Laird Technologies

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Industry: Electronics

Company Description: Laird Technologies (Laird) is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of antenna, electromagnetic interference (EMI), telematics and thermal management solutions for the telecommunications, data-communications, computer, general electronics, network equipment, aerospace, defense, automotive and medical equipment industries.

Challenges:

• Executing an ambitious global growth strategy
• Needed a single ERP platform to unite its acquired companies with common technology and business processes
• Needed a system that was agile with global processes

Solution: QAD Enterprise Applications, QAD Release Management

Results:

• Successfully implemented QAD at 10 sites in 9 months
• Leveraged QAD roll-out to create a unified culture across the enterprise
• Supported collaborative, ‘best-of-breed solutions to common problems’ across the global enterprise
• Established global data model
• Enabled common business processes throughout all sites
• Unified a diverse, dispersed enterprise with one corporate culture
• Improved visibility to inventory and other data throughout the enterprise