MWUGSpring2012 March 18-20, 2012 The Henry Hotel l Dearborn, MI |
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Monday - March 19
8:00am
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Registration / Vendor Fair Opens Continental Breakfast sponsored by: |
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9:30 am General Session
Welcome & Program Overview: RANDY WHITEHAIR, MWUG President
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Introductions 10:30 am Break |
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Concurrent Track Sessions
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10:45 - 11:45 am
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QAD Manufacturing Enhancements for 2012
HANK CANITZ C. NIEUWSTRATEN
This presentation will cover some of the key initiatives QAD will be launching in 2012 including Periodic Costing, Logistics Accounting, Configured Attributes, Quality, and Lot Track/Trace. Enhancements will be discussed in detail, including the value these enhancements can provide to QAD's manufacturing customers. Where available screen shots of the actual functionality will be shown. |
QAD Enterprise Financials Update
LANCE LaCROSS
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. |
Getting More From Your .Net User Interface
STACY GREEN
In this session, we will cover setting up Browse Links and Browse Collections, so you can get to your data with fewer clicks. A live Demo will also be presented. |
Case Study: Eagle Implementation in China
TIM WU - SAMAP
Whether your plants are right here in Michigan or thousands of miles away in China, the need for fault-proof, real-time automated data collection -- fully integrated with QAD -- is exactly the same. Tim Wu of SAMAP, an automotive manufacturer, and James Zhou of TSnT, will share the company's experience with selecting and implementing an auto-mated data collection solution for SAMAP’s sites in China. |
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LUNCHEON Luncheon sponsored by: Vendor Introductions |
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“There's a better way to do it - find it." - Thomas Edison. That’s good advice, but is your style adaptive (like Edison’s) or innovative? Both are vital for a sustainable business model. In this presentation you’ll discover your preferred style, plus its strengths and weaknesses. Intrinsic motivation is key to creativity. That conclusion is compelling, as should be: it’s about fire in the belly.
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QAD Demo Center
Learn how to use .NET UI to enhance standard reporting in the core ERP, including building browses, operational metrics, and using the reporting framework. |
Concurrent Track Sessions
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TECHNICAL |
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2:30 - 3:00 pm
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Beyond Factory Floor Data Collection: Going Paperless
Zehnder Rittling wanted to improve productivity on the production floor by implementing labor and production transactions in real-time. Additionally, they wanted to move forward as quickly as possible with an entire “paperless” approach to their manufacturing process. Hear about their implementation and integration to Microsoft products and the value to the organization of using QAD with FACTIVITY. |
Protect Your System From Money Leaks
VLAD FORFUTDINOV ControlsForce Inc. RANDY WHITEHAIR 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-NST production deployment will be provided. |
Managing The Software Development Process MICHAEL SOLOMON
Whether your organization uses Agile, Lean, V-Model, RAD, Spiral, or some other development method, an integrated set of productivity tools makes managing the process possible. Learn how Culligan selected and implemented Software Configuration Management to increase efficiency, provide more visibility, and reduce defects in their software development process. |
Implementing Customer Schedules in QAD
GREG SEVISON This presentation will cover the advantages and challenges of Sales Orders vs. Customer Schedules as well as manual and electronic Data/Demand input into QAD and reporting considerations. |
3:30
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4:00 - 5:00 pm
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.Net Reporting Framework
MARK GOLDSTON MIKE OLSON This session will take a closer look at the capabilities of the new .NET Reporting Framework. From Quick Start to some of the other features and functionality that can help your organization utilize this new feature of the .NET UI. |
QAD Enterprise Financials Reporting
LANCE LaCROSS
With the upcoming 2012 EE release explore the Updated Financial Road map presentation. Review your current options of extracting, inputting and developing various financial analysis solutions. Along with understanding where QAD is going with the new browses and reporting cube analysis of Group Reporting. |
Progress Database Management Best Practices
DAN FOREMAN BravePoint Most Progress databases don’t require a full time administrator but they do require periodic “care & feeding”. This presenta-tion will provide a comprehensive check-list of Best Practices for managing, monitoring, tuning, and protecting your Progress databases. The session will also help you focus your limited and precious time on what is truly important. |
Item Level Serialization and RFID
RIYA CAO
Implementing item level serialization is one of the most important strategic investments for many companies. This session will show how the QAD Serialization solution can effectively generate, issue, manage aggregated serial numbers through packaging, production, warehouse, and shipping operations. |
| 5:00pm Vendor Hall Reception sponsored by: |
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Tuesday
- March 20
| 7:30am Registration /
Vendor Fair Opens Continental Breakfast sponsored by: |
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QAD Demo Center
See QAD’s latest BI offering in action - the all-new BI version 3! Learn how business users can access the web-based portal to view dashboards and reports, how users can easily customize these dashboards and reports, and how the QAD Data Warehouse Designer can be used to incorporate custom data from QAD and non-QAD systems. The QAD BI Mobile iPad application will also be available for demonstration. |
Concurrent Track Sessions
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TECHNICAL |
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8:30 - 9:30 am
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QAD Planning &
C. NIEUWSTRATEN
Come hear the latest QAD planning and scheduling workbench enhancements, which includes integration with QAD's EAM solution and a bill-of-material (BOM) view enabling master scheduling across multiple BOM levels. Additionally, this session will review QAD's overall planning and scheduling workbench strategy. |
Financially Justify Your Upgrade and Save Money STEPHEN REESE Premier Systems Ltd. |
Implementing Customer Self-Service ROB RUSH Regal Beloit chose CSS for its tight integration with QAD and its flexibility to build additional functions to satisfy the customers’ B2B requirements. Learn how they integrated CSS with a home grown advanced parametric search solution via AJAX to complement the complex products searching requirements in the electrical motor industry. |
User Case Study: fff JAKUB BIERNACKI
A business opportunity arose at the FNST Milan, OH facility to deliver timely inventory status and detailed consignment transactions to international suppliers via the internet. The Consignment Reporting Interface project utilized multiple technologies including QAD eB2 sp10, QXtend, MS SQL Server, ASP with JQuery and JQueryUI, including a customer specific security model. |
9:30
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10:00 - 11:00 am
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.Net UI: So Whaddya Wanna Know?
LORI BRAUN |
eFORMZ and Inergy Automotive DAVID LANGSCHIED MARK HARRINGTON Hear how Inergy Automotive Systems used Minisoft’s eFORMz forms generation tool to create complex forms with 2D barcodes directly from their QAD system to satisfy the unique forms requirements of their automotive customers Kia Motors and Hyundai USA. |
Document Management RICH ROSENTHAL PICS Learn how Document Management, when tightly integrated with a company’s primary business system, can streamline processes, reduce operating costs and improve profitability. Much more than a place to store and retrieve documents electronically, this solution provides business forms, robust search capabilities, workflow engines, and integration with your back-end business systems. |
Developing a Risk Based Approach to Validation for Life Sciences fff WILLIAM GARGANO The FDA and Pharmaceutical industry is now recommending guidelines on the validation of computer systems, software and processes. Learn how to streamline validation costs while optimizing validation procedures. |
11:00
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11:15 am - 12:15 pm
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Ten Tips to Improve MRP Performance
SCOTT DULECKI
MRP drives the manufacturing process, but is that a Sunday drive through the countryside or a stop-and-go horn-blaring rush hour? There are a number of choices that you make when running MRP that determine whether you’ll be smiling or swearing as MRP runs. In this session, Scott will cover what you can do to reduce the stress and challenge of running MRP. |
Legacy to QAD Migration for Unique Manufacturing
PRASHANT ARYA Learn how one global automotive customer replaced certain legacy sites with QAD and engaged an onshore/offshore model for developing and configuring their sites with specialized manufacturing processes. Lower costs, consolidated support, and a standardized system leveraging global IAC processes were all achieved. |
New Features and Navigation for .Net/2011 SE
LORI BRAUN Continental Structural Plastics
What’s new in .Net/2011 SE? Topics to be addressed include: Quick Search, Workflow, QAD-to-external email, Browse Enhancements, Operational Metrics, and more! |
Business Intelligence 3.5
BILL WERMES |
| 12:30pm Closing Luncheon / Conference Wrap-Up & Giveaways Luncheon sponsored by: |
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SPEAKERS & SESSIONS
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300 Town Center Drive
Dearborn, MI 48126
(313) 441-2000
Experience the epitome of elegance and sophistication from a perfectly situated Dearborn hotel near downtown Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum at The Henry, an Autograph Collection hotel in Dearborn. This AAA Four Diamond hotel features well-appointed guest rooms and suites with 37-inch flat-screen TVs, DirecTV with 24 HD channels, complimentary HSIA, exclusive bedding and RUSK bath amenities. Indulge the palate at TRIA, our Dearborn, MI hotel restaurant serving inspiring American cuisine, or rejuvenate the body and mind in our whirlpool and fully equipped fitness center with onsite dry sauna. Discover the rich history of the arts combined with modern conveniences at The Henry, an Autograph Dearborn, Michigan, hotel and experience a new iconic lifestyle.
HOTEL AMENITIES:
- Luxurious feather bedding and Marble baths
- Twice daily maid service
- High-Speed Internet access in all guest rooms and meeting rooms
- Fine Dining at the
The Grill - Fitness center with indoor pool and Jacuzzi
- Comprehensive, full-service business center
ROOM RESERVATIONS:
Sleeping
Rooms have been blocked at the hotel and are available to conference
attendees at a discounted group rate. Please
be sure to reference the MFG/PRO Midwest User Group when making your
reservations.
MWUG
Conference Rate:
$125/night (sgl/dbl) Reservations:
(313) 441-2000 |
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TRANSPORTATION:
The Henry Hotel is approximately 15-20 minutes from Detroit Metro Airport. Cab fare ranges from $30-35/one-way. Self-parking is available at no charge for registered guests. Valet parking is available for $15/overnight and $7/day. For additional information on the hotel and available amenities, please visit www.behenry.com
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BONUS WORKSHOP: Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm QAD Business Intelligence
QAD will be holding a Hands-On Workshop at MWUG for the QAD Business Intelligence solution. Through the class, you will learn how QAD BI can empower management to proactively react to business trends and issues and make closed-loop decisions. Customers will have the opportunity to learn more about QAD BI through a hands-on training session where an instructor will guide you through real business scenarios where QAD BI would greatly enhance analytical capabilities. There will also be additional QAD personnel on hand to assist you individually throughout the class
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