QAD ERP O³
The Evolution of Enterprise Resource Planning

QAD is announcing a milestone release of our ERP to help manufacturers achieve operational excellence and drive world-class productivity, named QAD ERP O³ (oh-three). O³ refers to the exponential benefit of simultaneously optimizing people, processes, and systems. Their harmonization powers a virtuous cycle of value creation that is more than just the sum of individual parts.

 


 

Why Are We Doing This?

Legacy ERP’s Status: It’s Complicated

  • ERP has a long tail. While it helped with taming the bullwhip effect, legacy approaches to implementation cemented an enterprise’s technology and infrastructure. These business foundations are aging as fast as the world is changing.

  • What started as well-intentioned tailoring typically ended in massive efforts to align ERP with practices designed to solve yesterday’s problems. Though nobody loves customizations, everybody included them.

  • It didn’t take long for the benefits of customizations to be shadowed by the burden of maintaining them. This timeline is shrinking as disruptions increase in frequency and severity.

  • Modern expectations of business applications and IT infrastructure require accelerated adaptation.

QAD ERP O³ Changes the Paradigm

Together we have to embrace uncertainty and accept that efficiency, agility and resilience are the new imperative for success. QAD ERP O³ is delivered as part of a world-class adaptive infrastructure designed to enable manufacturers and supply chains to align with the pace of change. O³ evolves ERP to a destination of continuous adaptation. This evolution is key to benefits that include:

  • Future-proof and secure, removing the risk associated with security vulnerabilities with minimal effort from your IT
  • Enhanced no-code / low-code extensions that allow for deeper levels of configuration, providing self-service last mile fit

  • Robust Integration Platform that is the glue to a modern composable architecture
  • Low-touch micro updates instead of macro upgrades

  • Modern and consistent user experience across the entire solution so you can operate on any device through a web browser
  • AI-Enabled Process Intelligence providing data-driven insights that deliver over 30% productivity improvements

Starting June 2024, QAD ERP O³ will be introduced to select customers.

In the interim there is real value in improving your ability to effectively service your customers by becoming more efficient, agile and resilient. QAD Adaptive ERP is available today and provides manufacturers with both a full set of features to conquer what’s on the horizon, and a platform to be prepared for QAD ERP O³.

We are announcing this now so customers can get ready and the best way to do that is through our Elevate Program. Elevate utilizes a prescriptive, predefined approach to streamline the implementation process. This standardized approach reduces risk, cost and disruption compared to a traditional cloud implementation. Engaging with the Elevate team early can ensure your journey is smooth and your system is ready when you are ready.

Anton Chilton, CEO

Existing QAD customers are eligible for a rapid, low-cost upgrade that includes advisory services to prescribe a path from your current state to an adaptive state.

Further Information

Introducing QAD ERP O³ –
Optimizing People, Processes and Systems

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