Logility Announces 2009 Leadership Award Winners
Clement Pappas, Continental Mills, Lance, Inc., Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and The Heat Group Recognized for Supply Chain Leadership at Connections 2009
Atlanta (October 20, 2009) –
Logility, Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the 2009 Logility Leadership Award winners. This year’s winners Clement Pappas, Continental Mills, Lance, Inc., Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and The Heat Group were recognized at Logility’s “Connections 2009 Supply Chain Optimization: Mission Possible” conference held recently in Atlanta, GA.
Logility’s annual award program recognizes a select group of companies who significantly improved their business processes, deployed an innovative solution for their supply chain challenges, or have demonstrated an on-going commitment and leadership role in the expansion of supply chain improvements. Each of this year’s award recipients demonstrated success in building collaboration and visibility within their supply chains which has resulted in tangible business benefits including inventory reduction, a streamlined sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, increased forecast accuracy, improved manufacturing planning, reduced transportation costs and higher customer service levels.
Examples of the winners’ improvements in operational performance include:
* Clement Pappas, a leading national private label juice and drink producer, was recognized for their achievement in optimizing their supply chain with Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) to improve demand, inventory, replenishment and manufacturing planning processes. As a result of better visibility into demand, Clement Pappas is able to manage its supply chain and manufacturing planning processes more effectively and can now be more proactive rather than reactive. The benefits they have attained thus far have included a 10% reduction in finished product inventory achieved while introducing a significant number of new product lines/extensions; reduced forecast error by 25% at the item by site level; improved perfect orders; and improved production throughput by an average of 10% with one production line improving by as much as 33%.
* Continental Mills, a producer of dry bakery mix products with leading brand names such as Krusteaz and Alpine, and a strong line of popular licensed brands, was recognized for their achievements in gaining supply chain visibility, improving resource efficiency, and evolving the S&OP process with Logility Voyager Solutions. Continental Mills has achieved record service levels and inventory turns on record sales, while reducing planning headcount, improving forecast accuracy, and ultimately providing better data and visibility.
* Lance, Inc., a leading producer and distributor of snack foods, who was recognized for its success increasing supply chain visibility, improving forecast accuracy and increasing shelf freshness for consumers, with the support of Logility Voyager Solutions. The results Lance achieved from gaining better demand visibility include improved forecast accuracy, reduced days on hand, accelerated S&OP collaboration and improved acquisition integration effectiveness.
* Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, a producer and marketer of a broad portfolio of premium wines from vineyards around the globe, was honored for its achievements automating transportation management with Logility Voyager Transportation Planning and Management. As a result, Ste. Michelle was able to cost-effectively support the company’s accelerating growth while reducing transportation costs, decreasing labor-intensive processes, and improving carrier relationships. Benefits also include increasing resource availability for more value-adding activities, reducing the truckload consolidation process from four to five hours a day to just two minutes, and reducing shipping cost audit and payment variances from an average of plus or minus $200 to an average of two dollars.
* The Heat Group, an Australian cosmetic distributor with such brands as Proctor & Gamble’s Max Factor and CoverGirl, French cosmetic brand Bourjois and ABC’s Elite accessory brand, as well as their own ‘impluse’ cosmetic brand Ulta 3, was recognized for its success increasing visibility and collaboration across the company, improving demand, inventory and replenishment planning processes and strengthening its S&OP process with Logility Voyager Solutions. As a result, The Heat Group has boosted its service level by nearly 6% to average 97%, improved internal collaboration, increased external collaboration with business partners, while maintaining target inventory levels.
“Logility’s greatest legacy is having a long history of helping companies achieve the tangible benefits of a more collaborative supply chain with Logility Voyager Solutions,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “We are privileged again this year to recognize this select group of Logility customers as Leadership Award winners. The prestigious list of past and present award winners includes some of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors and we are honored to be their technology partner and congratulate each of them on their supply chain accomplishments.”
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About Logility
With more than 1,250 customers worldwide, Logility is a leading provider of collaborative, best-of-breed supply chain solutions that help small, medium, large and Fortune 1000 companies realize substantial bottom-line results in record time. Logility Voyager Solutions is a complete supply chain management solution that features performance monitoring capabilities in a single Internet-based framework and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); inventory and supply optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include McCain Foods, Pernod Ricard, Sigma Aldrich, and VF Corporation. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software (NASDAQ: AMSWA). For more information about Logility, call 1-800-762-5207 or visit www.logility.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by statements made herein. These factors include, but are not limited to, changes in general economic conditions, technology and the market for the Company’s products and services including economic conditions within the e-commerce markets; the timely availability and market acceptance of these products and services; the effect of competitive products and pricing; the uncertainty of the viability and effectiveness of strategic alliances; and the irregular pattern of the Company’s revenues. For further information about risks the Company could experience as well as other information, please refer to the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2009 and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information about risks the Company could face as well as other information, contact Vincent C. Klinges, Chief Financial Officer, Logility, Inc., 470 East Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, GA 30305, (404) 261-9777. FAX: (404) 264-5206 INTERNET: http://www.logility.com or E-mail: asklogility@logility.com.
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