CEBOS Automotive offers so much function that a business advantage is always found. Greg Smith, IT Manager, Ford
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AUTOMOTIVE CEBOS FOR AUTO INDUSTRY QAD is dedicated to providing global manufacturers with products and services that strengthen their enterprise and add bottom-line business value. Our combined focus on manufacturing and global automotive industry standards ensures that QAD understands, better than any other enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor, the global challenges and opportunities the automotive sector faces. QAD Enterprise Applications provide critically needed visibility into business operations, enabling manufacturers to make more informed decisions and react quickly to changing market demands. QAD’s exclusive ERP focus on manufacturing allows customers to concentrate their resources on business, not on maintaining enterprise software.
THE EFFECTIVE ENTERPRISE QAD is dedicated to providing global manufacturers with products and services that strengthen their enterprise and add value to their business. Because of our traditional focus on manufacturing, QAD understands, better than any other ERP vendor, the challenges and opportunities manufacturers face in the global economy. Our response to increasing expansion of the global manufacturing environment is the Global Enterprise Edition of QAD Enterprise Applications (QAD GXE); our strategy is to give our customers unique advantages in the global marketplace. our strategy is to give our customers unique advantages in the global marketplace. our strategy is to give our customers unique advantages.
QAD’s innovative applications provide critical visibility into business operations, enabling manufacturers to make informed decisions and quickly react to changing market demands. Our focus on the manufacturing sector empowers customers to focus on their business, not on maintaining enterprise software. And, our commitment to customers in the six vertical markets we serve confirms that when manufacturers enter into a relationship with QAD, they enter into a long-term partnership that will change and grow alongside their business. This complete suite of integrated applications addresses the needs of multi-national companies and is designed to streamline the management of manufacturers’ operations, supply chain, financials, customers, technology, and business performance.
THE BENEFITS OF A VERTICAL FOCUS With QAD, automotive suppliers have the tools and information to react to changing market pressures and work faster and smarter with more precision throughout their value chain. Designed for single- or multi-site operations, QAD Enterprise Apps addresses the needs of automotive companies in more than 90 countries, support 27 languages, many currencies.
COMPLIANCE QAD Enterprise Applications and QAD Global Services professionals assist automotive companies in achieving Materials Management Operations Guidelines/Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE) compliance. Embraced by many OEMs, MMOG/LE is a recognized global industry standard for materials
management and logistics performance. This versatile, supplier assessment process helps suppliers identify gaps in materials and logistics processes and better target continuous improvement opportunities. Compliance with MMOG/LE helps suppliers reduce line stoppages, rework, logistics incidents, premium freight expenses, obsolete material, inventory carrying costs and data entry time; improve operational and delivery performance; and enhance participation in the automotive industry.
PRECONFIGURED WITH AUTOMOTIVE BEST PRACTICE MODEL QAD provides automotive-specific Process Maps, based on MMOG/LE compliance requirements. QAD automotive Process Maps enable users to navigate through graphical views of a company’s business model before drilling down into specific workflows and processes, including operational metrics, compliance checkpoints, training, and work instructions (over 230), and provide direct access to QAD Enterprise Apps software to facilitate better user performance and adoption of MMOG/LE best practices.
ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI) A significant requirement in today’s global automotive industry is supply chain connectivity. QAD provides fully integrated customer and supplier inbound and outbound EDI communication. QAD EDI and Web offerings help automotive companies to achieve 100 percent connectivity. QAD Global Services can assist automotive companies with managing the complexities of implementing EDI through QAD Application Managed Services. AUTOMOTIVE
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Automotive suppliers that have repetitive manufacturing processes and products need to simplify the management of customer schedules and reporting production. QAD Enterprise Applications automates order creation and operation-level reporting of production, scrap and reject counts, and component consumption. Single-transaction floor reporting automatically consumes labor costs, moves the material to finished goods, and provides full financial integration, eliminating redundant activities.
QAD provides the ability to establish Kanban loops, set replenishment authorizations and communicate the Kanban’s current status throughout the supply chain. QAD Lean Workbenches provide simulations for sizing inventory buffers, establishing loop size, analyzing product mix, and developing a level schedule at pacemaker process. Kanban fill/consume transactions are made with a single scan. Loops are supported between operations, super-markets, inter-plant and supplier. This allows organizations to use Kanban for execution and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for long-term planning.
Managing quality in all phases of operations from planning to production is critical for global suppliers. With support for advanced quality product planning (APQP), product part approval processing (PPAP), engineering changes, inspection processing and preventative maintenance calibration management; QAD supports automotive companies in streamlining these processes as well as meeting ISO/TS 16949.
MATERIAL CONTROL WITHIN THE PLANT AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN QAD Enterprise Applications supports coordination of the entire supply chain, meeting customer demand with production and supplier delivery schedules. QAD provides capabilities to address common automotive practices such as standard pack sizing, ship delivery patterns, and requirements tracking and adjustments.
LOT AND SERIAL NUMBER TRACKING FROM THE SUPPLIER TO THE CUSTOMER QAD provides support for uniquely identifying and tracking all phases of the production cycle. Lot identifiers, from suppliers, can come through receiving and stocking and be tied directly to production orders. All associated lot information including material at outside suppliers, is tied to a production order, linked to finished products as they are completed and, included on the ASN.
SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING AND EXECUTION QAD Supply Chain planning and execution facilitates visibility of forecasted demand and schedules to suppliers to meet production schedules including Kanban replenishment and Vendor Managed Inventory. Material is tracked including international shipments from ASN to delivery.
SHARED SERVICE PROCESSES QAD Enterprise Financials provides centralized processing for multiple manufacturing plants/ divisions, to reduce Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expenses and provide a higher degree of financial and cash management control. QAD provides the ability to manage internationalization requirements including financial currency and localized reporting requirements.
ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT QAD Enterprise Asset Management manages the entire capital assets life cycle from planning and installation to preventative maintenance and repair.
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