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.

QAD Demand Planner Demo (1-5pm)
QAD Demand Management 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

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Profitable Plant Maintenance with Enterprise Asset Management

JOHN WOODBURN
QAD, Inc.

Learn how QAD's new module for Preventative Maintenance and MRO inventory can reduce your overall capital equipment maintenance costs by 30% per year.  Make your company’s assets perform to their full profit potential. Optimize production capacity by reducing equipment downtime and eliminating unplanned maintenance costs.

Finance & Accounting Considerations for an Implementation or Upgrade

ANDREW VITULLO
Logan Consulting

This presentation is focused on planning considerations for CFO’s, Controllers, or Project Managers embarking on a new implementation or upgrade. Consideration will be given to optimizing financial reporting, the bottlenecks to efficient and seamless GL accounting close, SarbOx compliance, and much more.

Indexing & Performance

PAUL GUGGENHEIM
Paul Guggenheim & Associates

Indexes play a crucial role in the performance of mission-critical applications like MFG/PRO. This session explains the "how and why" of Progress' index selection algorithm and then provides valuable information on bracketing and sort matches, the keys to indexing performance. Several informative examples are presented giving the attendee a deep grasp of indexes.

Case Study: Empowering Customers With Customer Self-Service 

ADRIENNE MAURER
SuperiorEssex

QAD's Customer Self-Service (CSS) is a web-based application that ties directly to QAD and provides an online view of order/shipment information along with a catalog and shopping cart.  See how Superior Essex implemented this application, along with consultant Bravepoint.

2:30 – 3:30 pm

Vesta Inc: A Case Study in Factory Floor Accountability

GARY SCHAUM
Factivity
DAVID POELLMAN
Vesta Inc.

Both the accuracy of product costing and on-time delivery are uniquely tied to the same set of metrics. These measures necessitate underlying “add on” software that is easy to install and can effectively shrink manufacturing cycle time and improve costing.  Vesta’s Case study will provide a summary of their installation and the facts behind the scenes.

Incorporating Multiple Domains Into an eB2.1 Upgrade

DAN HIGGINS
RCM Technologies

This session will show you how to define entities and the domain relationship for multiple locations requiring different currencies and charts of accounts, as well as internal and legal reporting issues, consolidation, and exchange rate maintenance for a multiple domain environment.

User Case Study:
Database and Domain Consolidation

PAUL ZARAZINKSI
Culligan International
TIM LOVELY
Logan Consulting

This session will focus on a complex consolidation of two databases into a single database domain as part of a broader IT and business strategy.

Give Your Users the Power of Simplicity with QAD .NET UI

JOHN WOODBURN
QAD, Inc.

The simplicity of QAD .NET UI puts more power in the hands of your users to maximize productivity and get the most from your QAD enterprise applications. See how QAD continues to enhance this elegant, intuitive user interface – and how you can help your QAD users maximize your investment in QAD Enterprise Applications.

4:00 – 5:00 pm

Error Proofing Case Study

SCOTT LONG
Blackhawk Automotive

Hear how one manufacturer has de-ployed technology solutions to support of the operational goal of providing the "right product, in the right quantities, in the right container, with the right identification, at the right time". The speaker will discuss challenges in identifying and implementing fail-safe solutions, several direct results that can be achieved, and other opportunities to leverage the investment

EA2008 Financials: Demonstration & Overview

LANCE LaCROSS
QAD, Inc.

QAD EA2008 Financials Solution is an integral component of QAD Enterprise Applications providing seamless integration with sales, distribution, planning and manufacturing. It addresses global financial requirements with support for multi-company, multi-currency, multi-language, and consolidated reporting. Additionally, it supports local requirements by country and region as well  SOX/IFRS compliance.

Interoperability With MFG/PRO - Seamless Connectivity & Automation

HECTOR TORRES – JCI
STEVE LAMB – QAD, Inc.

This session will focus on the business drivers and IT trends towards standardizing your interoperability with MFG/PRO and other QAD applications. Learn how you can reduce cost by minimizing your overall integration development time, and learn what other QAD customers have achieved with their integration efforts. You will also learn how this can enhance the sharing of data across enterprise applications and between trading partners with full integration to QAD Enterprise Applications.

Consumer Product & Life Science: Quality and Validation

RAANA ABBASEY
QAD, Inc.

In this session you will learn how QAD is committed to providing solutions that meet today and more importantly future needs. Key QAD industry and product executives will articulate the vision and roadmap, developed with our industry advisory board, that will enable you to meet your key challenges.

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.

QAD 2008 . Net UI (9:00 - 11:30am)
The .NET Browses provide seamless integration with Microsoft Office productivity applications, with the ability to export data to Excel and to use Excel as a means of entering data, such as financial forecasts, back into the application. Come see the latest updates.

 MANUFACTURING

 DISTRIBUTION

 TECHNICAL

 BUSINESS   

 PROCESS

9:00 – 10:00 am

Machine Vision Success Stories

JEFFREY SNYDER
Siemens Energy & Automation

Machine vision has been applied across a huge range of industries and applications. As the technology has matured, there exists a large installed base of very successful applications. Examples of successful applications will be presented and discussed.

Transportation Management: Automate Your Shipping Process

LINDA OLSTER
QAD, Inc.

See how you can use one of QAD's newest modules to automate your entire shipping department. QAD’s Transportation Management System (TMS) is a fully integrated offering that streamlines transportation processes, significantly reduces costs, and ensures global compliance. 

 
Disaster Recovery:
How Ready Are You?

STEVE LAMB
QAD, Inc.

Do you have a disaster plan in place today? Have you ever tested your plan? Do you know what to do in the event of a data center outage? These are some of the questions that most companies think will never happen to them, but they can. This session will cover some of the steps that will help you in building a disaster plan. You will learn on how to use some of the tools available today to help protect your business even if you can only afford to be down for an hour, or for a day.

Case Study: Using Document Management Technology

PAUL KIEFER
L&W Engineering
KEN CLEARY
ImageSoft, Inc.

See how a large manufacturing company utilizes Electronic Document Management and workflow technologyto create a paperless AP system. Unique features include a custom invoice posting interface, and hot-key integration allowing an MFG/PRO user to see all documents without leaving MFG/PRO.

10:30 – 11:30 am

Product Change Control: Taking Control Over Chaos

REA BUCHANAN
QAD, Inc.

For many manufacturing environments, the implementation of design and process changes is a challenging activity.  Manual systems are often used to track and process changes.  Learn how Product Change Control (PCC) can be used to help put some order into what is often a chaotic process.

Demand Management

JIM DART – QAD, Inc.

QAD Demand Management - with its Demand Management Engine, Collab-orative Portal, and Inventory Optimiza-tion 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.

Migrating V6/7/8/9 Progress Code to OE10

BEN HOLMES
Eaton Corporation

Can you run V6 code (aka MFG/PRO 8x or 9x) with Progress 10? Sure, why not! Ben will share his personal experience of migrating older version 6 Progress code to Progress 10 (OE). Describing the challenges with upgrading the databases, compile issues, and new keywords. What works, what does not. What can be fixed and what can NOT be fixed.

 
Profitable Quoting

JIM SMITH
CFO Synergy

Today's market conditions and tighter profit margins are forcing manufacturers to rethink the way they manage costs and quote business. Understanding your real costs in a high speed world that demands consistency and accuracy is no small feat. Come and see how other manufacturers are better understanding their true profit and loss situations.

 11:30 am     CLOSING LUNCHEON ADDRESS:

Around The World in 25 Days "Marathon" DON KERN - IT Consultant, Adventurer   Don Kern is an adventure runner, IT Consultant, freelance writer, and the director of the Metro Health Grand Rapids Marathon. He has run 140 marathons or longer races, in all fifty states, in sixteen countries, and at the North Pole. Having a lot of goals in life is the key to balance. Don will share some of his goals, achievements, and the rules he uses to accomplish them. He will also dwell on how others can achieve great things in this inspirational and motivational talk.

Luncheon sponsored by: