Registration / Vendor Fair Opens  / Buffet Breakfast              

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.

BPM Process Simulation (10:30am - 12:00pm / 2:30 - 5:30pm )

Learn how BPM's Simulation capabilities help to identify potential problems in process design and maximize your company's key supporting activities.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:45 - 11:45 am

EAM: The Next Frontier for Operational Excellence

NANCY MAJURE
QAD, Inc.

QAD’s Enterprise Asset Management System is on an exciting track to the next frontier for supporting your effective plant operations.  Come join us to learn about the latest advances to support your growing operational excellence initiatives.  In this session, we will discuss the latest innovations in EAM such as financial integration improvements, production driven maintenance, serialized inventory, departmental budget controls, improved PO distribution, and much, much more.     

2015 QAD Enterprise Edition Financials

PAT GRACE
QAD, Inc.

More customers are now moving to QAD's Enterprise Edition Financials. Come see why. Come see what's new, what's different from SE and discuss why it would benefit your company to begin planning your upgrade today. Understand the power of the latest financial version of 2015 EE. View a live session of some of the key areas such GL, Financial Reporting, A/P, and A/R transactions.

When DR Is Not Enough: Maintaining High Availability

PAUL KOUFALIS
White Star Software

What scenario is more likely to bring down your whole system? A full-blown disaster or isolated component malfunction? The answer may surprise you, which is why you need to attend this session on maintaining highly available applications. You'll learn from real-life IT professionals who rarely have to reach for the dreaded "Disaster Recovery Activation Procedures" binder. Find out how to join their ranks.

Reducing Operational Costs With A/P Automation

JANINE CAIN
Oxbo International
         
DAVID ADAMS
ACOM Solutions
  
Learn the secrets of reducing operational spending, saving money and strengthening weakened productivity with A/P Automation. Topics covered include: best practices for streamlining A/P processes as well as a recent QAD customer study and the results of implementing an /AP Automation system.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Inventory & Production Control:
A Pain in the Glass

BRIAN KELLIHER
LYNDA CURRY
Carlex Glas

Lack of Perpetual Inventory was hampering Carlex from identifying problems in the production reporting process as well as meeting shipping requirements and identifying capacity constraints. A process was designed to record real time production and inventory movement via 2D barcoded inventory tags and RF scans. This provides the necessary financial and inventory data to make the appropriate business decisions around both production scheduling and material planning.

Case Study: EE2014 Financials Upgrade/
Conversion

ANDREW VITULLO
Logan Consulting

This Session will focus on a specific implementation of Canadian business that converted an older version of QAD to 2014 EE Enterprise Edition. The session will highlight lessons learned for a finance and accounting organization, the Foreign Exchange Revaluation tools, data conversion challenges associated with the EE Financials, as well as a focused review of a go-live conversion checklist.

How Social Is
Your Data?

MIKE FURGAL
Progress BravePoint

The OpenEdge Database is the underlying technology under QAD's EB and EE environments.  This database allows you to segment tables and indexes into difference storage areas, but more modern versions of the OE database allow you to segment table data so it is anti-social. This session will discuss the different storage options with pros and cons to each. It will also provide benchmark statistics to show the benefit of anti-social data.  By the end you will know if you could get better performance from your system and how. 

Extreme Business Changes That Impact Your ERP/IT Journey

TONY ABELA
Visteon Corporation

 
AYODHYA CHAND
Thirdware Solution
  
This case study will deal with the variety of significant business changes that Visteon has dealt with over the past few years and how the IT team has prepared for, executed and preserved their ERP and general IT environment. Such changes will include: divestitures, acquisitions, new data center, global ERP rollout, legacy systems, and how these major changes were addressed, planned for, methodology, etc.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

4:00 - 5:00 pm

QAD Configurator: What It Is and How to Implement It

ANDREW HALL
Logan Consulting
          
This session will present an overview of the QAD Configurator and its value and capabilities, including differentiation against Configured Products. It will then detail an implementation approach that includes capturing internal product knowledge and converting it to the standard QAD Configurator functions.

Month-End Close Optimization

KEN McCUTCHEN
Kobe Aluminum

ROSEMARY WISNESKI
Logan Consulting

Learn how Kobe Aluminum has trimmed out month-end close processes from 45 days to 3 days.  Come hear how they are leveraging QAD software to support month-end close business processes, which results in large efficiency gains.  The presenters will discuss the challenges, processes and tools that have allowed Kobe to achieve these results.   

Building Scalable Enterprise Solutions With QAD QXtend

SANJAY JHA
Key Safety Systems
  
GARY YANG
Roundview Technologies

Hear how QAD QXtend and Dell Boomi, the middleware adopted by QAD Cloud team and R&D to complement QXtend, can be used to build scalable and robust enterprise integration solutions. With Cloud model and WYSIWYG user interface for development and administration, Dell Boomi provides the trans-formation, security and queuing capabilities for more robust process.

Automate Your QAD Reports in Minutes Within Excel       

  
KRYSTAL HUMPHREY
BizNet Software
    
Many QAD users are still taking reports and exporting them to Excel so they can manipulate the data further. This process can be time consuming and introduces the possibility of errors in the spread-sheets. In this session, we'll discuss how so many people use Excel for reporting and explore a tool set that can help Excel users reduce the time they spend updating their spreadsheets and eliminate the errors in those reports.

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.

Corticon Rules Engine (10:30am - 12:00pm / 2:30 - 5:30pm)
Progress Corticon® is aBusiness Rules Management System that delivers high-quality, high-performance automated business decisions. It helps increase agility of decision change processes and enables new insights into the connections between individual recurring decisions and business performance. Corticon is a key component of the QAD BPM solution.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

8:30 - 9:30 am

Things Momma Never Told You: QAD's Best Kept Secrets

SCOTT DULECKI
Progress BravePoint

 
Wow! I didn't know you could do THAT! Learn about many of the lesser-known features of QAD that can make life simpler and make QAD even more fun (yes, fun!) to use. These practical tips and tricks are usually briefly discussed during implementation, if at all, and are forgotten shortly after the go-live date. Find out what Momma told you during implementation that may not have seemed important then, but can be very helpful now.

Managing ERP Data Massively Without IT

JOHN LISTERMANN TRW Automotive
ALEX KIM   
32 Soft Inc.
   

In today's dynamic business environment QAD users have to process larger volumes of ERP data quicker, more accurately, and with less staff. This presentation will illustrate how 32Soft Data Loader technology is helping TRW manage Customer/Supplier Pricelists, Production Schedule, Backflush Transactions, safely and accurately, without help from IT.

Obsolete DBA Best Practices

NECTAR DALOGLOU
White Star Software

Learn or "un-learn" DBA tactics that have been considered best practices for years. In this presentation, we will take a look at various out-of-date DBA strategies along with their up-to-date recommended alternatives.

QAD EE
Implementation
in China

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JOHN ZHANG
HUI FENG

Total Solution & Technology

   
This session will offer an overview and case study of a QAD Enterprise Edition implementation at Chengdu Huachuan Electrical in China. The presenter will cover China-specific finance and other requirements for the EE solution.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:00 - 11:00 am

Effectively Using QAD Operational Metrics

PAT GRACE
QAD, Inc.

 
QAD Operational Metrics provides a dashboard of your company’s vital signs, helping you make decisions for leaner and more efficient operations. This session will show you how to use QAD Operational Metrics to improve quality of data and operate on an exception basis.

Visteon / Cyberquery Case Study

VIJAY VENBAKKAM
Visteon Corp.
NECTAR DALOGLOU 
White Star Software

This case study will show how Cyberquery has been successfully deployed in all of Visteon's global locations. Implemented with QAD EB2.1 (SE), the presenters will show how Cyberquery is used to generate all the necessary QAD forms and reports running from a QAD menu.

Back in the Saddle: Working Smarter,
Not Harder

GREG SEVISON
Shield Restraint Systems

Making the Case
for BPM

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ROBERT CRAMER
QAD, Inc.  

We now have more than 20 customers using QAD's BPM solution world-wide and we've learned a lot about the value it can provide to our customers and how best to ensure that they can maximize that value. Using an interactive, case study approach, supported by real life experiences, we'll walk through how to build a winning proposal for your Management team.

  
         
         
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Upgrade From QAD eB2.1 to Enterprise Edition

TAMARA ROLING
West Liberty Foods
ANDREW HALL 
Logan Consulting

       
West Liberty Foods, a long-time QAD user, recently completed a major upgrade from a pre-domain version of QAD (version eB2.1) to the latest Enterprise Edition version (2014EE). This upgrade project included process design and procedure development across all core QAD modules, as well as EDI capabilities and interfaces to 3rd party systems. This presentation will provide an overview of their project goals, key business requirements, project structure, details on how it went, as well as the associated benefits, risks and lessons learned.

Deliver Controlled Documents to Your Shop Floor

PAUL PELLEGRINI
American Trim

This presentation will look at American Trim’s custom development that couples the QAD .NETUI interface, specifically the File Attachments functionality, with Progress tables, and the Linux files system, to deliver controlled documents to the shop floor through any web browser.

Is Your QAD Information Secure?

STEPHEN REESE
Premier Systems Ltd.

How do you insure you are safe from cyber attacks on private and cloud networks? Bit splitting is a technology that was impossible until cloud computing became reliable and affordable. This technology is being deployed broadly and can be used for commercial, financial, medical, healthcare, retail or any solution that needs to protect the data vs. the network. This presentation will provide an overview of the technology, how to deploy the technology and best practices.

Real-Time Data Replication From Your Progress DB

TERRY MAYS
Progress BravePoint
  

Productive use of your data should not be limited by the availability of applications that “play well” with your Progress database. Pro2™ Enterprise is a data replication strategy for Progress users that eliminates those hurdles and allows you to make the most of your data. With Pro2 Enterprise, you create a channel for transferring Progress data into a SQL Server, Oracle or a target Progress database for efficient reporting and analysis. As your data is updated in Progress, it is replicated to your desired database.