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Press Release Schutt Sports Expects to Score Big Benefits with Smart Software's SmartForecasts
Will integrate SmartForecasts with Epicor's Avante ERP System to improve demand planning
Belmont,
Mass., September 15, 2004 -- Smart Software, Inc., provider of industry-leading
demand forecasting, planning and inventory optimization solutions, today
announced that Schutt Sports of Litchfield, Illinois, has purchased its flagship
product, Smart Forecasts. Schutt Sports is a family-owned sporting goods company
with two manufacturing facilities and a distribution center in Illinois. The
company is a major manufacturer of equipment for baseball, softball, football,
basketball and sports collectibles. The company is in the process of
re-engineering its processes and moving toward lean manufacturing, and plans to
use SmartForecasts to streamline its demand forecasting and planning
functions.
Schutt Sports will integrate SmartForecasts with Epicor's Avante ERP system.
"Smart Software and Epicor are important pieces of a puzzle that will enable us
to accomplish our corporate goals to increase sales and profits and reduce
waste," said John Tunstall, demand planning manager at Schutt Sports.
SmartForecasts will help the company better manage the seasonal demand for
its products and provide the tools necessary for promotional planning. A portion
of the company's inventory is slow-moving, and SmartForecasts' intermittent
demand forecasting capabilities will help Schutt Sports set accurate stocking
levels and safety stock requirements for those products.
"This is my fourth ERP implementation," said Tunstall. "Before we evaluated
SmartForecasts, I had seen very little in the way of forecasting software that
could do the job. Most forecasting software is either too weak or too complex.
SmartForecasts is one of the best programs out there. It's robust, grounded in
fundamentals, and easy to use."
Schutt Sports also plans to benefit from a smoother and faster forecasting
process and more internal collaboration between sales, production, purchasing
and other departments, as well as externally with customers and suppliers. These
benefits will be facilitated by the integration between SmartForecasts and
Avante's SQL Server database system and the reporting, adjustment, and
collaboration features directly available in SmartForecasts.
About Schutt Sports
Schutt Sports is synonymous with innovation in sports equipment, from the
pros to youth leagues. Schutt Sports is the largest provider of football helmets
and faceguards in the world and has introduced many of the game's most important
advances in protective equipment, from its first football faceguard in 1935 to
breakthrough helmet technology in 2003 via the Schutt DNA helmet with SKYDEX
material. Schutt Sports also markets innovative, quality protective and
field/court equipment for baseball, basketball and softball, and collectible
football helmets and bases to promote fan enjoyment. Schutt Sports is also the
Official Base Supplier of Major League Baseball.
About Smart Software
Founded in 1984, Smart Software, Inc. is a leader in providing businesses
with enterprise-wide demand forecasting, planning and inventory optimization
solutions. Smart Software's flagship product, SmartForecasts, has thousands of
customers worldwide, including midmarket enterprises and Fortune 500 companies,
such as Monsanto, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Labatt Breweries, Pfizer, and Coca-Cola.
SmartForecasts gives demand planners the tools to handle sales seasonality,
promotions, new and aging products, multi-dimensional hierarchies, and
intermittently demanded service parts and capital goods items. It also provides
inventory managers with accurate estimates of the minimum inventory and safety
stock required to meet future orders, thereby ensuring the most cost-effective
inventory allocation to achieve desired service levels. Smart Software is
headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts and can be found on the World Wide Web
at www.smartcorp.com.
SmartForecasts and SmartWeb Collaborator are trademarks of Smart Software,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For more information, please contact Smart Software, Inc., Four Hill Road,
Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899);
FAX: 1-617-489-2748; E-mail: info@smartcorp.com
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