Category: QAD Distribution

Virtually every ERP implementation entails the testing of business processes as well as the migration of data. One thing that is easy to overlook, however, is testing business processes with migrated data. As development and testing environments are populated with data to facilitate unit and conference room piloting, there is a tendency to test different scenarios with the same data over and over again. While the processes may end up...

Introduced in Enterprise Edition, Shipping Rule functionality offers an opportunity for QAD users to tighten up data accuracy during the shipping process. For QAD installations in the automotive vertical, EDI plays a major role in the communication of requirements and shipment information with the customer. In QAD Standard Edition, users typically had to wait until the ASN Export screen to populate relevant variables for a successful outbound ASN. With Shipping...

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 impress! 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 who...

One of Logan Consulting’s long-standing clients is considering a strategy of standing up a hybrid ERP model for its US operations, leveraging its existing SAP footprint for financials and PLM, while migrating its US plants off of their existing ERP applications to QAD’s Enterprise Applications Enterprise Edition (QAD EE). In order to support this long-term strategy, tight integration between SAP and QAD EE will be important for financial users who...

Enterprise-Wide Standards - (Business Systems Solution and the ERP Core) Most companies strive for a standardized Enterprise-Wide Business Solution, including a standardized ERP Enterprise software package as the core of the Enterprise-Wide Business Systems Solution. This can be accomplished by standards or through transformations. As part of the integration/migration; certain coding and configuration standards for a variety of configurations and/or fields should be established and followed globally. When establishing these...

Defining specific pre and post cutover metrics is an important step in the planning of a new ERP system. ERP implementations are often seen as projects which reduce on-time shipment performance or throughput, for example. The Project Team needs the ability to reference pre cutover metrics and easily compare them to the same cutover metric to assess the positive or negative impact of the cutover. The Project Team (internal and...

In complex manufacturing environments, the maintenance of item master, bill of material, and routing data is critical to accurate costing, planning, and manufacturing. Unfortunately, in many ERP implementations, the focus on this data and the conversion of it from a legacy ERP system to the new ERP system starts too late! Some ERP systems manage this data differently for planning, costing and manufacturing. As a result, it is important to...

Pamela Lopker, President and Chairman of the Board at QAD, was one of four keynote speakers at Explore in San Antonio this morning. She provided insight into the newest trends, products and techniques that QAD is delivering to its customers as well as a preview of QAD's next generation architectures and migration paths. Lopker showed some very forward thinking on the direction system interfaces may take in the next 10-20...

A large-scale implementation to a new ERP system such as QAD often means additional technical infrastructure and equipment within the plants to support purchase order receiving, production reporting, truck loading, labelling, and shipping. Depending on the scope and size of the implementation, it may be necessary to identify a separate project workstream and workstream manager to ensure accountability for all related data collection and equipment tasks. Examples of potential areas...

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