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QAD Adaptive ERP

Score7.3 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

What is QAD Adaptive ERP?

QAD Adaptive ERP supports the core business processes and operations of global manufacturers, reducing the number of required add-ons and thereby lowering software costs. The platform is presented as ideal for medium to large-sized companies.

QAD Adaptive ERP focuses on the six industries QAD serves: automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, industrial, high-tech and life sciences. In addition, it brings industry-specific process maps, processes and nomenclature for these vertical industries, to increase workforce effectiveness and speed of onboarding.

The web-based user experience with native mobile access aims to speed up onboarding and enhance user productivity. It promotes personalization to address changing roles and user preferences. Decision-makers have access to real-time insights, helping them make better and faster decisions using embedded role-based and process/data-based analytics.


QAD tracks and implements statuatory tax compliance for 66 countries. It ensures that clients can do business with their customers and supply chain. The software follows industry best practices, ensuring exceptional fit and rapid implementation.

Manufacturing

QAD Adaptive ERP provides capabilities from back office to the shop floor. Planners and schedulers, material handlers, production operators, maintenance technicians, and quality analysts collaborate around shared business goals by being connected to a single source of truth. Shared contextual information can drive efficiency, higher product quality, lower inventory levels, and superior SLA’s in support of optimum operating costs.


Customer Management

QAD Adaptive ERP empowers businesses to manage all aspects of the customer lifecycle, from acquisition through customer service, including quotes, orders, pricing, promotions, customization, configuration, fulfillment, returns, repairs and service. It helps organizations gain accurate and efficient management of scheduled orders and releases, as well as global orders with available-to-promise visibility across the enterprise.


Financials
QAD Adaptive ERP connects with all solution areas of the platform, providing processes between financials and customer and service management, manufacturing, supply chain management and asset management. Enterprises can adapt to changes in the business while continually improving financial operational effectiveness. Furthermore, finance teams can deal with multi-entity, multi-GAAP, multi-currency, and global tax requirements and ensure fast, error-free closings.

Supply Chain

QAD Adaptive ERP enables manufacturers to address the challenges associated with managing complex and ever-changing global supply chains. Whether to improve planning and forecasting, manage supply chain risk, or enhance customer service for more efficient warehousing and delivery, the platform offers a digital supply chain solution. Organizations can plan and manage global supply chain operations, to ensure cross-border trade compliance, optimize transportation execution and boost visibility to rapidly respond to supply chain turbulence.


Supplier Management

QAD Adaptive ERP creates value for purchasing organizations by improving supplier collaboration, ensuring optimal sourcing and enabling faster response to changes in supply and demand. The solution facilitates real-time communication between buyers and suppliers to improve procurement processes, reduce inbound supply risks and eliminate manually intensive processes. It delivers value across direct and indirect procurement activities by improving strategic sourcing, contract management and supplier performance analysis.

Analytics and Reporting

Embedded Analytics gives users self-service analytics based on dozens of pre-built Action Centers that include relevant KPIs and the ability to modify, add, and share KPIs and new analytics models. It introduces the insights tool to dynamically generate applicable analytics for users based on their current business process and data context. The QAD Reporting Framework has built-in standard reports, simplified report modification and sharing, and full spreadsheet integration.

Top Performing Features

  • Pay calculation

    Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.

    Category average: 7

  • Benefit plan administration

    Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Direct deposit files

    Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.

    Category average: 7.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Pricing

    Users can set up complex and unique pricing requirements.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Inventory Planning

    Establish projected inventory levels, monitor actual levels and compare with projected levels

    Category average: 7.3

  • Forecasting

    Statistically forecast based on historical patterns and sales input, monitor accuracy and estimate new demand

    Category average: 6.9

One of the best ERP systems

Pros

  • Inventory management
  • Supplier management
  • Data dump for analytics
  • Customization of your data collection

Cons

  • Could be faster when filtering large data sets
  • Need a way of automating analytics. I used to save a query search to do my daily data dump and analyze in Excel. It would be nice if this could be easily automated.

Return on Investment

  • QAD has made it easier for the operations engineering team to narrow down processes where reject rate relates to the highest cost so that they can solve those issues first.
  • QAD has made it easy for the production team to print work orders and track daily builds. This saves a lot of time from the old method of tracking in Word docs or Excel.
  • Sometimes QAD needs a lot of maintenance on the back end so we had to hire a full time employee to manage the data systems.

Alternatives Considered

Arena and SAP ERP

Other Software Used

MasterControl Clinical Quality Management System, Microsoft 365 Business, SOLIDWORKS

QAD

Pros

  • Highly Scalable
  • They have other products that integrate with QAD
  • It can integrate with other third party applications
  • Frontend and Backend is very user friendly

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • Maintenance and Licensing. Even though the licensing is per user based, cost is very low, compared to other ERP systems.

Other Software Used

OpenEdge

QAD-Y!

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • QAD web-based supplier portal, there is an option to flag emails to the suppliers, however when the system is updated every 2 hours these emails regenerate and are sent to the suppliers again. At this time we have not been told of any fixes for this issue.

Return on Investment

  • Better customer service
  • Increased production efficiency
  • Better inventory control

QAD ERP review

Pros

  • EDI is the standard for Automotive; its really easy to setup and follow up on day by day
  • The support of regulatory changes (for example new electronic accounting in Mexico). They are developing a full module to cover this new requirement in an easy way for an international company that need to follow up with this Maquila Accounting reports (easy 2 weeks setup)
  • MRP is the heart of QAD, It simplifies the planning base on BOMs, formulas or Safety Stock and works great to plan WIP, RAW and MROs
  • It's flexible, you could have relatively cheap customizations to make it work 100% as need it.
  • The knowledge base is a great tool to resolve small issues during day to day work.

Cons

  • The support could be handled better. Sometimes the QAD support team needs a lot of time to resolve issues.
  • The browsers (Netui) are a great help, but they consume a lot of memory resources; they need to improve the performance for complex browsers (normally the one s developed by customers)
  • The configurable screens are a great idea to simplify the daily work, but they do not support all the screens. The worst part is that you could create the simplified screen but when it starts working strangely, the answer from the QAD support team is that the screen is not supported.

Return on Investment

  • It help us to reduce the inventories (FG and RAW)
  • It reduce the time to adjust to the constantly changing international customs laws

QAD at a glance

Pros

  • Easy to manage/configure
  • Reliable
  • Offers good transaction traceability
  • Has a good compliance model
  • Interfaces well with other apps

Cons

  • Needs more flexibility to add/configure new indexes (if using the Progress Database) as the current indexes on key tables like transaction history are not helpful
  • Need a better support system for the TMS/Precision interface
  • Need better KnowledgeBase articles to understand the innerds of Pricing functionality

Return on Investment

  • Improved Employee Efficiency
  • Better Customer Service
  • Better Financial reportings for a quick Month-End/Year-End close