QAD Announces the Release of DSCP 2022.1

Latest enhancements help to safeguard manufacturers against perpetual disruptions

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QAD Inc., a leading provider of next-generation manufacturing and supply chain solutions in the cloud, has announced a significant new release of QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP) designed to support and help its customers navigate through global supply chain interruptions with innovative supply chain planning capabilities.

“This release is our disruption breaker. In recent years, manufacturers have dealt with one supply chain disruption after another,” said Charles Sutherland, chief product officer at QAD. “This release improves the granularity of supply chain visibility and predictability and is perfectly suited to the needs of manufacturers in 2022.”

A core feature of this release is the intuitive planner experience via the extended use of home pages and dashboards. Combined with an embedded supply chain analytics engine, the dashboards provide instant detection of a current or predicted event that could impact the current plan. Planners can perform end-to-end scenario analysis to collaboratively determine the course of action that best serves the business objectives within an acceptable risk profile.

“With the enhanced use of icons and buttons, the solution ensures the most likely response is only a single click away,” added Jean-Luc Rominger, VP of Engineering for DSCP at QAD.

This release continues to focus on reduced time-to-value. This initiative is a multi-release project that aims to simplify and streamline the experience to buy, deploy, configure and own QAD’s digital supply chain planning solution. The latest version of DSCP uses intelligent wizards to rapidly prototype a fully configured planning system based upon planner questionnaire responses.

QAD DSCP is a functionally-rich digital planning solution that helps global companies achieve growth and profitability objectives by ensuring optimal product deployment. Available in the cloud, it provides an end-to-end solution with specific capabilities for demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, manufacturing planning, financial planning, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

Note to editors: Linked here is an example image of the QAD DSCP 2022.1 Planner Homepage.

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QAD Inc. is a leading provider of next-generation manufacturing and supply chain solutions in the cloud. QAD software enables customers and partners in industries such as food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, life sciences, apparel, luxury, high tech, automotive, distribution and retail verticals to meet their goals of better managing Digital Supply Chain Planning and becoming more Effective Enterprises.

Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, QAD has 30 offices globally. Over 2,000 manufacturing companies have deployed QAD solutions including enterprise resource planning (ERP), digital supply chain planning (DSCP), global trade and transportation execution (GTTE), quality management system (QMS) and strategic sourcing and supplier management to become an Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise. To learn more visit www.qad.com or call [phone]. Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

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