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Lilly Software Associates, Inc. (LSA) provides a complete line of supply chain management solutions for small to midsize manufacturers. These include VISUAL Manufacturing®, VISUAL Distribution®, VISUAL APS™ (Advanced Planning and Scheduling), and VISUAL Quality® for engineer-to-order, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, make-to-stock, and mixed-mode environments. Lilly's flagship product, VISUAL Manufacturing, is an intuitive, fast-implementing, integrated Windows-based supply chain solution with more than 2,500 installations worldwide. Broad functionality manages the total production environment and supply chain using ERP, E-Business, APS, MES, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Warehouse Management capabilities.

VISUAL Manufacturing runs on Windows NT®, UNIX®, Novell® or OS400 using SQLBase®, Microsoft SQLServer™, ORACLE® or DB2/400 relational databases, and is certified for both AS/400e and Netfinity servers. Inc. Magazine ranked LSA as one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the US in both 1998 and 1999. LSA was also named to Inbound Logistics Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Providers, Manufacturing Systems' Top 100 Software Companies, and Software Magazine's Top 500.