PROGRAM AGENDA   (Click here for PDF Version) September 23-25 , 2007 Hyatt Regency l Dearborn, MI

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Sunday - September 23

5:00 pm Registration Opens / Vendor Fair Set-Up Tote Bags sponsored by:

Audio/Visual sponsored by:

5:30 – 6:30 pm
Securing Your Swiss Cheese Environment PAUL KOUFALIS – Progresswiz Consulting If you are a DBA or system administrator for a public company then you definitely need to be at this session that will explore, in detail, the numerous solutions you can implement to secure your OpenEdge-based application and data environments.	Making MFG/PRO Yours – Managing Custom Data SCOTT DULECKI - BravePoint How can you add things to MFG/PRO and keep your life simple, now and in the future? This session will look at different options, including side tables, the user workfile, and schema changes, and most importantly, doing these so that they're easy to manage through an upgrade.

 Monday - September 24                                                  

8:00am Registration / Vendor Fair Opens Continetnal Breakfast sponsored by:

 9:30 am GENERAL SESSION

Welcome & Program Overview: ANNE HOLMES, MMUG President

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
QAD's Future Product Direction
TOM BUFFO - Director, Product Management, QAD Inc.
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Hear about the product expansions that QAD will be introducing to the QAD Enterprise Applications 2007 suite with their September launch and learn about plans for next year. See how your business, with QAD applications, will fit into and benefit from the Perfect Lean Market.

 11:15 am Vendor Introductions

12:00 pm           Luncheon sponsored by:

 1:00 – 5:00 pm

QAD Demo Center                           Come to the Product Demo room and experience live product demonstrations. QAD Consultants will be available for on-demand demos of scheduled products. The informal setting allows for you to ask product questions specific to your needs. Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) EAM offers a Full Plant Equipment Maintenance package, along with MRO Purchasing and MRO Inventory functions. EAM Also offers a Capital Project module for both Internal and Customer Projects.

MFG/PRO Usability Sessions                    Once again, MMUG is pleased to have LEESA WALKER, QAD Useability Manager, on hand to meet with attendees in one-on-one sessions to study the useability of MFG/PRO. These sessions are a great way for users to provide feedback on next-generation and existing QAD products, and to get involved in the design process. What to Expect During a Usability Session... Usability Activities give MMUG members the opportunity to test new and existing solutions and provide on-the-spot feedback to QAD developers, product-management specialists, and usability experts. The objective is to make QAD solutions easy to use, easy to learn and enjoyable.

CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

MANUFACTURING	DISTRIBUTION	TECHNICAL	BUSINESS PROCESS
1:00 – 2:00 pm
QAD Configurator REA BUCHANAN QAD, Inc. This session will provide a basic understanding of the QAD Configurator offering in support of configure-to-order manufacturing strategies.	QAD Transportation Management System JIM HOLMES QAD Precision Software QAD’s new Freight Management system is a best-of-breed solution designed to fulfill your transportation management needs. Find out how QAD customers are already capitalizing on the integration between QAD Freight Management and QAD Enterprise Applications 2007 to cut shipping costs and raise the level of service they can offer their customers.	Super and Persistent Procedures – A New Hope TIM KUEHN TDK Consulting In this session, Tim will review the Procedure Manager that he has developed to simplify his own life when it comes to coding and managing persistent and super procedures.  Tim's Procedure Manager is free to download from PSDN, so feel free to get it ahead of time and ask questions along the way.	Getting The Most Out of QAD’s .Net UI – PART I JEFF STEELE QAD, Inc. In Part 1 of this two-part session you will learn how to leverage the current interface as well as how to extend the interface with some basic new functionality. Topics he covers include menu changes, basic screen additions (adding a custom program, enabling simplified screens and enabling the Wizard navigation) and browse functionality (creating a browse and adding links).

2:00 pm Break / Visit the Exhibits

2:30 – 3:30 pm
10 Sites – 9 Countries – 6 People – 1 Year TODD RUMSEY Laird Technologies Fueled by an aggressive acquisition strategy and a clear vision of market leadership, Laird Technologies has grown over 450% in 3 years. Learn how QAD is addressing the challenges and complexities of our enterprise and hear the keys to our successful implementation of eB2 in 10 sites, across 9 countries in 13 months!	Case Study: Streamlining Customer Order Process GARY YANG RCM Technologies TOM DIETZ eV3, Inc. This EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) case study will discuss how eV3, a QAD customer, uses Qxtend and RCM DataObject in its SOFA (Sales Order Fax Automation) project to achieve a real-time, seamless integration of QAD ERP Application and MatrixOne. A Qxtend and RCM DataObject demo is included.	Non-Intrusive Customizations: Securing The Path To Cost-Effective Upgrades SHANKAR SUBRAMANIAN QAD, Inc. Get an overview of the current and future non-intrusive customization capabilities of QAD Enterprise Applications. Learn how QAD is committed to providing non-intrusive product extensibility through best practices and toolsets used by QAD Services. Some of these capabilities will be demonstrated during the session. See how customization is inherent in the new product architecture and understand the scope of what can be achieved without code modification.	Getting The Most Out of QAD’s .Net UI – PART II JEFF STEELE QAD, Inc. In Part 2 of this session, Jeff will focus primarily on the plug-in model of the new QAD .NET UI. This includes creating a few new plug-ins: one that extends current functionality and one that is completely self-contained.

3:30 pm Break / Visit the Exhibits

4:00 – 5:00 pm
Direct Part Marking: Beyond Barcoding JOHN PIATEK Freedom Technologies Corp. Some suppliers are now being required to mark and serialize individual parts with a 2D barcode called datamatrix for traceability – or Direct Part Marking (DPM). This session will cover what industries are starting to require DPM, how to mark and read DPM, and how this technology can not only allow you to comply with requirements, but how to use it to save real dollars in your manufacturing operation.	Best Practices – Outsourcing Support and Knowledge BHAVESH SHAH Thirdware Solution Ltd. DAN HORSWELL, PMP Rockwell Automation Successful outsourcing of support depends on a robust framework, definition of severity levels and SLA’s, assessment of support strength and transition of know-ledge to the Support Desk. Hear a case study where the customer has success-fully outsourced and transitioned support for the entire Asia Pacific region to a single vendor.	Using VMWare and Virtualization: Getting More From Fewer Servers MIKE LONSKI Allegro Consultants This talk defines virtualization in terms of the typical IT or MIS manager, describes how it works and why it is useful, and then provides examples of uses and tools that make the benefits of virtualization obvious and reachable for everyone who must manage even a single server.	.Net UI: Tips, Tricks, & Open Forum (Demo Included) JEFF STEELE QAD, Inc. Find out more about browses, menus and process maps, workspaces and customized screens. Learn specific steps to help you take advantage of the latest features of the QAD .NET User Interface. Watch a demonstration showing how companies can most effectively use these new features. And participate in an interactive question and answer session.

5:00 pm Vendor Fair Reception sponsored by:

 Tuesday - September 25                                           

8:00 am Registration Opens / Vendor Fair Opens Continental Breakfast sponsored by:

9:00 am - 11:30am QAD Demo Center

Supply Visualization
See live demonstrations of QAD's Supply Visualization. SV is the hosted Internet site that gives customer and suppliers visibility into their supply chain activities, including kanban loop status, supplier schedules, and vendor managed inventory (VMI). The new SV training site offers both recorded training modules, interactive tests, and full written documentation.

CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

MANUFACTURING	FINANCIAL	TECHNICAL	BUSINESS PROCESS
9:00 – 10:00 am
User Case Study: QAD’s Business Intelligence CRAIG McCONKEY Filtration Group, Inc. In addition to the traditional budget and actual sales by entity and site, Filtration Group uses QAD Business Intelligence to budget by business unit--horizontally across all entities. They are able to budget sales quantities and dollars by business unit, by salesman, by customer, and by cost center - all the way down to the product line level. A demo including the new BI cubes and 5 - 10 of the cube reports currently used by its management will be offered.	QAD On-Demand Solution DOUGLAS GILKEY QAD, Inc. Learn how On Demand can help your business meet their QAD EA deployment objectives with less risk, shorter time to benefit, an less cost vs. a traditional in-house deployment of QAD EA.	Managing Your Development Environment: Tips & Tricks TAMMY LONSBERRY Sungate Solutions In this session you will learn how to simplify the process of developing and deploying your customized code.  Learn a few simple coding practices that will make your life easier and help to avoid some common pitfalls.	TMS Case Study: Keeping Speedline On The Right Side of The TRAX BILL DAMERON Speedline Technologies Hear a detailed review of the implementation and execution of the QAD TMS application (previously known as TRAXi3) being used by Speedline Technologies, and how the solution has provided benefits.

10:00 am Break / Visit the Exhibits

10:30 – 11:30 am
Panel Discussion: Upgrading MFG/PRO & Progress SCOTT DULECKI - BravePoint BEN HOLMES - Eaton Corp. STEVE LAMB - QAD, Inc. JOHN GRAHAM - S.I.G. Considering an upgrade?  Wondering if it's worth it?  In this panel discussion, three seasoned upgraders will talk about their experiences and challenges, and share how to move effectively to a new version of MFG/PRO or Progress.  Bring your own questions as well!	SOX Compliance: Security, Auditing and the New Segregation of Duties MARIA BALLUCH QAD, Inc. Learn how you can use the new functionality of QAD Enterprise Application 2008 to meet your SOX needs. Discuss some of your SOX requirements and see how the functionality can match those concerns.	Help! Going Beyond F1 MIKE LONSKI Allegro Learn about some tools to make a printed manual that exactly matches an electronic format of the same information and then how to link that information, in a context-sensitive way, directly into your application. We'll explore how developers can work with documentation and support personnel so that your next application has its help as a plan and not an afterthought.	User Case Study: Precision TRAX Implementation CARLA ROBERTS MARY JANE UTHER Freudenberg-NOK See how Freudenberg-NOK successfully implemented QAD's Transportation Management System to improve their shipping processes including automation of Import/Export documentation, Counter Terrorism Denied Party validation and automatic ASN generation.

 11:30 am     CLOSING LUNCHEON ADDRESS:

The ABC's of Success LEM BARNEY (Detroit Lions 1967 - 1977) Former Detroit Lions cornerback and Pro Football Hall of Famer Lem Barney will share his lifelong skills on how to make the transition from where you are now to where you want to be in your career. Audiences will leave energized with a new perspective on themselves and their work. Since leaving the Lions, Lem has dedicated his life to helping motivate adults and the nation’s youth with insights on what it takes to be a winner for life!

Luncheon sponsored by:

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