Logility Named a Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 Recipient for the Eleventh Year

Award Recognizes the Top 100 Most Impactful Supply Chain Projects of the Year

ATLANTA — June 11, 2013 — Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the editors of Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine named Logility to its annual listing of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100. The award highlights the “100 Great Supply Chain Projects” of the past year and is the 11th year Logility has been honored for enabling extraordinary supply chain initiatives.

This year more than 200 submissions were evaluated by the magazine’s editorial staff and were judged based on factors including ambitiousness / scope of the project; creative application of technologies / solutions / services used; extent of the business results / impact; and clarity of submission. Logility was recognized for helping to drive supply chain efficiencies at Caribou Coffee. Through its use of Logility Voyager Solutions™, Caribou Coffee was able to dramatically increase visibility across its supply chain allowing the company to right–size inventory, improve customer service and expand its product sales. Caribou Coffee now operates above 99% service levels while inventory turns have increased 35% and obsolete inventory has significantly decreased.

Launched 12 years ago, Supply & Demand Chain Executive announced its first “100” list of supply chain solution providers, consultants and other organizations that were helping lead the way in transforming companies’ supply and demand chains. Supply & Demand Chain Executive collected nominations on supply chain transformation projects, including information on the objectives, scope, timeline and results of the project.

“We are honored to once again receive this distinction which highlights our continued focus on the customer and helping to solve their most complex supply chain challenges,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “Logility Voyager Solutions helps companies drive a more efficient operation, compete in a constantly changing and complex market, and deliver exceptional customer service across the supply chain.”

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 suite 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.

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, utilizing hard–hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer executives and supply management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain enablement to gain competitive advantage. On the Web: www.SDCExec.com.

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 Fender Musical Instruments, Hewlett–Packard, Parker Hannifin, Sigma–Aldrich, Verizon Wireless, and VF Corporation. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA). For more information about Logility, call 800–762–5207 USA or visit https://logilityinc.wpengine.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. current Form 10–K 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.

Logility is a registered trademark and Logility Voyager Solutions is a trademark of Logility, Inc. Other products mentioned in this document are registered, trademarked or service marked by their respective owners.

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