QAD in Consumer Products

Consumer products manufacturers need to remain competitive in an industry where customer demand is constantly changing, technology is advancing at a rapid pace and product life cycles are shorter than ever. For these dynamic business conditions, QAD Enterprise Applications are clear, flexible and tailored to your business needs.

In addition to traditional pressures for top line growth and bottom line profitability, today’s consumer manufacturers face new quality, sustainability and compliance challenges brought in part by the recent wave of product recalls and issues with direct and by-product exported materials. These companies face the reality of either enhancing product quality and embracing global compliance standards or going out of business.

QAD Enterprise Applications enable leading consumer products companies to support key sustainability initiatives, meet stringent compliance requirements, extend quality to key off shore suppliers and effectively collaborate across the supply chain. QAD solutions are designed to help consumer products companies meet the requirements of global regulators, shareholders, customers and end-consumers.

Industry Commitment & Vision

QAD’s goal is to provide software designed for the Consumer Package Goods Industry that enables our customers to achieve their goals. QAD strives to provide the expertise and solutions our customers require to implement industry best practices including in the areas of value chain collaboration, customer centric strategies, sustainable (green) strategies, and lean manufacturing and supply chain strategies.

Complete Integrated Suite

The QAD Consumer Packaged Goods offering addresses all aspects of a global Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturers business from strategic sourcing, control of direct and sub-contract manufacturing, customer and channel management, transport and logistics, demand planning, as well as accommodating eCommerce throughout the supply chain.

eCommerce

The QAD Consumer Packaged Goods offering supports all global eCommerce requirements in a single environment from standard EDI transactions and all relevant Global Trade Identification Number (GTIN) requirements. With comprehensive training and partner support with all major global retailers, QAD meets all needs in every major country.

Global Capability

Many Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturers operate globally either supplying products to global markets, procuring materials globally, or outsourcing all or part of their processes to overseas partners. QAD solutions support any configuration of and can be deployed in multiple languages, multiple entities and to support the needs of global Consumer Packaged Goods companies.

Key Issues in the Consumer Products Industry

QAD prides itself on intimately knowing its customers’ business challenges and opportunities and has developed deep vertical expertise in the consumer products industry.

• Building consumer confidence in product safety and quality: Heightened global consumer concerns about the quality of products and ingredients being produced especially where ingredients are sourced or processes ocurr in remote countries.
• Meeting the requirements of global compliance: Since 2001 terrorist acts in the US and throughout the world have redefined the rules for global commerce. Across the supply chain numerous compliance reporting requirements exist such as food and drug compliance tracking and reporting, transportation documentation and managing waste and hazardous products.
• Supporting global sustainability initiatives: Global retailers such as Tesco,Metro and Wal-Mart are mandating that manufacturers implement sustainability “Greening of the Globe” programs that take emissions out of the environment, save on natural resources and improve utilization of materials. QAD Enterprise Applications can help consumer products manufacturers reduce packaging size, run trucks at full loads, lean out their operations, and run machines more effectively to comply with these standards.
• Enabling customer-centric, demand-driven strategies: Most consumer packaged goods companies realize that developing a demand-driven supply network (DDSN) could provide the pathway to true customer focus. These supply networks depart from the traditional systematic manufacturing “push” of products to market, which meets the demand of the distribution center, but not of the end customer. Because actual buying decisions are made with the shopping cart, not the warehouse picker, DDSN turns the business around – customers actually “pull” products to the point of sale. The ultimate goal of DDSN is to be the first to sense changes in customer desires and fulfill those expectations – with increased sales of full-priced merchandise. QAD’s DDSN solution framework allows our customers to form strong supply chain capabilities that enable them to quickly adjust to changing conditions, realign to their customer’s priorities, and streamline operations to minimize cost and optimize customer service.