Cathy Helmers

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A Purchasing Portal for Every ERP—Even No ERP!

Slow Approval Times? Purchasing Bottlenecks? Higher Costs? Frustrated Employees? Do you have any of these purchasing process predicaments? If you do, it can negatively impact your customers and your bottom line.  Experts say that these practices are what you need for a nimble and efficient requisition process. Electronic purchasing system with automated approval routing. Ability […]

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Resources for Managing QAD Access Security Webinar

Here are some resources and additional reading to complement our Managing QAD Access Security webinar. Sarbanes–Oxley Act 17 Incredible Onboarding Statistics [2023] Certified Information Systems Security Professional Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria CFR – Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Active Directory Domain Services Overview How to enable auditing for an OpenEdge database How to […]

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Yamaha Boat Companies Find Winning Success

In this webinar, we are joined by representatives of Yamaha Boats, Skeeter Boats, and G3 Boats to discuss how the 32 Soft Data Loaders they have adopted throughout the Yamaha companies have significantly improved their productivity and efficiency. They will discuss their use of Data Loaders in Production, Master Data Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Finance. […]

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Managing QAD Access Security

Solid, tight data access security protects your organization’s data, reputation, and bottom line. Neglecting it can lead to hefty SOX non-compliance penalties. Managing access rights during onboarding, role changes, and offboarding; practicing Segregation of Duties (SoD); maintaining an access control matrix; performing periodic access audits; and automating reports all work to keep you compliant. In […]

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Resources for Visualizing Data in QAD Webinar

Here are some resources and additional reading to complement our Visualizing Data in QAD: Schemas, Taxonomies, Mnemonics, and Codes webinar.       Additional Reading The Krebs Cycle — Harnessing Chemical Energy for Cellular Respiration The history of Schema: towards an easy to understand web What Is a Schema in Psychology? What is a schema? […]

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Just For Fun: A Lean Vocabulary Quiz

How Well Do You Speak Lean? Here’s a vocabulary quiz to test how well you speak lean. Good Luck and have fun!

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Sending Invoices by Email? Here are some Best Practices

If you are new to sending your invoices by email, here are some best practices for content, form, and ways to avoid your emails from being flagged as spam. What Should Your Invoice Email Say? First, here are some tips for what to include in your emails that are delivering invoices.   Include your invoice […]

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The Fast and Easy Way to Manage QAD Access Security

As your company grows and changes, maintaining security at all levels of the organization is even more critical. Neglecting your data access security can cause irreparable harm to your organization’s reputation and bottom line and lead to hefty financial penalties for SOX non-compliance. To remain SOX compliant, you must manage access rights during onboarding, role […]

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Visualizing data in QAD: schemas, taxonomies, mnemonics and codes

A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information. Schemas and other recognition tools are used everywhere in QAD. Don helps you understand how useful schemas can be and how to use them as guidelines when analyzing the vast amount of information in QAD and discusses general concepts of schemas, […]

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Here’s our Webinar Lineup for Q1 2023

We’ve been busy planning webinar topics for Q1 2023 and have a great line-up for you! We’re still firming a few things up so watch your inbox for more info or visit our webinar page. If you’re not signed up to receive webinar invitations from us, you can join our mailing list in the upper […]

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