QAD supply chain supports a supply chain network with advanced visibility, which can promote profit and cost improvement, shorten delivery cycles, increase inventory turnover, and meet industry compliance requirements.

• Improving profits: helps eliminate waste and reduce inventory
• Promoting Becoming an Effective Enterprise: Promoting Effective Business Processes
• Simplified communication: Customer and supplier portals can simplify and accelerate communication
• Improving responsiveness: Faster access to information means faster response time

Prominent features of the supply chain

Procurement: A comprehensive procurement tool and strategic procurement tool that fully integrates planning, providing advanced pricing functions for various contracts, individual orders, and summary orders.

Supplier performance: Monitor and report supplier performance according to defined standards and key indicators, continuously monitor supplier quality and performance, and communicate with suppliers.

Distribution Demand Planning (DRP): Internal demand planning enables companies to easily plan, manage, track, and record the costs associated with transporting products between different locations.

Enterprise Operating Plan (EOP): Supports the highest level of sales and operational planning and integrates plans and schedules

Consignment: Manage and track the consignment inventory or shipments requested by suppliers to customers (from receipt to consumption) in Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) mode, and create payment process triggers.

Warehouse management: supports the company's needs for larger or more complex warehousing. QAD warehouse management provides automated task management, RF based pickup, fluctuation management, batch picking, location query/audit, warehousing, lending, cross distribution, quality control, replenishment, transit, and advanced cycle inventory activities, including full support for global inventory views of multiple physical warehouses across multiple domains.

Requirement management: A tool for collaboratively or individually creating and managing forecasts based on mathematical models that utilize the history of requirements.

Shipment management: integrated into customer plans, directly integrated into QAD enterprise applications based on cumulative schedule requirements or net requirements. Process a sequentially arranged plan and associate detailed information (kanban, Drop Zones, etc.) with specified schedule order lines.

Transportation Management: Provide a complete set of tools for optimizing air, sea, parcel, truck load capacity, or shipping methods for quantities less than this; Provide international documentation and assist in complying with denied trade party regulations.

Data synchronization interface: Provide GS1 compliant transaction message transmission to suppliers using workflows.