Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Bo Hagler, QAD Director, Research and Development
Steve Wobschall, QAD Director Product Management, Supply Chain

Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
The following is intended to outline QAD’s general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, functional capabilities, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functional capabilities described for QAD’s products remains at the sole discretion of QAD.
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• QAD’s Focus on Supply Chain
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R&D realignment
• What’s new in Supply Chain
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From our customers and industry analysis
• Supply Chain Suite
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SC Suite Overview
• Supply Chain [at work]
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Under development
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Summer 2010
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Assessment of current Supply Chain products and strategy
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Interviewed appropriately 20 customer supply chain executives
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Update Supply Chain roadmap
• February 2011
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R&D team dedicated to Supply Chain products
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
“In the past supply chain needed to respond to manufacturing. Now manufacturing needs to respond to the supply chain.”
Gartner 2010
• Companies not buying big projects
• Smaller projects with quicker time to value
• Supply Chain issues are now global in nature
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• Demand management
• Rapid planning
• Intelligent inventory buffering
• Managing margins
“Back to Basics”
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• Topics
• Collaboration
• Extending the Enterprise
• Decision Making
• Whole Product
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Customer Supply
Chain Executives’
View of Priorities
1 st
2 nd
3 rd
4 th
Plan
S&OP
Demand
Management
Inventory
Optimization
Supply Chain
Planning
Trade Promotions
Management
Lifecycle
Management
Maintenance
Planning
Source
Supplier
Relationship
Management
Outsourcing
Supplier
Performance/
Quality
Management
Purchasing/
Requisitioning
Collaborative
Design
Deliver
Global Trade
Management
Track and Trace
Shipping
Execution
Warehousing
Make
Trade Compliance
Container/Tote
Management
Daily Fresh
Tooling
Management
Return
Regulatory
Compliance
Disposal
Exchange
Recall
Remanufacturing
Repairables
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Core
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Supply Chain
Planning
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Distributed Resource
Planning
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Purchasing
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Supplier
Performance
• Warehouse
Management
• Transportation
Management
• Demand
Management
• Trade Promotion
Management
• Supply Chain Portal
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Asset
Management
(MRO)
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Supply Chain Roadmap
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Project Controls
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Bring projects in on-time and within budget
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Control excessive spending
• Plant Maintenance
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Increase equipment efficiency
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Lower cost of repairs
• MRO Inventory and Purchasing
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Right-sizing inventory lowering obsolete items
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Minimize stock-out thereby limited equipment downtime
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Eliminate unnecessary purchases
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Topic Functionality
Whole
Product
• EAM MRO Purchasing
― Merge with Core
― RFQ integration with SC
Portal
• EAM Plant Maintenance
― Provide MFG visibility to maintenance work orders
• EAM Projects
― Integration to Fixed Asset
― Integration with SSM
Extending the
Enterprise
• Contract Purchasing (MRO)
• Mobile Device Approval
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Track trade spend against promotions
• Automating the claims process
• Evaluate effectiveness of trade promotions
• Incorporate promotional uplift in demand planning
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Topic Functionality
NEW PRODUCT
Whole Product • Promotions
• Rebates
• Claims
• Budgets
• Deductions
• Reports
• Forecasting
• Accruals
Collaboration • Integration to Demand
Management
Enterprise Edition
Groups
Profiles
Budgets
Pricing
Sales Orders
Deductions
Accruals
Demand
Management
Business
Intelligence
Forecasts
Reporting
TPM
Promotions
Rebates
Claims
Decision Making • Business Intelligence
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Real-time collaboration
• Promotion management
• Schedule Sharing
• Statistical forecast capabilities
• Identify demand shifts
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Customer market share
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Product preferences
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Topic Functionality
NEW PRODUCT
(v6.1)
Whole Product • Internationalization
• New user interface
Collaboration • Customer demand portal
Decision
Making •
• Business Intelligence
Enhanced reporting services
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• Centralize repository for consolidated data
• Out-of-box graphical dashboard and performance metrics
• Easy to develop custom reports
• Rich data analysis with embedded pivot tables
• Access via mobile device technology
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Topic
New Product
Whole
Product
Functionality
• Operation / MFG Module
• EAM Module
― Projects, Plant
Maintenance, MRO
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• Mobile device support
Supply Chain
• Service and Logistics
• Marketing
• Sales and Channels
QAD BI access via iPad
Extending the
Enterprise
• Mobile device support
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• In-bound supply visibility
• Real-time web-based collaboration between manufacturer and suppliers
• Improved management of Vendor
Managed Inventory
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Topic Functionality
Whole Product • EAM RFQ
• Enhanced VMI
• Invoiced Visibility
• Customer Consignment
• EAM RFQ Extending the
Enterprise
Collaboration • Trade Promotion
• Demand Management
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Improve bin utilization (slotting)
• Integrated pick, package and ship process
• Optimize stock putaway based on real-time information
• Improved labor utilization through the use of
RF technology
• Increase shipping performance
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
Topic Functionality
Whole Product • Standard Browse & Collections
• Operational metrics
• New Reporting Framework
• Enhanced integration with shipping (TMS)
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Process
24x7 real-time information sharing between manufacturers & suppliers
Alerts & email notification for management by exception
Benefit
• Inventory reduction
• Reduce purchasing costs
• Buyer/ planner productivity
• Fewer expedites
• Reduced downtime due to stock-outs
• Admin. cost reduction
• Reduced expedites and premium freight
• Enables product cost reduction
• Improves capacity –load balancing
• Helps stabilize production environment
• Improve plant efficiency
Value
• 20 to 35%
• 2 to 5%
• 5 to 20%
• 10% to 70%
• 25% to 50%
• 5 to 50%
• 5 to 50%
• 2% to 10%
• $ 000’s
• $000’s
• 5% to 20%
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Attend Driving Customer Satisfaction With
Transportation Management
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Wednesday at 4
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Speakers:
• Linda Olster Product Manager QAD
• John Conrard Global Services Crane ChemPharma
• Attend Collaboration: From Supplier To
Customer Solutions
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Thursday at 9:45
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Speaker:
• Mark Williams, Professional Services QAD
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Supply Chain At Work – Direction For The Future
• Bo Hagler bgh@qad.com
• Steve Wobschall swo@qad.com
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