Webinar Details: QAD Customer Self Service integrated with configurable products provides a superior user experience to place and review orders for all flavors of complex products. We are excited to show you the new capabilities in the March 2013 release and get your feedback!

Webinar Details: Take control then improve your business processes! QAD Business Process Management (BPM) provides a complete suite of tools that allow you to visualize, control and automate the execution of business processes in QAD Enterprise Applications. Let us show you our new capabilities and discover how early adopter customers are using them!

Webinar Details: Effective materials and production planning practices are essential to delivering what your customers when they want your products while minimizing costs and maximizing productivity. QAD has tools to help you manage your Material Requirements Planning functions and Production Planning and Scheduling needs. The “Achieving Best Practices in Materials and Production Planning” webinar will introduce you to these tools and concepts. A product demonstration of our Master Scheduling and Production Scheduling Workbenches will be included to see how you can deliver your products to your customers when they need them and maintain productivity and minimize costs to enable you to become and effective enterprise.

Webinar Details: DocLib is an Enterprise Document Management and Business Process Management Solution that is seamlessly integrated with QAD’s Enterprise Applications. This QAD Partner solution allows users to store documents in a secured Progress database which are searchable from within any QAD .NET UI. DocLib also operates with the Character interface as well. Any document or report can be automatically saved and indexed into DocLib as well as simultaneously printed. Documents not contained in QAD can be scanned via Intelligent OCR and automatically routing via user defined workflows for approval. DocLib’s powerful workflow process can automate transactions in QAD, such as Accounts Payable Vouchers and Sales Orders. 

Webinar Details: QAD Item Data Attributes brings any information that you have for items, to manage the supply, demand, and inventory for those items, through all your enterprise operations.

• Manage and communicate item data and specifications
• Qualify items and manage specifications for items on orders
• Validate receipts from suppliers and from production
• Select and validate material lots required for sales and manufacturing
• Full Track and trace capabilities of attribute values by lot

QAD Quality is a new module, which extends the use of item attributes and provides the capability to manage specifications for tests and items, and maintain test records; test sample records and quality orders for materials integrated with enterprise operation (inbound receipts, production, etc.). QAD Lot Trace Workbench aims to improve the time users spent in analyzing, tracking and tracing inventory backward and forward in case of complaints, returns, recalls or audits.

Webinar Details: Are you an IT manager looking to make sure your users have what they need to be effective or are you simply curious about what's changed with the latest release of Enterprise Applications? The QAD Store is a great tool to help you save time and maximize the value of your QAD investment. Join QAD Chief Technology Officer Tony Winter for his top 10 reasons to visit the QAD Store to see what you’re missing!

Webinar Details: With QAD’s focus on comprehensive analytical modules that provide standardized QAD links, load processes, and dashboards in specific functional areas, our customers have the ability to install and implement in less than a month.

Webinar Details: This QAD Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) webinar is an interactive discussion led by QAD’s EAM Global Business Practice director, Nancy Majure. She will be joined by a highly respected customer with a multi-national, multi-domain EAM implementation to discuss their experience applying EAM to address business requirements. This webinar will cover:

• What is new in Enterprise Asset Management
• Using the .NET interface to drive informed decisions
• Where EAM is headed
• Keys to a successful implementation or upgrade

Webinar Details: Future success in industry will be driven by the ability to master complexity while continuously eliminating complication. In this presentation, guest speaker Bob Parker, Group Vice President of Research at IDC Manufacturing Insights, will share research on how technologies such as mobile and cloud can drive new levels of business productivity. He will focus on what investments companies should be making and what benefits they should expect to receive.

Webinar Details: Whether you use QAD’s core forecasting capability, older versions of our Demand Management application, or a non-QAD forecasting application, QAD Demand Planning 7.0 opens a whole new world of capabilities for our customers to anticipate and plan for market demand.

Webinar Details: Led by a panel of QAD’s leading industry experts, this highly informative webinar will focus on the key issues facing your industry and how upgrading to the latest QAD solution enables you to solve these issues and help your organization become more effective and efficient.

You’ll learn how we are addressing your regulatory and customer mandates and requests and how we have taken the risk and uncertainty out of upgrading. No matter where you are today, you’ll find out how you can gain value from your QAD investment and about the tools and resources we have available for you to define your path for upgrading.

Webinar Details: View this webinar to find out what’s new in the latest release of QAD Enterprise Applications and hear QAD executives answer customer questions.

Webinar Details: To Upgrade or stay on an older version - that is not an easy decision. You have to balance the cost of an upgrade with the risk not doing anything. There are costs associated with an upgrade, but there is a cost associated with losing out on productivity gains and falling behind the market in your business processes. There is the risk of disruption with upgrading and there is compliance risk as you struggle to meet the latest regulations and mandates. How to balance the choices and decide what’s right for your company is a tough balancing act. Whether an upgrade makes sense for you depends on your specific situation. If an upgrade is on your mind, you should listen to this panel discussion to hear what QAD experts who have been down in the trenches with customers have to say. Bring a question or two or just hear what your peers are curious about. Find out:

• What are some of the key benefits of upgrading?
• How long does it take to upgrade? How much does it cost?
• What happens to my customizations when I upgrade?
• Does QAD provide tools, template and utilities to facilitate the Upgrade?
• ...And much more in this informative discussion

Webinar Details: Industry research shows the trend to Cloud Applications is accelerating, with more than 50% of companies planning to move in the next 5 years. You can get ahead of the curve hearing the answers to questions customers who have already made the transition asked, and what your peers who are also anticipating the change are wondering about..
Find out:
- Can I customize applications in an On Demand deployment? What does it cost to customize?
- How long does it take to implement On Demand? How much does it cost?
- Should I be concerned about connectivity if I go with On Demand? And just how do I connect, anyway?
- My company uses some third party products. How can I continue working with them in On Demand?
- What are the connection methods for working with third party applications?
- ...And many more.

Webinar Details: Join this session to learn about AvaTax for QAD; an easy, fully automated solution to your sales tax compliance challenges! We will provide you with answers to obtaining accurate rates, determining product taxability, tracking and managing exempt clients in an auditable manner, providing detailed audit reports, remitting returns, and providing sales tax services to help you with audit challenges.

Webinar Details: ACOM Solutions invites you to learn how QAD users can significantly lower payment processing costs and improve efficiency by automating the process to transition vendors from paper-based payments (checks) to ACH with e-Remittance. See how you can successfully manage a blended environment of paper-based and electronic payments and remittance processing with EZPaySuite - the new and enhanced payment platform from ACOM Solutions.

Webinar Details: Have you ever wondered if you get the most out of your QAD implementation or how other customers deal with similar situations? Unlock the power of the QAD community through the use of the new QAD Forums. Learn how to leverage the power of the QAD community to your advantage. Enhance your QAD product skills, share your QAD best practices, and promote yourself by helping the QAD community.

Webinar Details: Utilize Microsoft® Excel® like you never have before. BizNet Software’s powerful solution allows its users to automate and extend the way they are currently using Excel today for QAD© financial reporting and budgeting. Our QAD Enterprise Content Packs provide pre-built integrations allowing end users to build their reports within minutes via a live and dynamic connection to their data. Its supreme technology offers the user real time business data scalable to millions of transactions from multiple ERP modules, all without having to leave Microsoft Excel. BizNet’s Excel Business Information Suite creates a user-friendly, drag and drop environment with live access to your QAD data, securing its place as the most innovative and intuitive Excel reporting solution on the market.

Webinar Details: If you are a supplier to Ford, Chrysler, GM, Volvo Car, Volvo Truck, Renault, PSA or Land Rover/Jaguar and are responsible for submitting your MMOG/LE assessment results on behalf of your company to your customer, this webinar is for you. Terry Onica, Director, Automotive will provide in-depth insight on OEM expectations and common assessment pitfalls that could trigger you to be further audited. Please join Terry to learn how to put your best assessment forward to your customer and the support QAD has available to help you.

Webinar Details: PRECISION’s Business Intelligence (BI) provides a way for organizations to stay on top of shipping costs and carrier performance. PRECISION BI provides not only web-based dashboards and reporting, but also includes a best-of-breed Data Warehouse Designer that transforms raw shipment data in into an easy-to-use, efficient data warehouse accessed through the BI portal. Why spend months with generic ETL and BI tools designing and building a data warehouse, when you can use the PRECISION BI which includes pre-built dashboards and reports for transportation management.

Webinar Details: This webinar will focus on the issues facing businesses today in the areas of After Sales Support. Stephen Dombroski (Senior Manager-Industry Strategy Manufacturing, Vertical Marketing) and Lisa Ozkan (Senior Product Manager) will address the current issues that companies face today in providing quality customer service and how the QAD Service and Support Module and related products can assist in striving for excellence. We will begin by discussing industry positioning and vertical relevance followed by an overview of the functionality of each module in the Service and Support Suite. We will outline our current development plans for the product and discuss planned future functionality. A case study of an SSM customer will be presented to highlight the benefits of the tools and how it is used in the day to day business environment.

Webinar Details: Watch Lisa Ozkan review new Web Warranty functionality QAD has been developing in partnership with one of our customers. This functionality will be available for early adopters later in 2012. Web Warranty allows our customers to accept and process warranty claims submitted by their distributors and third party service provides over the web. It provides comprehensive support for the web warranty business cycle which includes submittal of claims for labor/parts/other expenses related with warranty repairs, approvals, materials management, inspection reporting, all the way to payment request.

Webinar Details: The first in a series of educational webinars covering the PRECISION solution, join us as Tim Dennis provides a look at how easy packing and shipping can be using the “Scan-Pack-Ship” functionality within the Web User Interface. Automate the virtual packing process for improved packing lists and better traceability of individual items, easier consolidations, and all while giving users better usability at the same time!

Webinar Details: Support best in class manufacturing through seamless integration of your QAD business system and your quality management system! Please join this webinar for customer case studies and industry trends on how QAD and CEBOS can help you achieve world class, integrated business processes.

Webinar Details: QAD Logistics Accounting is the solution for companies that frequently move materials in and out of their sites using third party carriers. As the cost of moving goods can be considerable (freight, insurance, handling fees, customs clearance, etc.), recent enhancements focus on more accurate cost calculations addressing the needs of global manufacturers to help them comply with local and international standards for inventory valuations. QAD Logistics Accounting also provides the ability to have separated accrual of logistics charges either on the inbound (PO Receipt) or outbound (SO Shipment) side of the enterprise, and match those logistic charges against the third party supplier's invoice.

Webinar Details: QAD’s Business Intelligence FastTrack program provides a way for organizations to “test drive” QAD’s BI software solution. QAD BI provides not only web-based dashboard and reporting, but also a best-of-breed data warehouse designer and pre-built modules to transform the data in your QAD Enterprise Applications into an easy-to-use, efficient data warehouse. Why spend months with generic ETL and BI tools designing and building a data warehouse? Why risk a failed or over budget project when you can use the QAD BI FastTrack program for a small fixed fee to see your data in QAD’s BI solution. And if you don’t like the results, you don’t have to buy the software.

Webinar Details: According to leading transportation analyst Adrian Gonzalez, Director of Logistics Viewpoints, “Software-as-a-Service TMS creates a “connectivity network” of shippers, carriers, suppliers, consignees, and other trading partners, executing millions of transactions through a single system.”

QAD TMS On Demand is at the forefront of this connectivity.

Join us as Ed Boclair, President of QAD’s Precision Software and Paul Murphy, Vice President of Product Management for Precision, share how QAD TMS On Demand is becoming an effective choice for many companies, providing best practice in transportation and trade along with rapid implementation and connectivity to a global network of carriers.

View this 45 minute webinar and learn:

• How you can experience QAD TMS On Demand without the added resources, skills or worries.
• How QAD TMS delivers predictability: predictable costs, delivery and availability.

With QAD TMS On Demand, you simply Connect. Deploy. Ship!

Webinar Details: If you’re running QAD and have a raw materials warehouse or finished goods distribution center, QAD Warehousing may be a logical next step toward completing your supply chain technology strategy. Join to hear how a warehouse management system (WMS) is justified and how QAD Warehousing is delivering value for customers.

Webinar Details: Once a shipment leaves your dock, chances are you are at the mercy of the carrier to let you know there’s a problem, or worse, your customer calls looking for it. Package tracking can be pro-active with Package Exception Management (PEM). With PEM’s package tracking capabilities, you get multi-carrier status information about packages in-transit, and automatic notifications when issues arise to help you manage problem shipments by exception. These alerts allow your team to:

• Focus on real shipment issues
• Correct problems early in the process
• Avoid delays or delivery penalties
• Know with certainty the package is delivered (for proof-of-delivery needs)
• Understand carrier performance in accordance with their service level agreements

QAD/Precision's Tim Dennis and Linda Olster, and Erik Carlson from Jabil show how Jabil Circuit uses PEM for visibility and early problem detection at several of their aftermarket service centers, and tell how you too can get in the know about your in-transit shipments across multiple carriers - all from one location.

Webinar Details: Want to take advantage of all the features and benefits of QAD Enterprise Edition? In this webinar we discuss key factors you should consider before upgrading to EE. Topics include; Business, Drivers, Implementation, Technical and Financial considerations and more. View the recording to learn what you should take into consideration before planning your upgrade.

Webinar Details: eFORMz is a powerful, next-generation forms automation solution that converts standard QAD print output into attractive, functional forms that can be distributed via print, fax, email and the web. There is no need to learn a proprietary design tool or programming language when creating a form. Use eFORMz to produce packing lists, shipping labels, invoices, purchased orders, barcodes and much more!

QAD President Pam Lopker, CEO Karl Lopker, Vice President, R&D, Bill Keese, and Chief Marketing Officer Gordon Fleming discuss and demonstrate how QAD's latest product enhancements in QAD Enterprise Applications 2011.1 allow you to operate at peak efficiency, align perfectly with your strategic goals and help your business become an Effective Enterprise.

Webinar Details: Implementing item level serialization is one of the most important strategic investments for many companies. This webinar presents how QAD customers can utilize QAD Serialization solution to effectively generate, issue, manage aggregated serial numbers through packaging, production, warehouse, and shipping operations.

Webinar Details: The concepts of Lean Manufacturing have been practiced now for many years. Traditionally, Lean principles have been used mostly by discrete manufacturers. This session will focus on how Lean concepts can be applied to the Process industries. Participants will be introduced to the concepts of Lean Manufacturing and how these principles can be used to target improvement in the areas specific to process manufacturers.

Webinar Details: Rapid changes require information access that matches the speed of your business. Learn how QAD’s latest Business Intelligence solutions provide insights into your business, and support your decision-making process.

Webinar Details: According to leading technology analyst Aberdeen Group, cloud computing, as a delivery option for ERP, is gaining serious adoption momentum. QAD On Demand is at the forefront of this technology revolution. Watch Gordon Fleming, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for QAD, share how QAD On Demand is becoming a defacto choice for many QAD customers, providing a highly flexible solution that integrates on-demand and on-premise capabilities.

Webinar Details: Roundtable TSMS - a Software Configuration Management solution built exclusively for Progress OpenEdge development - provides unprecedented precision and control over the entire lifecycle of your QAD application, significantly reducing the number (and impact of) change-related errors and improving time-to-deployment. The ability to control your Progress OpenEdge code does not stop there - as you will see, the ability to control virtually any code with Roundtable TSMS is possible! Discover why Software Configuration Management is the heartbeat of any successful development effort. See how Roundtable TSMS can satisfy that need in a QAD environment. Our case study of Inergy Automotive will show you how.

Webinar Details: Controls Force’s Transaction Watchdog™ solution will strictly check 100% of your logistic and finance invoices; any discrepancies will be instantly sent for review and all potential money leaks will be stopped. We are excited to show you how easy it is to hire your own automatic Watchdog and get immediate ROI.

Webinar Details: Precision’s Desktop Shipping provides employees with an easy to use web interface to create shipments using the same rules and approved carriers as production shipments. A shipping “wizard” guides them through any domestic or international steps required, improving processing of non-production shipments and most importantly controlling costs through the use of company approved carriers and levels of delivery service (e.g., use of 2nd day delivery vs. overnight).

Webinar Details: You are ready now to get all the benefits of QAD’s latest User Interface. Uplift your current UI to .NET without upgrading MFG/Pro and at no cost. If you are on maintenance, running MFG/Pro eB, eB2, eB2.1 (SP3 and below) view this webinar to see the benefits of the .NET UI and find the path that’s right for you: Upgrade or Uplift.

Webinar Details: QAD’s new .Net Kanban Sizing and Process workbenches, which are the next generation of our original HTML Kanban workbench, provide your lean analysts with increased visibility (transparency), usability and flexibility in determining the most efficient number of kanban cards to use in your organization. View this webinar to learn about QAD Lean’s kanban loop calculations, the visibility and transparency of the calculations that we provide to you to help you easily answer the question “how did the system come up with this number?”, and to learn about our simulation capabilities that allow decision testing, evaluating different alternatives, and finding kaizen opportunities that will improve your pull system performance.

Webinar Details: Drive efficiency and create unsurpassed value with innovative and rapidly deployed supply chain solutions that support industry best practices. Limited resources, quick turnaround times and a demand-driven marketplace require a leaner, tighter supply chain. View this webinar to discover how QAD’s Supply Chain Solutions can lead to lower supply chain costs, higher customer satisfaction, and a sustainable competitive advantage.

Webinar Details: Precision’s new user interface brings the power of Workflow into the browser, providing users with enhanced usability and a streamlined / intuitive approach to working with shipment transactions. We are excited to show you our new user interface capabilities and get your feedback!

Webinar Details: QAD’s new planning and scheduling workbenches provide your planners and schedulers with unprecedented, simultaneous visibility to production plans and schedules and all supporting data. The workbenches enable control and collaboration across the production and material planning and execution space. We are excited to show you our workbench capabilities and get your feedback!

Webinar Details: Periodic Costing is the solution that allows you to make periodic inventory valuations based on actual transactions using calculation methods such as WAVG, FIFO and LIFO. Watch this webinar to understand why this is important for you, the impact it will have on your cost accounting and what it will take to implement periodic costing.

Webinar Details: Enterprise Asset Management is an integrated plant operation solution enabling companies to operate facilities more smoothly by keeping equipment running at lowest possible cost. See how EAM can improve equipment reliability, manage MRO inventory to right-size inventory levels, support MRO (non-production) purchasing to improve sourcing and fulfillment efficiency and assist project engineers in bringing projects to completion on time and within budget.

Webinar Details: Can you get more performance from your implementation of QAD? HP and QAD recently teamed up to benchmark QAD performance on the latest HP servers, the clear outcome...best of breed results! Find out more about what you can do to deliver high performance to your users.

Webinar Details: Cforia Software delivers a comprehensive Lean Accounts Receivable Solution including Credit, Collections, Deductions, Auto Cash Application, Customer Self-Service and Interdepartmental Collaboration. Cforia specializes in seamless real-time integrations across one or many disparate AR data sources for AR Business Intelligence and Financial Reporting across all divisions and ERP systems.

Cforia will reduce DSO, increase productivity and cash flow by automating Accounts Receivable. This easy to use snap-on application uses rules and letter engines to drive extra, timely customer touches. Extensive new data points, KPI’s and short pay workflows allow for dirty/clean segmentation of AR for root cause analysis, identifying credit risk and accurate cash forecast.

Cforia’s design enables quick implementations with minimal IT involvement. The ROI for a Cforia AR Automation project is typically three to six months.

Drive efficiency and create unsurpassed value with innovative and rapidly deployed Direct Store Delivery (DSD) solutions that are fully integrated to QAD Enterprise Applications.

The Battle for the heart of the shoppers is won or lost at the shelf. Through the use of mobile technologies, route planning and management, and shared Point of Sales (POS) data, a manufacturer can quickly sense what is moving and respond three times faster with DSD than traditional retail distribution. View this webinar to discover how QAD’s Customer Centric Solution, including our new partnership with Numeric Computer Systems, can lead to a sustainable competitive advantage, lower supply chain costs, and higher customer satisfaction.