Over the last few years, it has become apparent how important Supply Chain is to the world’s economy and our everyday lives. It has never been more important to increase your value as a Supply Chain professional. Here are some resources that will help you expand your career options, from certification programs and additional learning […]
Designed to help you make the best business decisions for your company Making the best decisions for your business involves a step-by-step process. It starts with clearly defining your goal, which will inform every other step of your process and will help you not get sidetracked by different agendas. Once you have identified your goal, […]
Our popular Web Backlog system is available for use with any ERP system (not just QAD) or as a stand-alone system. Maintaining and monitoring your production order backlog can be a daunting task. You finally finish updating order status from meeting notes and distributing reports, only to discover status changes! Or, after taking notes in […]
How good is your manufacturing knowledge? Take a little break with this brief quiz from Industry Week and find out. Just 10 questions, so shouldn’t take long.
Many of you are familiar with—and use—our LBox product that converts ERP reports into PDF or Excel documents and emails them to your customers, partners, and staff. Now with LBoxPlus you can send professional documents right to your printers! LBoxPlus gives you the added ability to send your documents to your physical printer. What this […]
We’ve got a busy Fall 2021 season of events. We hope you can join us at our upcoming webinars and conferences. WEBINARS First up in September, Andra Farkas will present our webinar Get Rid of Show-Stopping Record Locks. Andras will explain the different kinds of record locks, what causes them and ways to monitor and […]
A NOTE FROM ALEX KIM: On July 8, 2022, Rogers Communications had a major service outage affecting more than 12 million Canadian users of their cable internet and cellular networks. You can read more about this major service outage here and the problems it caused for companies and individuals. I couldn’t help but be worried […]
Production planners rely heavily on their previous experience when planning out how to move orders through the system without missing a beat: no bottlenecks, no inefficiencies, no stops, and starts. However, today’s supply chain disruptions, labor force issues, wild market demand fluctuations, inflation, and other new challenges brought on by Covid-19 have changed the game. […]
Unpredictable blocked sessions irritate users, hurt business performance, and upset management. The worst part – you can’t always pinpoint what or who causes it. In this webinar, we’ discuss the record lock experience from both the user’s and the DBA’s point of view. You’ll learn how to troubleshoot this problem and fix it forever – […]
by Don Lindsey After an organization has been doing business for several years, it tends to multiply things in its ERP framework. As raw materials and intermediate subassemblies expand, there is also a duplication of item numbers that creep into the system. Mergers and acquisitions can also contribute to this SKU (stock-keeping units) glut. It […]
