Manufacturing Overview | Integrated Digital Manufacturing Management

You need robust and agile manufacturing capabilities to:

Create schedules that optimize your material and equipment resources
Ensure customers are receiving every product available to promise, on time
Improve operational efficiency and quality
Enable traceability for internal and external stakeholders

Constant Disruption - Geopolitical events, natural disasters, and technology advances are constantly driving change in your suppliers, customers and competitors.
Changing Workforce - Employee expectations have changed, skilled labor is diminishing, and remote/hybrid roles are luring talent out of industry.
Consistent Pressure - Good sales create busy shifts and a constant challenge to keep material flowing and machines running.

Capabilities

Engineering

Manage everything from simple formulas to complex, multi-level bills of materials with controlled effectivity dates. Everything is captured in MRP for dependable purchase and production planning.

Scheduling Automation

Take the stress out of production scheduling with automation that follows rules and allows for exceptions.

Floor-Friendly

Enable your material handlers and production operators to focus on moving and making by giving them the information they need on a device and interface built for manufacturing.

Right-Sized Traceability

Collect and enforce product traceability to the level that’s appropriate for each part. Leverage lot control and serialization for both inventory and packaging for optimal efficiency and compliance.

Manufacturers are challenged to boost production agility and quality performance as they seek to manage risk in uncertain conditions. Digital technologies, from cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) to advanced analytics and robotics, are now necessary to drive innovation and remain competitive.

Greater importance is now placed on transparency and collective intelligence to empower manufacturing professionals to better tackle problems and improve decision-making.

Manage shop floor operations in real time
Rapidly respond to changes in demand
Improve master planning and scheduling accuracy
Boost manufacturing performance and product quality
Increase real-time production insight
Improve overall equipment effectiveness
Reduce inventory, drive down costs, improve on-time deliveries
Improve sustainability through optimal planning, real-time visibility, and reduced waste

The manufacturing capabilities in QAD Adaptive ERP drive collaboration between planning, scheduling, quality, equipment and assets, cost management, material handling and shop floor control. It adapts to any style of manufacturing and specific tactics by region and/or site. Quality metrics, central model management and automated data collection ensure accurate and timely product, material and inventory information.

Action Centers provides actionable information for operations efficiency, production line utilization and other areas to identify trends and improve decision making
Available to Promise (ATP) helps manufacturing accurately respond to customer orders based on available product quantities and requested delivery dates
Inventory Management monitors balances, performs cycle counts and includes inventory transaction history and lot/serial tracking reports
Master Planning and Scheduling Workbenches provides planners and schedulers simultaneous visibility into plans, schedules and all supporting data, and enables control and collaboration across the production and materials planning space
Production Orders manages and streamlines manufacturing and shop floor operations with a single, centralized solution
Serialization provides event track and trace by unique identifiers like serial numbers or license plates, whether the inventory consists of packaging units or specific purchased, produced or shipped item units
EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) enables manufacturers to operate plants more efficiently by keeping equipment running at the lowest cost
QAD Automation Solutions collects material/production data and prints labels according to the required format
QAD Production Execution delivers a highly visual and intuitive experience for automated and operator-initiated shop floor transactions
QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System) provides a centralized repository for everything quality-related, allowing gains in efficiency, standardization, and visibility throughout the enterprise to transition companies beyond industry requirements to a focus on operational cost reductions and margin improvements
QAD Redzone connects your workforce to achieve results that speak for themselves: 29% productivity increase, 74% increase in engagement and 32% reduction in turnover. Completely transform your manufacturing operations in 90 days.

Exceeding production goals through an ERP implementation? Fact, not fiction, for this automotive supplier.

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“All of these pieces have really provided a basis for a sustained, competitive advantage.”

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“Our planner used to spend eight hours on routine planning tasks. Now it’s two hours on planning and the rest on more strategic activities.”

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Further Information

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Capabilities

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Further Information

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