Boston, MA - October 6, 2009 – Optiant*, the premier provider of inventory optimization solutions, today announced that PowerChain Planner 6 has achieved the "SAP Certified - Powered by SAP NetWeaver" certification. PowerChain Planner has been proven to integrate with SAP solutions, allowing customers to feed their ERP and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) with optimized inventory targets for more precise safety stock levels.
"With this certification, SAP customers are assured that PowerChain seamlessly integrates with ERP and APS enterprise data and content for improved efficiencies," said Fred Lizza, CEO of Optiant. "This extends the functionality of the customer's existing investment by considering uncertainty, volatile supply costs, changing delivery timetables, and inaccurate forecasts when setting inventory targets. Customers achieve a competitive advantage by determining optimal inventory levels."
Supply chain planners are tasked with ensuring the supply chain runs smoothly. PowerChain Planner helps inventory planners react decisively to fluctuations in real-world conditions such as supply times, review periods, seasonal demand, and lifecycle calendars. It manages large numbers of SKUs with minimum effort by returning updated target recommendations in real-time and alerting planners of SKUs that have deviated from assigned targets. Exception-Based Workflow allows inventory planners to focus on potential issues and problems where their expertise is most needed, eliminating non-value-added work and mitigating potential risks to supply chain success.
PowerChain Planner is part of Optiant's award-winning PowerChain suite of supply chain design and optimization tools, which have revolutionized the inventory policies and supply chain network designs of major and mid-sized manufacturers.
* Optiant was acquired by Logility on March 22, 2010.
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 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); inventory and supply 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.