Barilla America Selects Logility Voyager Solutions
Number one selling pasta manufacturer in U.S. to strengthen manufacturing planning, increase production efficiency and boost customer service
Atlanta (April 11, 2007) – Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announcedthat Barilla America, Inc., the U.S.-based division of The Barilla Group, Italy’s largest food producer, has selected Logility Voyager Solutions™ 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™ 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 www.logility.com.
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.
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