Manugistics to Power YKK USA Enterprise Forecasting Network
Manugistics NetWORKS(TM) Solutions Also Enable Leader in Zippers And Other Fasteners to Create Collaborative Trading Partner Network
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Manugistics Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MANU), a leading global provider of intelligent supply chain solutions for enterprises and evolving eBusiness trading networks, today announced that YKK USA has selected Manugistics to power an enterprise-wide network unifying the company's sales, marketing and operational forecasting processes. YKK USA chose Manugistics NetWORKS(TM) solutions to help the company enhance customer service and improve forecast accuracy.
Utilizing Manugistics NetWORKS, YKK USA, a leading manufacturer of zippers, hooks and loops, and other fasteners, can expect to better predict customer needs and demands -- helping the company to avoid supply shortfalls. Improved demand planning should help the company improve responsiveness and better manage a wide variety of products - a complex business challenge faced by most apparel companies. In addition, the NetWORKS solutions chosen by YKK USA can enable the company to create a collaborative network involving key suppliers and customers.
"We highly value the success of our trading partners," said Micky Ujihara, president of YKK USA. "Manugistics' proven solutions will help keep YKK USA at the technological forefront of the apparel and textile industry and further our mission to provide unmatched customer service."
"Real-time collaborative planning and forecasting within the enterprise and across trading networks can help companies like YKK USA achieve significant competitive advantages, cost reductions, and improved customer service," said Rich Bergmann, executive vice president of global sales and services at Manugistics. "Forward-looking companies in the apparel and textile industry can benefit from Manugistics' intelligent supply chain solutions, which are backed by deep industry experience and a history of proven results."
YKK USA produces more than 7 million zippers each day at its Macon, Georgia, National Manufacturing Center. Those zippers are used by leading manufacturers across a variety of industries in products such as backpacks, casual pants, furniture, footwear, jeans, packaging, purses, ready-to-wear apparel, seat-covers, sleeping bags, and tents. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will provide eBusiness consulting services alongside Manugistics to help satisfy these manufacturers' demands for all of YKK USA's products.
About YKK Corporation and YKK USA
As a recognized leader in the fasteners and commercial building industries, YKK Corporation has developed a family of companies known as the YKK America Group. The YKK America Group includes YKK USA, a manufacturer of zippers, webbings, hook and loop fastening tapes, a wide variety of plastic notions, and a supplier of buttons; Kentucky-based Universal Fasteners Inc., a manufacturer of snaps, rivets, burrs, and hooks and eyes; Tape Craft Corporation, a producer of a wide variety of nylon, cotton, polypropylene, and polyester webbings and narrow fabrics; and YKK AP America Inc., which extrudes and fabricates aluminum architectural products for commercial buildings. The YKK America Group also has several members in Canada and Latin American countries.
About Manugistics, Inc.
Headquartered in Rockville, Md., Manugistics Group, Inc. is a leading global provider of intelligent supply chain solutions for enterprises and evolving eBusiness trading networks. With more than 900 clients, Manugistics powers intelligent decisions for profitable growth in leading companies such as Amazon.com, Coca-Cola Bottling, Commerx, Compaq, DuPont, FreightWise, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Hormel, Mobil, Nestle, Timberland, and Unilever.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, competition, risks related to quarterly performance, risks of system interruption, anticipated client benefits, delivery of software functionality, management of potential growth, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. More information about factors that potentially could affect Manugistics financial results is included in Manugistics filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 29, 2000.
Manugistics is a registered trademark, and the Manugistics logo, the phrase "Leveraged Intelligence," and NetWORKS are trademarks, of Manugistics, Inc. All other product or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Additional information about Manugistics can be found at the company's site on the World Wide Web, at manugistics.com. Additional information about YKK Corporation of America can be found at the company's site on the World Wide Web, at ykkamerica.com.
SOURCE Manugistics Group, Inc.
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