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Educate Your Employees to Improve Your Business

Are your QAD users all at the same level of knowledge about your supply chain process? Do they understand how their role impacts your company’s overall success? Do they know what data goes where and why in QAD for effective, efficient, and error-free operations? Undoubtedly, there are different kinds of employees in your supply chain […]

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Don Lindsey presents ‘Managing QAD Access Security’ for WECUG Spring Webinar Series

  In May, Don Lindsey from 32 Soft was invited to participate in the West Coast User Group’s Spring Webinar series. Don presented Managing QAD Access Security. You can watch his presentation below. Don discussed managing access rights during onboarding, role changes, and offboarding; practicing Segregation of Duties (SoD); maintaining an access control matrix; performing periodic access […]

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Resources: Price Lists: Getting Your Best Price webinar

32 Soft Data Loaders mentioned in this webinar: PO Workbench Data Loader Customer Schedule Data Loader Supplier Price List Data Loader Work Order BOM Data Loader InterCompany Transactions Workbench Customer Price List Data Loader Item-Site Cost Manager Data Loader Supplier Scheduled Order Data Loader Here are some additional resources and reading to complement our Price […]

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Price Lists: Getting Your Best Price

Getting the best price for your product or service is based not just on cost but on the market, sometimes the region, and always the customer. The best price should be high enough to help you make a profit but low enough to attract customers and build sales volume. QAD has customer price lists, Service […]

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Resources for “Get Control of Product Changes” webinar

Here are some resources and additional reading to complement our Get Control of Product Changes webinar. Data Structures Top 10 ERP Frederick W. Taylor – American inventor and engineer Henry Ford Taiichi Ohno, Japanese industrial engineer Joseph M. Juran – A search for universal principles Eli Whitney What Is an Engineering Change Order (Eco) QAD […]

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Manufacturing Trends 2023: We Can Help!

Smaller, more targeted projects • More modern ERP systems • Less customization by Alex Kim I’ve been watching and reading the 2023 trends in the manufacturing industry, and one thing is abundantly clear. Companies are closely examining their business practices and being very careful about how they spend their money. Instead of investing in and […]

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The Power of QAD Regional User Groups

by Jeff Shelton In March of this year, the QAD Midwest User Group (MWUG) held its largest in-person conference since 2017. This was no easy feat, coming off the heels of a pandemic that shut down all QAD user group in-person gatherings for a full two years! Our Spring 2023 conference was a unique, value-enhanced […]

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Webinar Replays Are Always Available

Did you know that replays of our past webinars are always available for you to watch on our website? Simply go to our Webinar page. You’ll see our most recent webinar (right now, that’s Using SAF codes for more robust reporting) featured and Additional Webinar replays under that. The webinar replays are categorized by type […]

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Upcoming Webinars: PCC/PCO, Price Lists, and More

Don’t miss these upcoming webinars! Get Control of Product Changes When product changes happen, and they always do, it’s critical to have a process in place to ensure they are carried through the entire cycle. Don Lindsey will give an overview of the change control process and its key elements. He’ll also walk you through […]

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Yamaha Boat Companies Ride the Data Loader Wave

Yamaha has three boat companies running QAD: Yamaha Boats in Vonore, TN, Skeeter Boats in Kilgore, TX, and G3 Boats in Lebanon, MO. Each company has its own QAD database, all using version 2014 SE. There are approximately 250 QAD users in the three companies. Doug Williams, IT/QAD, explains that many of the transactions at […]

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