Software supports internal and external collaborative planning.
Press Release Summary:
Internet-based Logility Voyager Collaborate provides comprehensive support for collaborative sales and operations planning. It increases supply chain visibility and synchronizes internal operations, presenting consolidated view of relevant supply chain information. Logility Voyager Collaborate allows manufacturing and distribution companies to view dynamics of their marketplace, analyze capabilities, and respond with synchronized business plan.
Original Press Release:
Logility Accelerates Sales & Operations Planning with Collaboration
Single Flexible Platform Supports both Internal and External Collaborative Planning via the Internet
Atlanta, June 18, 2002 - Logility (NASDAQ: LGTY), a leading supplier of business-to-business collaborative commerce
solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the latest version of Logility Voyager Collaborate providing
comprehensive support for collaborative sales and operations planning. Logility Voyager Collaborate represents the only
solution available on the market to flexibly support both internal and external collaborative planning within a single
Internet-based solution.
Logility Voyager Collaborate increases supply chain visibility and synchronizes internal operations, presenting a consolidated view of relevant supply chain information such as orders, sales, production plans, inventory, shipments, backorders and operating budgets, providing a comprehensive "one number" view of the business for better decision support throughout the organization. With Voyager Collaborate, companies can anticipate and respond proactively to changing business conditions.
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is a notoriously challenging process that can be significantly streamlined and accelerated by using Voyager Collaborate to establish a structured process that brings key internal teams such as sales, marketing, replenishment, manufacturing, distribution and finance together to develop a 'one number' plan that meets the operational needs of all parties. Voyager Collaborate allows manufacturing and distribution companies to view the dynamics of their marketplace, analyze their capabilities and respond with a synchronized business plan to increase both short- and long-term visibility.
"Sales & Operations Planning is a mission critical management activity run by a company's executive management team to set priorities, dedicate production resources, determine inventory investments, achieve desired customer service objectives and drive company financial results," said Mike Edenfield, Logility president and CEO. "Logility has expanded Voyager Collaborate to accelerate the S&OP process and eliminate up to 70% of the effort through collaboration, creating a synchronized plan for both short and long-term visibility."
"With these enhancements, Voyager Collaborate provides the only available plafform to support both internal and external
collaborative planning," continued Edenfield. "Many companies know collaboration with customers and suppliers is critical
to their continued success, but feel they need to get their internal resources synchronized first. Logility can help them
solve pressing internal business issues first and then leverage the same collaborative application for future initiatives with
customers and suppliers."
Key Features of Logility Voyager Collaborate:
- Multiple Demand and Supply Plans consolidates 120 different data arrays to facilitate interactive online collaboration for both time-phased information such as a forecast, order, shipment or production plans as well as non-time-phased information such as pricing, cost or syndicated market information.
- Expanded Exception-based Management leverages the additional data arrays to alert responsible parties to key supply chain events such as a comparison of POS to shipment data to determine if you are meeting desired in-stock goals or comparison of demand forecast to syndicated market intelligence data to gain a more comprehensive view of your plan.
- Telescoping Periods allow users the flexibility (on a single screen) to see information in multiple time buckets such as weeks for the first six periods and months for the subsequent periods.
- Flexible Unit of Measure (UOM) selection allows the user to set a display preference for measurements such as item quantity, packaging, pricing, and cost, providing more relevant information in the context of the user's operational area (production, demand planning, marketing, finance, etc.).
- Comprehensive Collaborative Plafform flexibly supports diverse internal S&OP processes as well as external standards-based CPFR® collaboration for procurement, logistics and demand management, as well as customized collaboration for any number of business processes.
- Enhanced Graphics and Role-based User Preferences speeds deployment and provides more control over what a user chooses to view on a specific plan basis, for example, product family information versus item-level detail. Numerous configurable graphs visually identify business trends and potential constraints enabling a quick assessment of the operational impact.
- Zero Deployment Client speeds implementation and eliminates maintenance efforts with an intuitive and configurable Internet-browser interface.
As Logility's fourth-generation collaborative planning solution, Voyager Collaborate delivers greater supply chain visibility
and enhanced decision support that allows companies to proactively and efficiently plan their businesses across internal
operations as well as with customers and suppliers. Voyager Collaborate provides an advanced collaborative business
process framework that flexibly automates and manages collaboration between buyers and sellers throughout the supply
chain in areas such as sales and order forecasting, planning, exception and alert notification, promotion planning and
business trend analysis. Designed for rapid deployment, Voyager Collaborate can be implemented in both private company portals and public trading exchanges and provides a zero deployment client to minimize barriers to entry for smaller trading partners.
About Logility
Logility is a leading provider of B2B collaborative commerce solutions to optimize the supply chain. Logility Voyager
Solutions enable networks of trading partners including suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers to collaborate, integrate and synchronize their planning and e-fulfillment operations. Logility customers have realized substantial bottom-line results in record time. Voyager Solutions are CPFR® compliant, open, and scalable facilitating even the most complex trading partner networks. Logility is proud to serve such customers as ConAgra, Heineken USA, McCormick & Company, Pharmacia, Reynolds Metals, Timex 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 www.logility.com.
Logility Voyager Solutions is a trademark of Logility. CPFR is a registered trademark of Voluntary Interindustry Commerce
Standards (VICS). For more information on CPFR go to cpfr.org or www.vics.org. Other products mentioned in this
document are registered, trademarked or service marked by their respective owners.
For more information, contact:
Todd Craig
Logility
404-264-5275
tcraig@logility.com
