Why QAD & PwC are pairing their transformation solutions. October 27, 2026 QAD and PwC Belgium's partnership combines AI digital coordination systems with operational coaching, aiming to guide CIOs transforming legacy ERP QAD | Redzone and PwC Belgium have launched a strategic partnership designed to guide manufacturers through end-to-end operational transformations. The unified go-to-market collaboration will bring together QAD's workforce technology, including its agentic AI platform ChampionAI, with PwC's operational coaching capabilities. The partners say they will provide implementation support to help factory transformation leaders execute and maintain new ways of working, aligned with lean manufacturing and operational excellence. "Partnering with PwC Belgium allows us to combine leading edge connected workforce technology with world-class manufacturing expertise, ensuring our mutual clients achieve rapid, sustainable results," says Ahmad Salama, SVP & General Manager of EMEA & APJ at QAD. PwC methodology meets QAD technology. At the centre of the partnership is PwC's Centre of Operational Excellence, a multi-region consultancy programme designed to improve manufacturing quality, efficiency and overall performance. The programme consolidates PwC's operational excellence methodologies and training frameworks, deploying them through teams of specialists who coach manufacturing executives on industry best practices. The announced partnership's joint delivery model unites PwC's Centre of Operational Excellence with QAD's Connected Workforce Solution. Acquired in 2023, QAD's digital coordination system is designed to help organisations identify bottlenecks, coordinate work and improve productivity. It connects frontline workers with wider business operations through real-time data, downtime monitoring and guidance, aiming to reduce communication gaps. The partnership aims to pair QAD's tools with PwC's managing guidance, helping digital transformation leaders to effectively deploy manufacturing technology, connect it with overall business strategy and achieve measurable results. "Operational excellence on the factory floor requires both the right digital tools and the organisational culture to support them," says Tom Vermeir, Manufacturing & Operations Transformation Partner at PwC Belgium. ChampionAI: frontline-led lean transformation. PwC and QAD's partnership will also connect clients with QAD's ChampionAI, a multi-agent AI platform. In November 2025, QAD introduced ChampionAI to its Connected Workforce and QAD Adaptive ERP solutions. The platform consists of three agents designed to support lean business practices, productivity enhancement and sustainable ERP implementation. After monitoring production data and frontline workflows, QAD's AI is designed to identify quality control issues, suggest performance improvements and flag impending bottlenecks. It can be a tool for embedding lean principles into production without the need to redefine governance cycles. Adopters saw an average 26% increase in frontline productivity and an 81% increase in workforce engagement, QAD says. QAD also supports rapid deployment with prescribed implementation plans, stating that its approach can produce measurable value in 90 days. Why European manufacturers are transforming. The European Commission's 2026 Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report found that competitiveness pressures produced an average monthly loss of around 27,000 manufacturing jobs since 2024. "Manufacturing leaders across Europe are looking for practical, high-impact ways to empower their frontline teams and build resilient, efficient operations," Ahmad says. PwC's 2026 Global Industrial Manufacturing Sector Outlook similarly shows that 70% of executives considered improved internal capabilities as a top priority for accessing growth. However, the same survey demonstrates a digital infrastructure blind spot. For manufacturers looking to maintain efficiency and scale transformations, upskilling, analytics and decision are a key consideration, according to PwC. QAD and PwC Belgium's collaboration could target this gap, embedding digital technologies into factory floor processes while providing leaders with change management guidance. "Through our partnership with QAD | Redzone and our PwC Centre of Operational Excellence, we are positioned to deliver comprehensive capability transformation for manufacturers across Belgium and the wider market," Tom says. Key companies. PwC is a global professional services network providing assurance, tax and consulting services. Its consulting work includes business transformation, operational improvement, technology implementation and organisational change. Within its partnership with QAD, PwC Belgium contributes manufacturing expertise, coaching and change-management capabilities through its Centre of Operational Excellence programme, supporting manufacturers seeking to improve frontline performance and operational processes. QAD provides enterprise software for manufacturing and supply-chain operations, including its Adaptive ERP platform. It provides a Connected Workforce Solution designed to support frontline engagement and continuous improvement in manufacturing environments. QAD combines manufacturing software, workforce tools and AI capabilities, including ChampionAI, to support operational visibility, employee engagement and manufacturing transformation. Snowflake is a cloud data platform provider whose Snowflake Cortex AI services support AI applications built around enterprise data. In September 2026, QAD brought Cortex AI into ChampionAI, enabling it to analyse frontline manufacturing data across productivity, compliance, learning and reliability, and generate AI-driven insights and recommended actions. Company Portals

Top worktech news from the week of September 25th: updates from UiPath, Kantata, QAD | Redzone, and more. The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of September 25th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from UiPath, Kantata, QAD | Redzone, and more. Keeping tabs on the most relevant ERP and BPM news can be time-consuming. As a result, its editorial team aims to summarize some of the week's top headlines in the enterprise technology marketplace. The Solutions Review editors will compile a weekly round-up of vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy WorkTech information. With that in mind, here is some of the top WorkTech news for September 25th. Join Insight Jam, a community dedicated to enabling human conversation on AI, for early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review. Top worktech news from the week of September 25th, 2026. Beeline, a workforce orchestration company for the extended workforce, has announced a partnership with Insygna, an Agentic Workforce Management (AWM) platform provider. As part of their collaboration, Insygna's capabilities will be made available to Beeline customers, enabling them to onboard, credential, govern, and account for AI agents within Beeline, as well as the people in their extended workforce. BlackLine, the Agentic Financial Operations Platform provider, has acquired NetNow, an AI-enabled B2B customer-onboarding and credit-risk management solution. The acquisition will help BlackLine expand its Invoice-to-Cash capabilities and advance its vision for intelligent, trusted financial operations across the Office of the CFO. It will also allow BlackLine to expand its strategy by bringing customer and credit risk intelligence into the financial processes it can connect and orchestrate. Kantata, a provider of Professional Services Automation (PSA) solutions, has announced Agent Studio, a new solution for building custom AI agents that aims to help professional services firms turn their expertise into agents that work like their best people at scale. Agent Studio operates as a conversational environment within the Kantata Expertise Engine, making it easier for service firms to convert their delivery standards into governed custom agents. Manhattan Associates, a global provider of supply chain commerce solutions, has announced the commercial launch of Editions for Manhattan Active solutions. The ActiveWarehouse, ActiveTransportation, ActiveStore, and ActiveOrder suite now offers three Editions: Essentials, Enterprise, and Enterprise Premier. With each Edition, companies will receive access to Manhattan's unified platform and AI capabilities, equipping them with the resources they need to scale, compete, and grow over time. QAD | Redzone, a manufacturing solutions provider, has revealed Manufacturing Intelligence, a new intelligence layer that spans manufacturing processes, workflows, and systems. The new offering is designed to help manufacturers shift from asking what happened to answering what the business should do next and then acting upon it. Additionally, QAD | Redzone revealed its plan to combine NVIDIA's accelerated computing and AI with its manufacturing expertise and operational context. Tempo Software, an Intelligent Portfolio Orchestration (IPO) provider, has announced the general availability of Tempo Loop, an AI-native platform to help enterprises move from fragmented AI adoption to an Enterprise AI operating model for coordinating human and AI work. The release will connect portfolio costs and execution to strategic priorities through a continuous decision-intelligence loop, giving leaders context to assess the return on investment in people and AI. UiPath, a business orchestration and automation provider, has launched UiPath Cartographer, a new product that combines coding agents, orchestration, and continuous improvement to replace the tools traditionally used to capture the operational knowledge that automation and AI projects depend on. Specifically, Cartographer will synthesize context from various systems and formats to build an implementable Map of Work for a company's processes. Expert insights section. Watch this space each week as its editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review's enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools. 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