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Simplifying Industry Compliance, Materials Management, and Quality Control

Carianne Nieuwstraten – Sr. Product Manager, QAD R&D MFG

Midwest User Group

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The following is intended to outline QAD’s general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, functional capabilities, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functional capabilities described for QAD’s products remains at the sole discretion of QAD.

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• Value Proposition• QAD Serialization • QAD Item Attributes/Quality Control• QAD Lot Trace Workbench• Summary• Q & A

Agenda

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• Fully supports key customer requirements for lot and serial product tracking/tracing:- Supports unlimited item/lot attributes carried

through all key business processes- Eliminates manual quality tracking- Simplifies regulatory compliance- Manages high volume serialization while

enabling logistics control at lot level- Provides simple yet complete chain of custody

tracking

Value Proposition

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QAD Serialization, Track & Trace

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Item Unit & Logistic Unit Serialization

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QAD Serialization, Track & Trace

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• Inability to provide product authenticity• Non-compliance of items with industry and

government regulations• Capturing high volume/variability

lot/serialized inventory is inefficient

Business Challenges

QAD Serialization, Track & Trace

• Traceability in QAD Enterprise Applications- Lot/Serial Control- WIP lot tracking- Installed Base Recording (SSM)- Device History Recording- NEW – Serialization, Track & Trace

• Item serialization• License plated packaging• Packaging structures (BOP)• Label printing services

Solution Overview

Lot ID

Serial ID

Item / Package Traceability

QAD Serialization, Track & Trace

• Packaging• Serial data • Serialized inventory• Label printing• Communication and integration

The Building Blocks

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QAD Serialization, Track & Trace

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• Serialization for warehousing & shipping• Global serialization standards• Flexible and scalable• Track & trace

Solution Key Benefits

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• QAD Serialization- Early adopter phase

• QAD Label Printing- Limited availability- Bolt-on 2012.1 EE and up

Availability

QAD Serialization and Label Printing

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QAD Item Attributes & Quality Control

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“Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an intelligent effort”

John Ruskin, English author and art critic (1819-1900)

QAD Item Attributes and Quality Control

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• Need to differentiate item and lot characteristics

• Inability to capture and validate unique customer requirements

• Non-compliance of items with industry and government regulations

Business Challenges

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• Supports unlimited item/lot characteristics and (test) specifications

• Enables customer/order-specific (test) specifications and generates CoA

• Simplifies compliance• Integrated in all key business processes

Solutions Overview

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Customer: Vitatech Nutritional Sciences, Inc.

– A leader in the nutritional supplement contract manufacturing industry

– Headquartered in Tustin, CA, USA– 2012.1 EE, discrete & process

manufacturing

Pain Point– Paper-based quality control reporting

Go Live– September 16, 2013– Focus: inbound receiving

Benefits Received– Improved controls, reporting,

processing time frame & traceability

Customer Reference

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• Enables product tracking capability• Streamlines receiving process• Supports regulatory compliance• Reduces customer returns• Reduces inventory• Reduces time and effort

Solution Key Benefits

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Lot Trace Workbench

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• Need product track and trace insight

Business Challenges

QAD Lot Trace Workbench

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• Single access point to current lot-controlled inventory and historical data

• Backward & forward tracing- Extended list of relevant information - Drill down capabilities- Ability to extract data for further analysis

Solution Overview

QAD Lot Trace Workbench

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• Reduces recall scope and effort• Satisfies regulators and auditors

Solution Key Benefits

QAD Lot Trace Workbench

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• QAD Item Attributes & Quality Control- Limited availability as per 2nd week April - Bolt-on 2012.1, 2013.1, 2014 EE

• QAD Lot Trace Workbench- General available as per 2nd week April- Bolt-on 2012.1 through 2013.1 EE- Core 2014 EE

• Documentation- Installation guide- User guide- Training guide- Case study

Availability & Documentation

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Summary

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• New serialization, item attributes, and quality control solutions:- extend existing tracking & tracing functionality- support regulatory and industry compliance - support item/lot identification and

management- integrated with key business processes

Summary

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• Carianne NieuwstratenPhone: 503-236-0025E-mail: czn@qad.com

Contact Information

QAD Explore Customer ConferenceMay 5-8, 2014 | New Orleans, LA

explore.qad.com

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Q & A

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