The Company
Founded in 1979, QAD is a leading developer and worldwide supplier of e-business-enabled enterprise and supply chain software. Every working day more than 300,000 people use QAD software to deliver high-volumes of quality products manufactured and distributed from more than 4,600 sites in over 80 countries.

QAD software helps you manage all the logistical issues that you have to face to effectively control your enterprise. Thanks to our industry focus and our global alliance programs, our customers can rest assured that their sites will be up and running within the shortest possible time. Over 20 percent of the world's top 100 companies use QAD software to run their businesses.

Enterprise Solutions
QAD's Web-enabled MFG/PRO software, provides comprehensive manufacturing, distribution, and financial solutions for midrange and multinational companies. Open architected and interoperable with other business applications, MFG/PRO runs in most Unix, Windows, and Windows NT environments and uses either Oracle and Progress databases. The software supports both host (character mode) and fully distributed, client/server implementations featuring a Windows graphical user interface.

QAD software is highly adaptable. Because of its scalability and database architecture, you can easily implement industry-specific functionality at one or more sites as needed and easily adapt to future changes. MFG/PRO provides an ideal backbone for QAD's e-commerce and high-volume collaborative applications, and it handles multiple currencies including the euro.

E-business Applications
QAD's e-commerce and collaborative applications are designed to optimize supply chain management within and beyond the enterprise. Fully integrated with MFG/PRO, these applications cost-effectively build on a foundation of enterprise solutions.

QAD's e-commerce applications help transform your enterprise to effectively compete in an Internet-based economy. These applications include MFG/PRO B2B, MFG/PRO B2c, and MFG/PRO EDI.

A new breed of software, QAD collaborative applications support high-volume transaction environments and help companies gain competitive advantage by quickly addressing business changes and responding to market opportunities. QAD collaborative applications include two Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions and QAD's Demand Planner. Factory Optimizer provides significantly new APS functionality and performance at the plant-level, while Supply Chain Optimizer provides an optimized APS solution that extends beyond the plant to include supplier and end customer supply chains. QAD's Internet-enabled Demand Planner allows manufacturers to improve product planning, promotional management, channel management, market allocation and customer service.

Other QAD collaborative applications now in development focus on dynamic and continuously evolving business processes. These applications will be highly adaptive in real-time. Even non-technical users will be able to make fundamental changes to the software as it is running – a major technology breakthrough as well as an enormous cost savings.

QAD software is consistently praised for its elegance and ease of implementation, and leading industry analysts acknowledge QAD as the enterprise software supplier best able to implement globally. More than 30% of QAD employees and numerous authorized partners provide award-winning 7x24 support and implementation planning services worldwide. According to metrics gathered by independent consultants, most of our customers' issues are resolved on the first call with high levels of satisfaction. QAD corporate headquarters has been granted ISO 9002 registration by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance. This registration covers the production and distribution of QAD software and related software products.

Publicly traded on NASDAQ (QADI), QAD is headquartered in Santa Barbara County, California, and has offices located in 19 countries. QAD has more than 1,600 employees worldwide.

QAD Inc., 6450 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Tel: 616-285-9400; Fax: 805-566-6070.