Talbots Increases Business Agility With JDA Cloud Services As a leading multi-channel retailer, Talbots is dedicated to creating an innovative shopping experience across its 540 stores. In order to optimize each store’s merchandise assortment to meet customers’ needs, the retailer needed to replace a 20-year-old system with new technology that would enable more accurate and meaningful allocations. “We had taken the mainframe-based allocation system as far as we could. We used it to execute allocations that were predetermined based on analysis that was done outside of the system,” said Judy MacCune, director, merchandise business IT, Talbots. “We needed an updated system that could take us to the next level,” added Derryl Maccou, director of allocation, Talbots. Achieving Business

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