What is your Business System Strategy for Accounting for Tariffs?

Posted on: September 20, 2019 | By: Andy Vitullo | QAD Financials

The current US  trade climate in 2019 involves the use of tariffs to apply economic pressures on United States trading partners. The overall strategy is intended to create an outcome more favorable to US businesses and the greater US economy. If you are a US business with operations in China, these tariffs are having an immediate impact on the price of inbound material, as well as, creating downward pressure on...


QAD EE Correction Invoices

Posted on: June 24, 2019 | By: Tim Lovely | QAD Financials, QAD Practice News, QAD Manufacturing, QAD Business Process, QAD Distribution

Historically in QAD, any corrections to a posted Sales Order Invoice would normally be done through the creation of an adjusting invoice in Pending Invoice Maintenance. A negative line item with the original (incorrect) Item, Quantity and / or Price would be entered, followed by an additional line with the corrected Item, Quantity and / or Price. This process corrected key historical data for sales, sales history, and salesperson history,...


Improved Security Controls in QAD’s Enterprise Edition

Posted on: March 23, 2019 | By: Tim Lovely | QAD Distribution, QAD Financials, QAD Manufacturing, QAD Business Process

As we have discussed in the past, QAD’s Enterprise Edition adds more structure and controls to its user security model. The added benefits of the new model continue for our QAD EE clients, with the three high level improvement areas previously noted: Role Based Security Segregation of Duties Transactional Restrictions and Blocking User Roles can be defined by a given company, with users added to Roles and menu level permissions...