QAD Adaptive ERP
QAD Adaptive ERP is a cloud manufacturing ERP designed for global manufacturers in automotive, life sciences, food and beverage, and high-tech sectors. It covers production, supply chain, quality, and financials with a focus on lean manufacturing and multi-site global operations.
What you can do
Read and write production orders
Pull open, released, and completed production orders with item, quantity, scheduled dates, and workcenter assignments. Update production order status from your product's planning or scheduling tool.
Sync item and BOM data
Read item master records and multi-level bills of materials including revision levels and component quantities. Useful for PLM or product-analytics products that need to cross-reference QAD BOM data.
Access purchase orders and receipts
Pull approved purchase orders, open receipts, and goods-in-transit records. Askel handles QAD's multi-site and multi-entity model so your product sees the correct purchasing data by site.
Read sales orders and customer schedules
Pull customer sales orders, blanket releases, and delivery schedules. Write back order acknowledgments and delivery confirmations from your product's customer-facing portal.
Sync supplier and vendor master data
Read supplier records, approved vendor lists, and qualification status. Write back updated contact details or certification status from your supplier-management product.
Access quality and inspection records
Read inspection plans, non-conformance records, and corrective action status from QAD's Quality module. Useful for quality-management products that need to correlate supplier delivery performance with defect data.
Syncing QAD production orders into a real-time capacity-planning product
Vantage Precision Auto manufactures stamped and welded components for automotive OEMs across two plants and runs QAD Adaptive ERP for production planning, purchasing, and quality. They have adopted your capacity-planning platform to give plant managers a forward-looking view of workcenter load. The platform needs current production orders from QAD to calculate load against available capacity.
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Register the OAuth client in QAD
Vantage Precision's QAD system administrator logs into the QAD admin console, creates an OAuth 2.0 client for Askel, and grants it access to the Production Order, Workcenter, Item, and BOM business domains. They note the client ID and client secret.
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Enter credentials in Askel
Vantage Precision's IT admin enters the QAD host URL, client ID, and client secret into the Askel setup screen inside your capacity-planning platform. Askel exchanges the credentials for an access token and confirms connectivity by fetching the site and workcenter list.
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Schema discovery
Askel reads the available QAD REST endpoints for Production Orders, Workcenters, Items, and BOMs, including any custom fields Vantage Precision has added to their QAD configuration. Your CS team sees a mapping draft within minutes.
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Map and validate
Vantage Precision tracks a priority tier on production orders using a QAD extension field. A CS rep maps this to the planning platform's priority dimension and runs a dry-run against the current week's production orders across both plants to confirm load calculations match the plant team's expectations.
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Go live
The four-hourly sync is enabled. Askel pulls updated production orders and workcenter status from Vantage Precision's QAD tenants and loads them into the capacity platform. Plant managers see rolling six-week load projections updated every four hours.
Service account
The customer's QAD system administrator registers an OAuth 2.0 client in the QAD admin console and grants it access to the required business domains. They provide the QAD host URL, client ID, and client secret to Askel. Askel exchanges these for an access token using the client_credentials grant and refreshes it automatically before expiry.
How Askel sits between your product and the customer's system
FAQ for QAD Adaptive ERP
Does this integration work with QAD On Demand (cloud) and QAD on-premises deployments?+
Can we scope the OAuth client to a single QAD site or entity?+
What business domains does Askel need access to?+
What happens if QAD releases a new API version?+
catching drift before it breaks, and hitting go-live dates.
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