Tech Trends 2019 Beyond the digital frontier The Tech Trends 2019 report was released from Deloitte earlier this year, identifying nine technology trends that offer the most promising innovation and growth. Three of these trends aren’t new. In fact, they have evolved to become fundamental corporate strategies that form the backbone of future innovation: Digital […]
Over the next ten years, the U. S. manufacturing industry will need to add 4.6 million manufacturing jobs, according to a study by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte. The study also predicts that 2.4 million of those jobs may go unfilled. Today, manufacturers are struggling to fill 500,000 jobs that remain vacant in the U.S. […]
Flexible Customer Scheduling = Flawless Execution = Favorable Customers Customer scheduled orders can be challenging to manage and maintain, particularly when they are sent via EDI directly from your customer to your QAD system. Viewing and making changes to orders in the QAD system can be time-consuming. Customers can send both long- and short-term schedules […]
It’s that time of the year again! Time for the Fall 2019 Midwest User Group meeting. This year the meeting is held September 22-24 at the brand new Renaissance Westerville-Polaris Hotel in Columbus, OH! We’ll be there at our booth for the two days and our own Don Lindsey will present a session DDMRP: Controlling Your Supply […]
Though optimism for the future dipped nearly 10% from the first quarter in 2019, still nearly 80% of manufacturers have a positive outlook for their business according to the 2019 Second Quarter Manufacturer’s Outlook Survey. Manufacturers cite trade uncertainties (56%) and the inability to find skilled workers (69%) as their top challenges, they remain mostly […]
If you haven’t checked out our education portal, EDU 32, you’re in for a treat. Our portal contains learning videos and articles about various aspects of using QAD in everyday applications and will help you integrate and implement significant process improvements into your data management and your supply chain process. 32 Soft’s team of highly […]
If you’ve not attended our webinars lately, register for one now and find out how much you can learn in under an hour! In addition to the product demos we have hosted for years, since July 2018 when veteran QAD user and Manufacturing and Distribution expert Don Lindsey joined us, we also offer learning webinars. […]
One place all of us at 32 Soft love to visit is the Midwest User Group conferences in the Spring and Fall, which we’ve been attending for more than a decade! We like to talk to the attendees about what’s new in their business and in ours. We like learning more by attending presentations. And, […]
We’ve made enhancements to our popular 32printer output solution that will make life easier for you. What is 32printer? It allows you to generate professional-looking pdf documents right from QAD and convert QAD reports to Excel spreadsheets! Plus, it enables you to automatically email the documents or send to printers as needed. What’s new in […]
If you didn’t get the opportunity to attend the Spring MWUG user group conference, you can watch our presentations from the conference here. Shop Floor Control: Where is That Work Order? Don Lindsey covers several aspects of Work Orders and Shop Floor Control from WO creation to release, from component issue and Back Flush to […]
