QAD Inc. outlined a shift to a re-imagined manufacturing platform designed specifically for mid-market manufacturing companies and the plant facilities of large enterprises.
The announcement was made at QAD | Redzone’s flagship customer event, Champions of Manufacturing, being held November 12-14 in Dallas, Texas.
The company highlighted its latest offerings across three core pillars designed to replace static systems of record with intelligent systems of action that move at the speed of change:
Redzone Connected Workforce: designed to improve productivity through empowering the frontlines
QAD Adaptive: the intelligent backbone ERP software built for speed, intelligence and impact
Champion AI: the agentic AI engine powering both of these platforms to amplify human potential
Systems Built to Anticipate What’s Next; Costs of Inaction are Real
At the Champions of Manufacturing event, QAD | Redzone unveiled a platform that:
Leverages agentic AI to empower the entire workforce from shop floor to top floor
Targets 90-day projects, not multi-year deployments
Drives execution to match the speed of decision-making
Shifts from reaction to change and to shaping what is next
Adaptive ERP and Champion AI were designed to facilitate customers’ rapid transition to modern agentic solutions without ripping or replacing systems completely and without totally losing the investment already made in systems.
The company said the debut of Champion AI provides a smart, action-first layer built with deep manufacturing expertise. The company unveiled an array of available agents purpose-built across three focus areas:
- Productivity Agents: Automate repetitive ERP tasks so planners, schedulers and operators can focus on what matters most by making fast, informed decisions.
- Optimization Agents: Tackle challenges like reducing inventory carrying costs and balancing supply risk, analyzing variables in real time to optimize performance across the business.
- Implementation Agents: Drive a more rapid value return by enabling mid-size plants to go live in as little as 90 days.
From Top Floor to Shop Floor: How Speed Becomes a Competitive Advantage
At the Dallas event, QAD | Redzone unveiled its platform designed to transform manufacturing by driving dramatic productivity gains and rapid ROI for its customers, often within 90 days, through real-time visibility, improved equipment effectiveness and more empowered teams.
Modern platforms, equipped with intuitive interfaces and embedded guidance will enable leaner teams to perform at higher levels by reducing onboarding time, empowering less-experienced operators and retaining skilled workers by eliminating repetitive, low-value tasks.
Modern Solutions on Modern Infrastructure
QAD | Redzone also announced a collaboration to bring agentic AI to the mid-market manufacturing sector through Champion AI, a breakthrough platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure and AI services.
The collaboration combines QAD | Redzone’s manufacturing expertise and AWS’s cloud capabilities to make AI practical, scalable and secure for mid-market manufacturers.
Built on AWS cloud infrastructure and leveraging services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, Champion AI delivers intelligent automation, predictive insights and real-time decision support directly into manufacturing workflows, enabling measurable productivity gains, reduced downtime and accelerated time-to-value.
As part of this collaboration, QAD | Redzone is transitioning its global workloads to AWS’s cloud. This migration will create a modern, cloud-native foundation for QAD’s manufacturing platform, enabling faster delivery of new features, improved reliability and seamless scalability for customers worldwide.
In addition to the AWS infrastructure news, QAD | Redzone also reinforced its strategic relationship with Boomi, announced in May, enabling QAD customers to benefit from Boomi's platform, with rapid, pre-built connections across systems, including QAD | Redzone.
This integration approach directly addresses the need for companies to benefit from the seamless integration of systems, a faster pace of integration and the importance of moving data.
The result will be:
Pre-built integrations between QAD | Redzone and third-party systems to reduce implementation time and complexity
Embedded Boomi connectors within QAD | Redzone software enable plug-and-play connectivity across the manufacturing stack.
AI-powered process insights from Champion AI and the Boomi agentic platform are all designed to remove integration as a barrier to scale and innovation.
Helping Manufacturers Move Ahead Quickly
QAD | Redzone also outlined the benefits of Champion Pace, the implementation engine that leverages Champion AI to deliver adaptive deployments in 90 days or less.
Champion Pace is a standardized, AI-assisted delivery framework that uses automation, pre-configured best practices and proven playbooks drawn from QAD’s experience across thousands of factories delivering a repeatable, scalable process designed to make every customer go-live faster, smoother and more predictable regardless of size or industry.
It also builds upon the customer’s existing infrastructure, protecting prior investments while modernizing systems and accelerating performance.
QAD | Redzone also announced that the company’s new Adaptive release, along with Champion AI and its suite of agentic AI agents and the Redzone Connected Workforce platform were all generally available for U.S. customers.