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29 Ratings
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Based on 29 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4 feature sets: Inventory Management, Order Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
- ABB Ability Solution Suite and QAD are tied in 2 feature sets: Customization, Security
Customization
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

10.0
QAD
100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
API for custom integration
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.9
99%
2 Ratings
Plug-ins
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Security
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

10.0
QAD
100%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 2/2 features
Single sign-on capability
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Inventory Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

9.3
QAD
93%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 3/4 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 3/4 features
Inventory tracking
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Location management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
3 Ratings
Manufacturing module
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Automatic reordering
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
4 Ratings
Order Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

9.0
QAD
90%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 5/7 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 5/7 features
Pricing
10.0
100%
1 Rating

8.0
80%
4 Ratings
Order entry
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Cost of goods sold
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Order exception Resolution
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Credit card processing
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
3 Ratings
Order Orchestration
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Project Execution Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

QAD
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 15/15 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 15/15 features
Project Planning and Scheduling
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Project Manager Dashboard
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Resource Manager Dashboard
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Project Manager Mobile Functionality
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Team Member Task Collaboration
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Team Member Mobile Functionality
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Project Candidate Search
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Defineable Resource Pools
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Defineable Resource Pools
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Talent Profiles
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Real-Time Project Reporting
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Absence Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Manufacturing
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

9.2
QAD
92%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 9/9 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 9/9 features
Production Process Design
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Supply Chain Business Flows
10.0
100%
1 Rating

8.0
80%
1 Rating
Production Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Contracted Manufacturing Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Configuration Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Work Definition
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Work Execution
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Advanced Fulfillment
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Manufacturing Costs
10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Supply Chain
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

8.3
QAD
83%
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4/4 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 4/4 features
Forecasting
10.0
100%
1 Rating

7.0
70%
1 Rating
Inventory Planning
10.0
100%
1 Rating

8.0
80%
1 Rating
Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Performance Monitoring
10.0
100%
1 Rating

9.0
90%
1 Rating
Product Lifecycle Management
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%

QAD
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 7/7 features
ABB Ability Solution Suite ranks higher in 7/7 features
Ideation Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Requirements Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Proposal Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Innovation Portfolio Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Product Master Data Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Vendor Portal
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Project Portfolio Management
10.0
100%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Payroll Management
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

10.0
QAD
100%
QAD ranks higher in 5/5 features
QAD ranks higher in 5/5 features
Pay calculation
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Benefit plan administration
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Direct deposit files
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Salary revision and increment management
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Reimbursement management
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
1 Rating
Reporting & Analytics
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

10.0
QAD
100%
QAD ranks higher in 3/3 features
QAD ranks higher in 3/3 features
Dashboards
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
2 Ratings
Standard reports
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
Custom reports
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

10.0
QAD
100%
QAD ranks higher in 2/2 features
QAD ranks higher in 2/2 features
Accounts payable
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
2 Ratings
Accounts receivable
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
100%
2 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- ABB Ability Solution Suite is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- ABB Ability Solution Suite and QAD are tied in 1 area: Usability
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
1 Rating

9.0
QAD
90%
6 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
ABB Ability Solution Suite
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
QAD
90%
2 Ratings
Usability
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
1 Rating

10.0
QAD
100%
1 Rating
Availability
ABB Ability Solution Suite
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
QAD
80%
4 Ratings
Support Rating
10.0
ABB Ability Solution Suite
100%
1 Rating

QAD
N/A
0 Ratings
Online Training
ABB Ability Solution Suite
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
QAD
70%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Of course this is the one of the best solution available in the market at present. When you have Multiple system in a plant then you need a powerful tool for Computation which Ability does it smoothly.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
If you're setting up operations where you have to manage manufacturing builds from raw components to finished goods, I would recommend QAD. It's nice to have subassemblies part numbers for your builds and enter in the number of accepted quantities and rejects. QAD is very helpful if you have a lot of parts floating around. I would not buy QAD if you only have to manage less than ~20 parts... just use Excel.
Principal Manufacturing Engineer
VerrixMedical Devices, 11-50 employees
Pros
ABB Ability Solution Suite
- Computation of data.
- Presentation to right person.
- Ability to perform critical task and sending to users.
- Multiple control system connectivity.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
- The QAD Enterprise application is great, we only started using this application a few years ago. The Master Scheduling Workbench has been a great improvement to our daily operations.
- The Web-based QAD Supplier Portal has also been implemented recently in our company and has been a huge help to our purchasing and materials department.
- The QAD support that we receive has helped our company grow and is a major asset in upcoming projects.
Sr. Materials Specialist
CK Technologies, LLCTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees
Cons
ABB Ability Solution Suite
- May be for smaller PLCs this can't be implemented.
- Cost may an area ABB can look in to.
- Improvement in GUI

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
- Needs more flexibility to add/configure new indexes (if using the Progress Database) as the current indexes on key tables like transaction history are not helpful
- Need a better support system for the TMS/Precision interface
- Need better KnowledgeBase articles to understand the innerds of Pricing functionality

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
ABB Ability Solution Suite
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—QAD
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
—Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
ABB Ability Solution Suite
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
QAD
QAD 9.0
Based on 2 answers
The cost / benefit of changing to a different ERP will create a high cost and low benefit that's why I believe that we'll continue renewing QAD for a long time.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employeesUsability
ABB Ability Solution Suite
ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0
Based on 1 answer
One of the best solutions in the market with a user-friendly system. This is very useful when the ABB system (Like we had 800xA) is there, new or existing; all the ABB systems can be integrated using this rather than going to a 3rd party vendor, which may have interface problems.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
QAD 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Easy to use, zero or minimum cost to maintain the database (DBA etc) , no issue with OS ( Linux), stable database

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Pharmaceuticals Company, 1001-5000 employeesSupport Rating
ABB Ability Solution Suite
ABB Ability Solution Suite 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Good support in terms of quality and promptness. When we had problems with some of the commands not getting executed, their online support also provided a good solution to solve the problem. Even mission-critical task we were able to solve during this Pandemic time. The suggestion is to go for the online support 1st in the future, followed by a visit.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
ABB Ability Solution Suite
Better suited for the ABB System as Microsoft is a third party for ABB Control System.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
QAD is very easy to use once it's set up. It's basically an Excel sheet that can handle a lot more data points and faster. It's nice that you can dump the data stored in QAD to a CSV file and analyze in Excel. Careful narrow down the data searches to a limited number of points or Excel will crash.QAD is much easier to set up than Arena and SAP. And the numbering systems you can create in QAD is more customizable.
Principal Manufacturing Engineer
VerrixMedical Devices, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
ABB Ability Solution Suite
- Positive is definitely ROI since manual intervention is minimized and the process is automated.
- Cost wise, ABB has been looked upon considering the small industry.
- Overall, a good solution for a large companies.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesQAD
- It help us to reduce the inventories (FG and RAW)
- It reduce the time to adjust to the constantly changing international customs laws

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees