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notes A BPCS client/server product offers numerous industrial applications. With the help of BPCS
client/servers, it is possible to improve customer’s satisfaction, product quality and reduce the
time in launching a product in the market.
The Microsoft desktop is the BPCS client/server desktop. It has a powerful graphical interface
and fully compliant with Microsoft Windows 95.
BPCS client/server is used worldwide. There are more than 500 companies at 25000 sites and 3,
000, 000 end users. The industries clients are automotive, chemical, consumer goods, electronics,
fabrication and assembly, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals etc.
Alongwith distributed object – computing architecture, BPCS designs enterprise wide application
in industrial sector companies. SSA reduced time to benefit implementation cycles to 6 – 12
months with advanced version of BPCS client/server and allows organization to quickly and
easily alter the solution.
7.8 QaD

QAD was founded in 1979. The products of this company include MFG/PRO, Service/Support
management, Decision Support and ON/Q and Qwizard.
The ERP products i.e. MFG/PRO is available in 26 languages and has more than 4000 installations
in over 80 countries.

products and technologies: (mfg/pro)

QAD serves in automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, electronics, industrial products
and medical sectors. Especially provides supply chain and ERP softwares to manufacturing
industries. These softwares increase the speed of internal process and synchronise the distribution
operations.

The MFG/PRO is one of the software, product offered by QAD, provides multinational
organization with integrated Global Supply Chain. Internet enabled MFG/PRO offers the
facilities like information sharing and commercial transactions over the internet with the help of
open system environment. The MFG/PRO provides its solution for manufacturing, distribution,
financial and service support management application. MFG/PRO supply chain management
includes functions like, centralized processing, enterprise operation planning, distribution and
material transfer planning, centralized purchasing. These functions are supported by client
–server like technologies to meet the objectives of rapid response to the customer needs.
The MFG/PRO software is configurable, inter operatable and can run in UNIX, Windows and
Windows NT environments alongwith Oracle or Progress database. The interface is an Ultra
Thin Java browser as well as available with Windows GUI or Character user interface.
The QAD’s an IQ is an extended SCM application manage the complex demand of multinational
corporations. Service/support management is one more product that offers after sales service
and support.
The Decision – Support tool is the product designed to provide necessary information for decision
making. Q wizard is more interactive mentor for users of MFG/PRO provides easy to business
modeling implementation and interactive learning.

Task “A BPCS client/server product offers numerous industrial applications.”
What about PeopleSoft.

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