Decision Support
Correct decision-making is essential for the success of your company, from the highest executive positions to the everyday operations of individual employees. The key to making the right decision is knowledge, experience and timely access to information that is accurate and up to date. Tools to support your decision-making that are seamlessly integrated in your system remove the worry and cost of buying additional specialised management BI tools and painstakingly connecting them to your information system.
With QAD Decision Support, you get:
- Decision-making based on the most up to date information represented by simple visuals, with the ability to drill down into a detailed analysis of the causes and implications
- A clear indication of priorities using a traffic light system based on cause analysis
- Decision-making boards prepared according to the industry specific requirements
- The ability to quickly and easily build your own custom boards using metrics and data from your information system without the need to create a separate data warehouse
Features
- Analyse sales performance in terms of total sales, gross profit and quantity sold by product, customer and sales representative
- Analyse purchasing in terms of delivery completeness, timeliness, quality and cost by material, supplier and purchaser
- Analyse production in terms of capacity unit utilisation and efficiency, OEE, work order delays, actual production costs compared with planned costs, downtime, scrap rates including their underlying causes
- Financial management for the individual entities over which QAD issues consolidated financial statements. Within these entities, management of divisions or cost centres can be analysed separately or in combination in terms of measuring receivables and payables
- The correct use of QAD ERP is monitored using a hundred predefined indicators which allows the immediate identification of any issues. By clicking on any indicator, you can look to identify the underlying cause and ensure a timely fix as well as preventing the deterioration of overall sales, purchasing, manufacturing and financial indicators