IBM Sets New Standard in Retail Supply Chain Performance

IBM Sets New Standard in Retail Supply Chain Performance

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has exceeded performance benchmark results in recent retail supply chain application testing on its powerful IBM System p5 595 server. IBM set a new standard while running JDA Software Group’s Demand and Fulfillment solutions, considered to be some of the industry’s leading retail applications, out-performing Sun Microsystems’s Sun Fire E20K Server by 148 percent (1).

IBM demonstrated price/performance leadership with the IBM System p5 595 server by surpassing Sun’s UltraSPARC® IV-based Sun Fire E20K server on the benchmark. The new benchmark standard, based on comparisons provided by JDA Software Group running the JDA Software applications, models the most intense conditions in the retail business, such as surges in holiday shopping periods.

Using the POWER5+ processor-based, 64-way IBM System p5 595 server, IBM ran the JDA Demand and Fulfillment V7.3 on a 10M Retail model and on a 50M Retail model. The performance test calculated a replenishment plan at a rate of 116.5 million Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) per hour for the 10M Model and 120.7 million SKUs per hour for the 50M Model, breaking a critical barrier for the first time. The results clearly exceed Sun’s latest benchmark results of 47 million SKUs per hour running on the Sun Fire E20K Server (1).

“The IBM System p5 595 server technology has provided JDA Software with the means to successfully run critical retail applications in a variety of demanding business situations,” said Karl Freund, vice president, System p, IBM. “Additionally, our collaboration with JDA Software further proves IBM’s commitment to developing and implementing innovative real-world solutions within the retail industry.”

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