Logility Collaborative Planning Solutions Offer Sound Proposition
Steve McVey - July 17, 2000

Product Background

Atlanta-based Logility describes itself as the leader in B2B collaborative commerce solutions via the Internet. Though all vendors take great pains to position themselves as leaders in something, Logility's claim goes beyond a skillfully crafted marketing blurb. Logility traces its lineage as a provider of collaborative software to its work with Heineken, which purchased supply chain planning software from Logility (then wholly-owned by American Software) in 1996. Heineken received the VICS 1999 'Best in Logistics' award based in part on its Heineken Operational Planning System (HOPS), developed by Logility. HOPS helped Heineken improve communication with customers, correct irregular inventory management, and reduce lead-time from 12 to four weeks. The system is used by all of Heineken's 450 distributors...