QAD provides cloud-based ERP and manufacturing software for manufacturers and supply chain operators. Its subscription SaaS platform offers modules for planning, production, procurement, inventory, and logistics and runs in the cloud to provide real-time data and cross-border collaboration, integrating finance, manufacturing execution, demand planning, and supplier management. Its focus on manufacturing and supply chain needs across 100 countries, with an adaptive, scalable cloud platform, sets it apart from more generic ERP players. The goal is to help customers become Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises that can adjust to changing demand and supply conditions while delivering reliable service.
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Santa Barbara, California
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1979
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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. 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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. 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QAD introduces AI assistants for manufacturing workflows. The software developer expanded its artificial intelligence platform to automate factory floor workflows and assist equipment operators Redação Portal ERP Sep 23, 2026 T | Fonte: 18px QAD | Redzone, a software provider that manages connected workforce applications across more than 2,000 manufacturing plants, announced a major expansion of its agentic AI portfolio, extending ChampionAI for the frontline, the intelligence layer already running across more than 2,000 plants, into a full roster of persona-based Champions designed to help every frontline role perform at their best. For years, manufacturers were told to accept a trade-off: productivity or a satisfied frontline, but never both. "The frontline is where manufacturing performance is won or lost, and that's where AI has the potential to make an enormous difference," said Ken Fisher, President of Redzone. "These Champions put intelligence directly into the hands of the people doing the work, helping them make better decisions, solve problems faster and continuously improve. We're taking everything we've learned from thousands of factories and billions of hours of frontline activity and using it to make every person on the frontline more capable - and happier." AI Agents Built for the People Who Make Everything ChampionAI for the frontline is trained on the world's largest and most diverse set of real manufacturing behavior data: more than 2.2 billion line-run hours and 5 billion frontline collaborations, reinforced by context from continuous improvement coaches with 800,000 hours of operational excellence experience. This is not a chatbot searching for information faster than a keyword search. It is multi-agent orchestration that draws on large language models, images, video, production data, and machine learning to help teams win the day. Line leads make better decisions in real time, operators stay focused on the line while agents handle mundane tasks, and quality technicians catch compliance problems before they happen. Introducing the Expanded Roster of Champions At Champions of Manufacturing 2026, QAD | Redzone introduced the newest members of its frontline Champion roster: * Line Lead Champion: flags upcoming changeovers early and drafts ready-to-use work orders for recurring downtime * Operations Manager Champion: turns ideas into action without bureaucracy * Inspector Champion: uses OCR and contextual AI to reduce defects and rework * Kaizen Champion: accelerates engagement and follow-through on continuous improvement * Yield Champion: closes the loop between quality events and preventive action * Recognition Champion: surfaces highlights of exceptional team and individual performance * Skills Champion: assesses actual performance and recommends targeted coaching and training Alongside the expanded roster, new Implementation Agents are reducing launch timelines from 12 weeks to as little as one month, speeding time-to-value and cutting breakeven points in half for manufacturers standing up the platform. Productivity, Engagement, and Retention Gains Across the Plant Across more than 2,000 plants, QAD | Redzone customers are reporting results that once felt out of reach: higher productivity, deeper engagement and stronger retention, achieved together rather than traded off against one another. "Supervisors can type into Redzone's ChampionAI, 'send me my shift notes and my top downtime issues,' and it just gives it to them - instead of having to type everything up manually. I would have loved to have that as a supervisor," said Alfred Carandang, VP, Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing Strategies at Ferrara. Scaling with AWS IoT and Systems Integrator Partners In support of its vision of having QAD | Redzone in every factory, the company has partnered with leading hyperscalers, consultancies and systems integrators to scale this system of action to factories of every size, across every region, from the mid-market to the Fortune 500. Through its partnership with AWS IoT, QAD | Redzone is also bringing AI-powered predictive maintenance to manufacturers previously locked out by cost and complexity. How Frontline Intelligence Shows Up in Business Outcomes Frontline intelligence is translating directly into the outcomes manufacturing leaders track: productivity, throughput, quality, cost and margin. It is also changing how manufacturing work itself is described. Not as repetitive or thankless, but as skilled, modern and meaningful. Every employee belongs to one or more teams, contributing to shared performance, sharing in the wins and getting recognized together. In larger enterprises, teams and supervisors across plants are now connecting to solve common problems and improve leadership skills together. QAD | Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent, adaptive platform that connects people, processes, and technology into a single System of Action. With three core pillars - Redzone (frontline empowerment), Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone), and ChampionAI (agentic AI for manufacturing) - QAD | Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace, achieving measurable productivity, resilience, and growth in as little as 90 days. Redação Portal ERP. Editorial Team
QAD | Redzone announces expanded Better Together integration between Redzone Connected Workforce and QAD Adaptive ERP. Published on 09/22/2026 at 04:52 pm EDT S&P Capital IQ QAD | Redzone announced an expanded ?Better Together? integration between Redzone Connected Workforce and QAD Adaptive ERP, better connecting frontline execution with the broader enterprise and manufacturing technology environment. New integration capabilities strengthen the connection between Redzone's frontline execution and QAD's operational backbone, giving manufacturers one continuous flow of information and action between the people making it happen and the systems running the business. The integration brings to life one of the central ideas behind the QAD | Redzone Manufacturing Platform: Adaptive ERP provides the operational backbone, while Redzone connects and empowers the people responsible for execution on the frontline. ChampionAI increasingly brings intelligence into the workflows connecting the two. QAD | Redzone's new integration capability, built with Boomi, closes that gap, connecting seamlessly to ERP, EAM, MES and quality systems so enterprise data flows naturally into frontline workflows. Operators can confidently perform basic maintenance because equipment data is already in front of them. Inventories become more accurate and up to date in real time. And, maintenance teams can finally work from one shared source of truth instead of reconciling spreadsheets against three systems. Manufacturers already running QAD Adaptive ERP are adopting Redzone specifically to close the visibility gap between planning and execution. Reyes Automotive, a QAD ERP customer and Tier 1 supplier to Toyota, turned to Redzone after coming to believe its existing systems were hiding the true capacity of its plant floor; capacity the company needed to prove out before it could pursue new OEM business without risking its core Toyota production. With Redzone connected to its QAD ERP environment, Reyes gained the visibility they needed to quantify that capacity, giving leadership the confidence to pursue growth beyond its original customer base without jeopardizing existing commitments. The latest integration is designed for manufacturers wherever they are in their technology environment. Customers do not need to run every part of the QAD | Redzone Manufacturing Platform to benefit. A manufacturer can modernize its operational backbone with Adaptive ERP, connect its frontline with Redzone, or do both and gain the compounding value of a single connected environment across the business. (C) S&P Capital IQ - 2026
Royal 4 Systems and Michigan Turkey Producers go live with WISE WMS for QAD. Royal 4 Systems is proud to announce that Michigan Turkey Producers has begun live operations with Royal 4 WISE warehouse management system (WISE WMS) at their Hall Street facility in Grand Rapids, MI. This plant handles cooking operations such as oven-roasted and pan-roasted meats, deli breasts, and private-label ready-to-eat items. Prior to implementing the Royal 4 WISE WMS, Michigan Turkey Producers were using an in-house developed solution written as a customization to their QAD ERP system. This home-grown system caused inaccurate inventory counting and spot checks, manual processes, workarounds, and limited warehouse visibility. By using WISE WMS, Michigan Turkey has now transitioned the WMS functionality to a commercial best-in-class application that provides: * Enhanced Order Management: Improve picking accuracy and tracking of orders. * Standardized Procedures: Document shipping and receiving workflows and establish clear protocols for handling issues. * Performance Visibility: Set up and document departmental performance metrics for employee transparency and accountability. * Real-Time Location-Based Perpetual Inventory - Provide automated stock management that tracks the exact location of every item and updates records whenever goods move, enter or leave. * QAD Response Times and Performance - Enhance customer service and operational efficiency with faster response times and seamless integration between WISE and QAD ERP. Royal 4 has been partnering with QAD for over 30 years. Royal 4's system was the original WMS fully integrated to QAD and has been successfully implemented at many world-class QAD customers such as Jel Sert, International Paints, International Foods, and Motor Parts of America (MPA). Paul Carmody, President of Royal 4 Systems, stated, "Royal 4 integrates its WISE WMS into popular ERP systems so that companies have a choice as they grow and evolve their businesses. I'm proud that our integration with QAD has taken so many of our customers to the next level of warehouse management. Our customers have achieved up to 99% inventory accuracy and a 25% increase in warehouse efficiency - enabling growth without the need to hire additional staff. This results in a significant bottom-line impact year over year". About Royal 4 Systems - Since 1984 Royal 4 Systems has been serving hundreds of clients across 6 continents with over 400 installations globally addressing their supply chain requirements. Royal 4 Systems named Notable Vendor for the past 3 years in the Gartner Midmarket Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems. Royal 4 is highly configurable, scalable and a real-time application that is platform and hardware independent. Recognizing the efficiency of modernization of your cannabis operation is the difference between low-profit margins and higher sales, in addition to prioritizing your immediate needs and minimizing cost.
QAD Supplier Relationship Management earns Spring 2026 SolutionMap "top Tech" Recognition, named to The Hackett group(r)"50 to Know" List. MIAMI - June 1, 2026 - QAD | Redzone, the company delivering the leading manufacturing platform, powered by Agentic AI that executes work and decisions across the business, from the shop floor to the top floor, announced that QAD Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solution, QAD's Agentic Procurement Suite for Manufacturing, earned "Top Tech" recognition in the Sourcing category in The Hackett Group(R) Spring 2026 SolutionMap and TechMatch procurement technology assessments. QAD SRM was also named to The Hackett Group's 2025-2026 "50 to Know" list, recognizing established procurement providers that set the industry standard and are considered essential for chief procurement officers to know. The Hackett Group's Spring 2026 SolutionMap evaluated 118 procurement technology providers across 16 source-to-pay categories using more than 500 detailed functional and capability requirements, mandatory demonstrations and verified customer ratings. The "Top Tech" designation recognizes providers ranked in the top quartile for technology capability and innovation. "As procurement organizations navigate increasing supply chain volatility, cost pressures and AI-driven transformation, manufacturers need sourcing solutions purpose-built for the complexity of direct materials procurement," said Amit Sharma, President, Manufacturing ERP at QAD | Redzone. "This recognition from The Hackett Group(R) validates QAD SRM's differentiated ability to help manufacturers improve supplier collaboration, reduce sourcing risk and make faster, more informed procurement decisions." According to The Hackett Group(R), providers earning "Top Tech" distinction tend to demonstrate innovation within their market category and leverage emerging technologies, including agentic AI, to deliver customer value. Unlike generic procurement solutions designed primarily for indirect spend, QAD SRM is purpose-built for manufacturers and engineered to support the complexities of direct materials sourcing and supplier management. The solution enables manufacturers to streamline sourcing processes, strengthen supplier collaboration, improve supply continuity and reduce manually intensive procurement activities across global supply chains. "QAD SRM helps us streamline sourcing processes while improving visibility and collaboration across procurement," said Marie Bendova, Team Leader for Purchasing Processes and Tools at Mubea. "For complex direct materials sourcing events, being able to compare supplier quotes, track activity in real time and manage everything in one place has been very helpful for our team." QAD SRM helps manufacturers manage complex bills of materials, engineering changes and quality requirements while improving strategic sourcing and supplier performance visibility. Customers use the platform to lower the cost of goods sold, reduce procurement costs and mitigate supply risk in rapidly changing operating environments. QAD SRM was previously named to Spend Matters "50 Providers to Watch" for five consecutive years before advancing to the "50 to Know" list in 2024. The 2025-2026 "50 to Know" list recognizes established procurement technology providers demonstrating strong market presence, innovation, technology competency and solution delivery. "Manufacturers today need procurement technology that not only digitizes sourcing processes, but also helps teams act faster, collaborate more effectively and adapt to constant change," added Sharma. "QAD SRM continues to evolve to meet these demands with manufacturing-specific capabilities, intelligent automation and AI-driven innovation designed to deliver measurable business value." QAD SRM, formerly Allocation Network, creates value for manufacturers by improving procurement efficiency, strengthening supplier relationships and increasing supply chain resilience. It facilitates real-time communication to improve procurement processes, reduce inbound supply risks and eliminate manual processes across sourcing and supplier management workflows. About QAD | Redzone QAD | Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent, adaptive platform that connects people, processes, and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars - Redzone (frontline empowerment), Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone), and ChampionAI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) - QAD | Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace, achieving measurable productivity, resilience, and growth in as little as 90 days. To learn more, visit www.qad.com or call +1 805-566-6100. Find QAD Inc. on LinkedIn, X, Facebook and Instagram.