QAD is an ERP for global manufacturers in automotive, life sciences, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology and industrial goods. It manages items, bills of materials, work orders, purchasing, supplier schedules, customer schedules, sales orders and finance across many sites and countries. QAD users value its fit for complex supply chains. They also know how long it takes to answer a question that crosses plants or modules.
Agentic CMMS makes QAD available to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents. A plant controller, a materials planner or a customer service lead puts a question to their agent, and it reads QAD to answer. Answers come with the orders and schedules behind them, so planners can act straight away.
What your AI agent can do with QAD
- Check supplier schedules. "Which suppliers missed their scheduled deliveries for the Monterrey plant this week?"
- Review work orders. "Which work orders for the brake housing are released but not yet started, and why?"
- Look up an item. "What is the on-hand quantity of item 70-1123 at each site, and how much is blocked by quality?"
- Follow customer schedules. "Can we cover the latest customer schedule from Northgate Auto with current stock and planned production?"
- Compare sites. "How did scrap cost compare between our three European sites last month?"
- Read a bill of materials. "Which components in item 40-5500 come from a single supplier?"
- Check sales orders. "Which sales orders for the medical range are due this week but not yet shipped?"
- Find purchase order gaps. "Which planned orders from the last MRP run still have no purchase order?"
QAD with your other systems
QAD plans the supply chain. Other systems watch quality, suppliers and machines. With all of them connected, one question covers the full picture:
- Compare line performance in Siemens Insights Hub with QAD work order progress at the same plant.
- Link a quality event in MasterControl to the QAD lots, work orders and customers involved.
- Check a supplier's performance in Jaggaer against its QAD delivery history before a contract review.
- Join maintenance work orders from Maintenance Connection with QAD production plans to schedule repairs in the quiet hours.
For manufacturers with demanding customers
QAD customers often answer to car makers, regulators and retail chains, and those customers want answers fast. An agent shortens the time from question to facts, across every plant and every time zone. A customer service lead in one country can see production in another without asking a colleague to run a browse overnight. Each user signs off on their own agent, owners and admins grant tools by role, and every call is recorded in the hash-chained activity log for customer and regulatory audits.