In the second part of this series, we examine how manufacturers can optimize their systems to become adaptive organizations in an uncertain business environment.
Optimizing systems means ensuring that an enterprise’s systems support the evolution of processes inside the manufacturing business. They should give an organization’s people the information they need at the right time to make intelligent decisions and deal with day-to-day business and the exceptions. Simply put, an adaptive organization’s systems must:
- Be flexible and adaptive
- Enhance the enterprises’ value
- Support the business
ERP providers like QAD help organizations achieve this goal through solutions like QAD ERP O3 to optimize their systems through data and analytics, integration, mobility, and a better user interface.
From an analytics and integration perspective, the solution combines Boomi and Kafka as its foundation. For data, it has moved to Amazon RDS based on MariaDB as the core database and uses Cassandra as the data leg.
Everything in this product is delivered through web UI without needing a VPN, while the Walkme functionality assists with various production tasks. It also supports mobility by delivering applications across iOS and Android. The product uses Java as its primary coding language and will move to the public cloud through AWS.
What it means for users
An integrated platform: Robust integration reduces the need to customize or use extensions and lets users connect to a rich ecosystem of other applications. This allows enterprises to stay up to date with their system and enables them to connect to the best solutions available for their manufacturing processes.
Seamless future upgrades: The platform’s extensions can give users all the benefits of customization through low-touch upgrades in a way that is nonobtrusive to future updates, making an organization more agile by delivering an unintrusive last mile fit.
Enhanced security: The product offers added security for enterprises working in a highly regulated environment, protecting them from vulnerabilities like data leaks and hacking.
QAD ERP O3 went into early adoption in June and will be generally available in 2025.
The concluding part of this series will focus on how adaptive manufacturing organizations can use technology to transform their employees’ productivity.
