Category: QAD Business Process

Picking the wrong approach to EDI support for your business can mean endless log jams of projects or pouring too much money into third-party resources that don't support your needs. Looking to avoid these issues? This article will discuss three cost reduction approaches to EDI support—the outsourced approach, the in-house approach, and the hybrid approach—and the potential benefits and risks involved with each.     Approach 1: Outsource In this...

The hard truth is that a cyber and/or data security event can happen to any industrial manufacturer. However, there are practices and tools that can allow companies to reduce their cyber and data security risks. This article will discuss some of these safeguards. We’ll discuss the potential consequences that cybersecurity events can have for industrial manufacturers, solutions to prevent possible security breaches, and we’ll cover some different forms of high-profile...

The hard truth is that a cyber and/or data security event can happen to any food and beverage manufacturer. However, there are practices and tools that can allow companies to reduce their cyber and data security risks. This article will discuss some of these safeguards. We’ll discuss the potential consequences that cybersecurity events can have for food and beverage manufacturers, solutions to prevent possible security breaches, and we’ll cover some...

The hard truth is that a cyber and/or data security event can happen to any medical device manufacturer. However, there are practices and tools that can allow companies to reduce their cyber and data security risks. This article will discuss some of these safeguards. We’ll discuss the potential consequences that cybersecurity events can have for medical device manufacturers, solutions to prevent possible security breaches, and we’ll cover some different forms...

Automotive manufacturing companies typically desire to continuously improve their business processes to maximize revenue. This is often done by generating ideas and forecasting the expected impact to the organization. Understanding how QAD generates variances, and the significance of them, can allow automotive manufacturers to assess the impact of process improvements. This article will review several of the common variances that QAD may generate. We will focus on Purchase Price Variance...

The word “recall” is enough to keep medical device manufacturers rolling in their beds at night. With the scope and size of the industry, even small failures in tiny parts can mean incredibly costly fixes. Having a way of limiting the impact of a recall is something that’s always worth exploring. This article discusses the disastrous effects that recalls can have on medical device manufacturers, as well as three features...

QAD’s Reporting Framework (QRF) is a very useful tool for formatting customer-facing documents such as Invoices and Sales Order Acknowledgments with less of a need for Progress programming skills than may have been needed to customize and format these documents in prior versions of QAD with no QRF. In a number of recent implementations of QAD EE, Logan Consulting worked with its clients to implement the following: QRF Invoice and...

As companies implement QAD EE and its .Net interface when they convert from other ERP systems or as they upgrade from previous versions of QAD’s ERP software, the power of browses continues to add value! Power users and IT teams who understand where QAD EE data resides can easily create browses which can be used on an ad hoc basis or linked to a menu and accessed by all users...

Product costing is essential to any profitable business and should therefore be an ongoing analysis activity for any medical device company. Rather than assessing budget and product costs once a year, many companies will regularly compare actual costs to the standard, allowing them to begin building next year’s cost model well ahead of time. Ongoing product costing efforts can help your business to answer the following questions: What are your...

Cost management is essential to any profitable business and should therefore be an ongoing analysis activity for any food and beverage company. Rather than assessing your budget and product costs once a year, continuously compare your actual costs to the standard so that you are constantly looking at results and can begin building next year’s cost model well ahead of time. Ongoing product costing efforts can help your business to...