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September 22nd Webcast to Feature Stan Elbaum from AberdeenGroup and Highlight Best Practices ATLANTA, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Logility, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTY), a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, today announced the next webcast in its Supply Chain Power Hour series, "Best Practices in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)," scheduled for Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Companies of all sizes face challenges from accelerating product lifecycles, increased competition and pressure to simultaneously reduce cost and improve perfect orders. The next Logility Supply Chain Power Hour is designed to help companies understand how S&OP best practices can help balance and synchronize operational plans to achieve corporate objectives, stay competitive, increase profitability, expand market share and drive customer service excellence. Webcast participants will: * Learn from Stan Elbaum, senior vice president, research, AberdeenGroup, as he presents information from the industry analyst firm's June 2005 publication, "Best Practices in S&OP: A Benchmark Report"; and * Find out how Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) can accelerate and streamline the S&OP process. "Sales and operations planning best practices reflect a deep understanding of the business forces that drive risks and opportunities," said Elbaum. "All winning approaches are based on a tight integration of business processes and practices taking advantage of new capabilities in their deployed technologies to take better control of their destiny." The free, one-hour "Best Practices in S&OP" webcast requires pre- registration through the Logility website at http://www.logility.com/soppowerhour. The Logility Supply Chain Power Hour Series is designed to illustrate how companies can use technology to address challenging supply chain business issues. Former Power Hour topics include radio frequency identification (RFID), service parts management and transportation planning and management. Archived webcasts are available at http://www.logility.com/powerhours. 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, Jockey International, McCain Foods, Mill's Pride, Pernod Ricard, Rand McNally, Sigma Aldrich, and VF Corporation. Logility is a majority owned subsidiary of American Software (NASDAQ:AMSAE). 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 challenges and risks associated with integration of acquired product lines and companies; the effect of competitive products and pricing; the Company's ability to satisfy in a timely manner the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations adopted under that Section; 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, 2005 and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more 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: . All trademarks are properties of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Logility, Inc. CONTACT: Jamie Muir of Logility, Inc., +1-404-264-5485, Web site: http://www.logility.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/120967.html

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