What is an Adaptive Enterprise?

Manufacturers and Supply Chains are buffeted by changes in demand and fluctuations in supply. Macroeconomic swings, shifting government incentives and unprecedented events make the foundations for business and industry unstable. Supply Chains have historically been designed for efficiency. That worked… until it didn’t. With the pace of change increasing, brittle supply chains will continue to break.

Success today and tomorrow requires rapidly responding to the environment and living up to the promise you make to your customer to deliver the right product, at the right price, at the right time.

Efficiency, agility and resilience, do not need to be a tradeoff. The Adaptive Enterprise simultaneously advances all three for effective customer service. Success is achieved by optimizing people, processes and systems from the shop floor to the top floor, and across the supply chain from raw materials to finished goods in the hands of the end customer.

Characteristics of an Adaptive Enterprise

Across all departments, thriving organizations unite people, processes and systems to be:

Efficient

Empower your people and partners with insightful information for accurate decision-making

Agile

Rapidly respond to internal and external business changes

Resilient

Successfully address business turbulence and rapidly innovate

QAD Delivers Solutions for Manufacturers and Supply Chains in a Changing World

If you don’t know what the future will look like but you know it will be different, the best thing you can do is develop a capability for your business to be adaptive today. QAD designs manufacturing and supply chain solutions to minimize friction, rapidly align to changing demand and supply and strengthen when challenged.

Effective Enterprise Management

Trusted yet flexible core processes and data that ensure decision-makers have access to business and value chain insights.

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Integrated Supplier Management

Real-time exchange of information with supply trading partners to better respond to market volatility and changing customer demands.

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Digital Manufacturing

Technology throughout production activities that intelligently connects manufacturing with the rest of the business.

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Complete Customer Management

Visibility and real-time collaboration with customers to better respond, fulfill and service to exceed expectations and satisfaction.

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Connected Supply Chain

Comprehensive visibility and a shared view across your supply chain, including suppliers, customers and other trading partners.

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“I certainly am an advocate of QAD. The software is scalable and adaptable, accommodating necessary changes in business processes whenever they arise.”

Peter Millard, Supply Chain Manager | Haigh’s Chocolates

Thrive in Turbulence

Identify where your organization falls on the adaptability scale and diagnose your ability to cope with change based on QAD's Adaptive Enterprise Maturity Model.

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