Smart Software Earns Customer-Nominated Award from Leading Supply Chain Publication

Belmont, Mass., September 21, 2006 - Nominated by four of its customers, Smart Software has been chosen one of "100 Great Supply Chain Partners" by Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies Magazine (GLSCS).   The vendors in this elite group have demonstrated significant contributions in building their customers' success through a major impact on their efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance.  Smart is an industry-leading provider of demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions.  Smart's flagship product, SmartForecasts®, is a cross-industry system that utilizes pioneering innovations, such as its patented intermittent demand forecasting technology, to solve difficult demand planning problems and achieve improved service levels, reduced inventory costs, and high ROI for the company's customers.

Over a six-month period, GLSCS received nearly 2000 nominations for more than 400 vendors.  Nominating companies represented organizations of all sizes from scores of different industries.  According to the publication, "the purpose of this list is to recognize those vendors that have so impressed our readers that they deserve to be singled out and to be held up as examples for others in the industry."

In an interview with GLSCS, Leona Eggleston, purchasing/IT support manager for one of Smart's nominating companies, Bedoukian Research, Inc. of Danbury, Connecticut, had this to say: "While a forecast is never perfectly exact, the accuracy we have attained with SmartForecasts has helped to reduce inventory and align production scheduling with our customers' needs."

"Based on customer testimonials, interviews, and strong case studies of customer success, this much appreciated award recognizes what our customers already know -- that we are providing them with excellent value," said Charles Smart, president of Smart Software.  "It is particularly gratifying to know that the work of a lot of dedicated people at our firm pays off in customer satisfaction and recognition by others."

About Smart Software, Inc.
Founded in 1984, Smart Software, Inc. is a leader in providing businesses with enterprise-wide demand forecasting, planning and inventory optimization solutions.  Smart Software's flagship product, SmartForecasts, has thousands of users worldwide, including customers at mid-market enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, such as Monsanto, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Disney, Pfizer, GE and The Coca-Cola Company.  SmartForecasts gives demand planners the tools to handle sales seasonality, promotions, new and aging products, multi-dimensional hierarchies, and intermittently demanded service parts and capital goods items.  It also provides inventory managers with accurate estimates of the minimum inventory and safety stock required to meet future orders, thereby ensuring the most cost-effective inventory allocation to achieve desired service levels.  Smart Software is headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts and can be found on the World Wide Web at www.smartcorp.com.

SmartForecasts is a registered trademark of Smart Software, Inc.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

For more information, please contact Smart Software, Inc., Four Hill Road, Belmont, MA 02478.
Phone: 1-800-SMART-99 (800-762-7899); FAX: 1-617-489-2748; E-mail: info@smartcorp.com

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