Atlanta, GA (February 6, 2007) - Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the speakers for its Connections 2007: Supply Chain Power Plays conference to be held March 21-23, 2007, at the InterContinental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, GA.
Connections 2007 features speakers from a wide range of industries such as apparel, consumer goods, durable goods, food and beverage, furniture, pharmaceuticals, retail, service parts, personal products and other distribution-intensive businesses. This year's Connections offers attendees the opportunity to hear best practices from industry peers and leading supply chain experts from The Home Depot, Tyco Safety Products, Ruiz Foods, Shaw Industries, Clorox, Honeywell, A. O. Smith, Pinnacle Foods, Brown Shoe Company, Nutra Manufacturing, Dal Tile, and Associated Grocers. The keynote speakers on the conference program include:
- Dan Gilmore, editor in chief of SupplyChainDigest™, one of the supply chain industry's thought leaders who will share some of the lively information, news and commentary for supply chain professionals that he provides in his weekly newsletter.
- Tom Anderson, senior vice president, Rand McNally, will discuss how Rand McNally has driven product innovation by freeing up capital that was previously locked up in inventory.
- Rocky Bleier, former running back for the four-time Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, will share commonalities between the challenges he faced on both the football field and the battlefields of Vietnam with the challenges supply chain leaders face in today's competitive marketplace. Rocky will motivate attendees to "Be the Best You Can Be" as they strive for greater personal and professional accomplishments.
Connections 2007 is designed to give executives, vice presidents, directors, managers, analysts, and planners of supply chain, logistics, warehouse and transportation, "Supply Chain Power Plays" that will help give them a competitive advantage by improving supply chain visibility and agility. The conference program features executive and best practices panels on successful strategies for tackling today's business challenges and deploying supply chain solutions to drive value; breakout sessions featuring Logility Voyager Solutions™ deployments with speakers representing every major industry; and a Solutions Center for face-to-face access to Logility experts and complementary solutions. This year a new training course, Voyager Impact, will be introduced that will focus on practical tips and techniques across the Logility Voyager Solutions suite. Other featured training courses will include topics such as transportation planning and management, manufacturing planning, warehouse management, supply side optimization, new product introductions, planning redesign and forecast tuning and error measurement.
For more information and to register for the event, visit www.logility.com/conn2007.
With more than 1,100 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; supply and global sourcing optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include Bissell, Huhtamaki UK, McCain Foods, Pernod Ricard, Rand McNally, 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.
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, 2006 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 30305, (404) 261-9777. FAX: (404) 264-5206 INTERNET: http://www.logility.com or E-mail: asklogility@logility.com.