QAD’s 2024 Fall Product Launch: Enhancing Digital Supply Chain and AI Integration

As part of QAD’s ongoing commitment to improving customer experience, the 2024 Fall Product Launch brings numerous user-centric productivity enhancements for QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP), QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System), QAD SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) and QAD Process Intelligence. These include refined dashboards, enhanced user management, and streamlined collaboration tools, all based on direct customer feedback and feature requests. With further improvements such as REST API enablement, simplified interfaces, and expanded reporting capabilities, QAD continues to deliver on its promise to create adaptive solutions that meet the evolving needs of manufacturers and supply chains.

Pragmatic AI: QAD’s Approach to Responsible and Effective AI Integration

The introduction of AI/ML and further expansion of Process Intelligence into manufacturing, production and logistics is grounded in QAD’s approach to developing models specifically designed to address real-world business use cases, with a clear focus on delivering measurable returns on investment for customers.

QAD’s ongoing Pragmatic AI advancements are geared toward creating tools that are easy to use, reliable, and aligned with the strategic goals of businesses, ensuring that AI serves as a valuable asset rather than a disruptive force.

ARC's Take on the AI-infused Renaissance of ERP:

We're seeing industrial-grade AI being infused in most enterprise software, prompting us to attach a new description of AI-infused ERP as the 'Enterprise Renaissance Platform'. In our strategy report on Modernizing Industrial Software for the AI (R)Evolution, we highlight the pivotal role that ERP will likely play in driving adoption of many Industrial AI use cases at scale.