QAD in High Technology
Even the best products enjoy a relatively short life cycle that can only be sustained with by the most efficient collaboration with suppliers. Manufacturing, performed within the enterprise or outsourced, must be the optimized based on low cost and high quality.
QAD has an unmatched track record for applying lean thinking across the entire suite of QAD Enterprise Applications from product design to supply chain management, to manufacturing, logistics, and customer management.
QAD provides solutions used by many leading manufacturers of electronic components systems and equipment. Our solutions are used by companies manufacturing personal computers, semiconductors, discrete components, and telecommunication systems and provide a broad range of functionality as required in this sector.
Industry Commitment & Vision
QAD is committed to delivering solutions that help high-tech manufacturers better control their rapidly changing and fast moving global supply chain as well as improving their internal efficiencies in their operations.
Flexibility
In an industry with faster product life-cycles than any other, as well as greater supply chain complexity, the need for systems that both address all requirements and can be implemented rapidly and reconfigured simply is paramount. QAD Enterprise Applications architecture allows high-tech companies to address the needs faster and more cost effectively than older, broad applications.
Complete Integrated Suite
The QAD solution for high-tech and electronic companies is a complete solution addressing the requirement of strategic sourcing, collaborative design and manufacturing, outsourcing and off-shoring, product life-cycle management and service and support management of systems and equipment once installed.
Collaboration
QAD provides tools to allow for greater collaboration with your trading partners in procurement and strategic sourcing, design, outsourcing and with your customers. With a focus on visibility and elimination of waste, we aim to accelerate your supply chain.
Global Scalability
Many high tech 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 enterprises.
QAD’s goal is to deliver the best suite of products and services to its customers. To achieve this goal, QAD works closely with customers and industry experts to understand and address their challenges and opportunities:
Achieving supply and demand balance: In high change environments, the ability to react to events is essential to manage profitability and delivery performance. Product variations and short product life cycles increase the challenge of variability in demand and volatility in supply. QAD systems support collaboration with trading and visibility; integrated transaction and planning systems allow real-time execution with accurate information.
Accelerating revenue: quote to cash across all channels: Apply lean to the quote to cash process, for every sales channel, and you will be more competitive and accelerate sales and collections. Customer management from distributors to OEMs requires comprehensive sales and marketing automation to establish competitive advantage.
Driving innovation: High tech companies compete on innovation and optimization of short product lifecycles. QAD partner with PTC to provide a full Product Development System (PDS) integrated with procurement and manufacturing to offer the single best approach to full Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). In addition, QAD provides a robust solution for configure-to-order environments. QAD Configurator allows order entry personnel to easily configure complex products without the need for technical knowledge of the product or the system.
