QAD | Redzone unveiled Manufacturing Intelligence, a new intelligence layer designed to work across manufacturing processes, workflows and systems.
Manufacturing Intelligence is built specifically to help manufacturers shift from asking what happened to answering what the business should do next and then acting upon it.
“Manufacturers don't need more AI for the sake of AI. They need better outcomes, to protect margin, respond faster to disruption, improve execution, and to help their people perform at their best by leveraging intelligence to create for customers manufacturing environments that can continuously understand what is happening, determine what should happen next, and turn those decisions into action,” says Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of QAD | Redzone. “Manufacturing Intelligence is our vision for bringing intelligence across the systems, workflows, and decisions that determine outcomes. We didn’t back into this name; we’re purposefully claiming it for the industry because it has the potential to help all manufacturers become faster, more resilient and more competitive as Champions in their field. And manufacturers don't have to wait for that future to begin. All of the innovations we're announcing today give them practical ways to create value now, wherever they are in their transformation.”
Key takeaways:
· The vision brings together Adaptive ERP, Redzone Connected Workforce, Supply Chain and ChampionAI to connect the systems, people, processes and decisions that drive manufacturing performance, from the shop floor to the top floor.
· Over time, it will bring QAD | Redzone's manufacturing domain expertise together with manufacturing data, workflows, and AI to help manufacturers identify changes sooner, understand their implications, determine the appropriate response, and execute that response within the systems where work gets done.
· It is also designed to allow manufacturers to apply manufacturing-specific intelligence across heterogeneous environments without first replacing the systems they already have.
- Champion Assist brings intelligence directly into everyday ERP, along with new persona-based Champions spanning procurement, sales, sourcing and accounts payable.
- Agentic AI comes to ERP with Lynx Champion, an application that speeds modernization by analyzing legacy customizations by applying AI to reinvent the transformation.
- New purpose-built Champions include line lead, ops manager, inspector, kaizen, yield, recognition, and skills agents.
- Delivers agentic AI into Global Trade Compliance with a dedicated Champion, a critical innovation that shifts global trade from reactive compliance toward proactive trade intelligence.
