QAD Adaptive ERP vs. Plex by Rockwell Automation

Suited very well for small to medium sized organizations as it provides you everything you can expect from an ERP (without any fancy bells and whistles that SAP and some of the other ERPs provide). Works well with a lean IT organization, as the configuration and ongoing maintenance and/or analysis is pretty straightforward.

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• The QAD Enterprise application is great, we only started using this application a few years ago. The Master Scheduling Workbench has been a great improvement to our daily operations.
• The Web-based QAD Supplier Portal has also been implemented recently in our company and has been a huge help to our purchasing and materials department.
• The QAD support that we receive has helped our company grow and is a major asset in upcoming projects.

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• As a user and who managed the application, I have longed for a module that you don't have to go thru the entire frame to go to a certain field. They have addressed this issue on their recent release by going to a web frame.

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The cost / benefit of changing to a different ERP will create a high cost and low benefit that's why I believe that we'll continue renewing QAD for a long time.

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Easy to use, zero or minimum cost to maintain the database (DBA etc) , no issue with OS ( Linux), stable database

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QAD is very easy to use once it's set up. It's basically an Excel sheet that can handle a lot more data points and faster. It's nice that you can dump the data stored in QAD to a CSV file and analyze in Excel. Careful narrow down the data searches to a limited number of points or Excel will crash. QAD is much easier to set up than Arena and SAP. And the numbering systems you can create in QAD is more customizable.

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• ROI - very high with QAD.
• Yearly maintenance cost is very low.
• Support is very good from the QAD customer service team, knowledge base web site.
• Very quick to implement the system.

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