Cathy Helmers

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How To Solve Your Everyday SO Allocation Challenges

Managing sales order allocations can be time-consuming when you need visibility, flexibility, and control over how inventory is reserved. The 32 Soft SO Allocation Data Loader is a powerful, user-friendly tool that speeds up your operations and transforms how teams handle sales order allocations in QAD. It will surely streamline and simplify your allocation process. […]

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Speed Up your Item Attribute Management

by Andras Farkas Using item attributes in your ERP system helps manufacturers manage products, streamline processes, and improve decision-making. By leveraging item attributes effectively, manufacturers can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and gain a competitive advantage in their industry. Improved Product Data Management. Item attributes (e.g., size, color, material, weight) enable manufacturers to categorize products more […]

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One Powerfully Efficient Tool for Cost Rollups!

“Accurate cost rollups are the foundation of profitability. Every detail counts when understanding the true cost of production.” Cost rollup is an essential part of manufacturing cost accounting that calculates the total cost of producing an item by aggregating raw materials, purchased components, labor costs, manufacturing overhead, and subcontract costs. Several components affect the accuracy […]

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Improve AR processing and boost your productivity

with AR Cash Application Data Loader Are you ready to simplify your customer payment processing and boost your productivity to the max? AR Cash Application Data Loader (available for QAD EE and SE) makes it possible. This MS Excel® based Data Loader AR Cash Application Data Loader helps you… Process large volumes of payments with […]

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Easily Manage Distribution Orders to Multiple Facilities

Be a DRP Dynamo! Does your company have multiple distribution centers? Do you use QAD Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP)? If so, our Distribution Order (DO) Workbench Data Loader will make you a DRP Dynamo! DO Workbench is a Microsoft Excel®-based Data Loader that helps you manage distribution orders to multiple manufacturing facilities more efficiently, enabling […]

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Taming the Safety Stock Beast

Auto-calculate functionality for your Safety Stock levels in QAD Determining appropriate inventory levels is one of the most important parts of operations in any company. If you have too much inventory, you’ll tie up your working capital and wreak havoc on your cash flow. If your inventory is too low, you’ll have shortfalls in raw […]

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From QAD to Print, Email, PDF, or XLS with 32printer

Did you know that 32printer enables you to continue to use QAD reports from older QAD versions? So, when you upgrade to any of the latest versions of QAD, you can still use those reports you don’t want to change with QRF. Not only that, 32printer allows you to generate professional-looking pdf documents right from […]

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Get speedy cycle count results and automatic compliance

At the heart of any inventory counting process is the need to maintain a high level of inventory accuracy. Most experts agree that a sound cycle count process should deliver specific results. First, it should help you unearth inventory discrepancies and their causes before they impact your operations. You can then take corrective action, which expands […]

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Production Orders Scheduling & Accounting Challenges

Discover the key challenges related to scheduling and accounting when using QAD’s Production Orders. In this webinar, Don Lindsey will explore these challenges, giving you the knowledge to improve efficiency and accuracy in your operations. Additionally, he’ll explore several additional functions in QAD’s Production Orders. Register for our Webinar below Wed, May 21 1:00pm EDT […]

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Forecasting Strategies for Today’s Chaotic World

Demand forecasting is more crucial, and more challenging, in today’s environment with pricing volatility, unpredictable consumer behavior, disruptive supply chains and tariff conflicts. However, forecasts can help your business accurately plan production, manage inventory, increase customer satisfaction, and achieve profitability. In this webinar, Don Lindsey will help you better understand the basic principles of forecasting […]

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