With the 2024 Spring Product Launch, QAD is unveiling a series of significant enhancements across its comprehensive suite of solutions. These updates are designed to empower customers to evolve into Adaptive Enterprises, aiding them in navigating today’s manufacturing and supply chain challenges.
Manufacturers face an array of obstacles, including:
- Workforce shortages: Critical roles must be filled, and empowering employees is imperative for sustained success.
- Process inefficiencies: Unoptimized processes can impede productivity and result in costly errors.
- The imperative for agility: Responding to evolving market conditions and customer demands necessitates a flexible and adaptive approach.
The 2024 Spring Product Launch introduces enhancements that empower customers to address these issues.
Optimizing People and Processes
QAD introduces Packaged Shop Floor Solutions, which integrates QAD ERP, QAD Production Execution and QAD Redzone Connected Workforce. This combines the strength of extending ERP to the shop floor (QAD Production Execution), with the power of unlocking frontline worker potential through coaching (QAD Redzone Connected Workforce), providing a unique and optimized shop floor experience that drives productivity, quality, customer service, traceability, employee engagement and retention.
Additionally, QAD Process Intelligence, now seamlessly integrated with ERP, leverages the power of AI to analyze existing processes and identify areas for improvement. Delivered in four pre-built modeling standards that seamlessly integrate with QAD ERP, this solution operates as an “out-of-the-box” tool, facilitating swift process intelligence analysis in four critical areas of ERP. However, the impact of the results delivered often transcends the initially analyzed domains.
By gaining valuable insights into operational workflows, businesses can:
- Eliminate bottlenecks and streamline processes
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations
- Continuously enhance processes for sustained success
A Glimpse Ahead
In line with our commitment to continuous innovation, the launch offers a sneak peek into the upcoming QAD Integration Platform. This platform will further streamline data exchange and connectivity across entire operations.
The QAD Integration Platform represents a significant advancement in our integration strategy, providing customers with a unified, streamlined approach to integrations within the QAD ecosystem and beyond. It encompasses both cloud-based and on-premise applications, caters to all types of integrations (A2A, B2B, etc.), offers a consistent user experience for managing integrations, and provides a comprehensive integration experience that simplifies and enhances interactions within the QAD ecosystem.
Pragmatic AI in Action
Advancements in AI extend beyond Process Intelligence to other areas of the QAD portfolio, notably in QAD Global Trade and Transportation Execution (GTTE). Adopting a pragmatic approach to AI that supports human expertise rather than replacing it, the new QAD GTTE Product Classification solution offers AI-powered assistance with product classification tasks in global trade operations. This translates to:
- Swift and accurate product classification
- Reduced errors and enhanced compliance
- Improved efficiency for sales, pre-sales and service teams
Customer-Driven EQMS Additions
The latest iteration of QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System), features enhanced user experience and capabilities. Leveraging customer feedback, the update offers improved navigation. Notably, users can now maintain a list of open windows within a single browser tab across sessions, enhancing productivity. Additionally, a new Incident Investigation process empowers users to conduct thorough investigations before logging non-conformances, ensuring compliance and better incident management. Furthermore, the separation of non-conformance reports (NCRs) from Corrective Action Preventive Actions (CAPAs) enhances flexibility and streamlines quality management workflows.
Additional Enhancements
The Spring Product Launch also introduces a refreshed QAD Digital Commerce platform, a modern replacement for QAD Customer Self-Service (CSS), providing a more user-friendly experience for customers. Additionally, for manufacturers in the defense industry, the launch introduces the QAD Defense Cloud offering, a specialized cloud solution tailored to the unique needs of defense contractors.
Empower Your Business for the Future
The 2024 QAD Spring Product Launch is centered on optimizing and harmonizing people, processes, and systems as the foundation for building an Adaptive Enterprise. Contact us on our website to explore how these new features can empower your business for the future, or reach us at [email protected].
