Category: QAD Distribution

Ever wish QAD had the ability to convert Planned Orders for purchased items directly to a Purchase Order without having to go through requisitions? With AUX, now you can.  In this blog we will cover how to use the new QAD AUX functionality: Firm Purchasing. The AUX Planned Orders view contains Firm Purchasing as an Action.  The following explains how you can convert planned orders to Purchase Orders. Pre-requisite Setup...

What is Item Number Replacement? One of the lesser known additions to the Enterprise Edition of QAD is functionality around: Item Number Replacement, Cross-Sell, Up-Sell during Sales Order Entry. This is above and beyond the long-existing Customer Item functionality in Standard Edition. The relatively new functionality provides order entry personnel with directed prompts to replace an obsolete item, or to direct them to attempt a cross-sell or up-sell based on...

QAD Browse Link Maintenance is an efficient way to customize your QAD system to benefit your needs. Browse Link Maintenance users can create hyperlinks from data in order to easily navigate to other QAD screens, Network Paths, and to external websites through existing data, item numbers, etc. With technical help, your company can create dynamic links that allow for quick navigation to an array of sites and QAD Screens.  Below...

In this blog we will cover the benefits and key features of QAD Production Execution (QAD PE). QAD PE helps increase efficiency during the production process along with utilizing technology for a shop floor setting.  Additionally, QAD PE provides production insights that are necessary to respond quickly to inventory shortages, equipment failures, and other unplanned production slowdowns. HMI Touch Screen Technology The Human Machine Interface (HMI) touch screen technology included...

Production Execution (PE) is a new QAD functionality that enables collaboration and communication between production planning and operations, ultimately offering benefits that increase production flexibility and operational capabilities. It offers a convenient solution to production management software within the QAD system, eliminating the need for paper waste or custom software.   By using a touch screen interface at the shop floor, PE creates the opportunity within the QAD system to...

Summary QAD's Serialization provides out-of-the-box functionality to create and transact containerized inventory throughout the receiving, production, and shipping processes. QAD uses the term “Serialization” to represent the container serial number or “license plate." QAD Serialization supports multiple levels of containerization (e.g., items in boxes, boxes on pallets, etc.). Once inventory is Serialized, the Serialized container can be transacted throughout QAD by simply scanning the single Serialized number, which speeds processing...

QAD's serialization functionality allows companies to build an embedded inventory structure so that product can be moved, shipped, received, and consumed in a consolidated fashion. Serial ID numbers (also called license plates) are created and applied to units so that they can be tracked and moved efficiently. The functionality provides the ability to create inventory records and packaged inventory that show the breakdown and organization of boxes, cartons, pallets, and...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause unforeseen disruptions to the United States' supply chain, which have been further complicated by recent shipping delays and truck driver shortages. As a result, various goods and input materials have become scarce and their prices have risen. Luckily, QAD's Production Orders capabilities can help to alleviate the impact the supply chain crisis may have had on your business's production processes. The Production Orders module...

Does your internal or external customer require material to arrive sequenced to their production line manufacturing schedule? If so, your business would benefit from utilizing QAD’s Customer Sequence Schedules. Customer Sequence Schedules ensure that the correct material ships and arrives in a specific order to the specified place and time to maximize the efficiency of a manufacturing process. For example, say a company needed five parts of different colors at...

QAD's Enterprise Material Transfer creates an easy and automated process for intercompany orders and transactions, but there are a few necessary elements that must be in place before this functionality can be leveraged. This blog walks through the set-up of the mandatory aspects of the EMT tool. Step 1: Set Up Supplier Profiles In Supplier Maintenance, make the desired to adjustments to the following fields: Send SO Price Yes -...