Ensure the millions you pour into material generate maximum profit
Master inventory management to eliminate cost overruns that many manufacturers lack insight to prevent. Get real-time control, end-to-end visibility and ensure compliance from raw materials to customer, eliminating waste and boosting efficiency.
Key Benefits of Inventory and Traceability
Lower Inventory, Not Service Levels
Maintain 99% inventory reliability while measurably reducing material spend by trusting planning.
Reduce Handling and Storage Costs
Shrink receiving, storage and picking durations by hours a day. Spend less on racks with higher turns.
Minimize Recall and Noncompliance Risk
Trace from supplier to customer without sacrificing efficiency or relying on spreadsheets.
Key Capabilities
Gain granular control over every item's movement.
- Specify control levels (lot-optional, lot required, serial required).
- Apply statuses at the most granular level.
- Build protection into every transaction, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Pinpoint any item's journey, searching from supplier lot or customer shipment
- Enable swift root cause analysis (RCA).
- Quickly identify and address quality issues or complaints.
- Trace inventory through every process, crucial for recalls and compliance.
Associate inventory with single and multi-layer packaging
- Define packaging types, structures, and associations with parts and/or customers.
- Ensure material handlers know the exact contents of pallets, boxes, totes and any other movable container.
- Seamlessly integrate label printing and barcode scanning for peak efficiency.
Enhance transparency and details with scalable attributes and testing
- Maintain granular characteristics of items and inventory with limitless attribute definitions.
- Improve quality, sustainability, and traceability insights.
- Generate Certificate of Analysis reports to build customer confidence and support their supply chain visibility goals.
Optimize cash flow with maximum visibility through supplier consignment
- Set up items in accordance with supplier agreements.
- Transfer risk and keep cash until materials are used.
- Gain full traceability and visibility of consignment inventory with configurable ownership transfers.
Streamline internal material transfers and reduce overall carrying costs.
- Leverage item-site level ability to request inventory from other sites within your division.
- Lower costs and increase transfer speed.
- Include distribution and intersite demand in your MRP engine for comprehensive planning.
Boost efficiency with native data collection and label printing
- Native handheld scanner transaction and label engines for live inventory management.
- Empower on-the-move material handlers with live access to the most up-to-date information.
- Eliminate the need for external scanning and printing solutions, enabling operations while simplifying your IT landscape.
Simplify cycle counting and physical inventory tasks.
- Execute occasional cycle counts and streamline annual physical inventories for accuracy and compliance.
- Eliminate time spent on manual data entry and the risk of losing a clipboard or not saving a spreadsheet.
Streamline day-to-day warehouse operations.
- Design the ideal warehouse layout while precisely managing the movement and storage of materials throughout your facility.
Easily comply with UDI barcode requirements.
- Serial labels support UDI-specific fields, enabling UDI label printing as a standard product during production receipt.
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Frequently Asked Questions
QAD Adaptive is manufacturing ERP software. The inventory and traceability module satisfies advanced capabilities that global enterprises seek in inventory management software. Shrinkage and obsolescence are reduced through precise control, real-time visibility and automation (e.g., barcode scanning). The manufacturing traceability software included in QAD Adaptive ensures quality and prevents costly recalls.
This manufacturing ERP software can be implemented with fully integrated and automated barcode scanning for real-time visibility and error reduction. The manufacturing traceability software provides precise lot/serial control along with picking order logic (FIFO, LIFO, Expiry, etc.), ensuring material handlers are guided to the right inventory without having to spend time deciding on or searching for what to retrieve.
Inventory directly impacts a manufacturing company's financial health and operational efficiency. QAD Adaptive optimizes cash flow by preventing overstocking (tying up capital) and stockouts (lost sales), leading to accurate COGS and improved profitability. Effortless inventory management ensures raw materials are available for production, reduces waste, streamlines processes, and enables timely order fulfillment, boosting overall productivity and customer satisfaction.
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