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. QADA 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.

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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.

For details of the enhancements QAD has made to QAD Adaptive ERP and its related solutions, please visit QAD Adaptive ERP 2019 Boosts Operational Efficiency and User Productivity.

About QAD

QAD Inc. QADA 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.

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