Process Improvement

32 Soft Loves #MWUG

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, […]

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Are you still printing checks from QAD?

There are benefits to using a B2B third-party payment processor. It can save you time and money and improve your cash flow. Plus, most payment processors offer multiple methods for processing payments, including EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer), credit or virtual cards, wire transfers, and ACH. Payment processors also offer web portals to make it easy […]

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Data Visualization & Your Production Schedule

Why We Added New Graphical Views to Our Production Planner Data Loaders   We’ve all done it. We’ve poured through our QAD production schedule details to make sure there are no glitches, no overlaps, no conflicts or resource shortages only to find we missed a critical element! Even when we download those details to a […]

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New! 32printer Version 4.18 now available

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 […]

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QAD Upgrade Means a Sleek New Portal

When our client, a manufacturing company, embarked on a QAD version upgrade, one of their biggest concerns was what to do with an extranet site that was being used by internal sales, external reps, distributors, and OEMs. The site was old and quite difficult to maintain, but the users relied on it so it had to stay. […]

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Inside the Lab: Two New Applications!

Replenishment Pick List & SO Entry Date Capacity Warning At 32 Soft, we’re developing and testing two new apps that just might be the very thing you need. Warehouse Pick Replenishment Call List identifies the pick location minimum requirements and presents a callout for replenishment of any location/item that falls below that minimum amount. Once you […]

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Safety Stock Calculation

Safety stock is your guard against uncertainty. When safety stock levels aren’t optimal, you could be tying up cash flow or threaten your ability to adequately serve your customers. Determining the most efficient inventory levels is one of the most important components of your company’s operations. Safety stock describes a level of extra inventory to mitigate […]

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Production Planning without ERP

  Do You Need to Plan Production Without an ERP System? If you don’t have an ERP System and still need to plan production effectively, our Excel-based tools allow you to manage Products, Components, Bills of Materials and the Production Schedule itself. Interested? Contact us for more information.

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Production Variance Analysis

Why it is essential for your enterprise and how to make it easier Once production is complete, it is a common cost accounting practice to analyze the production variances to identify materials or areas that are over or under the plan—as well as investigate the reasons for the variances. Understanding these differences of actual-to-plan is […]

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Inside the Lab: AI!

We’re teaming up with AI experts to find ways to bring artificial intelligence to our products and the QAD environment! Right now we’re specifically working on ways to use customer order history to verify entered order details. This will catch any errors or anomalies and send a notification to QAD users alerting them to check […]

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