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Lilly Software Goes Live with VISUAL Distribution
Beta Site Becomes User, Lilly Closes Supply Chain Link
June 8, 1999: Hampton, NH - Lilly Software Associates, Inc., best known for the ERP solution VISUAL Manufacturing, announces that the first installation of its new VISUAL Distribution® software has "gone live" at Learning Resources of Vernon Hills, Illinois. The manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational toys and products that "set imaginations in motion" was the beta-test site for VISUAL Distribution. Learning Resources has allowed a team of Lilly Software engineers to virtually camp at its headquarters since January of this year to hone the software's functionality.
VISUAL Distribution, paired with Lilly's VISUAL Manufacturing suite, integrates a company's supply chain from its core business through distribution. Learning Resources already used the patented scheduling of Lilly's VISUAL Manufacturing, in a highly customized version that allowed for the company's strong distribution requirements: Learning Resources both assembles and distributes product from the company's 100,000ft2 headquarters and warehouse. Given the size and willingness of the organization, Lilly Software chose Learning Resources as its beta site. Learning Resources now uses VISUAL Distribution - Front Office plus VISUAL Distribution - Warehouse, which features both a best-in-class warehouse management system (WMS) and radio frequency (RF) control.
Lilly Software announced general release of VISUAL Distribution at the February DC Expo West distribution trade fair in Anaheim California. Advanced Manufacturing Research (AMR) received advanced notice of VISUAL Distribution enthusiastically, and wrote in a 1998 AMR Alert, "VISUAL Distribution is indicative of the creative thinking employed by Lilly in the midrange.
About Lilly Software Associates
Lilly Software Associates, Inc. provides a complete line of enterprise and
supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The VISUAL
Enterprise™ suite of products helps companies capture and analyze real-time data
about all their business processes using ERP, Project Management, Business
Performance Management, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management,
and Warehouse Management System capabilities. From award-winning software to
strategies in Lean Manufacturing and TOC, Lilly Software offers companies the
tools they need for higher productivity and profitability.
Most VISUAL® applications run on Windows® 98, Windows NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX®, LINUX, Novell®, using
SQLBase®, Microsoft SQL Server®, or ORACLE®
relational databases.
Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and
financial growth since its inception. Most recently, the company has been voted
one of the Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of
Consumer Goods Technology, listed in
Software Magazine's Top 500,
selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider in
Inbound Logistics, listed in the Top
100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain
e-Business, included in MSI's
Top 100 for its eighth year, and ranked as one of
Start magazine's Hottest Companies.
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