Forecasting Strategies for Today’s Chaotic World June 25 Demand forecasting is more crucial and 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Planning: Precision in Practice Wed, March 19, 1:00pm EST In this enhanced encore of the presentation given by Olena Stepovyk (32 Soft) and Aaron Kraintz (Wells Vehicle Electronics) at the 2024 Fall MWUG conference, Aaron outlines how Wells leveraged the Production Planner software to overcome this obstacle. In addition, Olena will give a short demonstration […]
We’ll have a booth at both the Midwest User Group and the West Coast User Group Spring Conferences. MWUG Spring 2025 March 23-25, 2025 Hilton Hotel Downtown, Cleveland, OH WECUG Spring 2025 April 13-15, 2025 Hilton Garden Inn Carlsbad Beach At both of these conferences, Don Lindsey will present Production Orders in QAD: A Comprehensive […]
Work Orders are one of the essential functions of QAD. In 2016, QAD revised and enhanced the functionality of Work Orders, Advanced Repetitive, Kanban, and some scheduling functions, such as Flow, and combined them into what is now known as Production Orders. Effective with QAD O3, Production Orders will be the way of manufacturing for […]
