Best Practices: HCL Builds an Integrated Planned Enterprise Enabling Business Transformation for IKEA

This IDC Retail Insights best-practices case study provides an analysis of the implementation of JDA's supply chain management platform for IKEA by HCL.

"Relooking at age old legacy systems is the order of the current times. Retail has become very dynamic with market situations changing within very less timelines. Investment aimed to improve inventory management, better coordinate with global supplier, and on-the-go forecasting system is the need of the hour where shoppers have omni-channel ecosystems to take care of their needs. While implementing a supply chain platform, customization is required according to companies' individual processes," says Kumar Gs Das, Research Manager, IDC Global Retail Insights". "The significant reduction of inventory carrying cost, increased productivity, and better forecasting achieved by IKEA following the implementation of JDA supply chain platform by HCL resulted in streamlining and making the supply chain efficient", he adds.