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QUAD Inc. - ERP software -
Category Directory
6450
Via Real
Carpinteria, California 93013
(805) 684-6614
www.qad.com
Sales
$231
million
Business Description
QAD, a Delaware Corporation, was founded in 1979 and is a provider of
enterprise resource planning (ERP) software applications for global
manufacturing companies. QAD enterprise applications provide robust
functionality for managing operations and resources for manufacturing within
and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with
customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at
the right cost, at the right time.
QAD enterprise applications are focused and optimized for select
manufacturing industry segments: automotive, consumer products, electronics,
food and beverage, industrial and medical industries. Our applications
address the needs of today's multi-national manufacturers, enabling them to
think and operate globally while preserving their ability to meet local
requirements by providing business-critical functions and processes at two
levels: 1) the Enterprise, providing traditional ERP functionality for
intra-enterprise functions; and 2) the Extended Enterprise, providing
communication capabilities for supplier-management and customer-management
functions, including Distributed Order Management (DOM) capabilities for
collaborating with customers and suppliers electronically through the order
process.
QAD has built a solid customer base of global Fortune 1000 and mid-market
manufacturers who are prospects for future sales of QAD's enterprise
applications. With more than 20 years of focus on the manufacturing
industry, and approximately 5,200 licensed sites of our software around the
world, QAD is well qualified to meet the business and technology
requirements of global manufacturing companies worldwide. We develop our
products with input from leading global manufacturers within the vertical
markets we serve. This vertical industry focus is a key differentiator for
QAD, enabling our customers to implement QAD applications rapidly, realize a
high return on investment, and achieve a low total cost of ownership
compared with the product offerings of other vendors targeting the
industries we serve. These benefits earned QAD the title "ERP Value Leader"
from industry analyst firm META Group, based on an in-depth study it
conducted entitled "Deriving Value From 21st Century ERP Applications"
published in April 2003. The study included QAD and five other significant
ERP application providers: SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Lawson
Software.
Global service and support are important components of our solutions. We are
one of a few select organizations with the capabilities and industry
expertise required to implement our solutions almost anywhere in the world,
in multiple languages and currencies and support business processes tailored
to local financial practices. Our geographic management structure ensures
that our global practices meet local requirements and that our services are
delivered effectively within each region. We support our customers' global
operations through our network of regional support centers and online
support, accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, virtually anywhere in
the world.
QAD
SOLUTIONS
We target our solutions to address the needs of multi-national, large and
mid-range manufacturing and distribution companies within the automotive,
consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and medical
industries. Our enterprise applications provide functionality at two levels
required by global manufacturers—the Enterprise and the Extended Enterprise.
Previously, QAD classified business-critical functions and processes across
three levels within the global manufacturing enterprise—the Enterprise, the
Extended Enterprise, and the Manufacturing Community. Based on a shift in
the way the market—including both customers and analysts—organizes and
describes the business-critical functions and processes of the global
manufacturing enterprise, QAD will no longer use "Manufacturing Community"
as terminology that describes a separate level of business-critical
functions. Instead, we currently group those same capabilities under the
Extended Enterprise level, referring to them as the "visibility" layer
around the Extended Enterprise.
Our solutions include:
• QAD MFG/PRO, QAD's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) application
suite and primary product offering, for business-critical functions and
processes at the Enterprise level. QAD's enterprise application suite offers
a Web-enabled ERP foundation for manufacturers that provides functionality
that can help increase inventory turns, improve productivity and
profitability, while offering a total cost of ownership that has been
validated by industry-analyst firm META Group to be one of the lowest in the
industry (April 2003, "Deriving Value from 21st Century ERP Applications").
• QAD Distributed Order Management and QAD MFGx.net, QAD's Extended
Enterprise offerings. QAD Distributed Order Management capabilities enable
manufacturers to collaborate with customers and suppliers. QAD MFGx.net is a
hosted portal where QAD provides access to its visibility functionality,
giving global manufacturers insight and visibility across their Extended
Enterprise.
We also provide interoperability solutions to enable seamless interaction
among QAD and other Enterprise applications such as financials, human
resources, customer relationship management (CRM), and legacy applications.
QAD MFG/PRO: The QAD Enterprise Application
Our flagship product, QAD MFG/PRO, is a manufacturing solution designed for
the demands of today's business environment. QAD MFG/PRO software includes
an integrated set of manufacturing, supply chain execution, financial and
customer service applications designed to address the needs of customers in
our targeted vertical markets.
Our QAD MFG/PRO solution set consists of a core ERP application and a number
of key extensions. The core ERP application includes four primary areas of
functionality—manufacturing, supply chain execution, financial and customer
service—while the extensions, including QAD's Advanced Inventory Management
(AIM) Warehousing module, provide additional business functionality.
QAD's industry experience has allowed it to develop QAD MFG/PRO with unique,
industry-specific features. Additional industry-specific functionality is
developed in conjunction with our customers through our industry development
groups. QAD MFG/PRO software supports multiple currencies and global tax
management and is tailored to financial practices and requirements in many
of our major geographic markets. Because of our open systems approach, QAD
MFG/PRO software is able to interoperate with legacy systems and other
leading enterprise applications to give companies best-in-class
functionality.
QAD MFG/PRO software supports single or multiple sites, as well as multiple
production and operational processes. These capabilities enable
manufacturers to manage multiple hybrid production methods within a single
organization or production site and provide the flexibility to adapt to
additional sites and processes as an organization's business evolves.
Accessible through a Web browser, QAD MFG/PRO software includes an easily
deployable Java platform interface that minimizes internal system traffic
and can provide low-cost system access for end users.
QAD MFG/PRO was developed on more than advanced manufacturing principles. It
is based on real-world requirements and we believe it to be one of the most
comprehensive enterprise application suites for global manufacturers
available today. The current version of QAD MFG/PRO eB2—is the result of a
significant investment by QAD and includes:
• New lean manufacturing functions to help accelerate lead and cycle times
for efficient responsiveness to customers;
• Collaboration functions to better coordinate fulfillment and invoicing
with trading partners;
• Service/support management enhancements for better contract management;
• Functions to streamline multi-currency financials and profitability
analysis; and
• Desktop interface updates for greater ease of use and minimal user
training.
QAD MFG/PRO software helps our manufacturing customers increase inventory
turns and improve the productivity of manufacturing enterprise operations.
QAD Distributed Order Management: A QAD Extended Enterprise Solution
The QAD Distributed Order Management (QAD DOM) suite of applications extends
manufacturing planning and execution capabilities beyond the four walls of a
manufacturing enterprise by providing open collaboration with customers and
suppliers. With QAD DOM applications, global manufacturers can manage the
buying and selling of materials across their Extended Enterprise. QAD DOM
applications give manufacturers the ability to take an order—unattended, at
a single place, using one of many electronic conduits (such as Customer
Self-Service or EDI)—and deliver that order intelligently to suppliers
inside and outside of the enterprise. QAD DOM applications are designed to
enable manufacturers to increase sales, lower costs, open new global
markets, personalize trading relationships and improve customer satisfaction
by streamlining and automating the order process.
Previously, QAD developed and marketed its Distributed Order Management
applications under the QAD eQ name. Now, the majority of the functionality
previously marketed under the QAD eQ name will be referred to as Distributed
Order Management. In November 2003, QAD announced general availability of a
component application within its Distributed Order Management application
suite called QAD Customer Self-Service (CSS). The application technology
that serves as the foundation for QAD CSS was purchased during the third
quarter of fiscal 2004.
Additionally, the component applications within QAD's Distributed Order
Management application suite will now be built on the same technology
foundation as other QAD products, including the company's flagship ERP
solution, QAD MFG/PRO. Previously, the component applications within QAD's
Distributed Order Management application suite were built on the IBM
WebSphere platform. In order to capitalize on efficiencies and ensure tight
integration and interoperability across all QAD solutions, the company has
shifted the underlying technology of its Distributed Order Management
application suite to the integrated development platform provided by
Progress Software Corporation.
MFGx.net: Visibility Across the Extended Enterprise
QAD has developed a portal, MFGx.net, through which it delivers global
manufacturers visibility across their Extended Enterprise. MFGx.net
currently offers this visibility through QAD Supply Visualization, a service
that provides real-time inventory visibility to authorized suppliers via the
Internet, and QAD Kanban Visualization, a service that provides real-time
inventory visibility for manufacturing operations that utilizes kanban
production methods whereby inventory is managed in standard containers or
lot sizes. "Kanban" is a Japanese term that translates to "card" and refers
to the mechanism that communicates inventory consumption or demand.
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