Contact Lens Manufacturer Implements a New Strategy to Improve Supply Chain
Planning Processes
ATLANTA, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (Nasdaq:
LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply
chain, today announced that CooperVision, one of the world's leading and
fastest-growing manufacturers of contact lenses, has selected Logility
Voyager Solutions to support a new supply chain strategy aimed at improving
demand management, inventory and replenishment planning, product lifecycle
planning and sales and operations planning processes (S&OP).
CooperVision has a network of manufacturing and distribution facilities
across five continents. In an effort to maintain high customer service
levels and continue to meet or exceed increasing market demands,
CooperVision plans on leveraging Logility Voyager Solutions to drive change
throughout their supply chain planning processes by creating a more
effective and collaborative supply chain.
"CooperVision selected Logility Voyager Solutions to support our supply
chain strategy of enhancing the value that we provide to our customers and
shareholders," said Randy Harman, VP of Global Supply Chain, CooperVision.
"Logility offers a flexible, comprehensive solution with an ease-of-use
that we believe will enable us to quickly increase the effectiveness of our
supply chain planning processes."
Logility Voyager Solutions provides visibility into global market
demands, enabling improved forecast accuracy, streamlined product
introductions and availability across all phases of a product's lifecycle.
"We believe that Logility will enable CooperVision to globally synchronize
forecasting, planning and inventory management as well as simplify the
sales and operations planning (S&OP) process by capturing critical data
from all areas of the business," continued Harman. With a more
collaborative supply chain and formalized S&OP process, CooperVision hopes
to gain a competitive advantage demonstrated by superior customer service.
"Logility helps manufacturers gain better demand visibility and
synchronize all of the business processes key to success in supply chain
planning," said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. "CooperVision
is on the right track to improving their overall supply chain operations
and we are pleased to be the technology partner that will help them
maintain a competitive edge by increasing collaboration and productivity
within their supply chain."
About CooperVision
CooperVision is one of the world's leading and fastest-growing
manufacturers of contact lenses, currently the third-largest manufacturer
in the United States and worldwide. CooperVision is considered the world's
leading producer of premium-quality toric lenses for people with
astigmatism. In addition, CooperVision manufactures lenses for people with
spherical and presbyopic conditions.
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 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.
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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
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products and services; the effect of competitive products and pricing; the
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the irregular pattern of the Company's revenues. For further information
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please refer to the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2007
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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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