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Ensure the millions you pour into material generate maximum profit

Master inventory management to eliminate cost overruns that many manufacturers lack insight to prevent. Get real-time control, end-to-end visibility and ensure compliance from raw materials to customer, eliminating waste and boosting efficiency.

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Key Benefits of Inventory and Traceability

Lower Inventory, Not Service Levels

Maintain 99% inventory reliability while measurably reducing material spend by trusting planning

Reduce Handling and Storage Costs

Shrink receiving, storage and picking durations by hours a day. Spend less on racks with higher turns

Minimize Recall and Noncompliance Risk

Trace from supplier to customer without sacrificing efficiency or relying on spreadsheets

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Key Capabilities to

Inventory Control & Status

Forward & Backward Trace

Package Management

Attributes and Quality

Consignment

Intersite Requests

Barcode Scanning & Printing

Stock Level Auditing

Gain granular control over every item's movement.

  • Specify control levels (lot-optional, lot required, serial required).

  • Apply statuses at the most granular level.

  • Build protection into every transaction, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

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Pinpoint any item's journey, searching from supplier lot or customer shipment

  • Enable swift root cause analysis (RCA).

  • Quickly identify and address quality issues or complaints

  • Trace inventory through every process, crucial for recalls and compliance.

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Associate inventory with single and multi-layer packaging

  • Define packaging types, structures, and associations with parts and/or customers.

  • Ensure material handlers know the exact contents of pallets, boxes, totes and any other movable container.

  • Seamlessly integrate label printing and barcode scanning for peak efficiency.

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Enhance transparency and details with scalable attributes and testing

  • Maintain granular characteristics of items and inventory with limitless attribute definitions.

  • Improve quality, sustainability, and traceability insights.

  • Generate Certificate of Analysis reports to build customer confidence and support their supply chain visibility goals.

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Optimize cash flow with maximum visibility through supplier consignment

  • Set up items in accordance with supplier agreements.

  • Transfer risk and keep cash until materials are used

  • Gain full traceability and visibility of consignment inventory with configurable ownership transfers

Streamline internal material transfers and reduce overall carrying costs.

  • Leverage item-site level ability to request inventory from other sites within your division.

  • Lower costs and increase transfer speed.

  • Include distribution and intersite demand in your MRP engine for comprehensive planning.

Boost efficiency with native data collection and label printing

  • Native handheld scanner transaction and label engines for live inventory management.

  • Empower on-the-move material handlers with live access to the most up-to-date information.

  • Eliminate the need for external scanning and printing solutions, enabling operations while simplifying your IT landscape.

Simplify cycle counting and physical inventory tasks.

  • Execute occasional cycle counts and streamline annual physical inventories for accuracy and compliance.

  • Eliminate time spent on manual data entry and the risk of losing a clipboard or not saving a spreadsheet

Key Capabilities to

Inventory Control & Status

Gain granular control over every item's movement.

  • Specify control levels (lot-optional, lot required, serial required).

  • Apply statuses at the most granular level.

  • Build protection into every transaction, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

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  • dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip
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Forward & Backward Trace

Pinpoint any item's journey, searching from supplier lot or customer shipment

  • Enable swift root cause analysis (RCA).

  • Quickly identify and address quality issues or complaints

  • Trace inventory through every process, crucial for recalls and compliance.

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  • dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip
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Package Management

Associate inventory with single and multi-layer packaging

  • Define packaging types, structures, and associations with parts and/or customers.

  • Ensure material handlers know the exact contents of pallets, boxes, totes and any other movable container.

  • Seamlessly integrate label printing and barcode scanning for peak efficiency.

  • Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et
  • dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip
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Attributes and Quality

Enhance transparency and details with scalable attributes and testing

  • Maintain granular characteristics of items and inventory with limitless attribute definitions.

  • Improve quality, sustainability, and traceability insights.

  • Generate Certificate of Analysis reports to build customer confidence and support their supply chain visibility goals.

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  • dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip
  • ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

Consignment

Optimize cash flow with maximum visibility through supplier consignment

  • Set up items in accordance with supplier agreements.

  • Transfer risk and keep cash until materials are used

  • Gain full traceability and visibility of consignment inventory with configurable ownership transfers

Intersite Requests

Streamline internal material transfers and reduce overall carrying costs.

  • Leverage item-site level ability to request inventory from other sites within your division.

  • Lower costs and increase transfer speed.

  • Include distribution and intersite demand in your MRP engine for comprehensive planning.

Barcode Scanning & Printing

Boost efficiency with native data collection and label printing

  • Native handheld scanner transaction and label engines for live inventory management.

  • Empower on-the-move material handlers with live access to the most up-to-date information.

  • Eliminate the need for external scanning and printing solutions, enabling operations while simplifying your IT landscape.

Stock Level Auditing

Simplify cycle counting and physical inventory tasks.

  • Execute occasional cycle counts and streamline annual physical inventories for accuracy and compliance.

  • Eliminate time spent on manual data entry and the risk of losing a clipboard or not saving a spreadsheet

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does QAD Adaptive ERP reduce shrinkage and obsolescence?

QAD Adaptive ERP is manufacturing ERP software. The inventory and traceability module satisfies advanced capabilities that global enterprises seek in inventory management software. Shrinkage and obsolescence are reduced through precise control, real-time visibility and automation (e.g., barcode scanning). The manufacturing traceability software included in QAD Adaptive ERP ensures quality and prevents costly recalls.

How is efficiency balanced with granular inventory tracking in QAD Adaptive ERP?

This manufacturing ERP software can be implemented with fully integrated and automated barcode scanning for real-time visibility and error reduction. The manufacturing traceability software provides precise lot/serial control along with picking order logic (FIFO, LIFO, Expiry, etc.), ensuring material handlers are guided to the right inventory without having to spend time deciding on or searching for what to retrieve.

Why is inventory management software important to manufacturers?

Inventory directly impacts a manufacturing company's financial health and operational efficiency. QAD Adaptive ERP optimizes cash flow by preventing overstocking (tying up capital) and stockouts (lost sales), leading to accurate COGS and improved profitability. Effortless inventory management ensures raw materials are available for production, reduces waste, streamlines processes, and enables timely order fulfillment, boosting overall productivity and customer satisfaction.

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