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Logile Announces Implementation of Its Enterprise Labor Model™ (ELM™) and Enterprise Execution and Compliance Management (EC5™) Solutions at Giant Eagle, Inc.
[December 03, 2012]

Logile Announces Implementation of Its Enterprise Labor Model™ (ELM™) and Enterprise Execution and Compliance Management (EC5™) Solutions at Giant Eagle, Inc.


SOUTHLAKE, Texas --(Business Wire)--

Logile Inc., a provider of Real-Time Workforce Management and Execution Management Solutions, announced today that Pittsburgh-based multi-format food and fuel retailer Giant Eagle, Inc. has implemented Logile's state-of-the-art Enterprise Labor Model™ (ELM™) solution and is implementing Logile's Enterprise Execution and Compliance Management (EC5™) solution to use across its supermarket banners and convenience stores.

Logile's Enterprise Labor Model™ (ELM™) solution expands Giant Eagle's labor modeling capabilities by providing a web-based system to dynamically manage their store specific fixed activities, characteristics, department profiles and volume drivers. "Logile's solution has enabled us to empower our Store Leaders with greater ownership and customization of the fixed activities and characteristics in their stores," said Dan May, Giant Eagle's Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Giant Eagle Business Systems. "The dynamic nature of our business and the often changing physical layouts of our stores make it necessary for us to have an equally dynamic modeling system. The Logile system allows our Store Leaders to better plan for and execute the activities needed to maintain their departments and deliver world-class customer service."

"Logile's unique solution and track record of integrating with existing wrkforce management tools was paramount in our decision to engage them," said May. "The Logile solution complements our engineering approaches, existing systems and our overall strategy towards in-store execution." May continued, "We like the possibilities the Logile systems offer and will continue to explore the robust opportunities associated with the technology."



Purna Mishra, Logile's founder and CEO, stated, "Giant Eagle is well known in the industry for their best-in-class use of labor modeling and planning systems, including their Giant Eagle Business Systems (GEBS) methodology. Logile's solutions will increase Giant Eagle's ability to more accurately plan, execute, and manage their store tasks."

Mishra added that, including Giant Eagle's implementation, Logile's solutions are now used by major retailers at over 2,000 store locations throughout the United States.


About Giant Eagle

Giant Eagle Inc. is one of the nation's largest food retailers and distributors with approximately $9.9 billion in annual sales, which would place the company among the top 30 largest privately held companies on Forbes magazine's largest private corporations list. Giant Eagle is also a recent recipient of Grocery Headquarters' Retailer of the Year Award and the EPA's ENERGY STAR (News - Alert) Retail Partner of the Year Award. Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has grown to be the number one supermarket retailer in the region with 230 supermarkets and 179 fuel and convenience stores throughout western Pennsylvania, north central Ohio, northern West Virginia and Maryland.

About Logile, Inc.

Logile, Inc. provides real-time workforce and execution management solutions, combining proprietary software applications with expert professional services in both traditional and SaaS (News - Alert) models. Logile's groundbreaking enterprise class solutions, supported under Web 2.0 with rich interface and mobile interaction, simplify management of challenging workforce and execution management requirements while allowing users to plan, execute, optimize and measure performance at any level of the organization.

Logile, Inc. is privately held with its headquarters and solution hosting data center in Richardson (News - Alert), Texas, retail consulting professionals in Pittsburgh, PA; Charlotte, NC; Dallas and San Antonio, TX; Scottsdale, AZ; and peripheral software support in Jinan, China. For more information, visit www.logile.com.


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