CAPE TOWN, South Africa and ATLANTA, June 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Global supply chain optimization provider Manhattan Associates
(Nasdaq:MANH) today announced that South-Africa based Massmart,
sub-Saharan Africa's leading food and consumer goods distributor, is
implementing Warehouse Management and several optimization solution
components from the Manhattan SCALE: Supply Chain Architected for
Logistics Execution portfolio, at a new warehouse facility to be
operated by its low-cost, retail grocery business Cambridge Food. The
new facility will serve the business's Gauteng region, the economic hub
of South Africa and the region where the chain operates its largest
store footprint.

Cambridge Food has plans to aggressively expand its store portfolio
from a current network of twenty eight stores to one hundred stores in
the next four years, greatly accelerating previous growth levels. The
stores are currently located in the KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Limpopo
and Gauteng Provinces. The development will see Cambridge Food moving
to a new warehouse in Johannesburg, set to open in July this year,
where the business has secured 130,000 square feet of the building's
overall 380,000 square foot capacity, allowing room for expansion when
required.

The move dictates that Cambridge Food invest in a formal warehouse
management solution in order to efficiently replenish stock in its
stores as the current manually-managed system will be insufficient to
cope with the new demands of the expanded network.

"Once we had decided we would need to introduce a robust supply chain
system in order for our accelerated roll-out of new stores to be a
success, we evaluated several suppliers within the industry," said Bill
Davies, supply chain executive at Cambridge Food. "Manhattan Associates
not only occupies the number one position for warehouse management
solutions in the world, its innovative and constantly evolving
solutions offer a short-term path to success while also delivering
long-term value. They are able to operate within our limited timeframe
and implementation is currently well underway. Finally Manhattan's
technology was compatible with Microsoft, whose technology we use in
other areas of the business so it really did tick all of our boxes."

To read the entire release, please visit
http://www.manh.com/news/massmart-business-division-set-growth-manhatta
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About Manhattan Associates, Inc.

Manhattan Associates continues to deliver on its 21-year heritage of
providing global supply chain excellence to more than 1,200 customers
worldwide that consider supply chain optimization core to their
strategic market leadership. The company's supply chain innovations
include: Manhattan SCOPE(R), a portfolio of software solutions and
technology that leverages a Supply Chain Process Platform to help
organisations optimize their supply chains from planning through
execution; Manhattan SCALE(TM), a portfolio of distribution management
and transportation management solutions built on Microsoft .NET
technology; and Manhattan Carrier(TM), a suite of supply chain
solutions specifically addressing the needs of the motor carrier
industry. For more information, please visit www.manh.com.


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