Logility Customer Featured in Recent AberdeenGroup Report
“Demand Management in Discrete Industries”
New AberdeenGroup Research finds companies who focus on Demand Management are more likely to improve gross profit margins
Atlanta (Jan. 14, 2008) – Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced that its customer, A.O. Smith Water Products, has been featured in AberdeenGroup’s recent benchmark report, ‘Demand Management in Discrete Industries: Order to Delivery Excellence.”
This recent report examined the Demand Management practices of 260 companies in the discrete manufacturing industry and found that lead-time reduction and order delivery excellence were key drivers for demand management initiatives. Best-in-Class companies were distinguished from industry average and laggard companies in the report by three key performance criteria—finished goods inventory turns, average customer service level and average forecast accuracy at the product family level. A.O. Smith was highlighted in the report for its success in building a lean manufacturing initiative that focused on better demand management and as a result led to reduced inventory, a more proactive response to demand fluctuations, improved customer service and improved collaboration through an automated sales and operations planning process.
The report also found that Best-in-Class companies were 3 times more likely than all others to have a single view of demand with multiple views as inputs; 2.5 times more likely than all others to integrate order management tightly with the demand planning process; 2 times more likely than all others to segment demand forecasts based on key product-customer characteristics; and 3 times more likely than all others to allocate forecasts down to the SKU level.
“This latest research from Aberdeen, reinforces the leverage a company gains when it focuses on improving its demand management processes, which has been proven to increase profit margins, accelerate inventory turns, improve customer service levels, and drive order-to-delivery excellence,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “Logility helps companies in discrete industries create demand management processes that drive Best-in-Class performance by automating the process of predicting market demand and synchronizing inventory investments.”
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About Logility
With more than 1,240 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); supply and global sourcing optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include Barilla America, Brown Shoe Company, Clement Pappas, McCain Foods, Pernod Ricard, 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, 2007 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
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