QAD Inc. has announced a significant new release of QAD Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP) designed to support and help its customers navigate through global supply chain interruptions with innovative supply chain planning capabilities. A core feature of this release is the intuitive planner experience via the extended use of home pages and dashboards. Combined with an embedded supply chain analytics engine, the dashboards provide instant detection of a current or predicted event that could impact the current plan.

Planners can perform end-to-end scenario analysis to collaboratively determine the course of action that best serves the business objectives within an acceptable risk profile. This release continues to focus on reduced time-to-value. This initiative is a multi-release project that aims to simplify and streamline the experience to buy, deploy, configure and own QAD's digital supply chain planning solution.

The latest version of DSCP uses intelligent wizards to rapidly prototype a fully configured planning system based upon planner questionnaire responses. QAD DSCP is a functionally-rich digital planning solution that helps global companies achieve growth and profitability objectives by ensuring optimal product deployment. Available in the cloud, it provides an end-to-end solution with specific capabilities for demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, manufacturing planning, financial planning, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP).