Tuesday, January 21, 2014

QAD Consulting

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QAD Consulting delivers solid industry expertise, proven best practices and unmatched implementation capabilities that ensure on-time deployment, fast ROI and maximum long-term benefit from QAD solutions. QAD Consulting operates as part of the extensive QAD ecosystem, and can orchestrate consistent global rollout projects working with our customers and combinations of QAD certified partners to meet customer's goals — anywhere.
Successful software deployments require experienced, knowledgeable resources that understand and can manage project scope, timelines and budget. Employing industry-specific best practices and empowering users with training and ongoing education minimizes implementation risk while maximizing system value.
With almost 400 certified consultants in 26 countries, QAD Global Services provides global coverage and local expertise to help companies get the most from their QAD investment. By applying best practices specifically for manufacturers, QAD helps companies achieve rapid time-to-benefit and a superior ownership experience.



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QAD in Food and Beverage


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QAD provides solutions for food and beverage companies, including global leaders in alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, baking, daily fresh production, and full process producers.
QAD’s goal is to support food and beverage manufacturers in achieving their market goals in brand development, demand management and new product introduction, while embracing food security and quality requirements.
QAD Enterprise Applications solution for food and beverage manufacturers helps companies manage the challenges of meeting consumer demand at the shelf, margin pressures, increasing product regulation requirements and the ever-increasing pressure for both increased quality and sustainability.
QAD’s solution enables food and beverage companies to optimize inventory, significantly improve collaboration with suppliers and customers and plan promotions that are more effective. QAD solutions enable a more efficient manufacturing environment, improve supply chain efficiency and help control costs and improve margins.






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QAD in Consumer Products

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QAD Enterprise Applications solution for consumer products manufacturers helps balance ever-increasing numbers of new products and line extensions, demanding consumers, and customers and regulators in a complex and volatile supply chain.

QAD’s solutions enable companies to optimize inventory, collaborate with suppliers and run a more efficient manufacturing environment. QAD’s solutions improve supply chain efficiency while helping manage costs, improve margins and more effectively collaborate with customers.

QAD’s solutions support such key initiatives as sustainability, regulatory export and import, customer centric supply chains, and improved quality and regulatory compliance.

The QAD consumer products offering supports global eCommerce requirements in a single environment. With comprehensive training and partner support for major global retailers, QAD supports every major country.






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Monday, January 20, 2014

QAD in Discrete Products

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QAD Enterprise Applications is a full-featured software solution that enhances customers' ability to become effective enterprises by addressing many business challenges of a global discrete manufacturing company.
QAD helps companies address the challenges of managing product complexity, coping with volatility in raw material pricing and ensuring plant effectiveness to meet demanding customer delivery schedules.
QAD’s solution supports lean principles across both manufacturing operations and the supply chain to drive cost reductions, increase margins and improve customer satisfaction.
QAD Enterprise Applications embrace mixed modes of manufacturing in a single environment and supports outsourced operations and off-shoring, where required.






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QAD Configurator addresses the needs of configured products companies


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  • Product Configuration in quotes, orders and stand-alone, as well as on the QAD Customer Self Service (CSS) web storefront
  • Guided selling/rules-based selling through interactive questionnaire for rapid configuration
  • Pricing by component or option
  • Flexible model creation
  • Comprehensive reporting capabilities
  • Seamless integration to QAD Enterprise Applications
  • Automatically creates product structures and routings for manufacturing, reducing errors and delays
  • Can links sales order and work order to reduce shipping errors and ensure accurate builds






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QAD - Configured products company characteristics:

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  • Produces a large number of end-products out of a relatively small number of standardized components
  • Production is based on the assembly of variable items rather than fabrication from scratch
  • The manufacturing strategy is "make/assemble-to-order", rather than "make-to-stock"
  • Considers order lead times, sales costs and quote errors too high
Configured products manufacturers can reduce rework, lead times and sales costs by guiding the sales and manufacturing processes with the use of QAD Configurator.



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QAD in Configured Products

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The need to be agile in delivering complex products is growing in many markets, and manufacturers have a challenge in addressing customer demand. Customers want mass customization. This customer demand conflicts with the need for companies to keep inventory low. It is nearly impossible to predict demand at the final product level of detail, and doing so may result in a needless buildup of never-used finished goods inventory.

A configurator helps in this entire process. By allowing companies to forecast and manufacture at the modular level, it can reduce inventory and lead times. By allowing customers to define the exact product they want, it can improve customer satisfaction, decrease costs and reduce delivery times.

QAD Configurator helps to control rework and eliminate errors by simplifying the manufacturer’s product technology and ensuring that requirements are consistent through the entire cycle from quote to delivery.



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QAD - Web-based ERP Software – for Life Sciences

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QAD is committed to helping manufacturers in the Life Sciences Industry. Another way QAD has made organizations more effective is through our web-based ERP Software - QAD On Demand. This web-based ERP solution allows Life Sciences companies to focus on their business, not their software. The online functionality of our ERP software greatly reduces the cost of implementation and need for IT maintenance.

QAD On Demand Life Sciences Edition offers the same capabilities as the On Demand General Edition, but provides a qualified environment and the necessary standard operating procedures (SOPs) required to gain Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) validation.







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QAD in Life Sciences

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Over 400 life sciences manufacturing sites in more than 40 countries around the world have deployed QAD Enterprise Applications. Companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals enjoy the simplicity, reliability and performance that QAD delivers.

QAD developed the Life Sciences Edition to meet the needs of its worldwide customers in a variety of segments from medical devices to pharmaceuticals. QAD’s commitment to life sciences ensures medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology manufacturers are able to work towards becoming effective enterprises, while meeting stringent regulatory demands.

QAD‘s solution supports flexible business process configuration and multiple business entities and can be deployed in multiple languages. Deployment options — including on demand — support the needs of global life science companies.

QAD’s solution supports critical quality requirements, including regulatory compliance, CAPA, and Device History/Electronic Batch Record requirements as well as providing a full range of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) validation capabilities and tools. Enhanced controls and audit capabilities, along with eSignature support, help meet the mandate of compliance tracking.







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QAD in Automotive

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QAD solutions are in use at most of the market-leading automotive parts companies throughout the world. Our customers include OEMs, part suppliers and aftermarket providers. QAD Enterprise Applications allow quick implementations, and provide cost-effective support for changing business demands.
QAD’s Automotive Edition provides suppliers and sub-suppliers globally with the right solution to balance demand and supply while reducing inventory, meeting stringent quality standards and demanding delivery schedules.







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Thursday, January 16, 2014

QAD in Configured Products

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The need to be agile in delivering complex products is growing in many markets, and manufacturers have a challenge in addressing customer demand. Customers want mass customization. This customer demand conflicts with the need for companies to keep inventory low. It is nearly impossible to predict demand at the final product level of detail, and doing so may result in a needless buildup of never-used finished goods inventory.
A configurator helps in this entire process. By allowing companies to forecast and manufacture at the modular level, it can reduce inventory and lead times. By allowing customers to define the exact product they want, it can improve customer satisfaction, decrease costs and reduce delivery times.
QAD Configurator helps to control rework and eliminate errors by simplifying the manufacturer’s product technology and ensuring that requirements are consistent through the entire cycle from quote to delivery.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

QAD - Web-based ERP Software – for Life Sciences

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QAD is committed to helping manufacturers in the Life Sciences Industry. Another way QAD has made organizations more effective is through our web-based ERP Software - QAD On Demand. This web-based ERP solution allows Life Sciences companies to focus on their business, not their software. The online functionality of our ERP software greatly reduces the cost of implementation and need for IT maintenance.
QAD On Demand Life Sciences Edition offers the same capabilities as the On Demand General Edition, but provides a qualified environment and the necessary standard operating procedures (SOPs) required to gain Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) validation.
QAD recognizes the trust that our customers place in us as their Enterprise Resource Planning solution provider. This is why so many Life Sciences companies have chosen QAD.

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QAD in Life Sciences

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Over 400 life sciences manufacturing sites in more than 40 countries around the world have deployed QAD Enterprise Applications. Companies ranging from start-ups to multinationals enjoy the simplicity, reliability and performance that QAD delivers.

QAD developed the Life Sciences Edition to meet the needs of its worldwide customers in a variety of segments from medical devices to pharmaceuticals. QAD’s commitment to life sciences ensures medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology manufacturers are able to work towards becoming effective enterprises, while meeting stringent regulatory demands.

QAD‘s solution supports flexible business process configuration and multiple business entities and can be deployed in multiple languages. Deployment options — including on demand — support the needs of global life science companies.

QAD’s solution supports critical quality requirements, including regulatory compliance, CAPA, and Device History/Electronic Batch Record requirements as well as providing a full range of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) validation capabilities and tools. Enhanced controls and audit capabilities, along with eSignature support, help meet the mandate of compliance tracking.

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QAD in Automotive

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QAD solutions are in use at most of the market-leading automotive parts companies throughout the world. Our customers include OEMs, part suppliers and aftermarket providers. QAD Enterprise Applications allow quick implementations, and provide cost-effective support for changing business demands.

QAD’s Automotive Edition provides suppliers and sub-suppliers globally with the right solution to balance demand and supply while reducing inventory, meeting stringent quality standards and demanding delivery schedules.

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QAD Enterprise Applications by Process

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The efficiency of a company’s business processes plays a strong role in how well the business will perform.QAD strives to help its customers become effective enterprises, by enabling their processes to operate at peak efficiency and align perfectly with their strategic goals.
  • Measure performance to improve: QAD provides a complete set of effective enterprise scorecards by industry and process
  • Simplify user training: QAD process maps link directly to the software so users get a clear picture of the entire process
  • Achieve faster ROI: Process maps help users visualize the flow of information so implementation and go-live are faster
  • Comply with regulatory requirements: Documenting processes can help achieve ISO, SOX, FDA or other regulatory certifications

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QAD - Common Business Model Overview

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          Manufacturing has a lot of common requirements, regardless of the product or industry. But each industry has unique requirements and specific needs that set it apart from other industries. QAD recognizes these differences and provides features, modules best practices and expertise to help you succeed in your industry.


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QAD Business Process Management


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Business Process Management (BPM) is a combination of management practices, policies, metrics and software tools designed to help organizations document, automate, manage, analyze and improve processes.
  • Create business process models that drive process execution
  • Assign task responsibilities/ownership to individual users/roles
  • Automate execution of the business process
  • Reduce process execution time
  • Operational metrics show the status of active processes
  • Improve visibility of active processes
  • Analyze process execution metrics
  • Identify bottlenecks
  • Model process modifications
  • Support iterative process improvement






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QAD Monitoring Framework

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QAD Monitoring Framework allows customers to monitor their servers as well as the QAD solutions that run on them providing system transparency as well as baseline performance data. This continuous monitoring and alerting enables customers to plan preemptive actions that can help to prevent application downtime and optimize the performance of applications from an end-user perspective.

QAD Monitoring Framework also enables customers to observe performance patterns and trends over time, giving a historical overview of a system as well as the ability to adapt the alerting solution to notify of exceptions to the baseline measurements provided. In addition to this the data it collects can be used to retrospectively view the state of a system when an unexpected failure occurred and can help in diagnosing the cause of the failure or performance issue.

QAD Monitoring Framework can help improve user satisfaction as it helps administrators monitor QAD Applications, Databases, Systems, and Networks more efficiently.



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System Performance

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Underperforming business services can seriously affect a company’s ability to support its. Identifying notoriously hard to identify performance issues in a timely manner is critical to a company’s success.

  • Identify and address issues before a crisis develops
  • Identify usage patterns and performance bottlenecks
  • Continuous application, system, and network monitoring
  • Configure business processes
  • User definable work flows





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QAD Enterprise Applications Interoperability Highlights

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Q-Xtend: A simple message-based integration tool that runs over middleware or peer-to-peer. Q-Xtend features a full set of APIs accommodate to most transactions addressed by QAD. Q-Xtend has a documented set of mapped transactions that simplify integration tasks defined in QDocs. Q-Xtend is the backbone for application-to-application integration to the QAD Enterprise Applications suite, as well as opening up the application to other sources. Q-Xtend allows automated and rules-based data synchronization tasks and eliminates the burden of maintaining custom interfaces.

QAD Integrated Customization Toolkit: A simple customization toolset that offers anon-invasive design methodology, a set of development standards and a tool to monitor, track and debug customizations to ensure ease of upgrading and conformance to QAD standards.

QAD EDI eCommerce: A streamlined method for managing EDI integration through a standard neutral interface to bring transactions in and out of QAD Enterprise Applications. QAD EDI eCommerce simplifies implementing EDI, and works with QAD Managed EDI or other EDI translators.

QAD Managed EDI: Provides hosted EDI translation and communication services, and in combination with QAD EDI eCommerce provides a full end-to-end EDI solution for global e-commerce and collaboration with trading partners across the value chain.





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QAD - Interoperability


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QAD Interoperability solutions are available at many layers throughout the solution. They enable enterprise and trading partner applications to interoperate seamlessly with QAD Enterprise Applications. This robust solution set relies on standard business rules. It simplifies the upgrade process and enables integration without coding.
  • Reduce costs of integrating multiple systems: Automatically synchronizes with no coding required
  • Ensure consistent information: Ensures systems remain in sync with data repository
  • Desktop integration: Seamlessly transfers information from common desktop applications like Microsoft Office and Excel





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QAD Enterprise Applications Analytics Highlights

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Operational Metrics: Provides a single point of view to key effective enterprise performance measures and helps identify issues before they become problems.

Reporting Framework: Provides graphical view to status metrics to identify issues that impede performance and provides decision guidelines in line with objectives; allows the creation of browses and structured inquiries, views and WYSIWYG reports.

Workflow Alerts: Alerts and notifications ensure information flows to responsible individuals.

Business Intelligence: Promotes fact-based decisions by unifying data from multiple sources using an included ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool, allowing decision makers to access, analyze and share critical information using a browser-based portal.
  • QAD BI Data Warehouse Designer: Allows data consolidation, optimization, multi-currency consolidation, support for database maintenance tasks and impact analysis, and provides a single repository for transformation logic
  • QAD BI Modules: Integrates with QAD apps out of the box and organized to make data easy to access without complex database queries and programming resources
  • QAD BI Portal: Enables decision makers to create and re-use secure dashboard components placing critical data at their fingertips






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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

QAD - Analytics

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QAD Analytics enables companies to become effective enterprises by monitoring performance against defined key metrics and key indicators. It provides reporting any way the user wants, from basic reporting through simple browses, to user portals or complex OLAP analysis—all in real time. It allows users to view trends and drill down into detailed data from multiple sources, providing the flexibility and accuracy to quickly make fact-based decisions, and to analyze and share critical information.

  • Drive performance to strategic metrics: Monitors and reports performance against defined strategic effective enterprise metrics
  • Improve business performance: Provides visibility into performance trends against strategic goals
  • Reduce business risks: Identifies issues before they become problems to keep processes running at peak performance
  • Streamlined reporting: Consolidates data from multiple sources and provides a single point to view information, simplifying analysis
  • Produce forms and outputs: Allows users to format common forms in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)






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QAD Enterprise Asset Management Highlights

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Project Accounting: Plans, tracks and controls detailed project budget and spending data for capital expense or engineer-to-order projects, providing project engineers with up-to-the-minute costing information, and displays summary and detailed spending information at the project or sub-component level.

Plant Maintenance: Drives work order functionality for maintenance and repair operations, including all Preventive/Predictive Maintenance and both planned and unplanned work, to keep equipment reliable and plants operating at optimum capacity.

MRO Management: Helps manufacturers achieve the ideal balance between having the right inventory on hand and minimizing inventory investment by providing structure and controls to ensure ordering the correct item and quantities. Ensures critical spare parts are on hand as needed and enforces company spend policies.





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QAD - Enterprise Asset Management

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Enterprise Asset Management is an integrated plant operation solution that enables companies to operate plants more smoothly by keeping equipment running at the lowest cost. EAM manages planned and unplanned equipment maintenance, including calibrations, manages procurement of MRO inventory and manages capital asset project costs.
  • Manage plant maintenance: Schedules preventive maintenance based on elapsed time or run hours to minimize downtime and maximize throughput
  • Reduce MRO inventory: Provides greater visibility of MRO inventory across multiple facilities to enable more effective spares planning
  • Ensure accurate project accounting: Tracks project milestones and ensures invoicing occurs according to contract terms






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Service and Support products

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QAD Service and Support product suite enables exceptional after-sale service and support. The suite covers all aspects of tracking and support for equipment after manufacture, from installation to on-site or warranty repair, and manages engineer/technician schedules, warranty/service contracts and records of installed base configuration.
Designed to ensure customer satisfaction, QAD Service and Support suite resolves service calls, manages service queues and organizes mobile field resources. Combined with extensive project management support, organizations can track materials and labor against warranty and service work, compare actual costs to budget and generate appropriate invoicing.
Companies need to systematically manage all interactions related to the support, maintenance and repair of products; grow revenue and reduce service costs. QAD Enterprise Applications provides tools for warranty and service contracts, spares management and after-sale services.
  • Improve technician effectiveness: Assign tasks to the nearest tech with the right skill to resolve an issue, maximizing customer satisfaction and minimizing technician travel
  • Control and reduce warranty and service contract costs: Automatically bill for labor and parts on out-of-warranty service calls and know revision levels of installed equipment so technicians can bring the right service parts the first time
  • Manage Projects: Create detailed schedules and plans with resource requirements







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Monday, January 13, 2014

Supply Chain

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QAD Supply Chain supports supply networks with enhanced visibility, and the ability to drive margin and cost improvements, reduce lead times, increase inventory turns and meet industry compliance requirements.
  • Improve margins: Helps eliminate waste and reduces inventory
  • Drive the effective enterprise: Promotes efficient business processes
  • Streamline communication: Customer and supplier portals simplify and speed communication
  • Increase responsiveness: Faster access to information means faster response times







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Manufacturing


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QAD Enterprise Applications Manufacturing suite is a complete and feature-rich suite addressing simultaneous, multi-mode manufacturing and provides full shop floor control of orders through the entire manufacturing process. It provides for mass customization of products in response to customer’s unique requirements, and measures and tracks performance and quality. The solution provides tools for planning, scheduling, cost management, material control, shop floor control and reporting in, discrete, repetitive, multi- and mixed-mode, Kanban, flow, batch and formula process and co-product/by-products manufacturing.
  • Streamline manufacturing planning and execution: Incorporates best practices and enables efficient coordination
  • Improve response time: Enables timely access to accurate planning information
  • Increase customer satisfaction: Allows faster response to demand changes
  • Drive performance: Measures performance to strategic goals and facilitates adoption of tactical plans






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