Product Lifecycle Management - The most comprehensive tool for ensuring your new products are designed, planned, built and marketed to meet increasing customer needs. In the food & beverage manufacturing industry, your key challenge is bringing new products to market - efficiently and effectively. QAD solution helps you to automate the product development process and eliminate ancient manual and paper-based processes.

Production Scheduling – Provides a single interactive view of all key production scheduling information in real time. As a result, you can schedule production to meet demand more effectively and take action when problems are imminent.

Lean Manufacturing – CPG manufacturers are embracing lean principles in their operations and QAD solutions assist by enabling users to model their supply chain by defining items, consumption points and sourcing, from internal production lines to external suppliers. This is broken down into three areas: Pull Signaling, Buffer Management and Load Leveling.

Lot/Serial Traceability – Provides history from finished goods back to the supplier’s lot. Adds extensive lot/serial tracing and reporting functions to Work-in-Process (WIP) and generates tracing information at the operation level whenever registered resources are consumed or produced. With greater emphasis on regulatory compliance in areas such as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Recycling of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), CPG manufacturers require greater traceability than ever before.

Bar Coding and RFID Tagging – QAD supports all global labeling standards, as well as integration into data repositories such as GS1 (formerly EANnet and UCCnet). As RFID initiatives mature, QAD is focused on supporting them and offers a solution based on current best practice.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)/Shop Floor Reporting – Provides better job tracking, labor collection, and visibility into jobs on the floor. Real-time data collection system utilizing touch screen capabilities.

Plant Maintenance – Manages all plant maintenance activities, including preventive maintenance and predictive management, work orders and service requests to ensure equipment is reliable and ready to go at all times.

Customer Relationship Management - A fully functional sales force and marketing automation tool designed to improve sales activities by supporting communications and scheduling tools; pipeline and forecast management, customer service and marketing campaign management.

Demand Management - Allows complete collaboration with key suppliers, co-packers, distribution partners, and customers leveraging sophisticated forecasting methods, and detecting fluctuations in forecasts and demand as soon as they happen. QAD Demand Management enables manufacturers to meet the complex demands of seasonality and multiple and on-going promotion activities while synchronizing and aligning supply constraints with ever changing customer demand.

Trade Management - Enables consumer management the ability to drive, manage and reconcile with key retailers and food service providers on-going product promotion events. QAD TrM is a closed-loop trade promotion tool that provides a systematic and uniform approach to the various aspects of pricing and promotions management to ensure that trade spending generates appropriate sales, and that promotional activities are properly documented.

Purchase Order Management – Supports requisitions, purchase orders, receiving, vouchering and supplier performance tracking, and provides a link between plants, operations and trading partners.

EDI for Purchasing and Sales – Provides transaction mapping and a simple method for managing EDI communications between trading partners that is fully integrated with ERP.

Outsourcing/Subcontracting – Allows repetitive operations (including shipping transactions) tied to supplier schedules, in order to anticipate due dates of outside processing steps and plan them as any other component purchased.

Warehousing – Offers a range of warehouse management facilities that enables customers to control receipt, put-away, storage, picking and shipping of inventory, using warehouses existing within the QAD Enterprise Applications environment.

Supplier Performance Evaluation & Certification – Provides an efficient mechanism to monitor effectiveness at meeting the customer’s requested delivery dates. Offers the choice of which date to use for measuring performance: line-item performance date, due date or required date.

Supply Visualization - Promotes collaboration within a supply chain by providing authorized suppliers with real-time visibility of inventory, scheduling, purchasing information, invoicing and Bill of Materials (BOM) over the Internet.

Transportation Management System - Provides an integrated system that streamlines transportation processes, reduces costs and ensures global compliance to ensure food and beverage companies can deliver on time, manage increasing costs while meeting sustainability objects aligned to their key customers.

Cost Management – Determines the standard or average cost of component materials and finished goods including related labor and overhead. Work order costs are updated as related transactions, along with associated variances, are recorded, permitting the easy monitoring of jobs.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act – QAD solutions address the compliance requirements related to Sarbanes-Oxley that are applicable to ERP-related supply chain processes by providing the process controls and tools needed for an enterprise to comply with the applicable reporting and disclosure requirements.