Blue Yonder

CNH Industrial, a global leader in capital goods, was on a digital transformation journey with a focus on improving their customer experience. The company was seeking innovative solutions to optimize their spare parts management business across the 12 brands within the group. The challenge was to find a solution that could support the end-to-end supply chain, monitor changing customer needs, and align the supply chain with those needs in real-time. CNH Industrial needed a powerful processing, SaaS-based solution that could provide real-time visibility and collaboration across their supply chain, enhance collaboration across dealers and stakeholders in multi-tier networks, and maximize parts availability to minimize machine downtime and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Advance Auto Parts, a leading automotive aftermarket retailer, was facing a shift in its retail segment from do-it-yourself consumers to do-it-for-me commercial customers. This shift placed added pressure on Advance to ensure immediate product availability. The company was already using JDA Software’s solutions for space and category management, as well as replenishment, to manage its nationwide supply chain when it decided to embark on a supply chain transformation project. In 2010, Advance made a strategic decision to expand the role of these solutions, add physical supply chain infrastructure, and incorporate new technology solutions and business processes to optimize its warehouse, workforce, execution and performance management. To increase service and availability over a large geographic area, Advance decided to retrofit its existing distribution centers (DCs), while also constructing a new 550,000 square-foot facility that would provide daily replenishments to stores in a targeted rollout region.

Ace Hardware Corporation, the world’s largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative, has been on a journey of global supply chain transformation. The company's needs became more complex as it expanded globally. Ace had been relying on two different replenishment solutions: JDA to support its domestic vendors and a third-party solution to handle its import vendors that weren’t integrated with the business. The company needed a solution that could support time-phased demand forecasting along with multi-echelon and multi-tier planning capabilities for its domestic and import vendors.