COVID-19 & Change Management: What Makes Strong Executive Leadership?

Posted on: February 28, 2021 | By: Andrew Hall | Professional Services

The pandemic caused a sudden call for business leaders to adapt, transition, and readjust to new short-term and longer-term challenges. During the initial period of uncertainty and anxiety, business leaders were mostly in a reactive, tactical mode, navigating the chaos by prioritizing tasks and executing well.  After the initial chaos, some businesses were able to proactively identify new opportunities and assess longer-term threats.  All of this resulted in organizational change,...


Managing Financial Outcomes in Today’s Medical Device Marketplace

Posted on: December 3, 2020 | By: Guy Logan | QAD Manufacturing, QAD Business Process, QAD Distribution, Professional Services, QAD Financials

Recent decades have witnessed major advances in medical technologies that have been responsible for earlier and more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments, and the ability of people to live longer, healthier lives. But because new technology is the primary driver of rapidly rising health care expenditures, these advances do not come without risks and costs. To minimize risk and control costs, health care facilities are now being more selective in...


IT Budgeting During Covid-19: 4 Forward Thinking Strategies Manufacturers Should Consider

Posted on: July 27, 2020 | By: Guy Logan | QAD Financials, QAD Practice News, Microsoft Dynamics AX/365, QAD Manufacturing, QAD Business Process, QAD Distribution, Professional Services

In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, manufacturers across the globe have made difficult decisions to keep up with the rapidly changing demands of the market and to mitigate unforeseen and often devastating risks to their businesses. Whether it be supply chain disruptions, factory shutdowns, or under- or over-production of inventory, almost all industries have felt the wide-reaching effects of the pandemic. As budgeting season rolls around, it is important...


Opening Periods in D365 for Data Management Imports

Posted on: June 19, 2020 | By: Joncarl Luckett | Uncategorized, Microsoft Dynamics AX/365, Professional Services

During an implementation, one of the most important steps is importing old GL data. Prior to uploading historical GL balances, you must open those historical periods. Without opening the historical periods, you will not be able to upload any historical balance. In this blog I will illustrate how to effectively and efficiently open and close GL periods and provide some useful tips and tricks to make your data import job,...


How 5G & IoT Will Pave the Way for Intelligent ERPs – An Introduction into 5G and IoT, Part 1

Posted on: June 19, 2020 | By: Joncarl Luckett | ERP Selection, Professional Services

Utilizing both 5G and IoT will soon be the global standard for optimizing your ERP solution. Now, you might be asking, what are 5G, IoT and how do they relate to my current ERP system? That’s easy, lets start off with some basic definitions of 5G and IoT.   What is 5G? – 5G is the 5th generation mobile network – the new global wireless standard. While there is not...


Part 3: Acumatica ERP: End the Guessing of Making Profit Decisions

Posted on: June 4, 2020 | By: Guy Logan | Acumatica, Professional Services

Acumatica Profit Decisions  Welcome to the third blog of the “10 Profit Decisions Service Firms are Making Blind: How a Progressive ERP Ends the Guessing” series. In this blog, we will look at how proactive information from Acumatica ERP will build revenues and reduce costs to improve project success and profitability. Professional service organizations can increase revenue by optimizing training opportunities and reduce costs by making remote work more efficient....


Part 2: Acumatica ERP: End the Guessing of Making Profit Decisions

Posted on: April 10, 2020 | By: Guy Logan | Acumatica, Professional Services

Acumatica ERP – Professional Services Welcome to the second blog of the “10 Profit Decisions Service Firms are Making Blind: How a Progressive ERP Ends the Guessing” series. In this blog, we will look at how proactive information from Acumatica ERP will build revenues and reduce costs to improve project success and profitability. Professional service organizations have a demand for top talent personnel which comes with having to compete for...


Acumatica ERP: End the Guessing of Making Profit Decisions

Posted on: March 10, 2020 | By: Guy Logan | Acumatica, Professional Services

Acumatica ERP - Professional Services  Professional service organizations face the challenges of balancing resources and requirements to keep customers happy and utilization high. To manage projects proactively, employees and managers need real-time data that connects all the moving parts – from deliverables to expenses to resource schedules. Information accessible from the field enables employees to be productive and responsive no matter where they are serving your clients. In this blog,...


Use 2020 to Plan Your QAD Enterprise Edition Implementation

Posted on: December 31, 2019 | By: Tim Lovely | QAD Business Process, QAD Distribution, Professional Services, QAD Financials, QAD Manufacturing

With many companies still on older version of QAD's Enterprise Applications software, 2020 is a great time to evaluate the many benefits of moving to QAD's Enterprise Edition and Adaptive ERP. QAD has made many improvements over the years to its software including most recently it Adaptive User Interface/Experience and portfolio of cloud-based applications. The most effective implementations of QAD solutions result from a through Scoping and Planning effort resulting...


Sales Tax Series Blog 4: Business Risks and Challenges, the Ever-Changing Sales Tax Landscape

Posted on: September 27, 2019 | By: Andy Vitullo | Professional Services, QAD Financials, QAD Business Process

The United States Sales and Use tax environments are ever changing. States continue to pull this lever for revenue enhancement.   Monthly, jurisdictions publish new tax rates.   Tax laws and regulations change at the whim of state legislatures.   County and City changes occur as the result of ballot initiatives. Lack of understanding of the sales tax environment can create unintended business risk. Corporate leaders are personally liable for sales taxes accrued...