Managing Automation Names Logility Customer as a Finalist for the First Annual Progressive Manufacturing Awards

Managing Automation Names Logility Customer as a Finalist for the First Annual Progressive Manufacturing Awards Smead Manufacturing Co. Selected as a Supply Chain Mastery Award Finalist ATLANTA, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today extended congratulations to its customer Smead Manufacturing Co., who has been named a finalist for Managing Automation magazine's first annual Progressive Manufacturing Awards for supply chain mastery. This award recognizes a manufacturer that has improved the operations of material procurement, production and execution aspects of the supply chain to achieve faster time to market, cost reductions and efficiencies, and higher customer satisfaction ratings. Winners will be announced in the March issue of Managing Automation and honored at a gala dinner during the Progressive Manufacturing Summit and Awards, March 16-18, 2005, in New Orleans. Smead Manufacturing Co., a leading manufacturer and distributor of paper filing supplies and records management software, implemented Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) to improve information sharing, increase forecast accuracy and improve visibility of promotional plans. Smead has used Logility to support a significant growth in revenue with minor growth in inventory levels, achieve higher customer order fill rates, increase visibility of available inventory, and improve collaboration with customers as well as internal departments. "We are proud of Smead Manufacturing Co., and its supply chain improvements achieved using Logility Voyager Solutions," said Mike Edenfield, Logility president and CEO. "Logility Voyager Solutions provide increased discipline and supply chain efficiency for manufacturing, wholesale and retail organization and offer the opportunity to significantly reduce costs, improve product availability and increase customer service." About Logility With more than 1,100 customers worldwide, Logility is the leading provider of collaborative supply chain planning solutions that help small, medium, large and Fortune 1000 companies realize substantial bottom-line results in record time. Logility Voyager Solutions feature performance monitoring capabilities in a single Internet-based framework and provide supply chain visibility; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; supply and global sourcing optimization; transportation planning and execution; and warehouse management. Logility customers include Bissell, Huhtamaki UK, Katun Corporation, McCain Foods, Mill's Pride, 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/ . 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, 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, 2004 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 . Source: Logility, Inc. CONTACT: Jamie Muir of Logility, Inc., +1-404-264-5485, or jmuir@logility.com Web site: http://www.logility.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/120967.html ------- Profile: International Entertainment