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QAD Enterprise Applications helps effective enterprises respond to changing demand, conform to regulatory requirements and control shop floor activities. Whether manufacturers are discrete, process or mixed-mode, whether they uses work orders or rate-based schedules, manufacturing companies must be flexible and continuously improve their operations.

Streamline track and trace recording: Tracking and tracing is required in many industries. Flexible serial tracking, eSignatures and audit trails can simplify the process and improve operational efficiency.

Adopt lean principles: Minimal inventory delivered just in time, foolproof processes, and continuous improvement all are basic tenets of lean. Adopting even a few allows you to reap the benefits of lower costs and higher throughput.

Configure products to order: Reduces finished goods inventory, shortens delivery lead times, improves customer satisfaction and increases manufacturing flexibility.

Effective Enterprise Best Practices

• Regular monitoring, measurement and analysis of performance metrics
• Well-defined, understood and documented performance metrics
• Stable, repeatable and predictable processes
• Production planning systems dynamically incorporate last minute changes in requirements when generating production schedules
• Serial traceability process that meets customer, industry, government, and/or international standards
• Bidirectional communication and data exchange with suppliers, sub-contractors, and service providers
• Lean Manufacturing

Effective Enterprise Metrics

• Plant capacity utilization
• Manufacturing errors
• Planned downtime for maintenance
• Overhead as a percentage of direct costs
• Cost per part
• Defective parts