QAD Demand Management, QAD Collaborative Portal, and QAD Inventory Optimization_

Integration with QAD Enterprise Applications
Ease of use and implementation
Robust statistical engine
Strong demand management planning core with expanded capabilities
Sales/Marketing/Finance/Operations all have input into one stable baseline forecast
Ability to understand supplier demand in real time, and proactively manage inventory levels
Plan inventory replenishment on a monthly, weekly or daily basis using synchronized time buckets
Provide real-time access via the QAD Collaborative Portal
Back-end data mart supports robust reporting
Effectively plan for product introductions and retirements
Enables on-line and off-line forecast updates

Manage different data streams, such as EDI and point-of-sale data, and plans from customers, suppliers and internal departments
View and adjust your synchronized forecasts in daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual time buckets, seamlessly switching from one forecast to another
Allocate changes using top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out methodologies
Filters and exceptions allow staff to focus on critical issues. All relevant data, adjustments and feedback can be reconciled and quickly analyzed when adjusting the demand plan.
Sales forecasting with an intuitive easy-to-use graphic interface that captures events and promotions and customer’s intent. Salespeople will be able to evaluate alternative outcomes to determine the best business solution.
Powerful reporting with slice-and-dice capabilities to drill up and down to any layer of your business

Graphical, easy-to-use interface with hierarchies

Facilitates sharing of information with external participants, such as sales representatives, customers and suppliers
Automatic notification of exceptions to key supply chain members to ensure that potential issues are addressed quickly
Enables users to record promotions, manage by exception, do ad-hoc reporting and view data in user-defined levels of detail

Getting Started landing page

Detailed view of filtered items or exceptions

New products can be managed by selecting the New Product Forecasting Technique grouping and applying four introduction-specific calculations which build models based on limited historical data
Life-cycle Forecasting enables users to apply a pattern to the forecast of a series to compensate for predictable growth or decrease in a product’s demand that is not captured by most statistical forecasting methods
Life-cycle Forecasting allows the application of predetermined demand profiles to newly created items
Cloning/Same-as or Retagging capabilities simplify the use of historical analogy in which the demand for a new product is expected to be similar to demand for another product

Assign product profiles for new product introduction

Automatically calculates inventory replenishment and manufacturing orders based on lead time, customer service level and inventory optimization parameters
Provides automatic or user-approved purchase or manufacturing order releases based on revenue, cost and margin
Plan inventory replenishment on a monthly, weekly or daily basis using synchronized time buckets
Manage multi-level distribution and inventory replenishment plans by creating dynamic hierarchies
Optimize safety stocks, service levels, reorder points, periods of coverage and lead times to ensure peak inventory management performance
Automatically calculate economic order quantities, lead times and inventory levels using the intelligent planning advisor and user-defined business rules for inventory optimization

Calculate safety stock, reorder point or period coverage by series or scenario

Standardized reports