Hello QAD ERP O³ | Milestone Release | Achieve World-Class Productivity

The last ERP you’ll ever need, keeping your manufacturing enterprise ready to turn disruptions into competitive opportunities:

Rapid effectiveness through industry-leading implementation speed and exceptional out-of-the-box fit for manufacturers
Accelerated outcomes from a pragmatic deployment of AI, focused on assisting humans in solving real problems
Peace of mind with world-class security to protect your mission-critical information from evolving cyber risks
Optimized processes enabled by built-in best practices, flows and standards of specific manufacturing verticals

Global Disruption - Nobody’s strategic plan includes pandemics, geopolitical turmoil, natural disasters or supply chain interference yet everybody has to adapt to survive
The AI Race - Innovation in artificial intelligence has fueled new customer expectations, manufacturing challenges, and supplier capabilities that existing and new competitors are quickly shifting around
Mergers and Acquisitions - Even the best matches come with significant organizational and systematic changes that move faster than anybody is comfortable with
Compliance and Security - Pushed by financial market instability and the rise of ESG, governments and investors are demanding more transparency and better risk management
Technical Debt - Legacy customizations create version lock, increase the total cost of ownership, prevent business agility and introduce inherent, unique risks

Capabilities

Full-featured

Full-featured - ERP built for manufacturers with strong out-of-the-box capabilities around sales, field service, manufacturing, inventory, maintenance, purchasing, finance and unique empowerment of frontline workers

Up to date

Easy-to-adopt releases end the burden of long and costly ERP implementations, for good. ERP O³ provides your organization with new capabilities and the most recent security, requiring minimal effort from your IT organization

Intelligent

Prepackaged AI use cases on high-volume business processes such as accounts payable, production, maintenance and shipping. Embedded analytics with numerous dashboards designed for popular roles and widget-like KPI creation

Extensible

Build your competitive advantages onto QAD’s best practices in the upgrade-friendly low-code/no-code platform. Centrally manage integrations with QAD and third party solutions in a robust integration platform

International

Manage global and local operations with support for regulatory compliance, including regularly updated country extensions so you can confidently operate in countries with unique accounting and tax requirements

Scalable

The AWS infrastructure of ERP O³ equips you for continuous adoption of market-leading innovation. ERP O³ is an ally in right-sizing enterprise systems instead of being a constraint

Change is constant. Global manufacturers need to quickly respond to changing customer preferences, unpredictable supply chains and a variety of business environment disruptions. To thrive and effectively respond to change, enterprises need solutions that naturally adopt technological advances and support future-proofed last-mile customization.

QAD ERP O³ is designed to be the last ERP a manufacturer will need, providing an excellent fit for today and tomorrow. Rapid and dependable implementations deliver fast ROI, and consistent publication of easy-to-adopt releases provides an unbeatable TCO. Other key benefits include:

Lower overall software costs, stemming from a comprehensive solution that supports the business processes and operations of a global manufacturer
Increased user effectiveness in a solution is designed for manufacturers that includes industry-specific process maps, processes and nomenclature
Enhanced onboarding and productivity through the intuitive web-based user experience with in-application guidance and personalization to address changing roles and user preferences
Faster decision-making with access to real-time, embedded analytics that provide role-based and process/data-based analytics
Reduced country-level tax compliance risk with QAD Internationalization
Meeting specific business requirements by easily extending without introducing costly and complex customizations
Rapid and successful onboarding using industry best practices, process maps, and in-application guidance

QAD ERP O³ includes the following key capabilities and services:

Manufacturing ERP that is designed for six specific vertical industries including automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial manufacturing and life sciences
Fast and dependable implementations using QAD Effective On Boarding by QAD or one of QAD’s implementation service partners. Existing customers who have trusted QAD ERP for years are eligible to access advanced intelligence and adaptability on the Enterprise Platform through the ELEVATE Program’s rapid, low-cost upgrade.
A fully integrated set of related manufacturing and supply chain applications from the QAD Adaptive Applications portfolio such as QAD Advanced Scheduling, QAD Automation Solutions, QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System), QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP), QAD Global Trade and Transportation Execution (GTTE), QAD SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), QAD Digital Commerce, QAD Production Execution and others.
QAD Internationalization for more than 65 countries ensures manufacturers remain in tax and related reporting compliance and can conduct business where they need to despite shifting country-specific regulations, including finance and invoicing.
Global around-the-clock support
The solution supports a comprehensive set of core processes designed for global manufacturers. Key capabilities include:
- Sales: Streamline and manage your sales process including leads, opportunities, quotes, discrete and scheduled orders, pricing, customizations, fulfillment and sales and marketing activities.
- Field Service: Manage your customer’s service and efficiently schedule service calls and maintenance items including action requests, service contracts and warranty, service orders and depot repairs
- Manufacturing: Costing, planning, scheduling, capacity planning, production, lean, subcontract manufacturing, WIP management, inventory management, package inventory and traceability
- Financials: AR/AP, banking/cash management, budgeting, consolidations, credit management, GL, financial shared services, fixed assets, management analytics and reporting, multi-GAAP, multi-currency and tax management
- Purchasing: Streamline and manage your purchasing process throughout requisition entry, requisition approval, PO creation, PO approval, PO print, PO receipt and invoice payment
- EAM: Enterprise Asset Management enables manufacturers to operate plants more efficiently by keeping equipment running at the lowest cost
- Analytics and Reporting: Embedded self service analytics, role-based analytics, data/process contextual analytics, KPI management, queries/browses, data lake and reporting framework
Includes the QAD Enterprise Platform, making it easy to develop and deploy powerful, unintrusive extensions to support manufacturer-specific processes and data. Developers can extend existing capabilities and build new apps using low-code/no-code capabilities that are forward-compatible to future features of ERP O³.
Supports changing user preferences, roles and changing workforces through intuitive personalization and a web-based user experience via QAD’s Adaptive UX, which includes native support for mobility.

QAD ERP O³ is a key solution in the portfolio of QAD Adaptive Applications, which are all designed to help manufacturers become an Adaptive Enterprise.

ERP O³ breaks the mold of legacy ERP to easily take advantage of future features without worrying about compatibility, with a modern user experience enabled by pragmatic AI.

Anton Chilton, CEO