Barilla America Selects Logility Voyager Solutions
Barilla America produces the fastest-growing pasta and sauce brands in their categories and its pasta producing plant, located in Ames, Iowa, is among the largest pasta plants in the U.S. and the forth largest in The Barilla Group.
13/04/07 Logility, Inc., a leading supplier of collaborative solutions to optimize the supply chain, announced that Barilla America, Inc., the U.S.-based division of The Barilla Group, Italy's largest food producer, has selected Logility Voyager Solutions to strengthen manufacturing planning, increase production efficiency and boost customer service levels.
Barilla America produces the fastest-growing pasta and sauce brands in their categories and its pasta producing plant, located in Ames, Iowa, is among the largest pasta plants in the U.S. and the forth largest in The Barilla Group. To better support growth, Barilla America is opening a second plant in the U.S. in Avon, NY in the spring of 2007.
"The Barilla America manufacturing plants are sleek, modern facilities where our employees are committed to meeting and exceeding Barilla's high standards of food production," said Brandon Garcia, head of information technology at Barilla America. "We selected Logility Voyager Solutions to help us maintain these high standards and become more efficient through increased visibility into scheduling and capacity constraints across both pasta plants."
Logility Voyager Manufacturing Planning helps manufacturers facilitate plant-to-plant scheduling that keeps all facilities working toward common corporate objectives. With Voyager Manufacturing Planning, Barilla will be able to pinpoint capacity and material exceptions with easy-to-use visual tools; reduce costs, meet customer requirements and plan more efficiently using automated techniques.
"Logility Voyager Solutions enable manufacturers to build more competitive supply chains through increased demand visibility, improved sourcing, synchronized manufacturing, and optimized transportation to more cost- effectively deliver superior customer service," said Mike Edenfield, president and CEO, Logility. "The deep modeling capabilities of Logility Voyager Manufacturing Planning make it possible to manage a wide variety of manufacturing configurations and changeovers. We look forward to helping Barilla America improve their manufacturing planning processes and gain greater production efficiency as they bring their second U.S.-based plant on line."
Logility Voyager Solutions for Manufacturing Planning helps manufacturers create long-term capacity plans and short-term detailed schedules that increase production throughput, respect manufacturing constraints, optimize changeovers, and lower inventory of finished goods and raw materials.
