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“ Major digital transformation of supply chains is underway and the ability to quickly access intelligent , actionable data and insights will determine the future winners and losers ”
— Girish Rishi , CEO of JDA Software reduce costs , increase asset productivity and improve cross-functional planning and execution across their agile supply chains .
Rishi says the agreement is something of a sea change for the organisation : “ Historically JDA has built its products itself . But a big internal initiative is something of a statement of humility which is to recognise that we cannot do everything on our own – so our aim is to build out a powerful ecosystem of technology partners .
“ That ’ s something we take really seriously , and we won ’ t just make alliances for the sake or alliances – regardless of how big the companies are . We ’ ve had large integrated organisations come to us with a view to partnering but we take each possibility on its own merit and if we feel the partnership is not mutually beneficial , then it ’ s something we won ’ t do . A lot of work , communication and deliberation goes into a partnership like the one with KPMG .”
AUGUST 2018