Manufacturing Can’t Afford Downtime: Why ERP Reliability Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage
Manufacturers have never faced more pressure to do more with less. Rising operating costs, ongoing supply chain disruption, workforce challenges, and increasing customer expectations are forcing organizations to find new ways...
AI for Food and Beverage Manufacturing: See It Live at Champions of Manufacturing
Champions of Manufacturing Is Coming: CP and F&B Manufacturers, This Event Is Worth Your Time
If you are running a consumer goods or food and beverage operation today, you are under pressure....
Inventory Control Data and Workflow Data Integrity
You can’t hide, AI is here, but the pressing question is: can we use it for real business outcomes by ensuring our business solutions have accurate validated real-time information? The IT...
From 60 Minutes to 30 Seconds: What AI Actually Changes for MedTech Manufacturers
An RFP can take a medical device components procurement planner an hour or more to complete. Not necessarily because the work is complicated — because it takes some thought about the...
The November 2026 Deadline Forcing 350,000 Defense Suppliers to Modernize and Quietly Opening the...
Industry Insight · For operations leaders in the defense and aerospace supply chain
For years, defense manufacturers had a ready answer for why they hadn't moved to modern cloud systems, let alone...
ChampionAI is the Accelerator. Business Expertise is the Advantage.
Today, artificial intelligence is reshaping the way manufacturers and distributors interact with their ERP systems. QAD ChampionAI represents an exciting step forward, helping organizations surface information more quickly, streamline documentation, accelerate...
You Can’t Stop the Factory to Fix the Factory
QAD Champion Advantage gives manufacturers a faster, lower-risk path to AI, without shutting down to get there.
Most manufacturers know they need to modernize. The question isn't whether to do it. It's...
Six Questions Every Manufacturer Should Answer Before Choosing an ERP Platform
Every ERP shortlist looks reassuring on paper. The platforms demo well, the reference calls check out, and the feature grids start to converge. Then the system meets a live plant, and...
QAD User Groups Join Forces with Champions of Manufacturing
As we move into the second half of 2026, the energy around our QAD User Group community continues to build. Our spring conference reinforced something I have believed for a long...
The Plant Manager Needs Accurate, Real-Time Plant Data to Maximize AI Tool Effectiveness
Plant managers are responsible for controlling rising costs, addressing labor shortages, reducing operational inefficiencies, increasing output, and improving quality. Manufacturing AI can help with these pressures, but it requires timely, accurate...