Coffee and tea manufacturer quickly sees cost savings through more
effective inventory management and demand visibility
ATLANTA, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq:
LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply
chain, today announced that Mother Parkers, the largest coffee and tea
manufacturer in North America, has successfully deployed Logility Voyager
Solutions to improve demand and inventory planning and has already
experienced cost savings as a result of better inventory management and
demand visibility.
Mother Parkers is the manufacturer and marketer of specialty coffee and
tea brands including Higgins and Burke Gourmet, Mother Parkers, Brown Gold,
Martinson and Beech Nut. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Mother Parkers also
operates plants in Ajax, Ontario and Fort Worth, TX. Mother Parkers was
challenged by a mostly manual inventory and demand planning process and
selected Logility Voyager Solutions to enable them to manage inventory more
effectively and create a more collaborative production planning
environment.
"We selected Logility Voyager Solutions because we wanted a system that
would easily integrate with our ERP platform and automate our inventory and
forecasting processes," said Glenn Nicodemus, manager of supply chain
planning at Mother Parkers. "Logility gives us more visibility into market
demand and seasonal patterns and enables us to aggregate data quickly for
capacity planning which makes our production planning more efficient. Since
rolling out Logility in September 2007, we have already seen savings of up
to $800,000 from safety stocks alone and are experiencing higher inventory
turns as a result of more accurate forecasts."
Logility Voyager Solutions automates the process of predicting market
demand which increases forecast accuracy, optimizes inventory levels and
drives efficient sourcing and production. With Logility, Mother Parkers is
able to model demand patterns based on factors such as seasonality ensuring
that they have the right inventory to meet market demand. Logility will
also enable Mother Parkers to gain a customer-level planning process which
will allow them to know which products are sold to specific customers.
"We are very pleased that Mother Parkers has quickly experienced cost
savings as a result of their deployment of Logility," said Mike Edenfield,
president and CEO, Logility. "By automating their inventory planning
processes with Logility Voyager Solutions, Mother Parkers has dramatically
reduced the time it takes to gather the data critical for effective
inventory planning and forecasting and we look forward to supporting their
continued success."
About Mother Parkers
Mother Parkers is one of the largest manufacturers of Private Label
coffee and tea products to major food service operators and grocery
retailers throughout North America. For further information about Mother
Parkers Tea and Coffee Inc. visit the website at http://www.mother-parkers.com
About Logility
With more than 1,200 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 Brown Shoe Company, 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 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, 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
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Michelle Duke of Logility, Inc.,
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