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To: Rick Bullotta who wrote (364)	5/14/1998 4:28:00 AM
From: Lutz Moeller	Respond to of 2339

Competition is like rust: it never sleeps! From INFORMATION WEEK May 11, 1998 QAD Adds Supply-Chain Functions Vendor to integrate software from Paragon Management Systems By Tom Stein Midmarket enterprise software vendor QAD Inc. this week will unveil a deal to integrate supply-chain planning functionality from Paragon Management Systems into its upcoming ON/Q suite of logistics and procurement applications. QAD says the integrated product, to be released later this year, will let customers better communicate across their enterprises and into the enterprises of their suppliers, business partners, and customers. The supply-chain market is hot, and nearly every enterprise resource planning vendor is scrambling to take advantage of it. Last week, J.D. Edwards began rolling out its integrated ERP/supply-chain software suite. PeopleSoft, another major ERP player, already has a mature offering thanks to its 1996 acquisition of Red Pepper. SAP will begin delivering its own supply-chain functionality later this year. "QAD has been slow to address the supply chain," says John Bermudez, a research analyst at Advanced Manufacturing Research in Boston. "This deal is something they really needed to do." "We are interested in anything that will help our supply chain," says Darwin McKew, director of IT at auto-parts supplier Peregrine Inc., a QAD user in Southfield, Mich., that assembles parts for car manufacturers. "These systems let you get out of batch planning and allow you to plan and replan your manufacturing schedules in seconds," says Bermudez. "This offers real benefits most people can't afford to pass up." QAD will embed the Paragon products into its applications as part of a nonexclusive relationship. It will also begin marketing and selling the Paragon applications. The forthcoming ON/Q product can also be integrated with QAD's ERP system, called MFG/PRO.