Cathy Helmers

Posts by Authors

What’s New at 32

We’ve been busy at 32 Soft helping our clients find new solutions to their challenges. Here are some ways we are helping you to become more productive. If any of these solutions prompt you to say, “Hmmm, we could use that,” please contact us. We’ll be glad to help. New Data Loader Makes QAD User […]

Continue Reading

STEAMpunk High School Robotics Team Improves with Lean and Agile

  In an article from Industry Week, How Lean and Agile Help High School Team STEAMpunk Build a Better Robot, high school robotics team member Étienne Robitaille shares how STEAMpunk’s continuous improvement efforts helped them improve their ranking in the Lakeshore FIRST Robotics Competition. They routinely rank in the upper third in the regional competitions, […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

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 […]

Continue Reading

Simple, Speedy, Efficient BOM Cost Simulations

Are there bottlenecks in your product cost process? Are you as fast as you must be when bidding for new business? Are your product launches being strangled by slow pricing development? If so, you won’t want to miss this webinar, where we’ll demonstrate how you can perform cost simulations using real-time data from QAD without […]

Continue Reading