Logility Customer Associated Grocers of Florida Receives Supermarket News Technology Excellence Award
ATLANTA (July 24, 2007)
Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced that its customer, Associated Grocers of Florida has received a Supermarket News 2007 Technology Excellence Award.
The winners of the fifth annual Supermarket News (SN) Technology Excellence Awards included food retailers and wholesalers that were able to show dramatic improvements in their organizations through the innovative and proactive use of information technology. Associated Grocers of Florida received the award for the wholesaler category. According to Supermarket News, Associated Grocers of Florida received the recognition for their “willingness to change direction and replace entrenched legacy systems with major new systems.”
“As part of our process to update our systems, we implemented Logility Voyager Solutions™ to improve inventory planning and increase forecast accuracy and demand visibility,” said Chuck Palazzo, vice president of information technology, Associated Grocers of Florida. “As a result, we have a more accurate picture of our true inventory needs and have improved on-time deliveries while eliminating shortages and credits.”
Associated Grocers of Florida went from a totally manual process to one that is completely automated. Logility Voyager Solutions was part of their comprehensive system upgrade that was aimed at supply chain improvements to reduce inventory without lowering customer fill rates. With Logility, Associated Grocers of Florida has lowered inventory levels, increased customer service levels and reduced out-of-stocks at both the warehouse and at store level.
“Associated Grocers of Florida is a great example of how wholesale distributors can use technology to streamline their operations and drive better forecast accuracy, gain inventory improvements and increase customer service levels,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “We are proud to have been a technology partner in their successful transition from a manual to an automated process and congratulate them on this outstanding recognition.”
Logility Voyager Solutions for Wholesale Distribution Management enables wholesale distributors to increase gross margins through reduced costs, better demand visibility, synchronized sourcing, and improved customer service to free up capital and accelerate growth. For more information, visit
www.logility.com.
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
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