Under a new agreement, HP will be accountable for most of the critical business applications used throughout P&Gs financial and supply chain systems, including research and development, inventory management, SAP enterprise resource planning, and business intelligence.
Entities affiliated with RedPrairie will acquire all outstanding shares of JDA common stock for $45 per share. The offer price represents a 33 percent premium to JDAs stock price on October 26, 2012 the day before market rumors surfaced stating JDA was exploring a sale.
Many CG companies are implementing an Enterprise Warehouse Management (EWM) systemwhich promotes paperless transactions with RF Scanners and voice activationinstead of a traditional warehouse management solution to not only achieve operational efficiencies, but also to make their supply chain green.
The acquisitions strengthen the company as a leading provider of end-to-end trade promotion optimization and mobile field sales solutions, and expand its reach to over 40 global markets.
The global brands company is now able to standardize its operational processes worldwide, including payments, confirmations, trade initiation, securities and more.
CPG company executives are increasingly looking for the tangible business case benefits of changing, upgrading or merging their core ERP system and related business capabilities.