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Case Study: Butterball

Business Overview• The largest vertically integrated turkey producer in the U.S., accounting for

20 percent of total turkey production

• Employs 5,500 associates in five plant locations, live operations and corporate office

• Retail and foodservice products distributed throughout the U.S. and in more than 30 countries worldwide

Business Challenges• Manual and labor-intensive forecasting and

replenishment processes

• Date-sensitive inventory

• Sought to preserve product freshness and minimize obsolete inventory through forecasting at a very high level of accuracy, as well as improve its date-sensitive inventory management

Solutions• JDA® Demand

• JDA® Fulfillment

Services• JDA Support Services

• JDA Technical Services

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Case Study: Butterball

“Results• Exceeded year-one cost savings estimate by 75 percent

• Reduced distressed obsolescent inventory by 28 percent

• Improved short-term forecast accuracy by 2 percent

• Decreased bias in the long-term forecast by 50 percent

• Reduced manual work and increased planning efficiency

WHAT CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING

JDA has helped us gain a competitive advantage through

proactively planning our capacity, shaping our demand and understanding the seasonality of our business.”

~Dean LisenbyDirector of Demand and Supply Planning, Butterball

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