The State of ManufacturingAnton Chilton, Chief Executive Officer

40 YEARS YOUNG“The disruptive force of technology

is killing off older companies earlier

and at a much faster rate than

decades ago…”

Source: Credit Suisse 2017

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The Last 10 Years

The State of Manufacturing

Cloud Solutions

55,000 External Users

240,000,000Transactions

52Countries

37,500+Users

How we got Here

The State of Manufacturing

Uncertainty

Disruption

Efficiency QualityCost

1979 2019

How we got Here

The State of Manufacturing

Increasing Intensity

Exponential Acceleration

20592019

Uncertainty

Disruption

what got us to here….

won’t get us to where we are going

Beginning the Next 40 Years

The State of Manufacturing

The Effective Enterprise

Dedication & Commitment

The Adaptive Enterprise

Understanding & Expertise

Thriving in an Uncertain World

The State of Manufacturing

GLOBALeconomy

GEOPOLITICALevents

INDUSTRYtransformation

SMARTmanufacturing

Adaptive

“In the future, instead of striving

to be right at a high cost, it will be

more appropriate to be flexible

and plural at a lower cost. If you

cannot accurately predict the

future then you must flexibly be

prepared to deal with various

possible futures.”

Edward de Bono

Competitive Advantage

The State of Manufacturing

RAPID

AGILE

EFFECTIVE

ENTERPRISE

PLATFORM

BEST PRACTICE

PROCESSES

USER

EXPERIENCE

Rapid, Agile,

Effective

QAD ADAPTIVE

APPLICATIONS

QAD

ADAPTIVE ERP

Change in the

environment

Growing gap between

ERP and needs

Manual processes /

workarounds

ERP selection project

Errors / no single version of the truth /

trust in system erodes

The Death

Cycle of ERP

Evolve

The Death

Cycle of ERP

Adaptive

ERP CycleThe Death

Cycle of ERP

Change in the

environment

Growing gap between

ERP and

needs

Manual processes /

workarounds

ERP selection project

Errors / no single version of the truth /

trust in system

erodes

Adapt Extend

Easily

Deploy

Rapidly

Upgrade

Seamlessly

STRATEGY

The State of Manufacturing

Timing

“Let our advance worrying

become advance thinking

and planning.”

Winston Churchill

SolutionsProductDisruption Best Practice

2019

the time is

NOW

QAD, the only choice for

manufacturers who want to

thrive in a disruptive world.

Driving Disruptive

INNOVATION

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