Collateral:Famous Footwear: The Right Fit

Brief Overview

Famous Footwear, the $1.2 billion division of Brown Shoe Company and a top retailer of name-brand shoes in the United States, has achieved a record year in 2005 fueled by a 6.3 percent increase in sales, a 2.5 percent rise in same-store sales and 11.2 percent jump in operating earnings with the support of JDA Enterprise Architecture solutions. With more than 950 stores and 120 million customer each year, Famous Footwear realized that it needed to replace manual processes and to sharpen its planning and allocation processes. With JDA solutions as the foundation, along with new processes in place, the retailer is benefiting from better information for decision making, enhanced enterprise-wide visibility and more precise product plans.

Benefits include:

6.3-percent increase in sales

2.5-percent rise in same-store sales

11.2-percent jump in operating earnings.

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