Category: QAD Manufacturing

Summary QAD provides out-of-the-box functionality to manage Customer consignment inventory that integrates all aspects of the process including shipping, tracking consigned inventory, usage reporting, and deferred billing until usage. This blog discusses the setups of the Customer Consignment module and subsequent transaction processing. Customer Consignment Setups The following setup is required when using the Customer Consignment module Enable the module through the Customer Consignment Control file. You can also set...

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...

QAD’s Configurator allows users to configure a custom product in any way they desire while ensuring it is a valid and feasible combination. Configurator is a great solution to the ever-rising demand of customizable and complex products and reduces the risk of lapses in communication between Salespeople and Engineers that may lead to sales your company cannot fulfill. This tool allows users to create a set of defined rules and...

Supplier Schedules give QAD users an easy and effective way to communicate repetitive orders with suppliers without creating multiple purchase orders or purchase order lines. Supplier Schedules allow the user to do a one-time purchase order header and trailer set up and allow MRP functionality to automatically create releases that can be distributed to the supplier. Supplier Schedules are cumulative-quantity driven and allow the purchase order to remain open for...

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...

MRP is a powerful QAD tool to ensure that supply and demand is properly balanced for all materials in your supply chain, including raw materials, components, in-process inventory, and finished goods. It can automate the purchase order and production planning processes while also providing plain-English (or other local language) recommendations on exception handling. However, to get the most out of this functionality, it is important to understand how to setup...

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 -...

In QAD, Supplier Schedules are a powerful and efficient method of communicating demand and purchasing requirements to suppliers in an automated fashion. However, to get the most out of this functionality, it is important to understand how to setup the planning parameters such that the Supplier Schedule releases align with the desired inbound material flow. This blog will address the key fields in the Supplier Schedule that impact the status,...

QAD’s Excelerator allows users to easily and efficiently load data from Excel into QAD. It can be particularly helpful when data needs to be transferred between QAD applications. However, in order to leverage these benefits, users must be able to load Excelerator sets, or templates, into Excel. This blog will walk step-by-step through that process. Step 1: Selecting Template a. Go to Inbound menu b. Enter username and password c....