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Reflections on QAD Champions of Manufacturing
Posted on: December 3, 2025 | By: Blake Moore | QAD Practice News, QAD Business Process
QAD Champions of Manufacturing Recap
QAD | Redzone held its Champions of Manufacturing event in Dallas as it unveiled its QAD Adaptive ERP platform. This platform builds upon their prior versions as QAD (and more specifically the new QAD Leadership brought in as of February of this year) paused its focus on the O3 Platform.
At a strategic level, QAD is clearly repositioning itself. The company is moving from a traditional system of record ERP mindset toward a system of action models aimed at compressing time-to-value and driving execution on the shop floor. The introduction of Champion AI and the deeper integration of Redzone illustrate this direction, even if the practical roadmap remains intentionally flexible. In short, QAD wants to help manufacturers move faster, with tighter alignment between planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
AI was the dominant storyline, but not in an abstract way. The focus was on agentic AI—tools that can act, not just inform. The stated intent is augmentation: giving planners, supervisors, and operators clearer recommendations, not replacing them. While promising, the real-world impact will depend heavily on data hygiene, process consistency, and the organizational capacity to absorb AI-driven workflows. Those topics were acknowledged, but they remain the areas where most manufacturers, not just QAD shops will encounter the real work.
A second major theme was the connected workforce. QAD | Redzone continues to emphasize frontline engagement, digital routines, problem-solving workflows, and real-time visibility. The message was straightforward: technology only produces returns when operators adopt it, supervisors reinforce it, and plants sustain it. This aligns closely with what we see across clients—performance gaps typically stem from cultural and process inconsistencies, not from software feature limitations.
The event also highlighted a renewed focus on customer voice. The vast majority of our clients have noted an increased emphasis on partnerships to leverage QAD’s latest technology and drive bottom line impact, not simply a push to upgrade and move to the cloud. Advisory boards, customer-led sessions, and candid discussions around upgrades, integrations, and operational bottlenecks made the conference feel less like a product roadshow and more like a working session with the user community.
Overall, QAD is signaling an ambitious shift—more AI-driven, more execution-focused, and more integrated across plant-floor and enterprise processes. The new Executive Team deserves credit for how quickly it has improved QAD in virtually every area. For clients, our suggestion is to take a pragmatic approach and treat this as an inflection point. identify one or two high-impact pilot areas, validate outcomes, and scale based on measurable results, not marketing narratives.
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