Automotive Overview

Start-ups and existing automotive manufacturers are faced with a growing demand for electric vehicles. As a result, there is extreme pressure to transform the organization while maintaining profitability, providing high quality products, delivering on-time and ensuring sustainable practices.

Speed to revenue is everything. In order to achieve this, organizations must put proven processes and best practices around production, supply and everyday business functions into place. QAD applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of supply chain visibility, manufacturing and financial control allowing organizations to streamline business processes and provide a competitive edge.

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The Automotive Adaptive Enterprise

Business planning, operation and supply chain processes must be supported by composable and adaptable processes based on collective intelligence and responsiveness.

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Driving Business Impact in the Automotive Industry

Adaptable to evolving automotive requirements with an embedded best-practices framework, delivering the fastest time to value and increasing the speed to market

Allows supply chain agility amidst disruptions caused by the influx of new companies and scaling up of production to meet EV demand

Increases productivity for the automotive enterprise from supply chain, forecasting/planning through to shop floor operations

Connects and unifies production, quality and maintenance to create ‘one team’ working with purpose to win the day, everyday

Composable offerings for both vertical integration and compatibility with best of breed functions

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Driving Business Impact in the Automotive Industry

  • Adaptable to evolving automotive requirements with an embedded best-practices framework, delivering the fastest time to value and increasing the speed to market
  • Allows supply chain agility amidst disruptions caused by the influx of new companies and scaling up of production to meet EV demand
  • Increases productivity for the automotive enterprise from supply chain, forecasting/planning through to shop floor operations
  • Connects and unifies production, quality and maintenance to create ‘one team’ working with purpose to win the day, everyday
  • Composable offerings for both vertical integration and compatibility with best of breed functions
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QAD ERP Enables 93 of the 100 Top-Selling Cars in the World

Solution Capabilities and Best Practices for Automotive Manufacturers

Embedded industry best practices

Process maps to support MMOG/LE and IATF 16949 compliance and employee training.

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Collective intelligence and analytics

Collective intelligence and analytics via embedded analytics and reporting capabilities across the breadth of application data.

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Future-proof business foundation

Future-proof business foundation through QAD Adaptive ERP designed to evolve with global manufacturers addressing changing business conditions.

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Productivity gains via operator engagement

Productivity gains via operator engagement delivering higher quality product, predictable performance, hassle-free audits, happier frontline employees and a culture of winning.

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Lower cost of quality through the vertical enterprise

Quality applied through the vertical enterprise while reducing risk, increasing performance and delivering to increasing customer expectations.

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Optimized procurement and supplier performance

Digital, cloud-based solution delivers optimized procurement and supplier performance with real-time data access between suppliers and trading partners.

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Next generation digital supply chain planning

Material and production planning delivers instant visibility and intuitive decision support, greater agility and meeting the challenges of complex modern supply chains.

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Adapt to evolving commercial business models

Enabling mixed-mode commercial business models with a powerful and scalable e-commerce solution for both B2B and B2C.

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Strategic management of global transportation

Strategic management of global transportation streamlines import, export and delivery operations.

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Data-based decision making through collaboration

Collective intelligence drives collaboration between planning and operations, improves response to customer demands and response to variability.

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Driving process intelligence through AI

Leading-edge data/process mining with industry best practices to enable radical and actionable business transparency.

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Accelerate your business sustainability and governance

Improve business metrics while making sustainable progress by eliminating waste, managing risk and enabling data-driven decisions across the manufacturing / supply chain enterprise.

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Effectively collaborate with EDI trading partners

A range of services that address end-to-end requirements for transmission and receipt of EDI messages with trading partners.

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Boost supplier visibility, allowing for faster responses to changes in supply and demand

Suppliers can obtain answers to questions on their own, 24 hours a day - including information about inventory, schedules, shipments, performance and more.

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Make shop floor data capture effortless with barcodes

Embedded barcode label printing and scanning Improves operational visibility, material control and accuracy across the internal supply chain, spanning inbound, production and outbound processes.

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Embedded industry best practices

Process maps to support MMOG/LE and IATF 16949 compliance and employee training.

Collective intelligence and analytics

Collective intelligence and analytics via embedded analytics and reporting capabilities across the breadth of application data.

Future-proof business foundation

Future-proof business foundation through QAD Adaptive ERP designed to evolve with global manufacturers addressing changing business conditions.

Productivity gains via operator engagement

Productivity gains via operator engagement delivering higher quality product, predictable performance, hassle-free audits, happier frontline employees and a culture of winning.

Lower cost of quality through the vertical enterprise

Quality applied through the vertical enterprise while reducing risk, increasing performance and delivering to increasing customer expectations.

Optimized procurement and supplier performance

Digital, cloud-based solution delivers optimized procurement and supplier performance with real-time data access between suppliers and trading partners.

Next generation digital supply chain planning

Material and production planning delivers instant visibility and intuitive decision support, greater agility and meeting the challenges of complex modern supply chains.

Adapt to evolving commercial business models

Enabling mixed-mode commercial business models with a powerful and scalable e-commerce solution for both B2B and B2C.

Strategic management of global transportation

Strategic management of global transportation streamlines import, export and delivery operations.

Data-based decision making through collaboration

Collective intelligence drives collaboration between planning and operations, improves response to customer demands and response to variability.

Driving process intelligence through AI

Leading-edge data/process mining with industry best practices to enable radical and actionable business transparency.

Accelerate your business sustainability and governance

Improve business metrics while making sustainable progress by eliminating waste, managing risk and enabling data-driven decisions across the manufacturing / supply chain enterprise.

Effectively collaborate with EDI trading partners

A range of services that address end-to-end requirements for transmission and receipt of EDI messages with trading partners.

Boost supplier visibility, allowing for faster responses to changes in supply and demand

Suppliers can obtain answers to questions on their own, 24 hours a day - including information about inventory, schedules, shipments, performance and more.

Make shop floor data capture effortless with barcodes

Embedded barcode label printing and scanning Improves operational visibility, material control and accuracy across the internal supply chain, spanning inbound, production and outbound processes.

Adapting Across the Spectrum of the Automotive Supply Chain

OEMs

OEMs

As the shift to EVs continues, OEMs face heightened competition, demand volatility, supply chain disruptions, quality pressures and government regulations, (e.g., customs, sustainability). For timely delivery of quality products online or at dealerships, OEMs need supply chain solutions to mitigate risk, manage suppliers and ramp up production.

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Tiered Suppliers

Tiered Suppliers

Tiered suppliers face EV production pressures including reducing costs, increasing profitability, retaining employees and better supply chain planning. All suppliers must comply with industry and government standards (e.g., MMOG/LE, IATF 16949/sustainability/cybersecurity) or risk losing business and facing customer audits.

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Aftermarket

Aftermarket

Automotive Aftermarket manufacturers are hungry for insights into end customer behavior and preference data and to tie that to vehicle parts data. As the industry is shifting towards EVs, Enterprise Applications will need to improve online sales, quality, optimize inventory and ensure the product will be delivered, on-time to the consumer.

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Adapting Across the Spectrum of the Automotive Supply Chain

OEMs

As the shift to EVs continues, OEMs face heightened competition, demand volatility, supply chain disruptions, quality pressures and government regulations, (e.g., customs, sustainability). For timely delivery of quality products online or at dealerships, OEMs need supply chain solutions to mitigate risk, manage suppliers and ramp up production.

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Tiered Suppliers

Tiered suppliers face EV production pressures including reducing costs, increasing profitability, retaining employees and better supply chain planning. All suppliers must comply with industry and government standards (e.g., MMOG/LE, IATF 16949/sustainability/cybersecurity) or risk losing business and facing customer audits.

Learn More

Aftermarket

Automotive Aftermarket manufacturers are hungry for insights into end customer behavior and preference data and to tie that to vehicle parts data. As the industry is shifting towards EVs, Enterprise Applications will need to improve online sales, quality, optimize inventory and ensure the product will be delivered, on-time to the consumer.

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Global MMOG/LE Standards for Automotive Suppliers

MMOG/LE facilitates effective relationships between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and automotive suppliers. QAD experts are here to guide auto suppliers on a journey to a more effective and compliant supply chain.