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OfficeMax Receives 2011 JDA Real Results Award for Best in Demand Management

Wednesday 04. May 2011 - OfficeMax Incorporated (NYSE: OMX), a leader in office supplies and services, has been recognized as a JDA Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) 2011 Real Results Winner for Best in Demand Management.

Now in its sixth year, the Real Results Awards recognize companies that have demonstrated business-process excellence and achieved quantifiable benefits through the adoption of industry best practices and use of JDA’s industry-leading solutions and services. OfficeMax was honored at FOCUS 2011, JDA’s annual user conference in Orlando, Florida, May 1 – 4, 2011.
OfficeMax focuses its supply chain on understanding – and managing – consumer demand. Leveraging both JDA solutions and services, OfficeMax has used greater forecast accuracy to reduce inventory while improving customer service levels.
“It is both thrilling and a tremendous honor to be recognized by JDA,” said Dov Shenkman, SVP of Replenishment and Inventory Management for OfficeMax. “As an early adopter of JDA Software, we were one of the first retailers to launch a large scale implementation to create a world class demand management and replenishment system down to the retail store level, giving us greater forecast accuracy and improved customer service levels. The technology has served as a catalyst to organization and process changes that continue to pay dividends as we experience increased efficiencies in both Demand and Replenishment.”
“We are delighted to award OfficeMax the Real Results Award for Best in Demand Management,” said Hamish Brewer, president and CEO, JDA Software. “OfficeMax has succeeded in rapidly responding to market changes and proactively meeting fluctuation within the demand and supply chain. We are impressed by their ability to successfully optimize and tightly integrate their core business processes in all of their divisions, enabling them to collaborate internally to meet the needs of their customers.”
The Real Results Awards, established in 2006, honor companies that have achieved industry-leading results and transformational benefits through deployment of JDA’s advanced and proven solutions and services. JDA recognizes companies in 12 award categories. As the winner for Best in Demand Management, OfficeMax is being recognized for demonstrating the best use of JDA solutions and services to address business challenges related to inventory requirements, customer service, forecast accuracy, demand planning, performance management, demand shaping and/or price and promotions management activities.
Selected by a panel of JDA executives, the Real Results winners demonstrated exceptional increases in sales and profits, business-process improvements and reductions in inventory and overall costs. Representatives from OfficeMax will present the Company’s success story during FOCUS 2011, providing attendees with insights into their supply chain accomplishments in their award category.