Registration / Vendor Fair Opens  
                                                                           Continental Breakfast sponsored by:  

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.

Talk To The Techie (1:00 - 5:00pm)

As QAD features and functions expand and your users are empowered with advanced tools through the .NET interface, the backend technology components become more powerful and complex.  Take this opportunity to meet with QAD technologists to discuss your strategy, concerns and if necessary your issues.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:45 - 11:45am

Understanding MRP With Advanced Repetitive

SEAN DONAHUE
Ralcorp Bakery Products
  
NADIA TRUXELL
Logan Consulting

EE Financials Implementation

ANDREW VITULLO
Logan Consulting

This session will focus on lessons and practical observations learned from a recent EE implementation project.  This will include a review of technical issues around Infrastructure, performance and client machines, EE Financial Master Data Requirements where no source data exists in Standard Edition for General Ledger, Customers, Suppliers and Daybooks. Also covered will be transaction cycles and data conversion approaches.

Simplified
Screens in
. Net UI

STACY ELWOOD
BravePoint

This session will demonstrate how to make the most of the .NET UI interface by using simplified screens. Watch how to cut down key strokes, prevent errors, change field names, add custom fields, and even comply with S-Ox restrictions. 

Implementing a Standard Core Model Across The Globe

JEFF DeGROOT
Visteon Corp.

Visteon is using legacy mainframe / ERP applications across the globe and has recently embarked on deploying a standard consistent model. This presentation will highlight some of the challenges on the "journey" and how Visteon addressed them with deployment of their QAD core model in the shortest possible time. Some of the innovations discussed will be: tool-based data migration, training to drive launches, governance and team structure, and factory approach for launch development.

1:00pm       LUNCHEON KEYNOTE ADDRESS:      The Effective Enterprise: QAD Technology & Foundation         TONY WINTER - Chief Technology Officer - QAD, Inc.

Business and technology are changing at a rapid pace. Join Tony Winter, QAD Chief Technology Officer, as he shares how QAD is delivering strategic initiatives and technologies that will support your growth and address tomorrow’s industry challenges to achieve our vision of the effective enterprise.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Synchronizing Your Internal Supply Chain

BRENT SHOOLTZ
QAD, Inc.

The new QAD Planning and Scheduling workbenches have demonstrated the capability to provide visibility and control in generating more accurate mid range master schedules and short term production schedules. Learn how these plans and schedules are communicated to other functions and roles within your organization in an entirely new way.

Optimizing Your Operations: Grab That Low Hanging Fruit

MARYANN HAFNER
QAD, Inc.

NANCY MAJURE
QAD, Inc.

Hear best practices, key performance measures, and low-hanging fruit in the areas of Project Accounting & Controls, MRO Purchasing & Inventory, and Plant Maintenance & Reliability.  Regardless of your solution today, the goal of this session is to provide steps you can start taking immediately to begin operational improvement and to help you develop a long range plan for reaching operational excellence. 

BI3 Component Overview and Demonstration

JERRY KARN
RCM Technologies

This session will review the system and application components of QAD’s newest release of BI. This session will also include an online demonstration of the product components.

PDM, PIM, NPD, PLM etc. ... What Does It All Mean?

HANK CANITZ
QAD, Inc.
    
Product Data Management

Product Information Management New Product Development
Product Lifecycle Management    

This session will help participants understand the various processes and solutions available around product life-cycle management and how all these process areas fit together. The presentation will focus on the relative value of various solution offerings and how to determine what might be appropriate for their companies.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

4:00 - 5:00 pm

QAD Operational Metrics

POOJA PATEL
QAD, Inc.

Operational Metrics provide a way to frequently review planning performance and the quality of the data used in your operations. It allows you to see a problem in any of a number of key areas and to trace the problem back to root causes. You can track the diagnostic measurements that support your company’s vital signs—helping you to make decisions for leaner and more efficient production. .

Protect Your System From Money Leaks

VLAD FORFUTDINOV
ControlsForce Ltd.

RANDY WHITEHAIR
Freudenberg-NOK

This session will discuss how to detect A/P risks by monitoring a series of complex business transactions initiated through the QAD Purchase Ordering process. Learn how to save money and minimize operational and control cost. Examples from Freudenberg-NOK production deployment will be provided.

What's New in eCommerce

DAN HERMAN
QAD, Inc.

BRENT SHOOLTZ
QAD, Inc.

Discover how the EDI eCommerce Workbench, available in QAD 2010 SE, streamlines EDI error monitoring and simplifies error reprocessing. Learn about usability and functional enhancements introduced to the product.

Deploying QAD's New BI Platform Locally

MIKE BOOKE
ANDY McDONALD
Capital Safety

Capital Safety will share the technical and organizational success and challenges in rolling out their new BI platform. Beginning in Northern Europe, then to Southern Europe and the US, Capital Safety has involved its business users to ensure success in adoption of the new BI. How strict project management benefits the project will be described. The challenge of information design and narrowing down user’s wishes for graphical dashboards will also be discussed.

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.

Operational Metrics (8:30am - 12:30pm)

Operational Metrics provide a way to frequently review planning performance and the quality of the data used in your operations. It allows you to see a problem in any of a number of key areas and to trace the problem back to root causes. You can track the diagnostic measurements that support your company’s vital signs—helping you to make decisions for leaner and more efficient production.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

8:30 - 9:30 am

Lunch & Learn Training Sessions

LORI BRAUN
Continental Structural Plastics

Lunch and Learn training sessions provide a casual atmosphere for advanced training of current QAD users in a small group setting. Additionally, they allow for the assessment of their knowledge levels in a non-threatening, interactive environment.

SE vs. EE Financials

LANCE LaCROSS
QAD, Inc.

This session will review differences between SE & EE Financials. Included will be setup changes and module changes in AR, AP and General Ledger. There will also be a brief overview in converting SE & EE as well as a review of an EE database.

Under The Covers: What Makes the .Net UI Work

JEFF STEELE
QAD, Inc.

Come learn about the current User Interface for QAD Enterprise Applications. Included will be an overview of the functionality as well as the latest usability improvements added. Additionally, if you are on eB or later, and want the latest .Net UI, come to this session to hear about your options as the Ready Now program will also be covered. Finally, since this is Jeff talking, come with your questions as this will be an open forum and interaction is expected.

QAD Demand Management

PATRICK GRACE
QAD, Inc.
 
Demand Management with its Demand Management Engine, Collaborative Portal, and Inventory Optimization components encompasses all areas of demand management from creation of forecasts and tracking of errors, optimizing of inventory levels, to collaboration with supply chain members, flexible reporting of demand activities and integration with QAD Enterprise Applications.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:00 - 11:00 am

EMT Implementation at Eaton

RACHAEL THOMPSON
Eaton Corporation

Do you fear the tiny acronyms of EMT and EDI separately? Learn how Eaton Corporation has implemented QAD’s standard EMT-EDI functionality to create a seamless transfer of data between numerous business units.  This session will cover the various transactions, basic setup requirements, flow of data, and troubleshooting tips associated with utilizing QAD’s EMT-EDI functionality.

Enterprise Edition Financials Update

LANCE LaCROSS
QAD, Inc.

QAD's Enterprise Edition Financials is now generally available.  Come see what's new, what's different and discuss why it would benefit your company to begin planning your upgrade today.  View a live session of General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable transactions.

Progress Performance Monitoring & Tuning

DAN FOREMAN
BravePoint

This session will cover how to effectively monitor Progress performance and also how to tune Progress based upon data gathered from your monitoring.  The presentation will discuss proactive monitoring, what metrics are important and where to find them.  We will also discuss troubleshooting of live performance problems (e.g. “the system is really slow right now”).

Improving Production Planning Through MSW/PSW

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MIKE BOOKE
NATALIA SALAZAR
Capital Safety

Scheduling production is challenging enough balancing customer orders against raw materials and with capacity constraints. Implemented in Slovakia, Capital Safety will discuss QAD’s new MSW/PSW for 2011 SE’s implementation and training challenges, demonstrate the visual browses to identify capacity bottlenecks, insufficient raw materials, and matching orders with capacity. We will also cover how it is changing the way Capital Safety plans production.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

POTPOURRI

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Lean Process for Manufacturing

STEPHEN DOMBROSKI
QAD, Inc.

The purpose of this session is to introduce participants to the principles of Lean Manufacturing focused on the process industries. Participants will be introduced to the areas where Lean Manufacturing can target improvements and cost reductions in the areas specific to process manufacturers.

QAD Enterprise Applications and Mobile Devices

STEVE LAMB
QAD, Inc.

From the top executives to the sales reps on the street, more organizations are looking at Mobile Devices as a way of providing real time information out of their business systems.  If your organization has not yet embraced Mobile Devices, it will be coming.  If you have, then you know that providing secured access to your business systems is critical.  Learn how you can provide your organization the QAD Enterprise Applications on the Mobile Device.

QAD Monitoring Framework: Systems Management for Effective Operations

BRETT BAUMEISTER
QAD, Inc.

During this collaborative session, best practices for monitoring and managing your QAD application infrastructure will be presented.  In addition, the QAD Monitoring Framework, a comprehensive monitoring toolset that is built upon

several open-source technologies will be discussed.  QAD Monitoring is utilized by QAD’s On Demand team for managing all production environments and will be available to customers in the near future.

QAD Business Intelligence

BILL WERMES

QAD, Inc.
  
From your CEO, COO to your CFO – executives are requiring more analytical data for proactive decision making.  Hear how QAD customers are successfully implementing the new BI 3.0 and the value they have realized.  Business Intelligence features include: browser based delivery, queries, reports, dashboards, scorecards and supports QAD and non QAD sources.