(Source: Business Wire)JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced that Shanxi Meetall United Supermarket Co. Ltd., a leading Chinese grocery retailer and member of the global SPAR International group, licensed multiple solutions across JDA's best-in-class supply chain and merchandise management suites to help the company strengthen its overall operational performance and efficiency. After an extensive evaluation process, Shanxi Meetall selected JDA over international and local solution providers for its expertise, superior solutions capabilities and its commitment to both Shanxi Meetall and the wider market in China. In addition to its proven track record of delivering superior results and true business transformation, JDA provided a combination of products and expertise that could not be matched.

JDA Solutions Will Enable Advanced Business Processes

Already a highly successful business, Shanxi Meetall was looking to take its operating performance to the next level, and sought out a provider of advanced retail management systems that could help drive improvements in productivity, profitability and maximize satisfaction for Shanxi Meetall's 60 million customers throughout China.

"At the forefront of our company's 2009 strategic objectives is an initiative called ˜Two Essential,' which states our requirements for core competitiveness," said Mr. Chunhong Chen, Executive Vice President, Shanxi Meetall. "The goal of this initiative is to improve the technical level of information systems and accelerate the building of information management systems across the company. This initiative will enable us to achieve our strategic goals based on the SPAR model and, in the next three to five years, achieve an RMB 20 billion sales target. The focus will be on unified operations and management, including centralized procurement, merchandising, replenishment and fulfillment, sales forecasting, category management, delivery route planning, supplier deliveries, new store openings and customer membership management. Our approach will be a modular system implementation with seamless integration across SKU planning, automatic replenishment and fulfillment, merchandise space management and performance analysis -- all driven by rapid consumer responsiveness."

Mr. Chen added, "JDA's Enterprise Planning, Demand, Fulfillment, Merchandise Management System, Performance Analysis and Category Management solutions, paired with its leading retail best practices, will help drive Shanxi Meetall's needs for future growth.