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Woolworths to Improve Speed to Market on Clothing Lines and Strengthen Supply Chain With Geac QuestPLM Solution

Studley, England (ots/PRNewswire)

- US$750,000 Investment Seeks to Drive More Relevant Offering for
Retail Chain's Customers
Woolworths, the Cape Town, South Africa-based retail group, has
invested US$750,000 with Geac(R) (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ: GEAC) in order to
roll out Geac's QuestPLM (product lifecycle management) solution
across its entire clothing offering. This is expected to increase the
speed to market of clothing and footwear products that will be
available throughout Woolworths' 200+ stores throughout South Africa
and approximately 50+ franchise stores in other parts of Africa and
the Middle East. This will be the second phase of Woolworths'
QuestPLM deployment; the software already is yielding benefits to
Woolworth's womenswear department.
The solution from Geac RunTime, a division of Geac that
specialises in IT solutions for the apparel and footwear industry, is
designed to ensure that confirmed new products are automatically
transferred into Woolworths' sales and inventory system. Previously
this had to be done manually, often delaying the launch of new
collections.
Woolworths will also work with Geac to integrate Quest PLM with
Woolworths' pending implementation of the Retek RMS stock management
system and Woolworths' existing Knowledge Management systems to
enable Woolworths to improve workflow and streamline the product
development lifecycle.
The QuestPLM solution will replace the previously manual product
specification to suppliers, as well as enabling the measurement and
tracking of key milestones in the product development critical path.
The improvements to Woolworths' supply chain will mean shorter lead
times, with improved availability of clothing, footwear and
accessories products.
The Woolworths brand retains a great deal of international premium
pedigree. Based on the department store model, Woolworths, in
addition to a food and homeware range offers a full range of
clothing, from lingerie and womenswear to footwear, menswear and
childswear. The Geac PLM solution is expected to help Woolworths
improve availability of these clothing and footwear ranges as well as
streamline quality management processes.
With 10 suppliers already linked into QuestPLM, Woolworths also is
reviewing the roll out of the solution to impose common standards
throughout its supply chain.
Gerard Roux, Head of IT for Woolworths explains these changes to
the supply chain are expected to have a significant impact upon
Woolworths' operations: "One of the key benefits of QuestPLM is that
it has enabled us to start measuring steps in the critical path
within our supply chain. Our historically manual product development
processes have brought with them some inherent delays that QuestPLM's
automation can remove. As we implement the QuestPLM system we are
enabling our buying teams to adopt a more standard, more manageable
process with measurable results. QuestPLM enables transparency and
sharing of product information in a standard way, improving things
for us and our suppliers, most of whom are local and share a long
relationship with Woolworths."
"Our customers trust us to offer them great value. Offering
innovative products of exceptional quality at a good price is our key
value differentiator within the clothing market. To ensure that we
exceed our customer's expectations, our buyers and clothing
technologists are closely involved in the specification and
development process for our products. Our use of QuestPLM means that
these processes are now a quicker and more effective part of our
supply chain helping us to offer more relevant, more innovative
product to our customers."
About Geac
Geac (TSX: GAC, NASDAQ: GEAC) is a global enterprise software
company that addresses the needs of the Chief Financial Officer.
Geac's best-in-class technology products and services help
organisations do more with less in an increasingly competitive
environment, amidst growing regulatory pressure, and in response to
other business issues confronting the CFO. Further information is
available at http://www.geac.com or through e-mail at
info(at)geac.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements of
Geac's intentions, beliefs, expectations and predictions for the
future. These forward-looking statements often include use of the
future tense with words such as "will," "may," "intends,"
"anticipates," "expects" and similar conditional or forward-looking
words and phrases. These forward-looking statements are neither
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to risks and uncertainties, and they may differ materially from
actual future events or results. Geac undertakes no obligation to
update or revise the information contained herein. Important factors
that could cause a material difference between these forward-looking
statements and actual events include, among other things: our ability
to increase revenues from new license sales, cross-sell into our
existing customer base and reduce customer attrition; whether we can
identify and acquire synergistic businesses and, if so, whether we
can successfully integrate them into our existing operations; whether
we are able to deliver products and services within required time
frames and budgets to meet increasingly competitive customer demands
and performance guaranties; risks inherent in fluctuating
international currency exchange rates in light of our global
operations and the unpredictable effect of geopolitical world and
local events; whether we are successful in our continued efforts to
manage expenses effectively and maintain profitability; our ability
to achieve revenue from products and services that are under
development; the uncertain effect of the competitive environment in
which we operate and resulting pricing pressures; and whether the
anticipated effects and results of our new product offerings and
successful product implementation will be realized. These and other
potential risks and uncertainties that relate to Geac's business and
operations are summarized in more detail from time to time in our
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with the Canadian Securities Administrators. Please refer to Geac's
most recent quarterly reports available through the website
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information on risk factors that could cause actual results to
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Contact:

For further information: Media Contacts: Nina Wainwright, Citigate
Dewe Rogerson, +44-(0)1604-232223,
nina.wainwright@citigatetedr.co.uk; Richard Moore, Geac,
+44-(0)1527-496189, richard.moore@geac.com

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