Category: QAD Business Process

Once of the most significant master data elements of any manufacturing ERP environment is the Bill of Material (BOM) master.  The BOM defines the parent item and component item relationship for the manufactured item in your business.  An inaccurate BOM can have impact on departmental efficiency.   Also it can have impact on the end product sold and shipped to the customer and ultimately affect customer satisfaction.    A purchasing department’s...

Proper business practices can employed to fix Three Way match accuracy and efficiency. Companies often struggle with inefficiency in moving through the Three Way match process of Purchase Order, Receipt, and Invoice.  It’s not a system problem!  It’s not unique to QAD!  Transactional systems require solid business practices to make them process in an efficient manner.  Line up data – especially the correct PO pricing and everything flows smoothly and...

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QAD provides simple yet powerful tools in the form of browses that should be exploited by all customers that are running the more recent versions of the .NET interface. These tools provide quick access to data, which can be filtered, sorted, and formatted in ways that allow for transformation into actionable information on which sound business decisions can be made. Additionally, by linking browses to other browses, users can rapidly...

Logan Consulting is proud to announce the availability of a .NET Workshop where we can get your IT team and users up to speed on the powerful tools in QAD's .NET interface. You can expect to gain significant reporting, productivity, and efficiency improvements as a result of your increased knowledge of the interface. 

It is very important that companies realize that the true purpose of a cycle count program is to identify the causes of invetnory inaccuracies and then put corrective actions in place. It is not to simply make correcting inventory transactions. I am sure that I have blogged on this topic before, but I think this difference gets lost in some organizations. If the effort isn't made to identify the cause...

The QAD Configurator offers clients with rich functionality to configure product based on complex rules. However, before embarking on a configurator implementation, it is important to understand when this tool is valuable, as it doesn't fit in all instances. The following are some key areas to consider before assuming you are a configure to order environment. 1. Do new confiugurations require engineering intelligence (e.g. testing, updated drawings, etc.), before the...

I recently completed an assessment project at a client where Logan Consulting lead a QAD 8.6 implementation back in 2000. A part of the project involved the implementation of a third-party supply chain management package due to the client's need to ensure finite capacity and material planning. This SCM package met the need of scheduling, but has been complex, costly, and caused problems with the lower level material planning, forcing...

In today’s global economy, corporations must find ways to balance supply and demand not only across sites, but across the entire supply chain. QAD’s Enterprise Operations Planning has the functionality to do just this. QAD’s EOP uses actual Forecast, Sales, Production, and Inventory data to calculate a plan to support pre-defined target inventory levels and centralize the production planning and purchasing activities into a global Master Scheduling function. The Enterprise...