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
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