Reduce waste within the supply chain

For global manufacturers, software offers more flexibility to help streamline operations, improve communication and reduce waste within the supply chain.

For global manufacturers to ensure success, the ability to improve visibility into overall operations, move quickly and efficiently, and balance corporate financial concerns with local market effectiveness are critical.

To help achieve these goals, QAD has released QAD Enterprise Applications 2007.1 (QAD 2007.1), which features significant enhancements in a number of key functional areas.

The product enhancements include the following.

* QAD Transportation Management System.

* QAD Supply Visualization.

* QAD Business Intelligence.

* QAD .NET UI.

* QAD QXtend.

The core QAD 2007.1 application is available on demand and on premise.

The capabilities and product enhancements of QAD 2007.1 support QAD's marketplace vision for the 'perfect lean market' by helping streamline operations, improve communication and reduce waste within the supply chain.

QAD said that its customers stand to gain greater flexibility in their deployment and management options, allowing users to focus key resources on other value-add areas of the business.

Vice president and group director, Cindy Jutras, with AberdeenGroup, an industry analyst firm, said: "QAD's latest upgrade, QAD Enterprise Applications 2007.1, demonstrates the vendor's continuing commitment to shaping its on-demand offering for its target vertical markets"..

QAD 2007.1 enhancements include the following.

* QAD Transportation Management (TMS) - offers a newly designed user interface and features for shipping non production items directly from the desktop, as well as enhanced import management capabilities to meet the needs of U.S.

based importers and a new Track and Trace supplier portal.

* QAD Supply Visualization - this on-demand module that allows collaborative visibility of demand between manufacturer and supplier now boasts capabilities to integrate directly with QAD TMS, allowing seamless tracking of shipments throughout the supply chain, no matter how the items are being transported.

* QAD Business Intelligence - users can benefit from far greater flexibility in reporting and analysis with dashboards and integrated reporting across their QAD Data Warehouse.

* QAD .NET UI - QAD .NET UI 2007.1 has continued the evolution in user interface started by QAD with the first version of QAD .NET UI.

This release now offers integrated dashboards, role-based collections and ad-hoc workflow offering increased ease of use and learning and potential gains in user productivity.

* QAD QXtend - QAD's integration and services layer has been enhanced for greater transactional throughput and simpler implementation.

Chairman and president of QAD, Pamela Lopker, said: "The release of QAD Enterprise Applications 2007.1 demonstrates QAD's continuing commitment to providing manufacturers with solutions that give them a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

And with so many of our offerings now moving toward on-demand availability, we are pushing the industry one step closer to achieving the Perfect Lean Market for manufacturing".

QAD Enterprise Applications are designed to streamline the management of manufacturing operations, supply chains, financials, customers, technology and business performances all in one suite.

Built on a deep, foundational understanding of manufacturing and designed for maximum flexibility anywhere in the world, QAD Enterprise Applications are available in 27 languages and can handle multiple currencies.

For both single-site manufacturers with customers and suppliers in many locations around the world, and global enterprises with factories and plants in dozens of countries, QAD can provide the solutions and support to operate multi-national businesses efficiently and profitably.

* About QAD - QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies.

QAD applications provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time.

Manufacturers of automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life science products use QAD applications at approximately 5,800 licensed sites in more than 90 countries and in as many as 27 languages.

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