QAD EDI ECommerce Receives Honda Approval; QAD, Together with Trinary and Eagle Consulting & Development, Has Completed Honda North American EDI Approval

    CARPINTERIA, Calif.--Feb. 20, 2002--QAD , a leading provider of collaborative commerce applications for manufacturers, has successfully completed the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) approval process for Honda's plants in North America. The Honda EDI approval ensures that QAD EDI ECommerce and EDI/bar code communications between Honda and its suppliers are seamless and meet internal EDI specifications.
    QAD has demonstrated that QAD EDI ECommerce, when combined with Eagle Consulting & Development's RF Express(TM) and Trinary's EDI Windows(TM), has the capabilities necessary to meet Honda's EDI & Bar Code Label Implementation Requirements for Honda's Star, Delta and GPCS systems in North America.
    Through its alliances, QAD utilizes Eagle Consulting & Development's RF Express(R) as a data collection solution for barcode label generation and shipping transaction update as well as Trinary's EDI Windows to prepare EDI data for transmission to fulfill Honda's EDI & Bar Code Label Implementation Requirements. In addition, the Honda EDI/bar coding software approval verifies that QAD EDI ECommerce meets Honda's 4010 EDI/BC software specifications and authorizes QAD EDI ECommerce to be used for communication between Honda North American manufacturing facilities and their suppliers.
    "Honda's EDI approval process increases efficiency and ensures that every communication between our partners is ubiquitous and recognizable in content, meaning and format," said Jim Murphy, Purchasing Division Assistant Manager for Honda of America Mfg., based in Marysville, Ohio.
    Honda's EDI testing is a multi-phase software development and approval process that culminates in an on-site `real world' test scenario with Honda personnel before the final review and approval. In addition, the QAD EDI ECommerce team created and extensively tested four new EDI gateways and a Master Packing List program prior to the approval.
    QAD EDI ECommerce provides a streamlined method of managing EDI communications between QAD's best-in-class manufacturing solution, MFG/PRO, and trading partners. QAD EDI ECommerce is an alternative to traditional hard-coded EDI solutions because it places the processing logic, EDI document specifications, and trading partner specifications into database tables that can be modified at the user interface level. This table-driven design translates into a dramatically lower total cost of ownership and enables users to manipulate, analyze, edit, and reprocess EDI documents quickly and efficiently.
    "Honda's approval underscores our commitment to provide a streamlined method of managing EDI communications between QAD MFG/PRO and trading partners in the automotive industry," said John Peca, QAD product manager. "Both Trinary and Eagle Consulting & Development demonstrated keen insights and expertise on this project and together, we are dedicated to continue to meet the growing collaborative commerce needs of automotive manufacturers in North America."

    About QAD

    QAD delivers value through collaborative commerce for manufacturers, empowering enterprises to integrate diverse business processes and increase profitability. Manufacturers of automotive, food and beverage, consumer, electronics, industrial and medical products use QAD applications at more than 5,200 licensed sites in more than 80 countries and in as many as 26 languages. For more information about QAD, telephone 805/684-6614, or visit the QAD web site at: www.qad.com. To receive any of QAD's press releases via facsimile, contact 800/356-0747, or outside the U.S. contact 213/253-5647.

    About Honda of America Mfg.

    Honda of America Mfg. Employs 13,000 associates at two auto, an engine and motorcycle plant in west-central Ohio. Last year, those plants produced 692,000 cars, and 122,000 motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles, from domestic and globally sourced parts, and more than 1 million engines for Honda's North America production of cars and light trucks. Honda of America has 454 material and OEM suppliers in North America, with purchases of $7.6 billion last year. Honda of America, along with plants in Alabama and Canada, produced more than 1 million cars and light trucks last year for the U.S. market and for export.

    About Eagle Consulting & Development

    Kinnelon, N.J.-based Eagle Consulting & Development is the leading provider of online, real-time automated data collection solutions to users of QAD MFG/PRO enterprise applications worldwide. Eagle provides "plug-and-go" bar coding and automated data collection capability for QAD MFG/PRO at more than 500 customers' sites in 18 countries. For more information, contact Bill Paone at 973/838-5006 ext. 119 or visit www.eaglecondev.com

    About Trinary

    Founded in 1985, Trinary offers high value business-to-business EDI and e-commerce solutions. The company's products support a wide range of business requirements from high volume customer EDI to more cost effective e-commerce supply chain solutions. Trinary focuses on meeting customers' needs for collaboration across a trading community and offers a broad range of consulting, implementation services and support to ensure that the customer receives the full productivity improvements afforded by e-commerce. Trinary has been a QAD Alliance partner for more than seven years and has extensive experience at integrating electronic commerce information with QAD's MFG/PRO. For more information visit www.trinary.com

    "QAD" and "MFG/PRO" are registered trademarks of QAD Inc. RF Express(TM) is a trademark of Eagle Consulting & Development. EDI Windows(TM) is a trademark of Trinary. All other products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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