Number One Selling Pasta Manufacturer in U.S. to Strengthen Manufacturing
Planning, Increase Production Efficiency and Boost Customer Service
ATLANTA, April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq:
LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply
chain, today announced that Barilla America, Inc., the U.S.-based division
of The Barilla Group, Italy's largest food producer, has selected Logility
Voyager Solutions(TM) to strengthen manufacturing planning, increase
production efficiency and boost customer service levels.
Barilla America produces the fastest-growing pasta and sauce brands in
their categories and its pasta producing plant, located in Ames, Iowa, is
among the largest pasta plants in the U.S. and the forth largest in The
Barilla Group. To better support growth, Barilla America is opening a
second plant in the U.S. in Avon, NY in the spring of 2007.
"The Barilla America manufacturing plants are sleek, modern facilities
where our employees are committed to meeting and exceeding Barilla's high
standards of food production," said Brandon Garcia, head of information
technology at Barilla America. "We selected Logility Voyager Solutions to
help us maintain these high standards and become more efficient through
increased visibility into scheduling and capacity constraints across both
pasta plants."
Logility Voyager Manufacturing Planning(TM) helps manufacturers
facilitate plant-to-plant scheduling that keeps all facilities working
toward common corporate objectives. With Voyager Manufacturing Planning,
Barilla will be able to pinpoint capacity and material exceptions with
easy-to-use visual tools; reduce costs, meet customer requirements and plan
more efficiently using automated techniques.
"Logility Voyager Solutions enable manufacturers to build more
competitive supply chains through increased demand visibility, improved
sourcing, synchronized manufacturing, and optimized transportation to more
cost- effectively deliver superior customer service," said Mike Edenfield,
president and CEO, Logility. "The deep modeling capabilities of Logility
Voyager Manufacturing Planning make it possible to manage a wide variety of
manufacturing configurations and changeovers. We look forward to helping
Barilla America improve their manufacturing planning processes and gain
greater production efficiency as they bring their second U.S.-based plant
on line."
Logility Voyager Solutions for Manufacturing Planning helps
manufacturers create long-term capacity plans and short-term detailed
schedules that increase production throughput, respect manufacturing
constraints, optimize changeovers, and lower inventory of finished goods
and raw materials. For more information, visit http://www.logility.com.
About Barilla
Since 1877, Barilla has been producing pasta and other grain-based
foods for consumers around the world. The company's basic animating
principle has been to make these healthy products affordable to all, no
matter where they might be. Barilla has remained true to its
entrepreneurial roots over the past four generations, by combining ancient
Italian traditions with cutting-edge technological advances. The result is
a globally successful company, built on a foundation of principles that
allow for continuous growth to reach ever- expanding goals. The Barilla
Group - whose brands include Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Pavesi, Voiello, Wasa,
Misko (Greece), Filiz (Turkey), Yemina and Vesta (Mexico) and Academia
Barilla - is the first Italian food group, headed by the Barilla family for
over 125 years. The Group has 27 factories (15 in Italy and 12 abroad). It
realizes 30% of sales in volume in more than 120 countries.
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 Brown Shoe Company, 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
http://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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