QAD in Industrial Manufacturing
QAD provides solutions used by many major industrial manufacturers worldwide and is recognized as the preferred solution in a number of significant industry segments.
In the industrial equipment and machinery industry, the goals are to apply lean principals across all operations and the supply chain while meeting greater challenges from customers. You have to deliver more value with more complex products in shorter lead times at lower cost to your customers despite the inflation of raw materials. Both lean manufacturing principles and innovation are key strategies to improve your competitive position and drive cost and cycle times down.
Industry Commitment and Vision
QAD is committed to developing solutions that both enhance the efficiency of our customers in the Industrial marketplace, as well as to accelerate collaboration throughout their supply chain. QAD embraces lean principles and enhances collaboration in development of our industrial solutions and is a demonstrated industry leader in value for our customers in the market.
Flexibility
QAD solutions help industrial product manufacturers to compete with lower cost, more innovative products, and to serve new global markets, as well as addressing ever-increasing environmental and legal regulatory pressures. QAD Enterprise Applications also allow rapid deployment and reconfiguration critical to businesses today.
Complete Integrated Suite
The QAD solution for industrial product manufacturers supports all aspects of procurement, manufacturing and customer management. QAD Enterprise Applications embrace all modes of manufacturing as well as supporting outsourced operations and off-shoring where required.
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 Industrial Products 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 Industrial Product companies.
QAD has developed deep industry expertise in each of its six key vertical markets, including industrial equipment:
Applying Lean and effective quote to cash process, across all channels: With a focus on customer management, responsiveness is dependent on the implementation of a lean process, eliminating manual intervention with improved automation and integration from quoting to delivery. QAD Enterprise Applications helps industrial manufacturers present one face to the customer through rapid introduction new products from research & development (R&D) or by way of product and technology acquisition.
Achieving fast Implementation, low TCO for mature and emerging markets: QAD has the best track record for fast to implement ERP. Our software and services reduce the risk of implementation for any market, critical in emerging markets with less experience and remote from head quarters. QAD’s global presence, local support and expertise in setting up new locations are often cited by our customers as a major reason they select QAD for emerging markets even when they may have a different standard ERP in North America.
Creating innovation, new products, value add and competitive differentiation: QAD has partnered 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 enables an effective configure to order process.
