Change is constant. Global manufacturers need to quickly respond to changing customer preferences, unpredictable supply chains and a variety of business environment disruptions. To survive and thrive, global manufacturers need modern solutions to help them effectively respond to change.
Traditional ERP was not designed to support change and cannot adapt at the speed required by today’s business environment. Manufacturers using older ERP often rely on costly customizations that require considerable time to implement and maintain. Customizations interfere with upgrading and can lock manufacturers into outdated versions.
In today’s business climate, manufacturing ERP needs to help companies respond to change, delivering fit over time by rapidly supporting new business requirements.
QAD Adaptive ERP is designed to provide excellent initial fit for global manufacturers and ensures fit over time to help manufacturers address changing business conditions. This approach maximizes return on initial and ongoing investment in ERP and supply chain software. Other key benefits include:
Lower overall software costs, stemming from a comprehensive solution that supports the business processes and operations of a global manufacturer
Increased user effectiveness in a solution is designed for manufacturers that includes industry-specific process maps, processes and nomenclature
Enhanced onboarding and productivity through the intuitive web-based user experience with in-application guidance and personalization to address changing roles and user preferences
Faster decision-making with access to real-time, embedded analytics that provide role-based and process/data-based analytics
Reduces country level tax compliance risk with QAD Internationalization
Meeting specific business requirements by easily extending without introducing costly and complex customizations
Rapid and successful onboarding using industry best practices, process maps, and in-application guidance
QAD Adaptive ERP deployed in the QAD Cloud includes the following key capabilities and services:
Manufacturing ERP that is designed for six specific vertical industries including automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial manufacturing and life sciences
Fast and dependable implementations using QAD Effective On Boarding or one of QAD’s implementation service partners. Existing customers that have trusted QAD ERP for years are eligible to access advanced intelligence and adaptability on the Enterprise Platform through the ELEVATE Program’s rapid, low-cost upgrade.
A fully integrated set of related manufacturing applications from the QAD Adaptive Applications portfolio such as QAD Automation Solutions, QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System), QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP), QAD Advanced Scheduling, QAD Global Trade and Transportation Execution (GTTE), QAD SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), QAD Production Execution and others
QAD Internationalization for 66 countries that ensures manufacturers remain in tax and related reporting compliance and can conduct business where they need to despite shifting country-specific regulations
Global around-the-clock support
The solution supports a comprehensive set of core processes designed for global manufacturers. Some key capabilities include:
- Sales: Streamline and manage your sales process including leads, opportunities, quotes, discrete and scheduled orders, pricing, customizations, fulfillment, and sales and marketing activities.
- Field Service: Manage your customer’s service and efficiently schedule service calls and maintenance items including action requests, service contracts and warranty, service orders and depot repairs.
- Manufacturing: Costing, planning, scheduling, capacity planning, production, lean, subcontract manufacturing, WIP management, inventory management, package inventory and traceability
- Financials: AR/AP, banking/cash management, budgeting, consolidations, credit management, GL, financial shared services, fixed assets, management analytics and reporting, multi-GAAP, multi-currency and tax management
- Purchasing: Streamline and manage your purchasing process throughout requisition entry, requisition approval, PO creation, PO approval, PO print, PO receipt and invoice payment.
- EAM: (Enterprise Asset Management) enables manufacturers to operate plants more efficiently by keeping equipment running at the lowest cost
- Analytics and Reporting: Embedded self service analytics, role-based analytics, data/process contextual analytics, KPI management, queries/browses, data lake, reporting framework
Built on the QAD Enterprise Platform, QAD Adaptive ERP makes it easy to develop and deploy extensions and new applications to support manufacturer-specific processes and data. Developers can extend existing capabilities and build new apps using a powerful and unintrusive development environment that, unlike intrusive customizations, does not introduce rigidity that interferes with future upgrades.
QAD Adaptive ERP supports changing user preferences, roles and changing workforces through intuitive personalization and a web-based user experience via QAD’s Adaptive UX, which includes native support for mobility
