Plan

QAD Enterprise Applications offers planning tools that can help companies become a more effective enterprise. From distribution resource planning to rationalize inventory across plants, to planner workbenches to optimize the shop floor, to service part optimization, QAD Enterprise Applications offers a planning tool for every phase of the operation.

Align strategic objectives with operations execution: Ensure forecasts and master schedules meet the company’s objectives for service levels, inventory balances and resource consumption.

Balance supply and demand: Forecast algorithms coupled with collaborative input ensure demand forecasts are as accurate as possible; supplier portal ensures supply chain issues are visible in time to take action to prevent disrupting production.

Make confident decisions: Dashboards and browses provide information fast — whenever you need it — so you base decisions based on facts, not guesswork.

Effective Enterprise Best practices

• Visibility across supply chain
• Collaborative forecasting with multiple stakeholders
• Optimized order quantities based on order multiples such as case quantities and EOQ
• Use sales and operations planning to align supply and demand
• Multiple statistical forecasting methods and cross-validation using causal factors
• Multi-entity, multi-enterprise planning
• Inventory stocked at the “feature” level, to enhance flexibility

Effective Enterprise Metrics

• Order fill rates
• Forecast cycle time
• Planning cycle
• Premium freight charges
• Equipment capacity utilization equipment
• Cost of WIP in queue at work centers
• Perfect order fills
• Unplanned overtime

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