Logility Customers Share Supply Chain Success at CSCMP 2016 Annual Conference

Ferguson, L’Oreal, Red Wing Shoe Company, and SnapAV Highlight Supply Chain Excellence
ATLANTA — September 20, 2016 — Logility, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions, invites attendees of CSCMP’s 2016 Annual Conference to four sessions featuring its customers Ferguson, L’Oreal, Red Wing Shoe Company, and SnapAV. The four–day global event will be held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, FL, September 25 — 28, 2016.

The sessions will help attendees learn how to navigate today’s complex supply chain challenges to take advantage of tomorrow’s opportunities. Highlights include driving operational excellence across the supply chain, the science behind planning in today’s rapidly changing business environment, and how to plan for and minimize the potential impact of supply chain disruptions. These companies have all turned to Logility Voyager SolutionsTM as a platform to enable supply chain excellence, achieve greater forecast accuracy, and drive business insights.

Sessions at a Glance:
Title: Supply Chain Planning Best Practices & Lessons Learned in the Electronics Industry
Speaker: Evan Flinn, SnapAV
When: Monday, September 26, 2016 at 3:45 PM EDT
Where: Tallahassee 1, 2 and 3
About: Learn how SnapAV, a distributor of audio and video products, plans for supply chain disruptions such as vendor holidays and product transitions to ensure its products are available when and where customers need them.

Title: Building a Planning Discipline for the Future: Ferguson Enterprises’ Journey
Speaker: Chris Reed, Ferguson
When: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 10:30 AM EDT
Where: Tallahassee 1, 2 and 3
About: Learn how this leading distributor of plumbing supplies and heating and cooling equipment has developed an agile supply chain that helped the company move from a purchasing driven culture to a demand–driven organization to boost service levels, improve forecast accuracy and enable a new platform for differentiated service offerings.

Title: Red Wing Shoe Company Takes Giant Steps to Improving SIOP
Speaker: Mallery Dosdall, Red Wing Shoe Company
When: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Where: Sun 3 — 4
About: Red Wing Shoe Company will share how the global footwear and apparel manufacturer and retailer transformed its supply chain to develop a robust and repeatable sales, inventory operations planning (SIOP) process. Through access to more detailed and accurate planning information, Red Wing Shoe Company increased visibility across longer planning horizons, better aligned inventory and improved customer service levels.

Title: The Panel of Experts — Supply Chain Planning Challenges, Opportunities & Best Practices
Panel Members Include: Andrea Atwell, L’Oreal’s Luxe Division, Mallery Dosdall, Red Wing Shoe Company, Hank Canitz, Logility
When: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM
Where: Tallahassee 1, 2 and 3
About: Panelists will discuss the impact of new data sources on the supply chain and provide insight to the art and science of planning in today’s volatile and complex business environment.

Logility, a Signature Sponsor of the event, welcomes attendees to also stop by booth #509 to learn more about Logility’s industry–leading supply chain planning and retail optimization solutions.

To learn more or see where Logility will be at next, please visit: bit.ly/2bo6rZw

About Logility
With more than 1,250 customers worldwide, Logility is a leading provider of collaborative supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions that help small, medium, large, and Fortune 500 companies realize substantial bottom–line results in record time.  Logility Voyager Solutions is a complete supply chain management and retail optimization solution that features a performance monitoring architecture and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); Integrated Business Planning (IBP); supply and inventory optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; retail merchandise planning and allocation; and transportation    planning and management. Logility customers include Big Lots, Fender Musical Instruments, Parker Hannifin, Verizon Wireless, and VF Corporation. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA), named one of the 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America by Forbes. 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.

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Media Contact:
Justin Siefert
Logility
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