Sonoco Products and Logility to Present at Sales & Operations Planning Summit
Global Packaging Company Highlights Success with S&OP to Support Growth
ATLANTA (January 25, 2011) – Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, will present alongside Sonoco Products, a global provider of packaging products and solutions to the industrial and consumer industries, on how sales and operations planning has helped to improve the company’s forecasting processes. The presentation, at the IE Group’s Sales & Operations Planning Summit in Las Vegas, NV January 27
Sonoco Product’s networks are more complex than a typical manufacturing company. The company’s supply chain is vertically integrated with a network of paper machines feeding many product plants. Add to this that each production mill produces paper using multiple technologies, which limits flexibility between production locations and the complexity grows. In this presentation, Keith Holliday, director, supply chain and operating excellence, Sonoco Products, will review how his team is able to manage this complexity, gain greater visibility of the demand streams and streamline a formal company sales and operations planning (S&OP) process.
Mr. Holliday and Karin Bursa, vice president of marketing, Logility, will examine how Logility Voyager Solutions helped Sonoco Products:
- Increase its ability to drill up and down across multiple internal and external demand streams
- Automate the organization’s manual efforts to support S&OP processes
- Improve forecast accuracy and decrease error rates
- Gain visibility of rough cut capacity plans to more clearly evaluate alternative S&OP plans
For more information, please visit http://www.logility.com/newsevents/supply-chain-events.cfm.
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 a performance monitoring architecture and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); supply and inventory 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, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA). For more information about Logility, call 1-800-762-5207 USA 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, continuing U.S. and global economic uncertainty, the timing and degree of business recovery, unpredictability and the irregular pattern of future revenues, dependence on particular market segments or customers, competitive pressures, delays, product liability and warranty claims and other risks associated with new product development, undetected software errors, market acceptance of Logility’s products, technological complexity, the challenges and risks associated with integration of acquired product lines, companies and services, as well as a number of other risk factors that could affect the Company’s future performance. For further information about risks the Company and American Software could experience as well as other information, please refer to American Software, Inc’s. Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2010 and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, contact: Vincent C. Klinges, Chief Financial Officer, American Software, Inc., (404) 264-5477 or fax: (404) 237-8868.
Logility is a registered trademark and Logility Voyager Solutions is a trademark of Logility, Inc. Other products mentioned in this document are registered, trademarked or service marked by their respective owners.
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