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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 Lisenby
Director of Demand and Supply Planning,
Butterball
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