Eight Leading Companies to Receive Recognition for Demonstrating Innovation and Business-Process Excellence at FOCUS 2012

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- JDA^®Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company ^®, today announced winners of the 2012 Real Results Awards. Eight companies that have achieved industry-leading results and transformational benefits through deployment of JDAs innovative and proven solutions and services will be honored at FOCUS 2012, JDAs 22^nd annual global conference in Las Vegas, April 29 May 2.

JDA Real Results Award winners were selected from among JDAs more than 6,000 global customers and represent companies that have the best supply chain success stories. Selected by a panel of JDA executives, the following 2012 Real Results Award winners achieved measurable return on investment, developed innovative approaches to supply chain processes and collaborated beyond traditional supply chain boundaries.

Congratulations to the 2012 Real Results Award winners, said Hamish Brewer, president and chief executive officer, JDA Software (JDAS). We continue to be impressed by the remarkable business transformations demonstrated by our customers, and the real results they are driving for their business and their customers. We salute this years winners and are proud they have chosen JDAs solutions and services to drive greater value and efficiency within their businesses.

The 2012 Real Results Award winners are:

Canadian Tire Retail, one of Canadas most recognized and trusted brands, has built an innovative, pioneering and enduring relationship with JDA that has allowed it to fend off competition and establish itself as the leading retail supply chain practitioner in Canada. Through a long-term strategic collaboration with JDA, Canadian Tire has transformed its demand and fulfillment capabilities, slashed its inventory carrying levels and delayed a capital expenditure of CA$250 million for five years all while continuing to grow its business. The company was also the first customer for what is now JDA Cloud Services. Today, Canadian Tire shares its demand forecasts with vendors, resulting in improved performance and collaboration.

Grupo Flexi is the largest footwear manufacturer in Mexico, producing more than 13 million pairs of shoes annually. Flexi partnered with JDA to improve its forecasting and supply chain planning capabilities. Today, Flexi generates production plans for 30 company-owned and subcontracted factories, and more than 5,000 SKUs each season. In addition to reducing its supply chain planning time by 50 percent, Flexi has increased its service levels by 30 percent and inventory turns by almost 15 percent.

Federated Co-operatives Limited provides central wholesaling, manufacturing and administrative services to locally owned retail co-operatives across Western Canada. By teaming up with JDA, Federated Co-operatives not only improved speed to market on new product introductions and inventory rationalization, but also generated CA$500,000 by reducing costs and improving margins. Additionally, the co-operative increased its forward-buy margins by more than CA$2.5 million.

JFE Steel Corporation is the fifth largest steel manufacturer in the world, providing high quality, high-performing products globally to diversified industries. To increase its responsiveness to market changes, improve customer satisfaction and build a more efficient supply chain, JFE formed a partnership with JDA to drive supply chain management reform. This helped the company to shorten the timeline to formulate sales and operations plans by 50 percent, while improving the planning accuracy by 10 percent. Mainly, inventory in the distribution center, as well as supply chain costs such as logistics, were significantly reduced.

Lenovo, a $21 billion personal technology company, and the second largest PC company in the world, leveraged JDA Cloud Services to achieve infrastructure cost savings of several hundred million dollars on an annual basis. Additionally, it has increased revenue by more than 100 percent and profits by more than 350 percent.

Lowes Companies, Inc., the second largest home improvement retailer worldwide, and the ninth largest retailer in the United States, leveraged JDA transportation management solutions to automate and optimize its ocean carrier network at the lane level, improving efficiencies and enabling better collaborative relationships with its ocean carriers. Today, all planning, optimization and booking is conducted within one system, with full visibility into vendor and carrier performance. By improving efficiencies, Lowes reduced international transportation spend by nearly 2 percent for millions of dollars in savings.

RONA inc. is the largest Canadian distributor and retailer of hardware, renovation and gardening products, operating a network of nearly 700 corporate, franchise and affiliate stores of various sizes and formats. Leveraging JDAs demand and fulfillment capabilities, RONA has increased its forecast accuracy to 75 percent, and its promotional item availability from 95 percent to 99 percent.

Woolworths South Africa is a leading retailer of quality clothing, food, home ware, beauty and financial services products, with more than 400 stores across Africa, Mauritius and the Middle East. By partnering with JDA to revolutionize its core retail processes, Woolworths has integrated its pre-season planning with in-season execution, increasing sales by 2 percent and improving margin delivery by 14 percent above target.

Winners Roundtable at FOCUS 2012

Representatives from each award-winning company will participate in a roundtable discussion during FOCUS 2012, providing attendees with insights into the accomplishments each business achieved. The roundtable discussions will be Monday, April 30, as a part of the FOCUS Super Sessions. Additionally, FOCUS 2012 will feature more than 250 content-rich sessions, including customer-led presentations, Special Interest Group meetings, product discussions and hands-on workshops. FOCUS is designed to offer attendees best-practice knowledge, one-on-one training from JDA solution experts and the opportunity to network with industry peers, supply chain experts, technology partners and more.

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To register today and learn more about FOCUS 2012, please visit www.jda.com/focus.

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About JDA Software Group, Inc.

JDA^®Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company ^®, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions worldwide. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders, including i2 Technologies^®, Manugistics^®, E3^®, Intactix ^® and Arthur^®. JDAs multiple service options, delivered via the JDA^® Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership, and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise. To learn more, visit www.jda.com or e-mail info@jda.com.

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