Logility Announces Keynote Speakers for Connections 2007: Supply Chain Power Plays


ATLANTA, Feb. 6 -- Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the speakers for its Connections 2007: Supply Chain Power Plays conference to be held March 21-23, 2007, at the InterContinental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta, GA.

Connections 2007 features speakers from a wide range of industries such as apparel, consumer goods, durable goods, food and beverage, furniture, pharmaceuticals, retail, service parts, personal products and other distribution-intensive businesses. This year's Connections offers attendees the opportunity to hear best practices from industry peers and leading supply chain experts from The Home Depot, Tyco Safety Products, Ruiz Foods, Shaw Industries, Clorox, Honeywell, A. O. Smith, Pinnacle Foods, Brown Shoe Company, Nutra Manufacturing, Dal Tile, and Associated Grocers. The keynote speakers on the conference program include:

oDan Gilmore, editor in chief of SupplyChainDigest(TM), one of the supply
chain industry's thought leaders who will share some of the lively
information, news and commentary for supply chain professionals that he
provides in his weekly newsletter.
oTom Anderson, senior vice president, Rand McNally, will discuss how Rand
McNally has driven product innovation by freeing up capital that was
previously locked up in inventory.
oRocky Bleier, former running back for the four-time Super Bowl Champion
Pittsburgh Steelers, will share commonalities between the challenges he
faced on both the football field and the battlefields of Vietnam with
the challenges supply chain leaders face in today's competitive
marketplace. Rocky will motivate attendees to "Be the Best You Can Be"
as they strive for greater personal and professional accomplishments.

Connections 2007 is designed to give executives, vice presidents, directors, managers, analysts, and planners of supply chain, logistics, warehouse and transportation, "Supply Chain Power Plays" that will help give them a competitive advantage by improving supply chain visibility and agility. The conference program features executive and best practices panels on successful strategies for tackling today's business challenges and deploying supply chain solutions to drive value; breakout sessions featuring Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) deployments with speakers representing every major industry; and a Solutions Center for face-to-face access to Logility experts and complementary solutions. This year a new training course, Voyager Impact, will be introduced that will focus on practical tips and techniques across the Logility Voyager Solutions suite. Other featured training courses will include topics such as transportation planning and management, manufacturing planning, warehouse management, supply side optimization, new product introductions, planning redesign and forecast tuning and error measurement.

About Logility

With more than 1,100 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; supply and global sourcing optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; transportation planning and management; and warehouse management. Logility customers include Bissell, Brown Shoe Company, Huhtamaki UK, McCain Foods, 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/.

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FCMN Contact: mduke@logility.com

Source: Logility, Inc.

CONTACT: Michelle Duke, of Logility, Inc., +1-404-264-5485, or mduke@logility.com

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