but given the focus on analytics to improve decision making, it seems a necessity for a company combining analytics and planning.

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• Alignment with customer service programs.
• Visibility for optimization and transportation cost savings.
• Vendor performance overviews.

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• IBP helped improve the overall S&OP Process
• It provides a central platform for our teams globally to manage the forecast and the demand

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