Blue Yonder Case Studies Swedish Retailer Axfood Partners With JDA to Create High-Impact Space Plans for Over 1,000 Stores

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	Swedish Retailer Axfood Partners With JDA to Create High-Impact Space Plans for Over 1,000 Stores Blue Yonder

Swedish Retailer Axfood Partners With JDA to Create High-Impact Space Plans for Over 1,000 Stores

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Technology Category	Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Applicable Industries	Retail
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Inventory Management Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	As the second-largest grocery retailer in Sweden, Axfood operates 250 stores under the Willys and Hemköp brands and collaborates with approximately 820 proprietor-run stores. The company faced the challenge of managing space planning across more than 1,000 stores to ensure consistently high revenues and margins. The company's space planning team had to manage a large volume of planogram work, with each planner managing 200 to 300 planograms that needed to be updated three times a year. The level of collaboration between Axfood and its proprietor-owned stores varied greatly, making it crucial to support consistently high-performing displays and plans across all stores. Read More
About Customer	Axfood is the second-largest grocery retailer in Sweden. The company wholly owns 250 stores that operate under the Willys and Hemköp brands and also collaborates with approximately 820 proprietor-run stores that are contractually tied to Axfood. The company has a team of nine planners, each of whom is an expert in certain product categories. Each planner manages 200 to 300 planograms, which must be updated three times a year. The level of collaboration between Axfood and its proprietor-owned stores can vary greatly, making it crucial for the company to support consistently high-performing displays and plans across all stores. Read More
Solution	Axfood partnered with JDA Software to use its Category Management solution to optimize its store shelves. The solution enabled Axfood's space planning team to manage a large volume of planogram work effectively. The team could create better shelves for its customers by arranging the product placement to make the products they wanted their customers to see more visible. The company tracked its results and found a positive correlation between planogram compliance and its bottom line. Axfood is currently implementing a pilot of JDA Planogram Generator across three product categories and 50 stores. The new software will enable the space planning team to incorporate local assortments into the planogram and produce a plan that's perfect for each store's specific shelves and facings. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems

Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Industries

Retail

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

As the second-largest grocery retailer in Sweden, Axfood operates 250 stores under the Willys and Hemköp brands and collaborates with approximately 820 proprietor-run stores. The company faced the challenge of managing space planning across more than 1,000 stores to ensure consistently high revenues and margins. The company's space planning team had to manage a large volume of planogram work, with each planner managing 200 to 300 planograms that needed to be updated three times a year. The level of collaboration between Axfood and its proprietor-owned stores varied greatly, making it crucial to support consistently high-performing displays and plans across all stores.

About Customer

Axfood is the second-largest grocery retailer in Sweden. The company wholly owns 250 stores that operate under the Willys and Hemköp brands and also collaborates with approximately 820 proprietor-run stores that are contractually tied to Axfood. The company has a team of nine planners, each of whom is an expert in certain product categories. Each planner manages 200 to 300 planograms, which must be updated three times a year. The level of collaboration between Axfood and its proprietor-owned stores can vary greatly, making it crucial for the company to support consistently high-performing displays and plans across all stores.

Solution

Axfood partnered with JDA Software to use its Category Management solution to optimize its store shelves. The solution enabled Axfood's space planning team to manage a large volume of planogram work effectively. The team could create better shelves for its customers by arranging the product placement to make the products they wanted their customers to see more visible. The company tracked its results and found a positive correlation between planogram compliance and its bottom line. Axfood is currently implementing a pilot of JDA Planogram Generator across three product categories and 50 stores. The new software will enable the space planning team to incorporate local assortments into the planogram and produce a plan that's perfect for each store's specific shelves and facings.

Impact #1	Improved sales and margins in those stores using JDA-generated plans.
Impact #2	Increased productivity of space planning staff.
Impact #3	Improved shopper satisfaction via greater visibility and right product mix.

Impact #1

Improved sales and margins in those stores using JDA-generated plans.

Impact #2

Increased productivity of space planning staff.

Impact #3

Improved shopper satisfaction via greater visibility and right product mix.

Benefit #1	Stores that are using Axfood's planograms have higher sales and higher margins.
Benefit #2	The company anticipates that the use of JDA Planogram Generator will save both time and money by creating a perfect planogram the first time and every time.

Benefit #1

Stores that are using Axfood's planograms have higher sales and higher margins.

Benefit #2

The company anticipates that the use of JDA Planogram Generator will save both time and money by creating a perfect planogram the first time and every time.

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Swedish Retailer Axfood Partners With JDA to Create High-Impact Space Plans for Over 1,000 Stores

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