Efficiency is crucial to the success of every enterprise. For manufacturing companies, the need to continuously improve efficiencies—to be lean by reducing or eliminating waste in terms of time and materials—has never been more important than it is today. But in a world of increasing global competition, shrinking margins and accelerating time-to-market requirements, the never-ending quest to be lean represents new challenges.

We believe that lean principles can be applied to every link in the supply chain and every part of a manufacturer’s enterprise. We also believe that accelerating every business function is critical. Procurement. Inventory. Logistics. Warehousing. Transportation. Distribution. Acceleration demands automation of the complex web of transactions, both financial and informational, which link these functions into a seamless whole.

We refer to our vision of this seamless whole as the Perfect Lean Market. It is the goal of manufacturers in every industry; enabling it through software is our goal at QAD.

In fact, the vision of the Perfect Lean Market drives everything we do. We believe that no company is better equipped than QAD to transform the Perfect Lean Market into a powerful competitive advantage.