Growing Importance of Real-Time Automated Data Collection
The Need
With the increased focus on AI and other analytical tools, the need for getting real-time, accurate data into QAD is critical. According to Gartner®, “… data is so important—it is...
What Today’s Customers Expect from Modern Manufacturing – and Why Most Manufacturers Can’t Keep...
Manufacturing has always been a balancing act between cost, quality and service. What’s changed (and fast!) is the level of expectation from customers. Whether your customers are OEMs, retailers or consumers,...
Why Downtime Tracking is a Must, Not a Nice-to-Have
Every minute a machine sits idle chips away at margin, throughput and on-time delivery. A recent Redzone blog article opens with a striking stat: unplanned downtime can sap up to 11%...
From Challenge to Advantage: Navigating Supplier Invoices in the Age of E-Invoicing Regulations
The rise of e-invoicing across Europe is not just a technological trend, it’s a strategic response to a long-standing financial issue faced by tax authorities: the VAT gap. This gap represents...
Closing the Loop: Agentic AI for Automotive
A pragmatic roadmap to closed-loop execution—from advisory AI to agentic systems across plant, supply chain, and vehicle.
Automotive is shifting from proof-of-concept to production AI because the economics now demand it: volatile...
5 Reasons QAD Users Should Upgrade to Progress OpenEdge 12
When you chose QAD for your manufacturing operations, you committed to a proven platform deeply trusted in your industry. That same decision put your business on the Progress OpenEdge application development...
Why Speed to Value in ERP is Now a Manufacturing Imperative
Manufacturers today face extraordinary pressures: supply chain volatility, rising costs, labor shortages, and rapidly shifting customer demands. In this environment, standing still is not an option. The ability to adapt quickly...
What One-Size-Fits-All ERPs Get Wrong About Manufacturing
Manufacturing is more complex than ever, and not just because of supply chains or regulations. It’s because no two operations are built alike.
A day in the life of a consumer goods...
Harnessing AI in ERP Systems: Transforming Business Operations
Understanding ERP AI: Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have evolved from tools that simply manage data to platforms that drive intelligent decision-making. The addition of...
Total Manufacturing Cost Formula: Metrics that Matter
What are Total Manufacturing Costs?
Your total manufacturing costs are essentially an expense analysis that calculates how each of your company’s departments contributed to producing a finalized product. This looks at all...