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JDA aims to attract best minds at its CoEs in India

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Soma Tah
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BANGALORE, INDIA: US-based supply chain management solutions major, JDA Software has unveiled plans to create high value sustainable jobs to support the long-term innovation goals of the company. The company already employs around 2,000 associates in India and looks to expand its workforce strength by 500.

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JDA is in the process of tapping the best minds from the tier-1 and tier -2 educational institutions in India, and hence has been running education and training programme with IITs and IIMs to develop the needed skillsets.

Hamish Brewer, CEO, JDA Software, said: "The advances in technology will reshape the global supply chain many times. In this fast-moving technology environment, companies will rely more on the domain or subject matter experts to design and deliver best-of-breed solutions for the customers. We are looking for qualified and skilled individuals to support our product development and long-term innovation objectives and India has a huge talent base in the STEM fields for that."

The company has moved to a larger facility in Bangalore, which is also the largest among its three global Center of Excellence (CoE) of JDA. The other two CoEs are in Hyderabad and Warsaw, Poland.

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Inaugurating the new facility in Bangalore, Salil Joshi, MD and senior VP, JDA Software, said: "We have tried to invert the concept of captives in India. The idea was to engage the administrative leadership in the contextual decision making process, which will help us to fulfil our vision of building up a customer focused, associate centric global supply chain CoE."

The India centre of JDA, is a major contributor in the company's R&D activity and consulting process globally. A large part of the global R&D acitivities, which is almost 70 percent, take place in India and 35 percent of the global consulting also is done from India currently.

The supply chain major has solutions that are ideal to serve the large companies with a revenue to the tune of $600-800 million, and hence looks to expand its customer base across large manufacturers and retail companies based in India. It is also focussing on the cloud based products to provide the solutions at an improved cost structure.

However, there are some real challenges ahead, as Hamish Brewer says, "Unlike other advanced economies, India is still lagging behind in terms of adoption of best practices in supply chain, and hence, is not being able to optimize the supply chain ecosystem fully."