Coca-Cola Bottler and Distributor Selects Logility Voyager Solutions to Improve Customer Service and Enable Greater Supply Chain Collaboration
Logility Voyager Demand Planning to Enable South Africa’s Peninsula Beverages to Transform Demand Planning and Support Growth
ATLANTA – October 26, 2010 Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced Peninsula Beverages (PenBev), one of South Africa’s largest distributors of Coca-Cola products, has selected Logility Voyager Solutions™ to more accurately enable the company to plan for demand and ensure the correct products are available at the right time for customers throughout the regions that they serve.
PenBev’s previous spreadsheet-based processes did not provide an accurate picture of the market; the company was unable to forecast demand and align their commercial, sales, and distribution teams with the forecasts. Additionally, the system could not keep up with the company’s growth or satisfy the corporate goal of a single, comprehensive plan to drive the business. Logility Voyager Solutions will help PenBev transform its current demand planning process to gain visibility across its market and ensure demand is met and customer service is exceeded.
We strive to meet the needs of our customers and provide quality services at all times,” said Bruce Carter, CIO, Peninsula Beverages. “Logility Voyager Solution’s ability to help PenBev automate the process of reliably predicting market demand to ensure product availability and drive collaboration between sales and marketing, account managers, and production were key factors in our selection process. Additionally, we have received tremendous support from Logility’s local partner in South Africa, Demand Solutions Africa.”
Voyager Demand Planning enables companies like PenBev to quickly generate and track forecasts for multiple business needs, including sales, marketing, logistics and financials, to produce an accurate picture of the market and its impact on operations. The solution helps improve margins by keeping detailed product forecasts aligned with high-level business plans. Additionally users are automatically alerted to changes in the market through exception management and can readjust the forecast ahead of changes in demand.
As a leading distributor of Coca-Cola products in South Africa, PenBev strives to deliver the quality services its customers expect,” said Mike Edenfield, CEO and president, Logility. “Logility Voyager Solutions enables them to develop a reliable understanding of demand and produce an accurate forecast that will help reduce costs and improve customer service. We look forward to working with PenBev in support of their growth plans.”
Recognized industry-wide for its rapid implementation, quick ROI, ease-of-use, and ability to solve complex problems, Logility Voyager Solutions is a comprehensive supply chain solution which features performance monitoring capabilities to increase supply chain visibility and boost performance in key areas including demand, inventory and replenishment planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP), manufacturing planning and scheduling, supply and inventory optimization, transportation planning and management, and warehouse management.
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About PenBev
Peninsula Beverage Company - PenBev - is the local bottler of The Coca-Cola Company products in the Western Cape. PenBev offers the widest range of non-alcoholic beverages guaranteed to satisfy every thirst, our mission being to deliver a quality Coca-Cola product "within an arm's reach of desire". We successfully support retailers and traders with on-time deliveries, free signage and coolers, in-store advertising and promotions, and advice on making their businesses more profitable. For more information, visit
http://www.penbev.co.za.
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 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.
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