QAD Storefront e-Commerce Solution Helps Manufacturers and Distributors Reduce Order Entry Costs, Improve Service.Business Editors CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Automotive Supplier Powers Online Facility with New Sell-Side Solution that Combines the Best of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and QAD QAD Quality Assurance Division QAD Quality Assurance Department QAD Quick And Dirty QAD Quality Audit Division QAD Quick Attach/Detach QAD Question Answer Detail (language arts education) QAD Quality Application Development Software and Services QAD (Nasdaq: QADI), an e-business innovator for manufacturers, distributors and trading exchanges, today announced the immediate availability of QAD Storefront, a sell-side e-commerce solution fully integrated with QAD enterprise applications. QAD Storefront enables manufacturing and distribution companies to reduce the costs associated with order entry while improving customer service. The integration of QAD Storefront with QAD eQ will be completed during the first quarter of 2001, bringing together sell-side e-commerce plus intelligent orders and exchanges leveraging QAD commerce relationship management. QAD Storefront positions the company as one of the only e-business software developers now delivering a front-end e-commerce solution with out-of-the box integration to its back-end enterprise applications. The integration maximizes the visibility of enterprise data, providing real-time pricing using QAD MFG/PRO tables. The Ingram Group, a large automotive supplier headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, is adding QAD Storefront to its QAD MFG/PRO applications for an online facility expected to be up and running by the end of 2000. QAD MFG/PRO functionality now helps Ingram maintain economical inventory levels and deliver products virtually anywhere in Australia overnight. Once QAD Storefront is implemented, it will enable Ingram's wholesale customers to browse online catalogues and order products online. "Automotive parts supply is a high value, low volume business," said Nick Hollings managing director of Ingram Corporation. "It's absolutely critical to have the stock on hand when it's ordered. With QAD Storefront, we look forward to offering our customers excellent visibility of stock availability and the convenience of being able to check stock levels and place orders anywhere, at anytime." QAD Storefront consists of the IBM Websphere Commerce IBM WebSphere Commerce is a next-generation e-commerce software solution. It is the single, unified platform which offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models), or all of Suite, QAD integration software that connects the suite directly to QAD enterprise applications and QAD services that provide manufacturers and distributors with full support from the start of the project to implementation and design of the e-commerce Web site. "QAD Storefront offers companies a world-class e-commerce solution that combines the best technology and services from QAD and IBM," said QAD president and founder Pam Lopker. "IBM's Websphere Commerce Suite is regarded as the premier e-commerce application suite, while QAD has an established reputation for industry-specific experience and solutions our customers count on. Companies who choose the QAD Storefront will reap rapid e-business benefits and gain the ability to migrate easily to QAD eQ e-business applications as they grow." With QAD Storefront, manufacturers can set up a Web site that leverages the benefits of customer self-service and 24 hour/7 day access. Through "round trip" integration with QAD MFG/PRO, B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business users can utilize MFG/PRO best pricing, tax and shipping charge calculations and choose either ship and invoice or credit card/purchase card payment methods. B2B users can also utilize order templates or "interest lists" to provide customer personalization and streamline order entry. About The Ingram Group Owned by the Atkins Carlyle Group  The of this article or section may be compromised by "weasel words".You can help Wikipedia by removing weasel words. The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. , The Ingram Group sells more than 10,000 different automotive products to mechanics, retail stores, panel shops and auto electricians. Companies in the Ingram Group include OEX OEX The ticker symbol for the Standard & Poor's 100 Index. Notes: The S&P 100 is a market-capitalization weighted index of 100 stocks from a broad range of industries. Australia, Auto Aire, Air Force, Ingram New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and Ingram Manufacturing. The head office and main distribution warehouse at Tullamarine in Melbourne cover 72,000 square feet. Regional branches are around 5,000 to 10,000 square feet in size. About QAD QAD is a leading innovator of e-business solutions for manufacturers and trading exchanges. Available in 26 languages and able to support multiple currencies, QAD software helps speed business processes for more than 300,000 licensed users at more than 4,800 licensed sites in more than 86 countries. QAD software is specifically designed for global manufacturers in the following targeted industries: automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. , industrial and medical products. For more information about QAD, telephone +1 805/684-6614, or visit the QAD Web site at http://www.qad.com. To receive any of QAD's news releases via facsimile, contact 1 800/356-0747, or outside the U.S. contact +1 213/253-5647. Note to Editors: QAD is a trademark and MFG/PRO is a registered trademark of QAD Inc. All other products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Note to Investors: This news release contains certain forward-looking statements made under the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. A number of risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks include evolving demand for the company's software products and products that operate with the company's products, the publication of opinions by industry analysts about the company, its products and technology, the entry of new competitors and their technological advances, delays in localizing the company's products for new markets, delays in sales as a result of lengthy sales cycles; changes in operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. , pricing, timing of new product releases, the method of product distribution or product mix; and general economic factors. In addition, revenue and earnings in the e-business and enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) software industries are subject to fluctuations and the growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. recently experienced by the company do not necessarily represent future operating results. Investors should not use any one quarter's results as a benchmark for future growth. For a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with the company and the enterprise resource planning industry, refer to the company's Annual Report or Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2000. |
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