MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 17, 2025--
QAD | Redzone, the company transforming manufacturing and supply chains with intelligent, adaptive cloud solutions, announced Champions of Manufacturing India, a milestone event happening today celebrating 20 years in India and the next era of smart manufacturing powered by AI, speed and frontline empowerment.
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The event — hosted in Mumbai — brings together executives, plant leaders, operators, and technology innovators to showcase how manufacturers across India can rapidly shift from legacy systems of record to true systems of action, where every employee, every machine, every process, every decision drives outcome in real time.
With global manufacturing standing at an inflection point, Champions of Manufacturing India will spotlight three pillars shaping the future of industrial performance:
Leaders will gain exclusive access to QAD | Redzone’s executive team — including CEO Sanjay Brahmawar, President Manufacturing ERP Amit Sharma, and GM India & Head of Engineering Rajeev Purohit — delivering a direct “Vision from the Top” on how Indian manufacturers can modernize at Champion Pace without rip-and-replace disruption.
A defining moment: Two decades behind us. The next era ahead.
“India’s manufacturing energy is unmatched — ambitious, capable, and ready to lead. Celebrating 20 years in India is more than an anniversary. It’s recognition of our partnership with India’s most dynamic manufacturers, and a commitment to the next decade of acceleration,” said Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of QAD | Redzone. “Champions of Manufacturing in Mumbai will bring tangible strategies — not theory — and direct access to the technologies enabling frontline productivity, AI-driven decision making, and system-wide results at Champion Pace.”
A highlight session will feature Jayanti Herbs & Spice, with CEO Milan Shah and his operations team sharing how Redzone is transforming the frontline through real-time visibility, engagement, and waste reduction — and how fast-time-to-impact technology can unlock measurable output improvements in weeks, not years.
The next 20 years: Built in India. Built for the world.
“Twenty years of QAD India is a story of partnership, engineering excellence, and belief in what manufacturers here can achieve,” said Rajeev Purohit, GM India & Head of Engineering at QAD | Redzone. “This celebration — together with our November product release — signals a new chapter. One powered by Adaptive ERP, Redzone Connected Workforce and Champion AI. We’re proud of the past two decades — and even more excited for the future we are building from India to the world.”
The event marks QAD’s expanded investment in India — not only as a strategic customer region, but as a global engineering hub powering the next wave of innovation in Champion AI, automation, interoperability, and the intelligent factory of the future.
About QAD | Redzone
QAD | Redzone is redefining manufacturing and supply chains through its intelligent, adaptive platform that connects people, processes, and data into a single System of Action. With three core pillars — Redzone (frontline empowerment), Adaptive Applications (the intelligent backbone), and Champion AI (Agentic AI for manufacturing) — QAD | Redzone helps manufacturers operate with Champion Pace, achieving measurable productivity, resilience, and growth in just 90 days. To learn more, visit www.qad.com or call +1 805-566-6100. Find us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook and Instagram.
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Mohamed Salah's long goodbye to Liverpool begins on Saturday in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, the competition which represents his best chance of a trophy in his final year at Anfield.
The Egypt winger announced last week that he will be leaving Liverpool at the end of the season after nine years at a club where he has broken scoring records and established himself as one of the world's best players.
Salah potentially has 15 games left in the famous red shirt: Seven in the Premier League as well as three in the FA Cup and five in the Champions League, should Liverpool reach the final in both of those competitions.
That won't be easy.
In the Champions League, defending champion Paris Saint-Germain is up next in the two-leg quarterfinals and it's pretty much as tough in the FA Cup, with Liverpool handed an away match at Manchester City.
Salah, who has 255 goals in 435 appearances for Liverpool, missed the Reds' last game before the international break — a 2-1 loss at Brighton in the league — with a muscle injury but has told manager Arne Slot he should be healthy enough to return this weekend.
“He just does so much for his body for such a long time that he recovers so fast," Slot said on Wednesday. "So, he will train with the team again tomorrow and if everything works well then he’s available to be with us at City.”
The 33-year-old Salah was left out of the Liverpool team for four straight games at the end of 2025 in what appeared to be a breakdown in his relationship with Slot and the club.
Since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations, Salah virtually has been an ever-present in the lineup, seemingly winning the Dutch coach round.
“That hunger never drops,” Slot said of Salah. "It's the thing I find most special about him. So many good players around the world — he's definitely one of them in the last 10 years — and to show that hunger every three days, that professionalism, that commitment to the club and to the team, wanting to score again, always wanting to play ...
“When you take him out three minutes before the end, he's like, ‘Ah, maybe I could have scored one extra.’”
City, meanwhile, is seeking a domestic cup double after beating Arsenal in the English League Cup final on March 22. Pep Guardiola's team is also chasing Arsenal in the Premier League, which takes a break this weekend to give the FA Cup its own space in the calendar.
The other FA Cup quarterfinals take place across Saturday and Sunday.
After City-Liverpool in the early kickoff on Saturday, Chelsea hosts third-tier Port Vale — the lowest-ranked team left in the competition — before Arsenal visits second-tier Southampton.
On Sunday, West Ham hosts Leeds in an all-Premier League matchup.
Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden has less than two months to persuade England coach Thomas Thomas he is worthy of a place in the World Cup squad.
Foden started both of England’s recent friendly games — a draw with Uruguay and a loss to Japan — but failed to impress either in the No. 10 role or as a “false nine," prompting Tuchel to say it's “ not a guarantee ” that Foden will be at the World Cup.
Foden was English soccer's player of the year in the 2023-24 season but has not maintained his top form and has rarely started for City in recent months.
Arsenal's team sheet for the Southampton game will be heavily scrutinized, given 10 players missed games for their national team over the international break because of various issues.
Eberechi Eze, Jurrien Timber and Martin Odegaard already had injuries that caused them to miss the League Cup final, before Piero Hincapie, Bukayo Saka, Declan Rice, William Saliba, Gabriel Magalhaes and Leandro Trossard all pulled out of international duty.
England's Noni Madueke and Spain's Martin Zubimendi missed the second games for their respective countries after reporting injuries.
There might be growing disharmony at Chelsea, going off recent comments by two of the team's best players.
Enzo Fernandez said after elimination in the Champions League that he couldn't guarantee being at Chelsea next season, while Marc Cucurella told The Athletic during this international break that the team was “more stable” under coach Enzo Maresca, who was fired in January, and, "If you asked me, I would not have made this decision.”
Liam Rosenior, the current Chelsea coach, is under big pressure after four straight defeats.
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England's Phil Foden holds the ball during the international friendly soccer match between England and Uruguay in London, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
FILE - Liverpool's manager Arne Slot talks to Mohamed Salah during the Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Tottenham in Liverpool, England, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)
