Chinese Manufacturers Visit QAD Headquarters and QAD Customers to Learn about Effective Enterprises

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA) (NASDAQ:QADB), a leading provider of enterprise software and services designed for global manufacturing companies, today announced that a delegation of Chinese manufacturers will visit QAD’s headquarters to learn about advanced manufacturing in the United States.

e-works, the leading online media and research organization focused on manufacturing IT in China, organized this tour. Chinese executives representing the automotive and industrial equipment will tour selected facilities.

Companies will also visit two QAD customers include Scosche, a consumer technology and car audio installation hardware manufacturer; Vitatech Nutritional Sciences, an FDA-licensed contract manufacturer of nutritional products.

In addition, the delegation will visit QAD’s annual user group conference, Explore 2015, to attend informative presentations and learn about the QAD customer experience. This year’s conference is located in Washington DC.

“We are eager to share the success our customers have achieved.” stated Carter Lloyds, Chief Marketing Officer, QAD. “QAD is the only global, full-featured Cloud ERP solution built for manufacturing. We are happy to share our vision for the Effective Enterprise where all business process are operating at peak efficiency and perfectly aligned to the company’s strategic goals.”

Over 2,000 manufacturing companies have deployed QAD solutions to run their businesses across 4,000 sites globally.

About QAD – The Effective Enterprise

QAD Inc. (NASDAQ: QADA) (NASDAQ: QADB) is a leading provider of enterprise software and services designed for global manufacturing companies. For more than 35 years, QAD has provided global manufacturing companies with QAD Enterprise Applications, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that supports operational requirements; including financials, manufacturing, demand and supply chain planning, customer management, business intelligence and business process management. QAD Enterprise Applications is offered in flexible deployment models as on-premise software, in the cloud with QAD Cloud ERP or in a blended environment. With QAD, customers and partners in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial products and life sciences industries can better align daily operations with their strategic goals to meet their vision of becoming more Effective Enterprises.

For more information about QAD, call +1 805-566-6000, visit www.qad.com.

“QAD” is a registered trademark of QAD Inc. All other products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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for QAD Inc.
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