One of the best ERP systems
January 20, 2019
One of the best ERP systems
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with QAD
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.
- Inventory management
- Supplier management
- Data dump for analytics
- Customization of your data collection
- 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.
- QAD has made it easier for the operations engineering team to narrow down processes where reject rate relates to the highest cost so that they can solve those issues first.
- QAD has made it easy for the production team to print work orders and track daily builds. This saves a lot of time from the old method of tracking in Word docs or Excel.
- Sometimes QAD needs a lot of maintenance on the back end so we had to hire a full time employee to manage the data systems.
- Arena and SAP ERP
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.
QAD is much easier to set up than Arena and SAP. And the numbering systems you can create in QAD is more customizable.