Category: QAD Business Process

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...

As you are building new configuration models in the QAD Configurator, one of the issues that faces many clients is creating the model, with all of its features, options, and rules, in a way that reduces complexity to the greatest extent possible so that it can be understandable and maintainable to those responsible for supporting it. We certainly want to avoid creating something so complex that it becomes a "black...

QAD's Work Order and Repetitive modules both possess extensive functionality for production execution and monitoring. However, they do differ significantly in terms of how exceptions, like rejects, scrap and rework, are handled. Specifically, the Repetitive module offers much more robust capabilities related to the reporting of rejects and rework, including the use of multiple reason codes for Pareto analysis. Additionally, the Repetitive module actually maintains rejects queues in work in...

In prior posts Logan Consulting discussed its adherence to a simple yet effective ERP implementation methodology which has benefited its clients for years. Logan Consulting utilizes Sharepoint extensively as part of our methodology, and it has become an integral tool to support the Logan Consulting methodology. Logan Consulting has developed an extensive library of the following documents and templates: Process Flows Process Narratives Conference Room Pilot Scripts End User Procedures...

In QAD and other ERP systems, one of the key tasks on cutover weekend is the conversion and tie out of Unvouchered (Uninvoiced) PO Receipts. In a recent conversion, the client had the following components: Negative PO receipts – Use by the client for correcting receiving mistakes Purchase Order Returns – Although similar to negative receipts, a different data set is created through this transaction so the client wanted the...

QAD provides a powerful and robust scheduling tool in its Master Scheduling and Production Scheduling Workbenches (MSW/PSW). At a recent QAD 2016EE upgrade project, the scope including expanding the use of MSW/PSW to all production lines across the organization. This entailed many schedulers moving from disparate and differing Microsoft excel spreadsheets into one common process for scheduling using the new MSW/PSW scheduling process. Additionally, the transition included defining and establishing...

Logan Consulting’s clients often have multiple operational divisions in different countries that are required to manage third party transactions which include Purchase Order processing in the ordering country and associated Sales Order processing at the supplying company. Logan Consulting recently implemented an Intercompany model in 2016EE using the following processes and transactions: Ordering Country / Organization - Supplier Schedules and Schedule Update From MRP – MRP planned order requirements update...

At Logan Consulting, we view the Validation and Testing phase of our methodology to be a critical component of a successful upgrade. In the QAD space, upgrades from QAD Standard Edition to QAD Enterprise Edition often include bringing forward existing EDI customer trading partners and their associated EDI transaction sets. Our clients often have a successful track record of using EDI in SE and the project team can be tempted...

Our experience over the past 25 years is that most executives prefer to delay major ERP Implementations or Upgrades, preferring to stay on older software versions as it is the devil they know. Understandably, this preference to stay put is driven largely by the high percentage of failures in business transformational type implementations and upgrades. They often over promise and under deliver. As we are often asked our advice as...

For those of us that have had to engage consultants, there was always a first time. And going into that first time, which you may be, there can be questions regarding exactly what should be reasonably expected from a consultant. Having been on the consulting side of this relationship for over 20 years, I can safely say that aligning expectations with reality early on will greatly improve the relationship. The...