APICS Webinar to Answer the Question: Is Your Inventory a Competitive Advantage?
Stanley Black & Decker and Boston University Professor Highlight Inventory Optimization Best Practices
ATLANTA (September 13, 2010) – Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, along with APICS, the Association of Operations Management, will host an interactive webinar to discuss the inventory challenges companies face and review the best-practices to free up working capital, decrease stock outs and improve service. Supply chain experts from Stanley Black & Decker and Boston University will lead the discussion on how to optimize inventory investments across multi-echelon manufacturing and distribution networks. The webcast is Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 11:00 am ET/8:00 am PT.
Michael Martin, manager, global supply planning strategy, Stanley Black & Decker, and Sean Willems Ph.D., a pioneering leader in inventory optimization research and associate professor of operations management, Boston University, will lead the discussion and help attendees learn best practices on:
- How to minimize supply chain costs while achieving optimal service levels
- How to optimize inventory across all locations and stages of the multi-echelon supply chain network
- The competitive advantages of inventory optimization
- The tactical and strategic benefits of inventory optimization
For more information and to register for this September 28 webcast, please visit http://www.logility.com/Is-Your-Inventory-a-Competitive-Advantage.
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 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.
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 (the Company’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. Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2010 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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