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JDA PMM Retail Systems & Software for Unix/Oracle & IBM pSeries

Portfolio Merchandise Management (PMM) is offered by JDA Software Group to address the basic and core retail functions within the context of merchandise management or inventory.

This application suite is a Unix/Oracle solution and will run on IBM's pSeries (previously known as the RS/6000) hardware platform.

Description

Formerly known as Open Database Merchandising System (ODBMS), this application suite was originally developed as a re-engineering of JDA's popular MMS solution in the mid-1990s. It was designed to be the 'open' architecture version of the AS/400-based MMS suite.

It is written in SQL/Plus and uses Uniface for its interactive screens. Currently it is being re-architected into Microsoft's .Net framework.

The application suite includes:

• Auto Replenishment
• Inventory Management
• Invoice Matching
• Merchandise Category Analysis
• Merchandise Receiving
• Physical Inventory
• Price Management
• Purchase Order Management
• Retail Stock Ledger
• Transfer Allocation
• Vendor Product Costing

JDA PMM

Auto Replenishment - systematically control store inventory levels using methods as defining product minimum and maximum levels or use more sophisticated statistical algorithms.

Inventory Management - track inventory movement, analyze inventory discrepancies and post inventory adjustments.

Invoice Matching - automatically or manually reconcile and match vendor invoices to ordered goods and receipted merchandise.

Merchandise Category Analysis - configurable, dynamic reporting tool allowing merchandise or category analysts, buyers and managers to track sales and inventory transactions at any level or any time frame.

Merchandise Receiving - allow inventory persons to post product receipted information or receipt discrepancies into merchandising system.

Physical Inventory - schedule store level physical inventory counts, freeze store counts, import store counts and post physical inventory adjustments.

Price Management - create store, chain or zone level pricing events (% discounts, $ discounts, BOGOs).

Purchase Order Management - used to order goods from product suppliers, track the status of product orders and feed costs into average cost determination.  Module can also be fed requests from Auto Replenishment to generate requests to satisfy distribution center need.

Retail Stock Ledger - configurable inventory valuation tool used to track Cost of Goods Sold and allows configurable valuation line items to be fed into corporate general ledger.

Transfer Allocation - transfer product from store to store, distribution to store or store to distribution center.  Auto Replenishment configured to automatically generate and release transfer requests to satisfy store inventory needs.

Vendor Product Costing - maintain product supplier billing information and terms and create initial product costs and packaging statistics