QAD User Groups Join Forces with Champions of Manufacturing
As we move into the second half of 2026, the energy around our QAD User Group community continues to build. Our spring conference reinforced something I have believed for a long...
The Plant Manager Needs Accurate, Real-Time Plant Data to Maximize AI Tool Effectiveness
Plant managers are responsible for controlling rising costs, addressing labor shortages, reducing operational inefficiencies, increasing output, and improving quality. Manufacturing AI can help with these pressures, but it requires timely, accurate...
A 7-Minute Task That Now Takes 30 Seconds — And What It Signals for...
Moog Medical used to spend seven minutes adding parts to every depot order. Across three sites — Salt Lake City, San Jose, and Vilnius — that manual yet important effort repeated...
6 Questions Every Manufacturer Should Ask Their ERP Vendor About AI
Over the past year, ERP vendors across the industry have converged on strikingly similar AI messaging: your AI runs on the system you already have, today, with no migration required. It's...
Why Automotive Supplier Margin Pressure Is Increasingly About Pricing, Mix, and Portfolio Discipline—Not Just...
Automotive suppliers have spent much of the past several years responding to extraordinary pressure on their cost structures. Inflation, labor shortages, energy volatility, semiconductor disruptions, higher interest rates, and increasingly fragmented...
The M&A Window Is Narrower Than It Looks: Why Waiting for “Clarity” Will Cost...
The Industry Is Waiting for Clarity — But the Market Has Already Moved
Across the automotive supply base, many leadership teams continue to operate under the same assumption: major portfolio decisions, restructuring...
Why QAD Defense Cloud Requires the Right Partner
Your competitors are already compliant. Are you?
Defense contractors who delay ERP modernization aren’t just falling behind on compliance; they’re losing ground on contract eligibility. As CMMC enforcement accelerates and DoD suppliers...
The AI Race Has a Blind Spot and It’s Living Inside Your ERP
The conversations I'm having with manufacturers right now have a new urgency to them. Everyone is moving fast on AI. Budgets are open, pilots are running and the pressure to show...
From ERP to Execution: The High Cost of Doing Nothing in Food Manufacturing
In food and beverage manufacturing, doing nothing is not a neutral decision, it’s an expensive one.
Rising costs, increasing regulatory pressure, and growing supply chain complexity are exposing the limitations of legacy...
Closing the Execution Gap in Food, Beverage & Consumer Products with ChampionAI
In the food, beverage, and consumer products industries, disruption isn't an occasional guest; it’s a permanent resident. Manufacturers are caught in a vice grip of volatile ingredient supplies, chronic labor shortages,...