Logility Customer Receives Progressive Manufacturing Award
Smead Manufacturing recognized among world’s best manufacturers
as a Customer Mastery High Achiever
ATLANTA (June 18, 2007) Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced that Smead Manufacturing is a recipient of Managing Automation magazine’s prestigious Progressive Manufacturing Award for distinction in Supply Network Mastery.
The Managing Automation awards program recognizes manufacturers that are being progressive in their businesses, in the management of their operations and in their use of advanced technologies. Smead Manufacturing, a private manufacturer and marketer of office products including paper, filing, furniture and software, is one of the 50 manufacturers recognized this year for achieving distinction in at least one of the eight core disciplines defined by the magazine as critical to future business success—Business Model Mastery, Customer Mastery, Supply Network Mastery, Data & Integration Mastery, Innovation Mastery, Training and Education Mastery, and Leadership and Operational Excellence. The winners were chosen by an independent judging panel who evaluated and scored each project on the following criteria: project scope, business impact, customer impact, and technology use and scale.
“Smead Manufacturing has been successful in forming a collaborative supply chain that has led to better forecast accuracy, reduced inventory and increased customer service levels,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “We are proud to be the technology partner helping to support their achievements and congratulate them on this prestigious recognition.”
The award was presented to Smead at the Progressive Manufacturing Awards Gala Dinner held during the 2007 Progressive Manufacturing Summit. Logility was also recognized for being the technology partner that played a key role in helping Smead achieve success with their ongoing supply chain initiatives.
About Logility
With more than 1,100 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; supply and global sourcing optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include Bissell, Brown Shoe Company, Huhtamaki UK, McCain Foods, Pernod Ricard, Rand McNally, Sigma Aldrich, and VF Corporation. Logility is a majority 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, 2006 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:
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