Registration / Vendor Fair Opens  / Buffet Breakfast              

  
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:45 - 11:45 am

QAD Demand Planning

RONALD FISCHER
QAD, Inc.

   
Every decision made at a corporation in the Sales and Operations Planning process has a financial impact. Best-in-Class organizations understand this and how to plan for the potential impact of these decisions. See how you can visualize the impact and profitability of these decision with QAD's Demand Planning applications.    

For QAD Version: SE / EE
Level: General

Enterprise Edition Financials Update

LANCE LaCROSS
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.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: General

Managed DBA Panel Discussion

MIKE FURGAL
Progress BravePoint

JOHN GRAHAM
Strategic Information Group   

C'mon! Everybody's doing it! You don't want to be left out, do you? No, this isn't high school... this is managing your database. And while good DBAs make your life easy, they occasionally like a life as well. In this session, a panel will discuss the benefits, hazards, and tradeoffs involved in trusting your company's precious data and databases to outside sources.
 
For QAD Version: Any
Level: General

QAD Quality Management System Best Practices & Success Stories

AMANDA OSTRANDER
Strategic Information Group

The QAD Quality Management System (QMS) software contains a full suite of modules to meet a company’s needs – whether they are inspecting raw materials, monitoring recurrent nonconformance issues or addressing the root of quality problems through a robust CAPA process. As with any software implementation, the success of a project is heavily dependent upon the method in which the software was deployed. This session will review the various modules of QAD’s QMS offering, provide real-life best practice examples of implementation success stories and how the software can be utilized to ensure regulatory compliance.

For QAD Version:
QMS Ver 2.4
Level: General

  
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

2:30 - 3:30 pm

QAD Apollo Consumption Based Pick-Up Sheets

DAVID McCARTHY
Johnson Controls

JCI has implemented a logistics solution involving automated/manual Pick Up Sheets which allows for streaming 830 replenishment demand into 862 Delivery authorizations with full-trucking and trailer-mapping functionalities. This application, code-named Apollo, has consistently provided multi-million dollar annualized savings. This Consumption Based PUS solution provides substantial annualized savings involving operator, freight, inventory and floor space reductions. The process for collecting consumption demand, PUS creation, 862 transmission and 852 processing is fully automated, eliminating the need for analyst intervention. Exception management is handled through a visualization, alerting and monitoring solution which allows for manual intervention if required.

For QAD Version:
9.0 and above
Level: Intermediate

QAD Financial Shared Services

SHMUEL YAFFA
QAD, Inc.

   
QAD Enterprise Edition Financial Shared Services allows a multi entity or multi national corporation to increase effectiveness and control of the company's financial management. Learn how to control and centralize month end processes, financial master data (Chart of Accounts, Customers, Suppliers, Exchange Rates, Other), and process accounts receivables, payable centrally. Financial Shared Services offer simple yet flexible transaction processing and reporting, improving visibility and control across the entire business. Companies standardize business and accounting processes by consolidating processing, resulting in improved data accuracy, reduced costs and the elimination of redundant financial infrastructure.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: General

Building Robust & Transparent QAD 3PL Interfaces Using QXtend and Dell Boomi

RICK WEAVER
Excel Industries

GARY YANG
Roundview Technologies

Excel Industries contracted certain shipping operations to third-party companies and was in the need to build a streamlined integration between its QAD 2010SE ERP system and the 3PL systems.  QAD’s QXtend  combined with the offering of Dell Boomi iPaaS by QAD provided the perfect match to Excel’s requirements, including the real time processing, easy exception handling and secure AS2 connector support. With the unique decouple design by Roundview Technologies, the interface project fulfilled the promise of being robust, scalable and transparent – every message and its processing status along with exception cause are completely visible to the Excel IT and business.

For QAD Version(s):
SE / EE
Level: Intermediate/Adv

The Modern Day Guide to ERP Archaeology: Keeping the Past Under Control

SCOTT DULECKI
Progress Software
 

Congratulations! You're making and shipping products, getting paid for it... and your database keeps growing as a result! How do you keep it under control, making sure your end users' performance doesn't plummet while still keeping the information that you need to run the business. Not just from the manufacturing point of view, but the important financial side as well? In this session, Scott Dulecki will investigate the archiving process from the functional level down to the details, showing what to archive, how to do it, and what you can do to manage your database as simply as possible.  

For QAD Version: All
Level: General

  
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
 PROCESS

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Use of Item Attributes in a Make-to-Order Environment

ANDREW HALL
Logan Consulting

This session will demonstrate how QAD's Item Attribute functionality can be implemented to support a make-to-order environment and the impacts on master data design and transaction processing.
   
For QAD Version: 2015EE
Level: Intermediate

Planning for a QAD EE Upgrade

TIM LOVELY
Logan Consulting  

  
Planning for an upgrade to QAD’s Enterprise Edition is more complex than with past upgrades. The people, process and technology drivers need to be clearly understood in order to define a viable timeline, resource plan, and approach for the upgrade. This session will focus not only on those drivers, but also review the construct and key components of an upgrade to QAD’s Enterprise Edition, including new QAD EE functionality and its impact on the financial organization.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: General

The Secrets Behind DB Startup Parameters

PAUL KOUFALIS
White Star Software

So many parameters...what do they mean? Which are important? What values should I use? Everyone has questions about database start-up parameters. Bring yours and come to this presentation to hear some answers.

For QAD Version: All
Level: Advanced DBA

CyberQuery Case Study

KEN McCUTCHEN
Kobe Aluminum   

This case study will show how Cyberquery has been successfully deployed at a QAD customer site. Ken will discuss the efficiencies gained at KAAP by utilizing Cyberquery, and more specifically - how one report eliminated two weeks worth of work for one person. 
   
For QAD Version: All
Level: General

  
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

8:30 - 9:30 am

Maximizing Browse Capabilities

BRIAN CLARK
Logan Consulting
   
Browse capability in .Net has taken data accessibility to a new level in QAD. This session, intended for the “functional” browse user, will provide highlights of Browse functionality that can increase productivity in the QAD workspace. We will construct a simple browse from scratch and walk through the different opportunities for presenting browse information, including Excel, Charts and even Reporting Framework.

For QAD Version: All
Level: General

API Heat Transfer / eFORMz Case Study

ALBIN HESS
API Heat Transfer
  
MARK HARRINGTON
Minisoft

Hear how one QAD user overcame several merger and business process hurdles using eFORMz by Minisoft, QAD's forms solutions partner.  Albin Hess (API Heat Transfer) will show what his company has done with standard documents using eFORMz as well as new documents they were not able to handle with their previous system.  He will show how they were able to implement new logos and legal names, and reorganization of business units where companies are organized by products rather than locations, and how their new system can also handle documents from other ERP systems within the company.
    
QAD Version:
Level: General

Basic to Awesome Process Maps in 50 Minutes

SCOTT DULECKI
Progress BravePoint

This BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) session will start with creating a simple process map and expanding on it almost endlessly, adding things that ultimately may or may not exist, and finishing with a flourish and a host of practical map techniques that you can use to help your end users be more productive and effective. While you can just sit and watch, BYOC with a connection to your environment to work in your own database and keep the results for later.

How to Absorb Double Digit Sales Growth Year After Year Without Adding Head Count

MOGGIE BRADY
Capital Safety / 3M

ALEX KIM
32 Soft Inc.   

Capital Safety doubled the size of their revenue in four years. With software that increased the visibility of their QAD data and gave them superior decision-making power over their production process and purchasing needs, they were able to handle the increased volume without increasing the operations head count. All the while they maintained customer satisfaction with lead times and delivery dates, did not compromise on performance metrics, and continued to provide a healthy work/life balance for their employees. Find out how they accomplished this amazing feat.
     
For QAD Version: All
Level: General

  
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

10:00 - 11:00 am

Supply Chain Risk Management

TERRY ONICA
QAD, Inc.  

Learn about new automotive industry requirements for risk management, identification and assessmentin MMOG/LE and ISO/TS16949 (to be introduced later this year). This session will also covered the steps needed by your organization to be compliant and how QAD solutions can help.

For QAD Version: All
Level: General

Hear How a Tier-One Supplier Eliminated Physical Inventories

KEITH REGISTER
Akebono Brake
   
Learn how Akebono, a Tier-One Supplier, implemented a real-time Automated Data Collection (ADC) solution that is seamlessly integrated with QAD. We’ll start by talking about how information flows with materials, using scanning, bar coding, lot traceability, production reporting and more.  From pickers in the plant to planners in the office, accurate information is available in real time. As the speaker talks through the components of the solution, it will become clear that warehouse management, cycle counting and, ultimately, the elimination of physical inventory are not only possible but – at least in our case – fully achievable.  

For QAD Version: EE
Level: General to Advanced

OpenEdge Replication

NECTAR DALOGLOU
Dalo Consulting

Learn how to leverage OpenEdge Replication for ensuring business continuity in your QAD environment.  In this session, we’ll look at the architecture, the replication process, fail over, fail back and other tips and tricks to help make your OpenEdge Replication configuration a success.

For QAD Version: SE / EE
Level: Novice / Intermediate

How To Improve the Sales Quote to Cash Process

SEAN BROWN
Somero Enterprises

ANDREW WEINSTEIN
ISS Group

Learn how Somero Enterprises, a QAD Customer, has significantly reduced their Sales Quote turnaround time and ultimately their Quote to Cash process cycle time, as well as improve their Sales Quote pricing controls, visibility, and product management via ISS Group’s iQuote™ connectivity and collaboration functionality. Sean Brown will speak of his experience implementing iQuote™ around the globe at his former employer, a large QAD end-user organization, and why he decided to implement iQuote™ at his new company Somero Enterprises.

For QAD Version: All
Level: General

  
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Forecast Simulation:
Letting Yesterday Feed Tomorrow

SCOTT DULECKI
Progress BravePoint

Everyone wants to know what the future will look like so they can make appropriate plans. Unfortunately, the future doesn’t always follow the script. How can you utilize the tools in QAD’s Forecast Simulation (aka Advanced Forecasting) module to better stabilize your company’s future sales plans? This presentation looks at what forecasting is, the difference between forecasting and forecast simulation, and identifies where you can use simulation, how it can be effective, and what things it can and cannot do.
   
For QAD Version:
Level: General

Mobility With QAD De-Mystified, Tightly Coupled, Native & Upgradeable   

HUNTER KINGSLEY
Pronto Progress

BOB ENGLEMANN
FRANK SPANIAK
U.S. Tsubaki

Your customers & vendors expect mobility. Their numbers explode. Secure mobile transactions are here. Manage & implement a tightly integrated, down rev, mobile solution across iOS, Droid and Microsoft. Developed and deployed using PSC’s Telerik/NativeScript tool; the app now in development may allow US Tsubaki Power Transmission’s customer’s to view open orders, stock status and to re-order. Bob Englemann, VP of Operations; Frank Spaniak, Senior Systems Admin and Hunter Kingsley will de-mystify the process of making QAD mobile. Audience – Management, Process and Developers. Bring your iPhone or Droid. All versions of QAD, even back to 8.5.        
  
For QAD Version: All
Level: General

QAD Hackathon
Results

Dr. THOMAS BLUMER
QAD, Inc.

Last year, QAD developers around the world engaged in a Hackathon to see what they could build and add to QAD. Are you interested in learning about the exciting mobile prototypes they created? If you want to see some practical test cases built with the Progress Telerik platform and hear about their outstanding support, this session is for you.
   
For QAD Version:
Level: General

QAD Automation Solutions

ADAM KACALA
QAD, Inc.  

Automation Solutions (Data Collection and Label Printing) is getting more and more important to enable the material handlers to become more effective. Learn how QAD Automation Solutions will allow you to adapt more efficient, accurate and agile business processes during receiving, quality inspections, production replenishment or shipping. In addition get familiar with QAD's new Automation Solutions Practice to support you implementing this exciting new product.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: General