QAD Tomorrow Thought Stream Introduces the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise

QAD Inc. (Nasdaq: QADA) (Nasdaq: QADB), a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies, held QAD Tomorrow, a one-hour global thought stream that introduced the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise, QAD's vision for manufacturing companies that are built to survive and thrive in the face of disruption. The company also announced the availability of the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise Maturity Model Diagnostic tool, which provides a method for manufacturers to gauge their preparedness to cope with disruption.

"Being prepared for the uncertain and the unforeseen, and ready to implement a rapid response to disruption, are critical for survival in today's highly competitive and challenging world." said QAD CEO Anton Chilton. "Recent events have had a huge impact worldwide and underline the need to be ready to face these challenges however and whenever they manifest themselves. The ability to adapt in near real-time to these types of events is critical to a business's success and even its survival. QAD engineers agile solutions that help manufacturers do exactly that. We call these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises."

QAD Tomorrow streamed globally September 22. The hour-long thought stream focused on the disruption in manufacturing and the imperative for manufacturers to digitally transform their businesses. Participants heard from QAD CEO Anton Chilton, CMO Carter Lloyds, CTO Tony Winter, and Michael Eckhardt from the Chasm Institute discussing the current trends disrupting industries worldwide and how manufacturers must be prepared to leverage disruption for competitive advantage.

"It was great to see registrations from 7 countries in South Asia," said QAD Managing Director South Asia, Jan Biezepol. "It's proof that South Asia manufacturing companies recognize the need to increase their ability to adapt to disruption. This region has been resilient while facing global business disruptors including natural disasters, geopolitical disruption and now a pandemic. Our market leaders push towards becoming really fast, agile, and effective companies, and I am glad to share how QAD can help them do so."



The Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise

QAD Tomorrow introduced the vision of the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise. Chilton discussed how Industry 4.0 and the increasing importance of digital transformation can help manufacturers adapt in response to internal and external disruptions, changes in customer preference and government regulations.

QAD's Adaptive Applications portfolio of manufacturing solutions, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), demand and supply chain planning (DSCP), global trade and transportation execution (GTTE), and enterprise quality management systems (EQMS) is designed to help manufacturers become Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. Adaptive solutions can be modified, changed, extended, and adapted, as a company changes its business strategy in response to changes in the business climate.

The Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise Maturity Model Diagnostic

QAD Tomorrow also debuted the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise Maturity Model Diagnostic, a complimentary diagnostic tool designed to help manufacturing companies gauge their ability to recognize and adapt to disruption. The Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise Maturity Model Diagnostic tool helps companies identify their business's strengths and potential weaknesses in the context of business disruption. It places companies in one of four stages along what QAD calls the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise Maturity Model. Each stage, Disjointed Enterprise, Functional Enterprise, Effective Enterprise, and Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise, describes certain characteristics related to a company's ability to cope with disruption.

The results of the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise Maturity Model Diagnostic can help manufacturing companies begin to answer the following questions:

• What does my company need to do to prepare for and manage disruption?

• How does my company compare to an ideal Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise?

• What does my company need to do to become an Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise?



About QAD – Enabling the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise



QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. To survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage.

QAD Prepares for 5G Connected Factories

 US-based manufacturing software company QAD (NASDAQ: QADA, QADB) recently released QAD Adaptive ERP, part of its QAD Adaptive Applications software suite, as it prepares for a future with 5G-connected factories.

QAD is a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies across the automotive, life sciences, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology and industrial manufacturing industries. QAD’s Adaptive Applications portfolio is headlined by QAD Adaptive ERP and features secure and flexible enterprise and supply chain solutions built for global manufacturing companies. It has done business in India since 2005 and employs 250 people in its Mumbai office. 

QAD Adaptive ERP is built on the QAD Enterprise Platform, which enables companies to prepare for and better address industry change by updating and extending the software to meet current business needs. Manufacturing companies, suppliers and customers have become increasingly interconnected and data-driven over a common network, a trend that is expected to be accelerated with the adoption of 5G technology. QAD Adaptive ERP allows users to react quickly to new trends and leverage them for competitive advantage.

“5G should allow companies to access larger amounts of data more quickly from smart products,” said QAD Chief Technology Officer Tony Winter. “The technology is still evolving, but eventually it will be stable and reliable enough for industrial uses. QAD's adaptive solutions are prepared for smart manufacturing featuring machines connected through a network of IoT-capable devices.”

“The Indian manufacturing industry is set to undergo an important transformation with the arrival of 5G,” said Mr. Jan Biezepol, QAD managing director, South Asia. “Therefore, we have a focused business approach to help Indian customers leverage technology disruption.”

About QAD – The Effective Enterprise

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADA) (NASDAQ: QADB) is a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. QAD Adaptive ERP for manufacturing supports operational requirements in the areas of financials, customer management, supply chain, manufacturing, service and support, analytics, business process management and integration. QAD's portfolio includes related solutions for quality management software, supply chain management software, transportation management software and B2B interoperability. Since 1979, QAD solutions have enabled customers in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences industries to better align operations with their strategic goals to become Effective Enterprises.

QAD and Quistem Help Automotive Customers with Operational Restart Readiness Checklist amid COVID19 Pandemic

QAD and Quistem have teamed up to develop specific guidelines to help automotive manufacturers prepare for the restart of their operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These guidelines feature 13 key topics that automotive suppliers will need to address in order to align their operational restart with their customers in the automotive supply chain.

"With our focus on automotive manufacturing customers, we teamed up with Cathy Fisher, president of Quistem, a global expert in automotive management systems, to put together specific guidelines to help automotive suppliers get their facilities up and running during the COVID-19 pandemic," said QAD Director, Automotive Terry Onica. "We recognize organizations are currently receiving a lot of guidance about protecting their employees from the COVID-19 virus. However, for quality product and delivery to their customers, additional detailed focus on 13 key aspects of their business will contribute to a successful restart."

The Operational Restart Readiness Checklist covers the following topics and provides detailed checkpoints related to each:

1. Contingency Plans


2. Inventory


3. Immediate customer delivery requirements


4. Immediate delivery plan including transportation


5. Supplier inventory and near-term delivery plan


6. Availability of outsourced processes


7. Temporary process changes due to virus risk reduction actions


8. Product/process requalification plan


9. Accuracy of work instructions


10. Workforce availability and training


11. Equipment, tooling and gauging restart risks and maintenance


12. Facility infrastructure


13. Communication plans to all stakeholders

 

OEMs and suppliers interested in learning more can access the checklist here

In addition to offering the Operational Restart Readiness checklist, QAD and Quistem recorded a webinar in conjunction with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) outlining a three-step plan for automotive suppliers to follow when preparing to restart their operations. This plan includes: 1) managing the COVID-19 virus at the facility; 2) restarting manufacturing operations; and 3) recovering operational stability. The webinar can be viewed here.

About QAD – Enabling the Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage. 

QAD Announces Enhancements to QAD Adaptive ERP and Related Solutions Designed to Help Manufacturers Rapidly Adapt to Industry Disruption

To enable customers to adapt rapidly to industry disruption, QAD Inc. (Nasdaq: QADA) (Nasdaq: QADB), a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies, today announced the latest enhancements to QAD Adaptive ERP and related solutions in its QAD Adaptive Applications portfolio.

Manufacturers face unprecedented disruption, which forces them to constantly evaluate how they do business and the processes by which they run their organizations. Changing customer demands that force companies to make to order at scale or offer their products as a service (Anything as a Service), and the ever-increasing pace of technological disruption demand that companies embrace agility. Manufacturers must evaluate an ever-changing array of new technologies, including Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, data lakes and digital twins, and employ business solutions that allow them to leverage them for competitive advantage in support of their businesses’ use case. QAD’s solutions are designed to enable its customers to recognize disruption, react quickly and become agile effective enterprises with every business process aligned with business strategy in an ever-changing business environment.

“Organizations today face a great deal of change ranging from evolving customer preferences and business models to new economic, political and regulatory demands. Increasingly these changes are transformational rather than incremental,” said QAD CEO Anton Chilton. “The enhancements we’ve made to QAD Adaptive ERP and throughout our QAD Adaptive Applications portfolio focus extensively on empowering users and organizations to respond more effectively to disruption via our Adaptive UX and the QAD Enterprise Platform. The latest version of QAD Adaptive ERP gives users faster access to personalized information, and enables increased user productivity and operational efficiency. These new capabilities apply across manufacturing operations and beyond, including supply chain, shop floor, production, customer management, finance and others, allowing manufacturers to more rapidly respond to industry disruptions and more successfully compete in the marketplace.”

In addition to the latest updates to QAD Adaptive ERP, QAD has also enhanced many of the related solutions in its Adaptive Applications portfolio including the QAD Supplier Portal, QAD Field Service Management, QAD CEBOS EQMS and QAD DynaSys DSCP.

About QAD – The Effective Enterprise

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADA) (NASDAQ: QADB) is a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. QAD Adaptive ERP for manufacturing supports operational requirements in the areas of financials, customer management, supply chain, manufacturing, service and support, analytics, business process management and integration. QAD's portfolio includes related solutions for quality management software, supply chain management software, transportation management software and B2B interoperability. Since 1979, QAD solutions have enabled customers in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences industries to better align operations with their strategic goals to become Effective Enterprises.

US-based QAD Prepares for 5G Connected Factories to Transform Indian Manufacturing

US-based manufacturing software company QAD (NASDAQ: QADA, QADB) recently released QAD Adaptive ERP, part of its QAD Adaptive Applications software suite, as it prepares for a future with 5G-connected factories.

QAD is a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies across the automotive, life sciences, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology and industrial manufacturing industries. QAD’s Adaptive Applications portfolio is headlined by QAD Adaptive ERP and features secure and flexible enterprise and supply chain solutions built for global manufacturing companies. It has done business in India since 2005 and employs 250 people in its Mumbai office.

QAD Adaptive ERP is built on the QAD Enterprise Platform, which enables companies to prepare for and better address industry change by updating and extending the software to meet current business needs. Manufacturing companies, suppliers and customers have become increasingly interconnected and data-driven over a common network, a trend that is expected to be accelerated with the adoption of 5G technology. QAD Adaptive ERP allows users to react quickly to new trends and leverage them for competitive advantage.

Commenting on the same, Tony Winter, Chief Technology Officer, QAD stated “5G should allow companies to access larger amounts of data more quickly from smart products. The technology is still evolving, but eventually it will be stable and reliable enough for industrial uses. QAD's adaptive solutions are prepared for smart manufacturing featuring machines connected through a network of IoT-capable devices.”

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Commenting on the same Mr. Debajit Roy, India Country Head said “The Indian manufacturing industry is set to undergo an important transformation with the arrival of 5G.Therefore, we have a focused business approach to help Indian customers leverage technology disruption.”

About QAD – The Effective Enterprise

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADA) (NASDAQ: QADB) is a leading provider of flexible, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. QAD Adaptive ERP for manufacturing supports operational requirements in the areas of financials, customer management, supply chain, manufacturing, service and support, analytics, business process management and integration. QAD's portfolio includes related solutions for quality management software, supply chain management software, transportation management software and B2B interoperability. Since 1979, QAD solutions have enabled customers in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech, industrial manufacturing and life sciences industries to better align operations with their strategic goals to become Effective Enterprises.