Fred Baumann
Vice President
Forecasting, Replenishment and Collaboration
JDA Software

Fred Baumann leads product and industry strategy for Forecasting, Replenishment and Collaboration solutions within the solution expert group at JDA Software.  Fred has been instrumental in driving JDA’s collaborative trading community strategies and launching the company’s CPFR/consumer-centric forecasting and replenishment offerings.   .

Fred’s previous career experience includes an application-training role at IBM and eight years experience with The Pillsbury Company where he served as a Value Chain Manager.  Fred was responsible for starting the collaborative inventory program with Wal-Mart for Pillsbury and executed other numerous value chain strategies. 

Fred received his undergraduate degree at Georgia State University and an MBA with distinction from the University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton School of Business where he had a core focus in supply chain management.  Fred is an executive board member of the Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) VICS industry subcommittee and was a named contributor to the 1998, 2004, and 2007 published CPFR guidelines.