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Learn how QAD has expanded its current product offerings with QAD Enterprise Applications 2008 and Enhanced Financials and learn how to strategically extend the value of your investment with QAD solutions. Understand how QAD solutions will benefit you as a global manufacturer doing business in today's markets.

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.

Product Change Control Demo (1-5pm)

PCC is standard base system module for control, edit, and approval of changes to Item Master Data, Product Structures, Routings, Item Specifications (Quality Module), and summary data of each PCO (Product Change Order).  On-line approvals and workflow (using email) for sequencing and reviewing planned changes, offer control and security to data changes.

MANUFACTURING

  FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

1:00 - 2:00 pm

  
Implementation of
Quality Assurance
Principles

JOHN CACHAT – IQS, Inc.

QAD 2008 - Dive Into
The Richness of the
New Enterprise
Financials
Functionality

LANCE LaCROSS - QAD, Inc.

EA2008 features a
completely new Financials
solution based on new
technology. The concepts
of Lean Manufacturing have been introduced as well as
a fundamentally enhanced
user interface and back end
business logic based on a
Service Oriented
Architecture.

User Case Study:
In-House Shop Floor
Control Module

PIETER SMITH
Autocar, LLC

 
Hear how one QAD user
developed their own shop
floor control system that replaced old paper-based broadcast reports. The
system integrates fully with
QAD to look up inventory and
receive finished goods and
also includes additional
functionality to add/delete components from the work order bill and backflushing
after each station.
  

User Case Study:
Practical Browses
(Part I)

MIKE OLSON
Continental Structural Plastics

PART 1 of this session
will show how Power
Browses solved many

diverse business processes

and needs for one QAD
user. This discussion will
center around the .NET interface, but many of the
functions are available in
DT2 and even GUI
environments.

MANUFACTURING

  FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Striving For
Manufacturing
Excellence

REA BUCHANAN

QAD, Inc. 

Automating Month-End
With Excel

ALEX KIM
32Soft, Inc.

Making Life Easy:
Taking Advantage of
.Net UI

DAVE RUETZ
Driv-Lok, Inc.

Hear how one QAD user
did away with over 300
custom inquiries and reports
using runtime cyberqueries
available as shortcuts on the
.Net shortcut space.

User Case Study:
Practical Browses

(Part II)

MIKE OLSON
Continental Structural Plastics

PART 2 of this session will
delve into advanced features
such as Negative Inventory
Browse and Drill Down
functionality. The speaker
will construct the browses
during the session to show
how easy it is to build your
own. Users will learn how
data can be accessed via
browses and be prepared
to specify to internal IT staff
the data and relationships in
requests for Custom
Browses.

MANUFACTURING

  FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Leveraging Process:
How To Ensure Your
Survival

TERRY ONICA
QAD, Inc.
  
TRACY DILEY
Wagon Automotive

Hear an innovative
approach to industry

best practice using
process maps. Learn
how you can manage
customer expectations in
a fiercely competitive
market, and help ensure
your survival. QAD and
Wagon Automotive will walk
the audience through the
"Self Assessment and
Success" which depicts
the key proof points that
allowed Wagon to obtain
Ford’s endorsement for Q1.

Finance & Accounting
Considerations for
Implementing Shared
Services Accounts
Payable
  

 ANDY VITULLO
Logan Consulting

This presentation will cover
considerations for CFO’s,
Controllers, or Project
Managers embarking on a
new implementation or
Upgrade of their QAD’s
Enterprise software.
This session will discuss
implementing a shared
services accounts
payable organization to
support a multi-site
company.

Using Progress To
Update Excel
Spreadsheets

CRAIG POLLATZ
Cascade Die Casting

Hear a case study on
how weekly spreadsheets
and reports that took hours
to update can be done in
minutes using Progress.
Learn how hold tags can
be entered into a Progress
table and Reports can be
written against the data
along with instant access-
ibility.

Deploying Customer
Self-Service For B2B
& B2C Environments

RAJU MURUGUSAN
QAD, Inc.

This session covers how
CSS can be setup to support
Business-to-Business (B2B)
and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) operations from
functional and technical
perspectives. The partici-
pants will gain insights into
the deployment of CSS in
B2B and B2C environments
and the session will help
them to determine what could
be leveraged for their
company.

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.

Customer Self-Service Demo (9:00 - 11:30am)

CSS is the QAD module that allows B2B, and B2C on-line Order Entry via a company's web site.  On-line catalogs, security to which items can be purchased, order templates, direct load to QAD Order Entry, and credit card purchases are all part of this module.

MANUFACTURING

 POTPOURRI

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

9:00 - 10:00 am

EA 2008:
Core Enhancements

CARIANNE NIEUWSTRATEN
QAD, Inc.

Learn about the core
functionality available in
QAD Enterprise Applications
2008 featuring manufacturing,
supply chain and customer
management enhancements.
Find out about additional
improvements that can help
your business reduce
operating costs, streamline
order fulfillment, ease
communication with external
partners and fulfill regulatory
compliance.

What You Need To
Know About Product
Lifecycle Management

KEVIN SCHOONOVER - PTC

Come learn how Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM)
drives business value and
how you can integrate PLM
with QAD Enterprise
Applications.

How To Make Character
Code Run In .Net UI

JOHN CAMPBELL
ProStar Software

This talk will give you an
overview of the screen
architecture of .NetUI - how
it translates character
screens into the browser
interface. It will describe
what is supported in the
interface and what is not.
In addition, it will briefly touch
on what works and does
not work in any wrappers
you might have.

Preparing For The
Worst: Disaster
Recovery Options

JOHN HARLOW - BravePoint

Come hear what disaster
recovery/ business conti-
nuity options are available
for companies that run
Progress-based software.
This session will cover the
development of a DR strategy
and the different types of
strategies used with
Progress/OpenEdge
installations. We’ll cover the
strengths, weaknesses,
complexity and costs
associated with each of
the various approaches.

MANUFACTURING

 POTPOURRI

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:30 - 11:30 am

B2B Messaging With Suppliers and Customers Using EDI and Portals

ANN HOLWEY
QAD Global Services

This session will discuss
EDI messages and portal tools
that can be used to send and
receive messages through
the supply chain. Additionally,
it will discuss the importance
of integration into ERP
applications for timeliness
and accuracy of data.

Surcharges

DAVID DOYLE
QAD, Inc.

Has anyone Customized
QAD to adapt such additional
line charges into Sales
Orders, Customer Schedules
or Invoicing?  Dave Doyle will
lead a group discussion
session to see if there are
common approaches to
addressing metal, fuel, and
other types of surcharges.
This session will attempt to
define surcharges, look at
how to calculate and how
to apply different types of
surcharges.

Panel Discussion:
Upgrading Gotchas

RHONDA PHILLIPS
Carrington Labs

DAVE RUETZ
Driv-Lok, Inc.

Tired of asking yourself
"Why is this happening to
me?" during an upgrade?
Want to know if anyone else
has had these problems or is
it just you?Join Rhonda Phillips
and Dave Ruetz in an informal
panel (and audience) discus-
sion on upgrades. Upgrades
in general will be discussed
along with some actual
gotcha’s that have occurred
both during upgrades to
EB2007.1 as well as
upgrades in general.

User Case Study:
Infrastructure
Consolidation

DAN HORSWELL
Rockwell Automation

SUNIL FRANCIS
Thirdware Solution Ltd.

This presentation talks about
how Thirdware and Rockwell
executed an infrastructure
migration and the best
practices to be adapted for
the same. Since QAD was
business critical, the project
had to be executed with
least possible downtime.

You’ve been doing things the same way for years, and all things considered, you haven’t been doing that badly.  Sure, there’s always room for improvement, but this Lean thing... Is it really worth moving to?  Are there *really* enough advantages to it?  Everyone says that when you make the switch, it’s a really painful process… but is it worth it?  Follow Dave Doyle and Scott Dulecki through a journey to learn and apply "Lean Concepts".