Category: QAD Business Process

As companies that use QAD’s Enterprise Applications grow through acquisitions, they need to answer a number of questions on how they will integrate the new acquisition into their QAD EE environment. QAD EE provides a high level architecture of one or more Domains within a physical Database. Within a domain, multiple financial entities with one or more site per entity can be levered. At a high level, different types of...

QAD is currently in the process of rolling out Production Orders into the standard software offering. This new functionality is meant to combine the features of Advanced Repetitive and Discrete Work Orders into a single module and set of supporting maintenance and transaction screens. Having implemented QAD since 1993, I have seen countless projects where a client could use individual features of each to great effect, but we would ultimately...

All ERP implementations are impacted by multiple factors that ultimately determine whether the implementation is a success. When viewed in the short-term (i.e. from software selection to actual “go-live”) and long-term (go-live through system maturity), one of the biggest factors is training. And, unfortunately, this is the factor that often receives the least attention after the go-live date. The result of the long-term is that users are no longer following...

Logan Consulting has a long-standing QAD client that is implementing the QAD Configurator to build quotes for its complex product which contains both configurable items, based on defined rules, and true engineered-to-order (ETO) components. The ETO items cannot be defined in the configurator rule set as they require an engineer to design on a site-by-site basis. So, how do we include the ETO component in the configurator model so we...

Logan Consulting is seeing increased use of QAD’s Enterprise Material Transfer (EMT) and EDI functionality to meet intercompany Direct Ship requirements between International Entities within an organization. Additionally, Logan Consulting clients often use Third Party Logistics Providers (abbreviated 3PL, or sometimes TPL) to store the finished goods and process the physical shipment to the end customer.  An example of the steps in this process are below: European Entity takes Purchase...

QAD’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is a tightly integrated group of modules supporting Maintenance, Inventory Management for indirect material, Project Controls, and Purchasing. EAM’s Purchasing functionality can be used to create and maintain requisitions and approvals for non-inventory items.  The functionality supports both vertical and horizontal approvals and email notification of approvals and approval requests within EAM and integrated with external corporate email systems. Upon approval, the PO is created...

In recent implementations, Logan Consulting has seen enhanced functionality and tighter integration of EAM to the core QAD Enterprise Application ERP system. To review, EAM has four major pieces of functionality that can be used to support an organization: Maintenance – The Maintenance functionality within EAM can be used to drive the work order process for maintenance and repair operations. This includes all Preventive and Predictive maintenance as well as...

During the Validation and Testing Phase of an ERP project, a Conference Room Pilot (CRP) is intended to validate that the ERP system being implemented will support the required business processes for an organization. This means not only is the software is configured correctly, but the data is loaded correctly and all custom code is working as intended. Only with these items in place can an organization begin to execute...

Call them bespoke changes, configurations, add-ons, or custom code; companies using ERP systems often add or update standard ERP functionality to support their business processes. These customizations must be closely managed as part of any upgrade. Logan Consulting specializes in QAD’s ERP application. Many of its recent and current projects focus on taking its clients from previous versions of the software to QAD’s most recent version, known as QAD Enterprise...

Logan Consulting recently completed an upgrade for a client from QAD Enterprise Edition 2012 (2012EE) to QAD Enterprise Edition 2016 (2016EE). The upgrade was done using QAD’s Your Application Builder (YAB), which is a dashboard and management toolset used to increase the speed and reliability of implementations and upgrades. YAB gave our consultants the tools to complete the successful upgrade for its client across five US manufacturing sites and its...