Updated: May 12, 2025
Published: September 22, 2021

ERP software has the ability to connect and transform every aspect of an enterprise. Today’s Software-as-a-Service model provides businesses with a level of efficiency that helps them work smarter, faster, and more cost-effectively. Because of ERP’s many measurable benefits, organizations across a wide range of industries have adopted it to help them improve their operations and bottom line. Learn more about companies using ERP and how they’ve found success below.

What is ERP Software?

ERP stands for “Enterprise Resource Planning”. This type of software is used by businesses to plan and oversee routine operations, such as supply chain management, manufacturing, services, project management, customer relationship management, risk management, compliance, accounting and procurement. ERP software helps to automate and organize these business activities, as well as connect departments for better communication and capture data about operations. Overall, ERP software enables businesses to function more effectively.

ERP software can be used as individual applications, or as a complete suite to allow for the flow of data and communication between applications. It can be hosted via on-premise servers or in the cloud.

What Types of Companies Use ERP?

ERP can be useful to any company that would benefit from automation and integrated communication between business functions. It has proven to be particularly useful for companies in the manufacturing space. Common industries that benefit from ERP software include:

• Automotive
• Consumer Products
• Food & Beverage
• High Tech Manufacturing
• Industrial Manufacturing (engineered materials, equipment, etc.)
• Life Sciences (medical devices, BioPharma, CMOs, etc.)

Case Study #1: Asteelflash

The types of companies that use ERP widely vary. Despite operational differences between industries, organizations find success thanks to how tailored ERP systems can be.

Asteelflash, headquartered in Saint-Cloud, France, is a global leader in Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) and supply chain management. With 17 production sites across Europe, North America, North Africa, and Asia, Asteelflash needed an ERP system that could support both its decentralized structure and ambitious five-year goal to double revenue.

Having harmonized its global operations on QAD ERP in 2012, Asteelflash recently migrated to QAD Cloud ERP with the support of QAD Professional Services. The implementation provided greater scalability, predictable costs, and quicker onboarding of new facilities—critical as the company prepares for rapid growth amidst industry challenges like economic uncertainty and supply chain disruptions.

Key benefits included:

• Faster rollouts of ERP at new sites—often completed in less than six months
• Real-time operational data across all regions
• Greater flexibility to adapt ERP to specific needs without sacrificing consistency
• Enhanced ability to integrate new assets and meet local regulatory requirements

“Rolling out QAD ERP was not really just deploying a tool, it was building a team that was the real benefit. It was not an IT project, it was a company project.” – Frederic Martin, Business Process Owner, Asteelflash.

Read the full Asteelflash case study and watch the video to learn more.

Case Study #2: AmSafe

AmSafe, based in Phoenix, Arizona, is the world’s leading provider of safety restraint products for the aerospace and defense industries. Having relied on a heavily customized QAD ERP system for nearly two decades, AmSafe faced a new challenge: their customizations were now hindering their ability to scale and modernize.

To stay competitive, AmSafe upgraded to QAD Adaptive ERP with Adaptive UX, supported by QAD partner Roundview Technologies. Their goal with the implementation was to streamline operations by minimizing customizations while maintaining efficiency.

Following a successful upgrade to QAD Adaptive ERP completed within a strict deadline, AmSafe achieved:

• An 87.5% improvement in the time needed to update pricing sheets
• Faster updates to customer pricing—from up to two hours to as little as five minutes
• Increased visibility into inventory, orders, and customer shipments
• Greater employee empowerment and ease of use through Adaptive UX

“QAD, day in and day out, whether it was the on-prem or the current, cloud-based Adaptive ERP has never given us anything to worry about. They make sure that our system is up and running day or night.” – Kevin Davis, Vice President of Finance, AmSafe​.

Read the full AmSafe case study and watch the video to learn more.

Case Study #3: De Bortoli Wines

Australian winemaker De Bortoli Wines has been crafting exceptional wines for over 95 years. As a vertically and horizontally integrated business that manages everything from grape growing to wine distribution, De Bortoli needed a highly flexible ERP system to ensure end-to-end traceability and optimization.

By upgrading to QAD Adaptive ERP with Adaptive UX, and with the support of QAD partner Atturra, De Bortoli streamlined their agribusiness just-in-time scheduling, strengthened compliance, improved quality control, and built a foundation for sustainable growth.

Some of the notable outcomes achieved from the ERP implementation included:

• Enhanced grape-to-glass traceability
• Reduced delivery times for growers, improving grape quality
• Greater ability to integrate with MES and other business systems
• Extensible architecture that allows regular upgrades without major disruptions

“Our agri-business supply chain scheduling has allowed us to focus on quality, compliance, and optimization simultaneously.” – Bill Robertson, CIO, De Bortoli Wines​.

Read the full De Bortoli Wines case study and watch the video to learn more.

QAD Solutions for Companies Using ERP

These are just three of the many companies using ERP systems that have seen measurable benefits to how they’re able to operate. If you would like to read more about QAD Enterprise Resource Planning success stories, visit our Customers page and explore the customer success section of our Blog.