Logility and Brown Shoe Company to Present at APICS International Conference and Exposition
ATLANTA (Oct. 9, 2006) Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, announced today that it will be presenting with Brown Shoe Company, a $1.9 billion footwear company with worldwide operations and a Logility customer, at the APICS International Conference and Exposition on Oct. 29 in San Antonio, TX.
The Executive Edge presentation “Improving Consumer-Driven Responsiveness: Key Steps to Shorter Lead Times” will be led by Karin Bursa, vice president marketing, Logility and Marc Desaulniers, director of process engineering, Brown Shoe Company. The presentation will discuss how an effective postponement strategy for sourcing operations can be a key to a company’s long-term profitability. Attendees will learn how effective demand planning can maximize the benefits of postponement to accurately predict consumer demand and finished goods inventory, manage suppliers, reduce long lead times, increase sales, avoid mark downs and better satisfy customers.
Logility is a sponsor of the 2006 APICS conference which gives operations management professionals from around the world the opportunity to explore issues surrounding RFID implementation, inventory accuracy, global supply chain challenges and demand management.
For more information about Logility and Logility Voyager Solutions™, 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, Mill’s Pride, 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 challenges and risks associated with integration of acquired product lines and companies; the effect of competitive products and pricing; the Company’s ability to satisfy in a timely manner the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations adopted under that Section; 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, 2005 and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more 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: www.logility.com. or E-mail: asklogility@logility.com
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Michelle Duke
Logility, Inc.
404-264-5485
mduke@logility.com