Perkins Engines Chooses QAD Applications With E-Commerce
28 February 2000
Perkins Engines Chooses QAD Applications With E-Commerce; World Leader in Diesel and Natural Gas Engines Finds Direct Route to Deep Manufacturing Functionality and Streamlined EDI with QAD
CARPINTERIA, Calif.--Feb. 28, 2000--QAD , developer of industry-specific e-business software for manufacturers and distributors, announced that it has signed a multimillion dollar contract with Perkins Engines Company Limited, a world leader in the production of diesel and natural gas engines. To increase efficiencies and grow profits, Perkins Engines chose QAD's best-in-class manufacturing applications with integrated e-commerce.Benchmark tests led Perkins to choose QAD as the best Internet-enabled, enterprise solution to handle its complex, repetitive manufacturing processes with high transaction volumes. "Since we will serve over 550 users to start with and a total of 700 in the future, we felt the need to conduct extensive tests to verify the system's ability to handle higher loads," said John Gustus, group IS manager for Perkins Engines. "Based on our complete evaluation, QAD offered the best overall value in terms of scalability, manufacturing functionality and time-to-benefit."
Perkins signed a contract on October 29, 1999, for QAD v.9.0 applications together with Release Management, ECommerce, Supplier Shipping Schedules and Supplier Performance. QAD's transportation-specific manufacturing functionality is created in collaboration with its industry-leading Automotive Development Group (ADG) member customers who offer direct input on software development projects.
"QAD applications will give us real time transaction processing that wasn't possible with our batch system, plus a flexible e-commerce messaging system that expands our ability to service new manufacturers. And due to the openness of the software architecture to integrate with other applications, we can leave the door open for future e-business enhancements."
QAD's ECommerce system significantly reduces the need for additional EDI programming and prepares companies to do business at a fraction of the time and cost of most conventional ERP software systems. With the EDI functionality embedded into QAD applications, users simply download EDI templates from a variety of libraries. ECommerce then edits and transforms electronic data travelling in either direction based upon trading partner tables.
About Perkins Engines
Perkins Engines, headquartered in Peterborough, U.K., manufactures more than 300,000 engines every year ranging from 5 - 2600 hp. powering more than 5,000 different applications from 1,000 equipment manufacturers who are amongst the leaders in the construction, power generation, agricultural, materials handling, defense and industrial markets. In short, if equipment runs on tracks, tyres or rail, pulls, ploughs, lifts, turns, harvests or floats, Perkins almost certainly has the power to drive it. Visit the company's web site at www.perkins.com.
About QAD
Founded in 1979, QAD is a leading provider of industry-specific e-business software and services to multinational manufacturers and distributors of all sizes, with special focus on the mid-market. Available in 26 languages and able to support multiple currencies, QAD software helps speed business processes for more than 300,000 licensed users at more than 4,000 licensed sites in more than 80 countries. QAD software is specifically designed for global manufacturers in the following targeted industries: automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial, and medical. For more information about QAD, telephone +1 805 684 6614, or visit the QAD web site at http://www.qad.com. To receive any of QAD's news releases via facsimile, contact +1 800 356 0747, or outside the U.S., contact +1 213 253 5647.
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