American Software Inc. A Value Stock - Dividend - Research Selection

American Software, Inc. develops, markets, and supports a portfolio of software and services worldwide. It operates in three segments: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Information Technology (IT) Consulting. The SCM segment provides supply chain management solutions, including sales and operations planning, demand and inventory optimization, manufacturing planning and scheduling, supply optimization, retail allocation and merchandise planning, and transportation optimization solutions to streamline and optimize the forecasting, inventory, production scheduling, production, supply, allocation, distribution, and management of products between trading partners. This segment also offers Demand Solutions, a software-as-a-solution platform; and Logility Voyager Solutions, a warehouse and transportation operations suite. The ERP segment provides purchasing and materials management, customer order processing, financial, e-commerce, and flow and traditional manufacturing solutions, as well as industry-specific business software to retailers and manufacturers. The IT Consulting segment offers IT staffing and consulting services, such as professional services/product management/project management, staff augmentation, and social media and analytic marketing, as well as cloud, collaboration, and network and security services; and software enhancements, documentation, updates, customer education, consulting, systems integration, maintenance, and other support services. The company markets its products through direct and indirect sales channels, and agents to retail, apparel, footwear, consumer packaged goods, chemicals, oil and gas, life sciences, telecommunications, consumer electronics, industrial products, and other manufacturing industries. American Software, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.