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QAD Adaptive ERP Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6 out of 10
Score
6 out of 10

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Pros

Improved Operations: Several users have expressed that the QAD Enterprise application has significantly improved their daily operations. One user specifically mentioned the Master Scheduling Workbench as a great improvement. This highlights the positive impact of QAD on streamlining and optimizing business processes.

Helpful Supplier Portal: The recently implemented Web-based QAD Supplier Portal has been praised by multiple reviewers for its effectiveness in assisting purchasing and materials departments. This tool has proven to be a valuable asset, aiding in smoother procurement processes and enhancing supply chain management.

Invaluable Support: Users have consistently commended the support provided by QAD, attributing it to their company's growth and success in upcoming projects. The availability of reliable support from QAD has been seen as a major asset, demonstrating the software provider's commitment to customer satisfaction and ensuring smooth implementation and ongoing usage of the system.

Reviews

6 Reviews

One of the best ERP systems

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The organization used QAD as an ERP system to manage the inventory of components, current builds, and finished goods. We also used it to track current orders of raw materials and field inventory. We also used it to track cost of product and scrap costs for the finance department. It was used across the operations part of the business (supply chain, manufacturing, and sales). The business problems that QAD addresses are inventory management, costs held up in inventory (from raw components to finished goods), supplier management, and financial management. I personally used QAD to manage manufacturing scrap rates and tackled high costs operations where we had high-cost scraps.

Pros

  • Inventory management
  • Supplier management
  • Data dump for analytics
  • Customization of your data collection

Cons

  • Could be faster when filtering large data sets
  • Need a way of automating analytics. I used to save a query search to do my daily data dump and analyze in Excel. It would be nice if this could be easily automated.

Likelihood to Recommend

<div>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.</div><div>

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QAD

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QAD is used across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. We modified a few modules in QAD to fit our business.

Pros

  • Highly Scalable
  • They have other products that integrate with QAD
  • It can integrate with other third party applications
  • Frontend and Backend is very user friendly

Cons

  • As a user and who managed the application, I have longed for a module that you don't have to go thru the entire frame to go to a certain field. They have addressed this issue on their recent release by going to a web frame.

Likelihood to Recommend

QAD is marketed for a mid-range companies, but, other big top 100 companies are also using it.

QAD-Y!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QAD is used as a main objective in our operations, from the production floor level to the corporate level.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • QAD web-based supplier portal, there is an option to flag emails to the suppliers, however when the system is updated every 2 hours these emails regenerate and are sent to the suppliers again. At this time we have not been told of any fixes for this issue.

Likelihood to Recommend

QAD is well suited for any company that values its organization of inventory, reporting, and overall operational organization.

QAD at a glance

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QAD is being used as the ERP for supporting our Vascular Therapies division within the organization.

We use it extensively right from Order-To-Cash, Procure-to-pay, Plan-to-Build

The strong points about QAD is it is easy to manage, reliable, offers good transaction traceability, has a good compliance model.

Pros

  • Easy to manage/configure
  • Reliable
  • Offers good transaction traceability
  • Has a good compliance model
  • Interfaces well with other apps

Cons

  • 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

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited very well for small to medium sized organizations as it provides you everything you can expect from an ERP (without any fancy bells and whistles that SAP and some of the other ERPs provide).

Works well with a lean IT organization, as the configuration and ongoing maintenance and/or analysis is pretty straightforward.

Vetted Review
QAD Adaptive ERP
19 years of experience

QAD ERP review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QAD is used across the whole company, and QAD as any ERP when you do the correct setup will give you the tools to manage the range full company data, It helps a lot with centralizing AP &amp; AR, and its easy to follow up with the automotive standards EDI, cumulative orders, etc. The problems appear when you don't make a correct setup it could become painful just as with any ERP.

Pros

  • EDI is the standard for Automotive; its really easy to setup and follow up on day by day
  • The support of regulatory changes (for example new electronic accounting in Mexico). They are developing a full module to cover this new requirement in an easy way for an international company that need to follow up with this Maquila Accounting reports (easy 2 weeks setup)
  • MRP is the heart of QAD, It simplifies the planning base on BOMs, formulas or Safety Stock and works great to plan WIP, RAW and MROs
  • It's flexible, you could have relatively cheap customizations to make it work 100% as need it.
  • The knowledge base is a great tool to resolve small issues during day to day work.

Cons

  • The support could be handled better. Sometimes the QAD support team needs a lot of time to resolve issues.
  • The browsers (Netui) are a great help, but they consume a lot of memory resources; they need to improve the performance for complex browsers (normally the one s developed by customers)
  • The configurable screens are a great idea to simplify the daily work, but they do not support all the screens. The worst part is that you could create the simplified screen but when it starts working strangely, the answer from the QAD support team is that the screen is not supported.

Likelihood to Recommend

The full product overall is better that expected, it is easy to use and it helps the company to handle different locations, control inventory, cost and requirements this provide the needed data on all the time, but when something goes odd, the help desk is behind the sale.

Vetted Review
QAD Adaptive ERP
18 years of experience

Review for QAD

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use QAD from Item creation all the way to Balance Sheet / Income Statement. In distribution, we use it for sales order process, purchasing process, incoming quality and inventory management. In manufacturing, we use it for BOM , Routing and MRP. In finance, we use it for costing, AR, AP and GL. QAD is used by every department of our organization.

Pros

  • Good in inventory Mgmt, Incoming quality mfgt, physical count.
  • Good in Order to Cash process, Purchasing ,
  • Good in MRP , Routing, Product Costing.
  • Good in AR, AP, GL = Finance.

Cons

  • Latest version has all new features which were missing in old versions.

Likelihood to Recommend

QAD is well suited for auto suppliers, medical industry , consumer goods - mainly any company which has make to stock process.

Vetted Review
QAD Adaptive ERP
17 years of experience