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QAD API

QAD is a cloud ERP platform for global manufacturers, spanning financials, manufacturing, supply chain planning, quality, and enterprise asset management. An unofficial API lets you programmatically pull sales orders, purchase orders, inventory, work orders, suppliers, customers, and financial records—and push updates like new orders, shipments, and production transactions back into QAD Adaptive ERP.

By Alex Klarfeld•May 30, 2026
QAD API

What is QAD?

QAD is a cloud ERP provider purpose-built for global manufacturers and supply chains. Its QAD Adaptive ERP platform delivers the core capabilities manufacturers need—financials, customer and service management, production, supply chain planning, quality, enterprise asset management, and analytics—on a cloud-native microservices architecture. QAD serves regulated and complex-manufacturing verticals including automotive, life sciences and medical devices, food and beverage, chemicals, consumer products, high-tech electronics, and industrial machinery.

Core product areas include:

  • QAD Adaptive ERP (cloud-native core for financials, manufacturing, and supply chain)
  • QAD Enterprise Platform and Adaptive UX (low-code customization, role-based dashboards)
  • Digital Supply Chain Planning (DSCP) for demand, supply, and inventory planning
  • QAD EQMS embedded quality management and Redzone Connected Workforce
  • Global Financials (multi-entity, multi-GAAP, multi-currency with 190+ currency support)
  • Champion AI agentic layer and the QAD Integration Platform for system connectivity

Common data entities:

  • Sales Orders, Quotes, Customers, Shipments
  • Purchase Orders, Suppliers, Requisitions, Receipts
  • Inventory, Items, Lots, Serials across multiple locations
  • Work Orders, Bills of Materials, Routings, Production Schedules
  • General Ledger, Invoices, Payments, Multi-entity Financial Records
  • Quality Records, Inspections, Nonconformances (EQMS)

The QAD Integration Challenge

Manufacturers run mission-critical operations on QAD daily, but turning its configuration-driven, multi-module workflows into reliable API-driven automation is non-trivial:

  • Customer-by-customer configuration: Domains, business rules, and document flows are tailored per manufacturer—generic integrations break across tenants and environments
  • Multi-module spread: ERP core, DSCP, EQMS, and Financials each have their own object models, IDs, and lifecycle states
  • Business document API variability: Endpoint coverage and Swagger specs differ by QAD version, deployment model, and which business documents the tenant has enabled
  • Authentication complexity: OAuth2 bearer tokens or API keys vary by deployment, and on-prem versus cloud tenants complicate headless automation
  • Legacy and hybrid estates: Many QAD customers run mixed cloud and on-prem footprints alongside legacy QAD EE/SE releases with different surfaces
  • Effective dating and audit trails: Inventory transactions, financial postings, and production records require precise effective-date and reason-code handling
  • Integration Platform gating: Some flows route through the QAD Integration Platform or Boomi connectors, adding mapping and middleware layers

How Supergood Creates QAD APIs

Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated sessions, QAD's RESTful business document APIs, and Adaptive UX flows to deliver a resilient API layer for your QAD tenant—across ERP, supply chain, quality, and financials.

  • Handles OAuth2 bearer tokens, API keys, and MFA-protected logins securely
  • Maintains session continuity with automated token refresh and change detection
  • Normalizes responses across Orders, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Financials so you integrate once and rely on consistent objects
  • Aligns with tenant-specific domains, custom fields, and entitlements to ensure compliant access across cloud and on-prem deployments

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Getting Started

  • Schedule Integration Assessment

Book a 30-minute session to confirm your modules, deployment model, and authentication setup.

  • Supergood Generates and Validates Your API

We deliver a production-ready QAD adapter tailored to your tenant configuration and entitlements.

  • Deploy with Monitoring

Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as QAD evolves.

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API Endpoints

Authentication

POST/authenticate

Authenticate to a QAD tenant using OAuth2 bearer token or API key and obtain a session for downstream calls.

Sales

GET/sales_orders

List sales orders with filters for customer, status, site, and order date range.

Sales

POST/create_sales_order

Create a new sales order against the tenant's configured items, customers, and pricing.

Procurement

GET/purchase_orders

Retrieve purchase orders, requisitions, and receipts with supplier and status filters.

Inventory

GET/inventory

Pull item, lot, and serial inventory balances across sites and locations.

Manufacturing

POST/create_work_order

Create a work order with bill of materials and routing against a production site.

Use Cases

Sync order and inventory data into your warehouse

- Pull sales orders, purchase orders, and shipments from QAD Adaptive ERP into a single warehouse - Stream inventory, lot, and serial balances to downstream planning and analytics tools - Reconcile customer and supplier records across sites for unified reporting

Automate manufacturing and production workflows

- Create and update work orders, BOMs, and routings without manual screen entry - Post production, labor, and scrap transactions back into QAD in real time - Trigger EQMS inspections and nonconformance records from shop-floor events

Reconcile financials across multiple entities

- Sync general ledger, invoices, and payments from QAD Global Financials into accounting systems - Consolidate multi-entity, multi-currency records for global financial reporting - Surface AR aging and delinquent accounts to collections workflows

Power demand and supply chain planning

- Feed inventory, demand, and supply signals into and out of QAD DSCP - Push replenishment and purchase recommendations into procurement workflows - Keep supplier and lead-time data in sync with external visibility tools

Technical Specifications

Authentication

OAuth2 bearer tokens or API keys (by deployment), with MFA handled in a managed session

Connectivity

QAD RESTful business document APIs plus authenticated Adaptive UX flows where not exposed via REST

Response format

Normalized JSON across Orders, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Financials objects

Rate limits

Adaptive throttling tuned to your tenant to avoid QAD-side and Integration Platform limits

Session management

Automatic token refresh, MFA replay handling, and credential rotation

Data freshness

Near real-time pulls for orders, inventory, and financials with optional scheduled batch syncs

Security

Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging

Webhooks

Event-style callbacks for order creation, shipment, inventory change, and production status

Latency

Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting through ERP business documents

Throughput

Horizontally scaled workers sized to multi-site, multi-entity manufacturing volume

Reliability

Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for orders, inventory adjustments, and financial postings

Adaptation

Continuous monitoring of QAD releases, version differences, and tenant-specific configuration drift

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Supergood adapts to QAD Adaptive Cloud ERP as well as on-prem and hybrid estates, including legacy QAD EE/SE releases, operating against the same authenticated surfaces with network configuration tuned to your environment.

No. Supergood works directly with your existing QAD entitlements and authenticated sessions. The Integration Platform and Boomi connectors are optional middleware—you can use the Supergood API whether or not they are in place.

The API spans QAD Adaptive ERP core, Global Financials, manufacturing and supply chain, EQMS quality, and Digital Supply Chain Planning, exposing their entities through one normalized surface.

Each tenant is profiled against its configured domains, business rules, and document flows. Supergood preserves tenant-specific fields, lifecycle states, and entitlements rather than forcing a generic schema.

Yes. You can pull orders, inventory, and financial records and push updates such as new sales orders, work orders, shipments, and production transactions back into QAD, subject to your entitlements.

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