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QAD Pulling Through, Patiently But Passionately Part Four: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... While MFG/PRO eB2 supports traditional manufacturing (MRP-based) methods of planning, it also incorporates many enhancements in support of lean and JIT ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/09/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_09_22_03_1.asp - 21k Summary: QAD has long shifted its focus from being a mere ERP vendor dedicated to the industrial mid-market to fully leveraging the Internet in the applications it provides to manufacturers and distributors to link their back-office systems to those of their business partners via private trading exchanges.

QAD: A Software Vendor That Has Survived (if Not Thrived) in the ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... being a single, plant-oriented manufacturing resource planning (MRP) software vendor ... commercially released its flagship ERP application, named MFG/PRO, which ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2007/10/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_10_05_07_1.asp - 18k Summary: QAD, a renowned provider of enterprise software solutions for midsized global manufacturers, has outlived many of its contemporaries by maintaining its stronghold in the discrete and process manufacturing sectors. In doing so, the vendor has reached a respected, veteran status.

QAD Pulling through, Patiently but Passionately Part Three: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Hence, QAD has also reevaluated its core MFG/PRO applications, rewriting selected sections of ... back-end functions, such as general ledger (GL) or MRP, will not ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/09/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_09_20_03_1.asp - 26k Summary: QAD deserves admiration for its protracted innovativeness and endurance as the only assets it could muster as to compensate for limited resources compared to many larger competitors.

QAD Seemingly Nearing The Corner

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The latest release of QAD MFG/PRO, eB, is a full web ... planning (master production scheduling (MPS), material requirements planning (MRP), capacity requirements ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2002/03/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_03_29_02_1.asp - 25k Summary: Recently reported financial results for fiscal 2002 might indicate QAD is nearing the turnaround point, with improved value proposition and cash situation to spar with the economic slowdown and the fierce competition from the bigger vendors and many of its peers.

Enterprise Resource Planning Vendors Address Lean Manufacturing

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... identify them as belonging to a particular customer, job, product, or product line, which permits separate MRP groups within the ... QAD MFG/PRO Lean Manufacturing. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/02/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_02_20_06_1.asp - 35k Summary: Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the extended enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors excel in depends on their original ERP system's suitability for repetitive versus to-order environments.

Is Enterprise Market Consolidating? Exactly!

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... track actual cost and labor, MAX and Alliance/MFG are ERP ... offering integrated applications that include material requirements planning (MRP), advanced planning ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/06/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_06_14_02_1.asp - 18k Summary: After seemingly the successful acquisition of Macola last year, Exact Software continues to build its SME market share by acquiring Kewill ERP.

Exact Software Continues with Its Share of Judicious Acquisitions

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... integrated applications that include material requirements planning (MRP), advanced planning ... Exact Alliance/MFG is a low-cost manufacturing-only solution (with ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/01/research_notes/VN_ER_PJ_01_09_06_1.asp - 25k Summary: Through determined and prudent product enhancement initiatives, Exact Software demonstrates itself as an earnest enterprise in the small and medium market, and it is growing its global base.

Kewill And Microsoft Great Plains To Further Mutually Complement

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... track actual cost and labor, MAX and Alliance/MFG are ERP ... offering integrated applications that include material requirements planning (MRP), advanced planning ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/11/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_11_12_01_1.asp - 13k Summary: While Microsoft Great Plains and Kewill will offer a potentially awesome combined offering worldwide, their competitors will bet on products that cover all the bases in a natively integrated fashion.

The Automotive OEMs Might Soon Contract “BRAIN” Damage Part I

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... EDI being an integrated component of materials requirement planning MRP), whereas TRANS4M ... net collaborative offerings, in addition to the flagship MFG/PRO ERP ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/08/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_08_12_02_1.asp - 16k Summary: While BRAIN North America may have created a notable customer base due to its products’ functional appropriateness for the lower tiers of the automotive industry, its German parent’s impending insolvency might, in the worst-case scenario, leave all of them in the lurch.

Exact Software--Working Diligently Towards the 'One Exact' Synergy ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Alliance/MFG. ... It has a broader-based appeal, by offering integrated applications that include MRP, APS, product configuration, and CRM. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/03/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_03_02_04_1.asp - 17k Summary: While most traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are task-driven, by adding structure to processes that are typically handled inconsistently or manually, Macola ES is process-driven. A truly integrated workflow and business process management (BPM) tool allows users to achieve long cov