Logility Congratulates its Customers Handgards, Jarden Consumer Solutions and Johnstone Supply on Selection to Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2010 Pros to Know

ATLANTA, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Logility Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, congratulates Letty Hernandez, vice president, manufacturing & distribution Handgards; Richard Shapiro, vice president demand forecasting, Jarden Consumer Solutions; and Raymond Kernagis, vice president supply chain, Johnstone Supply, for their selection to Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2010 Practitioner Pros to Know. Hernandez, Kernagis and Shapiro, three of the 25 2010 recipients, have demonstrated exceptional leadership through the economic downturn by managing risk, providing competitive advantage and delivering value to their companies' bottom lines.

"Our goal with the annual Practitioner Pros to Know listing is to highlight outstanding Supply Chain executives and their accomplishments and showcase the initiatives these leaders undertake to deliver a competitive advantage as the economy emerges from the Great Recession," said Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "These executives serve as role models for other Supply Chain practitioners looking to bring their own organizations through these turbulent times."

Hernandez and her team at Handgards sought to streamline supply chain operations by increasing inventory accuracy and boosting customer service. The improvements, including forward pick, route pick paths and travel time optimization to eliminate non-value add activities, helped keep distribution center shift costs under control. Following the deployment of Logility Voyager WarehousePRO® and formalization of best practices in warehouse management, Hernandez and her team saw inventory accuracy rise to 99.2 percent.

Shapiro is responsible for Jarden Consumer Solutions' global demand chain planning and charged with enhancing the company's forecasting processes, consolidating all of the brand lines, including Oster®, Crock-Pot®, Sunbeam®, Rival®, and Mr. Coffee®, into a single supply chain and to optimize inventory investments around the world. In concert with Logility Voyager Solutions, he was able to implement new, uniform demand and inventory planning as well as exception-based processes across all regions which allowed his team to spend less time and resources creating plans and more time on strategy and execution.

Kernagis saw the economic change as an opportunity to drive innovation and expand Johnstone Supply's distribution network. Under Kernagis' leadership, the company opened three new distribution centers to capture market share, provided enhanced services to its 340 stores and strengthened its relationship with HVAC/R contractors. Following a rapid four month implementation of Logility Voyager Solutions, Kernagis and his team realized measurable results including more accurate forecasting and improved synchronization of inventory.

"All of us at Logility congratulate Letty Hernandez, Richard Shapiro and Raymond Kernagis for their exceptional efforts to develop world-class supply chain processes," said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. "These leaders have positioned their companies to weather the economic turbulence and built the foundations for supply chain agility and long-term profitability. We are honored to be their technology partner in support of their transformations."

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 performance monitoring capabilities in a single Internet-based framework and provides supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP); inventory and supply 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 (Nasdaq: AMSWA). For more information about Logility, call 1-800-762-5207 or visit www.logility.com.

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