QAD in Food and Beverage
QAD’s customers operate in all segments of the Food and Beverage (F&B) marketplace. Our customers include global leaders in alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, daily fresh production, baking and full process producers.
Industry Commitment and Vision
QAD’s goal is to provide software designed for the Food & Beverage 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.
Full Featured Suite
The QAD Food and Beverage solution 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.
eCommerce
The QAD Food and Beverage 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 food and beverage manufacturers operate global businesses with either local production or distribution. QAD solutions support flexible business configuration and can be deployed in multiple languages, multiple entities and to support the needs of global Food and Beverage companies.
Food and beverage companies are facing business pressures driven by shrinking margins, increasing consumer demands, increasing regulatory requirements and the proliferation of products and channels. To be successful food and beverage manufacturers must conquer these challenges while simultaneously enhancing product quality, addressing global marketplace opportunities and building consumer-centric capabilities.
QAD Enterprise Applications delivers a powerful combination of technology and pre-integrated business applications built specifically to address issues facing the Food and Beverage Industry, enabling them to:
- Support key operation excellence and sustainability initiatives
- Meet stringent customer and regulatory requirements
- Enable collaborative consumer and supplier relationships
- Master their extended and complex value chain
Key Issues in the Food and Beverage Industry
Today’s food and beverage manufacturers face unparalleled quality, sustainability and compliance pressures and challenges.
Taking the lead in the food and beverage industry requires the ability to anticipate and exceed customer demands, develop close supply chain partnerships, continually increase customer service levels, control costs and streamline operations. QAD understands these needs and has the developed the solutions and services to address them.
Enabling operations excellence: Margins can be thin in the fast-paced food and beverage market and competition is strong in the fight for shelf space. Brands and SKUs are proliferating, with a steady stream of new flavors and product variations entering the marketplace. Seasonality can have a huge impact on this market, both in terms of predicting demand and production planning. To win, food and beverage companies must develop effective processes and enable these processes with user-friendly, integrated and powerful QAD solutions.
Building consumer confidence in product safety and quality: Heightened global consumer concerns about the quality of products are impacting the ability of manufactures to sell into new markets such as China. The inability to implement quality controls, to deploy validation processes, and to ensure consumers that products are safe will result in increased business failures.
Meeting the requirements of global compliance: September 11th changed the global rules for global commerce. Across the supply chain numerous compliance reporting requirements exist such as compliance reporting, product tracking and tracing requirements, proper transportation documents. and waste products reporting. QAD Enterprise Applications address these business concerns and help food and beverage manufacturers avoid significant fines and delays, resulting in loss of revenue and unhappy customers and consumers.
Supporting global sustainability initiatives: Major retailers and food service providers 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 customers reduce packaging size, run trucks at full loads and run machines more effectively retailers to comply with these pressures.
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.
