QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Forrest Mori – Principal Business Analyst
West Coast User Group, February 11, 2013
QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Agenda
• The Effective Enterprise
• Item Attributes, Quality Control and the
Effective Enterprise
• Business Challenges
• QAD Solution
• Value Summary & Metrics Impact
• Availability & Release Support
• Q&A
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
The Effective Enterprise
“An Effective Enterprise is one where every
business process is working at peak
efficiency and perfectly aligned to the
company’s strategic goals. ”
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Item Attributes, Quality Control and the
Effective Enterprise
• QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control assist
the Effective Enterprise by:
- Enabling the elimination of manual and external
processes for managing item attributes for
product, customer requirements, quality, and
regulatory compliance
- Extending the reach of quality and test results to
materials management and business operations
- Improving inventory track and trace
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Business Challenges
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Business Challenges
• Meet customers’ product requirements
• Capture and record values for product, and
lot attributes from quality test results
Encapsulation
Formula
Definition
Raw
Material
Quality
Control
Weighing
Blending
Tabletting
Quality
Assurance
Packaging
Shipping
Tablet
Coating
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Business Challenges – Forrest to evaluate
• Ensure regulatory compliance of products and
materials
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Business Challenges
• Manage recalls
• Track and trace inventory
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Business Challenges
• Meet customers’ product requirements
• Capture and record values for product, and
lot attributes from quality test results
• Ensure compliance to regulatory
compliance
• Manage recalls
• Track and trace inventory
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
QAD Solution
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Item Attributes
• Extends item data
management
- Define item attributes
- Manage attributes and
& specifications for items
- Manage specifications
at order level to qualify
materials
- Validate inbound &
production receipts
- Select & validate goods
to issue
- Full track & trace with lot
attributes
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Quality Control
• Test specifications, test
records, quality orders
• Supports:
- Multiple tests for an item
- Multiple test records for
an order or operation
• Quality order/events
automation
• Certificate of Analysis
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Lot Trace Workbench
• Single access point to
current lot-controlled
inventory and historical
data
• Backward & forward
tracing
- Extended list of relevant
information
- Drill down capabilities
- Ability to extract data for
further analysis
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Lot Trace – Backward (to supplier data)
• Drill down from finished goods backwards across all product
structure levels to verify what materials have been used.
• View transactional data related to a specific finished product,
the components issued, and the related purchased product.
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Lot Trace – Forward (to customer data)
• Analyze stock position at each item level and access and
export detailed transaction history data.
• Analyze to which customers goods have been shipped to
take appropriate and targeted actions.
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Demo
QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Summarized Value Proposition
• Supports customer service, product quality, and
regulatory compliance by
- Enabling the elimination of manual and
external processes for managing item
attributes for product, customer requirements
, quality, and regulatory compliance
- Extending the reach of quality and test results
to materials management and business
operations
- Improving inventory track and trace
- Helping manage scope during recalls
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
Availability & Release Support
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Compatible with 2012.1 EE
Delivered as add-on package
Part of Unified Bundle
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For More Information
• Forrest Mori – Principal Business Analyst, R&D
Mfg
- E-mail: flm@qad.com
- Phone: +1 805.565.4241
• Guido Van Den Broeck – Sr. Product Manager,
R&D MFG
- E-mail: gvb@qad.com
- Phone: +34 93 327 2052
• Carianne Nieuwstraten– Sr. Product Manager,
R&D MFG
- E-mail: czn@qad.com
- Phone: +1 503 236 0025
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QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control
For More Information
• Vertical Directors
- Riya Cao, Life Sciences
- Hank Canitz, FICE
- Terry Onica, Automotive
• Vice-President Life Sciences
- Dave Medina
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