ATLANTA — Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, announced Swiss Valley Farms, a four state dairy cooperative with 1,000 members and annual sales in excess of $300 million, has deployed Logility Voyager Solutions™ to improve forecast accuracy and help the company expand into new international markets. Logility Voyager Solutions helps drive efficient sourcing and production by automating the complex process of predicting market demand.
Swiss Valley Farms, founded in 1958, has relied on manual Excel-based forecasting to develop production schedules, sales and marketing efforts, and provide executive-level reports. This process slowed the company’s ability to expand into new markets such as Asia and South America, two burgeoning regions for dairy products. Voyager Solutions will automate the forecasting process and enable Swiss Valley Farms to produce and distribute its quality dairy products in new international markets such as China.
“We pride ourselves on providing premium specialty cheeses suited to the unique needs of our customers,” said Jeff Saforek, VP of Sales & Marketing, Swiss Valley Farms. “Logility Voyager Solutions will help us deliver on this promise as we grow Swiss Valley Farms and expand into new markets. In addition, we can now be more proactive in our planning and tightly align our product forecasts with our business plan to make our supply chain a key strategic asset to the company.”
Voyager Solutions provides quick access to reports and metrics that allow companies like Swiss Valley Farms to generate and track forecasts for multiple business needs including sales, marketing, logistics, and financials. In addition, moving away from Excel-based spreadsheets to the intuitive Voyager Solutions suite minimizes the potential for data entry and re-entry errors and boosts analytical insight.
“Swiss Valley Farms is a top-quality dairy producer with an opportunity to expand into high-growth markets such as Asia and South America,” said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. “Logility Voyager Solutions is the ideal supply chain application suite to enable them to take advantage of new opportunities. Additionally, it will help drive a strategic supply chain that provides the foundation for Swiss Valley Farms continued success.”
Recognized industry-wide for its rapid implementation, quick ROI, ease-of-use, and ability to solve complex problems, Logility Voyager Solutions is a comprehensive supply chain solution suite which features performance monitoring capabilities to increase supply chain visibility and boost performance in key areas including demand, inventory and replenishment planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP), manufacturing planning and scheduling, supply and inventory optimization, transportation planning and management, and warehouse management.
About Swiss Valley
Swiss Valley Farms is a dairy cooperative based in Davenport, IA with approximately 1000 members. The company has cheese manufacturing plants in Luana, Iowa, Mindoro, Platteville and Shullsburg, Wisconsin and a cheese packaging plant in St. Olaf, Iowa. Swiss Valley Farms also operates two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Rochester Cheese and the Caves of Faribault, headquartered in Rochester and Faribault, Minnesota, respectively. Swiss Valley Farms has 360 employees and annual sales in excess of $300 million. For more information, please visit www.swissvalley.com.
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 USA 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 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.
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