Guard against lost revenue, inventory write-offs, and costly busywork

Achieve on-time deliveries, reduce costs, and ensure compliance from receiving to production and shipping. QAD Automation Solution delivers native barcode printing and on-the-move data collection, reducing headaches for operations and IT.

Key Benefits of QAD Automation Solutions

• Minimize material handling effort
  Reduce put-away and picking from hours to minutes. Cut overtime and protect against labor shortages.
• Maximize on-time-in-full
  Ensure picking and labeling are never again the cause for short, delayed, or incorrect shipments.
• Eliminate inaccuracies and manual entry
  Trust every “what, where, how many” detail without sacrificing speed to gain accuracy.

Key Capabilities for Perfecting Paperless Inventory

Handheld Inventory Control

Provide material handlers with powerful capabilities through a simple interface built for industry-standard RF scanners. Information is always at their fingertips, enabling efficient operations directly from the shop floor. This minimizes desk time and maximizes productivity where the action happens.

Barcode-Driven Accuracy

Remove effort and errors through transactions designed around scanning inventory and package barcodes. Balancing speed and accuracy, QAD Automation Solutions significantly reduces manual input, minimizing mistakes and improving data reliability for all material movements.

Low-Effort Labeling

Leverage the power to automatically route labels by activity and content. Operators can simply tear and stick, ensuring customer compliance, reducing errors, and accelerating throughput in receiving, production, and shipping.

ERP and Extended Integration

Minimize implementation time and effort through preconfigured transactions that cover the breadth of ERP: receiving, transferring, picking, issuing, shipping, packaging, cycle counting, and more. Strategic touchpoints into EAM, QAD EQMS, and QAD Production Execution unify the RF scanner experience.

Customer Success Stories

• Ajinomoto
  “Receiving only took a few minutes today, whereas with the old legacy system it would have taken me hours.” - Sr. Materials Manager
• Hendrickson
  A 40% improvement in material handler efficiency and 30% improvement in shipment packer efficiency keep this truck supplier moving.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Is Automation Solutions the same as inventory management software?
  Automation Solutions extends the material handling aspects of QAD’s robust manufacturing ERP software to the shop floor, balancing speed and accuracy.
• What specific material handling processes are covered?
  Preconfigured transactions across inbound receiving, inventory, production, and shipping processes.
• Does it support maintenance and quality management needs?
  Yes, Automation Solutions can collect data relevant to EAM and QAD EQMS.