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WELCOME KEYNOTE ADDRESS:        QAD: Back to the Future         PAMELA LOPKER President & Chairman QAD, Inc.

QAD President and Co-Founder Pamela Lopker will look at the evolution of technology and a glimpse into the future of technology and the Enterprise computing.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

11:00am - 12:00pm

Case Study: Inventory Management

MATT WAGNER
TS Tech North America  
BRAD ALDRICH  
Freedom Technologies

QAD Enterprise Edition Financials

LANCE LaCROSS
QAD, Inc.

QAD's Enterprise Edition Financials is now generally available.  Come see what's new, what's different from SE 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.

Programming Tips for .Net UI

TAMMY LONSBERRY
Sungate Solutions

Quality Management for High Tech Industries

HANK CANITZ
QAD, Inc.

This session will discuss the various global safety and environmental regulations relevant to high technology manufacturers (GMP, ISO, REACH, WEEE, RoHS, etc.) and what manufacturers need to do to comply with these regulations. The presentation will also highlight the QAD solutions that can help manufacturers meet the requirements of these regulations.

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE ADDRESS:        Building Blocks for the Effective Enterprise         PAMELA LOPKER President & Chairman QAD, Inc.

For our Luncheon Address Pam will offer insight into the newest trends, products and techniques QAD is delivering to its customers – a preview of QAD’s next-generation architectures and migration paths.

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.

Business Process Management (11:00am - 12:00pm )

Stop in for a live demo and Q&A session with Rob Cramer, BPM Practice Manager for QAD. Rob will review QAD’s standard available BPM process flows, usage within core functionality, and implementation requirements.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

2:30 - 3:30pm

Advanced Repetitive vs. Work Orders

PAUL RUBIN
Strategic Information Group

Should you use Advanced Repetitive or Work Order functionality? This session covers the pros and cons of each. Which one should you use implement? Can you use both?  Come learn some of the key features of both  including: Finite Loading, Simplified Reporting, WIP inventory visibility and control, Scrap, Reject and Rework processing, Co-Products and By-Products, and Configured Products.

2013 EE Financial Report Writer

LANCE LaCROSS
QAD, Inc.

With QAD’s 2013 EE current release explore the new General Ledger Financial Reporter. Review your new reporting financial reporting options in live code.  Come see how the new 2013 EE financial report writer system will provide you with not only simple management reporting, but also more sophisticated consolidated and statutory reporting.  

Disaster Recovery
In Action

PAUL PELLEGRINI
American Trim
JAMES BLANKENSHIP  
BravePoint

Quality Management For the Food & Beverage Industry

STEPHEN DOMBROSKI

QAD, Inc.
  

This session will discuss the various quality and safety regulations in Food & Beverage and Consumer Product safety today.  The presentation will cover GMP, ISO22000, FSMA, HACCP, and SQF as well as industry best practices and QAD solutions that can help manufacturers adhere to these standards.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Customer Case Study: Implementing an Enterprise Wide Quality Management System

BOB HERDOIZA
CEBOS
APRIL DINES  
Cascade Engineering

Faced with a spreadsheets and disparate databases to manage your quality management system? There is a better way!  We are excited to present the benefits of an enterprise wide quality management system. Come join us and see how Cascade Engineering has saved time and money while eliminating non value added time.

Seven (...or More) Sales Tax & Nexus Myths

ANDREW KIM
Avalara

With complexity growing at both the federal and state levels, manufacturers need to better understand ‘nexus-creating activities’ and common myths about sales tax.  This session will discuss why sales tax is an important business topic and share common myths that we hear every day along with the correct information, plus an update on current legislation. More importantly, attendees will get recommendations on how to avoid getting ‘tripped’ by these myths. 

.Net UI Implementation: Performance Tuning & Windows OS Server Platform

GARY YANG
Roundview Technologies
NANCY DAHL  
MiTek USA

Tower Automotive QAD Implementation in China

BRAD WARD

Tower Automotive
WENYU ZHOU  
Total Solution & Technology

Tower International, a leading global manufacturer of engineered structural metal components and assemblies, supplies the automotive industry with body-structure stampings, frames and other chassis structures, as well as complex welded assemblies for small and large cars, crossovers, pickups and SUVs. Learn how Tower’s standard QAD ERP solution has been implemented in Wuhu, Xiangtan, Changchun, Chengdu.

QAD Demo Center                                                                                                             
Come to the Product Demo room and experience live product demos. QAD Consultants will be available for
on hand for demos of scheduled products. The informal setting allows for you to ask product questions specific to your needs.

CEBOS / MQ1 (8:30 - 11:30am)

Tim Burke will be presenting the new Cebos Quality MQ1 and cover/demo all aspects of the Cebos quality management product now part of QAD.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

8:30 - 9:30 am

MSW Implementation for Seasonal Businesses

SEAN DONAHUE
Ralcorp Frozen
Bakery Products

This session will highlight one QAD customer’s seasonal business practices and how they implemented QAD’s scheduling workbenches (MSW/PSW).

QXtend Case Study at MiTek

MIKE BESEMER
MiTek USA
GARY YANG 
Roundview Technologies
   

This joint presentation with MiTek will demonstrate the power and flexibility of QXtend used to build a data integration, a workflow process, and a high volume CRM integration (price lists) solution.

QAD's Reporting Framework

JEFF STEELE
QAD, Inc.

In this session, Jeff will cover the QAD Reporting Framework as part of the QAD .Net UI. This will include an overview of the functionality and availability of the solution, focusing on the newest enhancements available. Some of these new features include 2D bar coding and email bursting capabilities. This will be a dynamic and interactive session focused on live demo and direct feedback from the attendees.
Be prepared to ask questions.

EE Enhancements for the Consumer Products / Food & Beverage Industries

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STEPHEN DOMBROSKI
QAD, Inc.

QAD has been busy enhancing manufacturing capabilities in the Enterprise Edition with functionality critical to Consumer Products and Food & Beverage manufacturers including Serialization, Configured Attributes, Track, Trace, & Recall Workbench Solutions.  Come see what’s new and find out why it would benefit your company to upgrade to QAD’s Enterprise Edition. 

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:00 - 11:00 am

MMOG/LE Assessments and U.S. Government Regulation of Conflict Minerals

DAVID DOYLE
QAD, Inc.
TERRY ONICA  
QAD, Inc.
     

Auto Distressing and Expiring of Lots for Finished Goods

DAVID FRIEDLI
ConAgra Foods

This presentation will cover applications developed internally to support the expiration and distressing of palletized materials at ConAgra's QAD/Eagle facilities. Hear about enhancements developed to enable calculation of a Distress and Expiration Dates, automatic inventory status changes based on these dates, and shipment restrictions built into the picking of Sales Orders.

Congrats! You're a DBA ... Now What?

DAN FOREMAN

BravePoint

"Congratulations!" said the boss. "You're now the DBA." After a congratulatory handshake, he stops as he heads out of your office. "Oh, by the way since you're the DBA, make sure that system stuff doesn't bother me any more." Great. But now what? You know a thing or two about databases, but do you know enough? What do you need to pay attention to? What can you ignore? What should you lose sleep over, and what should make you update your resume? In this session, Dan Foreman will show you the way through the challenges that lie in front of you and help bring peace to your weekends and evenings.

Bringing Lean Concepts Back
to the Office

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ROB CRAMER
QAD, Inc.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Managing Subcontracting in Advanced Repetitive

BRUCE KARR
Logan Consulting

 
This session will highlight how subcontracting was set up and implemented for an automotive industry
supplier using advanced repetitive manufacturing. Multiple scenarios will be reviewed to show how to
properly manage and account for necessary outsourced operations, whether they are permanent or temporary in nature.

Robust QAD Infrastructure Leveraging VMware and NetApp

SEKHAR ATHMAKURI
Tower International

ERP systems like QAD are so critical to the operation of a business that infrastructure needs to be properly designed to deliver performance, availability and scalability. It is also important to deliver an infrastructure solution that is manageable and at a cost the business can absorb. This presentation will cover how Tower International has leveraged VMware’s virtualization technology and NetApp’s NAS (Network Attached Storage) technology to deliver a robust infrastructure including disaster recovery for Tower’s QAD environment.

Progress Dump & Loads: The Good, The Bad and the Cool Tools

BEN HOLMES
Eaton Corporation

Why, When, and how long will this process take?  These are a few things we will review while going through a real life example of dumping and loading a 350+ GB database.

Serialization and Configured Attribute Solutions

HANK CANITZ
QAD, Inc.

This session will dive deep into the new QAD Serialization & Configured Attribute Solutions first defining this functionality and then providing examples on how the solutions can be used and valued by manufacturers.