Registration / Vendor Fair Opens   

CEO President and Founder Pam Lopker will discuss how QAD can assist your organization to manage through tough times. Topics will include the introduction of tools and processes to help you analyze and maximize the effectiveness of your current QAD enterprise. She will introduce QAD’s new operational metrics dashboard and discuss Software as a Service (SaaS), “The future of software deployment”. In addition, Pam will address how QAD can assist your enterprise through the volatility of mergers and acquisitions through the deployment of SaaS and our easy on-boarding model.

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Reducing Operational Costs With Software as a Service

CHARLIE EGGERDING
QAD, Inc.

Learn how to reduce your company’s operational cost and complexity and free up valuable cash through the use of QAD’s SaaS and Easy On Boarding Module.

Inter-Company Process Automation With QAD

TIM LOVELY
Logan Consulting

Companies often process inter-company transactions as if they were truly part of a separate company, absorbing the transactional and processing overhead associated with a true third party arms length transaction. This session will focus on standard and non-standard QAD-based options for automation of the processes related to intercompany ordering, shipping, receiving and financial reconciliation.

Hidden Performance Killers and How to Address Them

 TIM KUEHN
TDK Consulting

As Progress updated the ABL's query and temp table functionality, they also introduced little-known gotchas that will hurt your application's performance. This session will cover what these "gotchas" are, how they affect performance, how they were discovered, and how you as a DBA can mitigate them.

User Case Study:
Sales Quote Management

KAREN COOPER
Laird Technologies

ANDY WEINSTEIN
ISS Group

This session will review the strategy and technologies used to consolidate and communicate with Laird’s many MFG/PRO implementations, and the design strategy employed to create the new Sales Quote application. The discussion will continue with an overview of the implementation process of the Quote application, and the current status of the implementation. 

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Operational Metrics
and Analysis:
What Your CEO Needs To See Before the
First Cup of Coffee

 PAM LOPKER
QAD, Inc.
 

Pam will discuss the use of QAD application technology using .Net, operational metrics and process maps to assist your organization in the personalization and most efficient use of tools.  In this presentation, Pam will show how to use QAD’s new technologies to address executive concerns so you can stay on top of key company metrics in a turbulent economic environment.

Sales & Operations Planning

COLLEEN CRUM
Oliver Wight Americas

HANK CANITZ
QAD, Inc.

Synchronize and align your operations to maximize profits and delight customers. Learn Best-in-Class Sales and Operations Planning practices and how QAD enables S&OP.

Case Study: Integrating Microsoft Office with Progress

JERRY BEAVERSON
CHRIS GILLESPIE
Pridgeon & Clay

It seems like everyone uses Office to create business documents, but it takes a lot of copying, pasting, and manual labor.  This customer case study will review the various ways that Active X    controls can be used to allow end users to interface with data using a number of Microsoft Office applications within the Windows

EB2 to EB2.1 Conversion: What the Vendors Didn’t Tell Us

BRAD BISHOP
JACKIE WOHLFORD
Superior Essex

This session will outline our upgrade plans to integrate 5 database’s running EB2 into a single multi-domain database under QAD 2008.1  We will cover the initial conversion plan and the changes made to it as the project unfolded.

4:00 - 5:00 pm

QAD Customer Engagement Process

ANTON CHILTON
QAD, Inc.

Anton Chilton, Director of Global Strategic Accounts, will discuss QAD’s role in assisting your organization to best understand your current implementation and how to leverage QAD expertise to maximize your investment.

The Hidden Added Value
Of Birth Marks

 LAURA JONES
Aptus Global.

A single birth mark can be used for traceability, serialized ID, lot traceability, life cycle management, proof of origin, liability limitation and proof of originality / anti grey market. This session will focus on how to design and select birth mark ID and the new technologies available to accomplish the task in difficult or harsh environments.

User Case Study:
Migration To Linux

 MIKE VAN BUREN
Ford Motor Co.

SUBBU BALAKRISHNAN
Thirdware Solution

Ford Motor Company, which uses QAD in more than 30 markets, recently started their movement to Linux. Hear how they carried out the initial pilot with roll out to follow.

User Case Study:
QAD Customizations

ROBERT GILBERT
Freudenberg-NOK

JOHN CAMPBELL
ProStar Software
   

Hear how Freudenberg-NOK has significantly reduced invasive customizations with ProStar's TailorPro tool and how this tool has improved timely customer satisfaction.

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.

CRM (8:30am - 11:00am)

CRM is included in the migration to QAD 2008 and features a Customer Console with complete access to quotes, orders invoices, Accounts Receivable, Sales History Installed Products and Service calls in a single screen; as well as a Sales Dashboard with predefined sales key performance indicators . QAD CRM allows you to maintain prospect and customer profiles, business characteristics, locations, financial information, past sales history, existing opportunities, and installed base equipment owned by the company.

QAD Component Availability Check (11:00am - 12:30pm)

Are your Planners/Schedulers sending work to the floor without knowing whether materials are available to execute the work? Do you have a high number of expedites due to the fact that your Material Planners don't have good visibility into projected shortages for the components they manage? If the answer to one or both of these questions is yes then please come to this product demo!

QAD Integrated Customization Toolkit (8:30am - 12:30pm)

Come to a live demonstration introducing the QAD Integrated Customization Toolkit!  QAD ICT provides a structured environment that allows you to create custom applications with minimal impact to QAD’s standard set of enterprise applications. This allows you to eliminate or limit the change of the original standard source set of your QAD applications.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

8:30 - 9:30 am

Using Best Practices in Materials Management for Increasing Customer Performance and Satisfaction

TYESE DOBY
Ford Motor Co

Tyese Doby from Ford's Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing Performance Group, will discuss the importance of  critical key practices such as documenting key processes, automating materials processes, training employees, planning for site emergencies, and tracking key performance and operational metrics that can help to increase performance as well as save time and money. The discussion will also touch on the importance of quality and delivery.  Tyese will share her experiences from being involved as both a customer at Ford and as a past materials manager at a supplier.

User Case Study:
AP Automation With QAD

NORMAN HENRY
Leatherman Tool Group

JEFF JORDAN
ACOM Solutions, Inc.

Hear how one QAD customer automated and streamlined their check printing and Accounts Payable process. The session will also discuss how Leatherman implemented ACOM's ACH and E-mail modules to transition their suppliers to direct deposit and electronic payment notifications.

Three Screens In One: How to Use Browse Collections

STACY ELWOOD
BravePoint

Browse Collections are one of the new features of the .Net UI. This session will explain how to setup and use Browse Collections to show everything you need on one screen, instead of 3.  Demo will include applications in Finance, Inventory, Planning, and more.

User Case Study:
Qxtend

JAKUB BIERNACKI
NICK SANDROS
Freudenberg-NOK
   

GARY YANG
RCM Technologies

Hear how one QAD customer uses the Qxtend product to integrate multiple databases and provide their company’s sales division with an online eCatalog with up to date price changes for online customer ordering.  When inventory or prices change, QxTend triggers provide immediate updates ensuring inventory availability and prices are near real time.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

DISTRIBUTION

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:00 - 11:00 am

Improved Scheduling With QAD's New Component Availability Check

CARIANNE NIEUWSTRATEN
BRENT SHOOLTZ
QAD, Inc.

Are your Planners/Schedulers sending work to the floor without knowing whether materials are available to execute the work? Do you have a high number of expedites due to the fact that your Material Planners don't have good visibility into projected shortages for the components they manage? If the answer to one or both of these questions is yes you will find this presentation very useful.

Getting The Most Out of
the QAD Knowledge Base

GREG WEINERT
QAD, Inc.

Learn how to leverage the many tools and services available from QAD Customer Support via the Online Support Center.  This includes a special focus on tips & tricks for searching the QAD Knowledgebase, talking to the community via the QAD Online Forum, and using the various other informa-tional resources provided in the Online Support Center.

Qxtend: Ins, Outs and Practical Uses

 STEVE LAMB
QAD, Inc.

You’ve probably heard about QXtend by now, but do you know what it can do for you?  This presentation will focus on its uses from running Data Sync to creating a Web Service.  We will also show you how to send a query to the QAD Enterprise Applications from another system.

Supply Chain Collaboration:
Friend Or Foe?

TOM BUFFO
QAD, Inc.

Supply chain collaboration is absolutely critical to your enterprise’s success. Suppliers are integral to growing your business as the supply chain is becoming more complex and long distance. Come hear the latest trends in supply chain and understand alternatives to making SC collaboration your competitive advantage.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

11:15am - 12:15 pm

Integrating PLM
With QAD

PAUL DE MORE – PTC

Come hear an overview of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and how it integrates with QAD.

EA 2008 Financials
Update

 LANCE LaCROSS
QAD, Inc.

EA2008 Financials addresses global financial requirements with support for multi-company, multi-currency, multi-language, and consolidated reporting. Additionally, it supports local require-ments by country and region as well SOX/IFRS compliance. Come hear the latest updates with SP4.

VIRTUAL SESSION:
OE Architect For v9 Developers

 BRUCE THOMPSON
BravePoint

Just exactly what is the new OpenEdge Architect? OpenEdge Architect is a set of tools – similar to other standard development environments with various plug-ins for OpenEdge. This virtual session (presented remotely via BravePoint's VOIP/eClassroom technology) will provide the participants an opportunity to see what is involved in configuring and getting started using Architect as their integrated development environment (IDE). Demonstrations will focus on the Editor, DB Navigator, and Debugger plug-ins.

QAD CRM: The Right Information at the Right Time

JOANNE SMITH, CPIM
QAD, Inc.

Learn how to drive revenue and build high-quality customer relationships by managing leads, opportunities and marketing campaigns in QAD CRM.