{"id":4042,"date":"2015-10-15T08:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:09:58","slug":"ck-technologies-is-building-the-effective-enterprise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/ck-technologies-is-building-the-effective-enterprise-2","title":{"rendered":"CK Technologies is Building the Effective Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\">\n<div id=\"wistia_6yv3fy3yu5\" class=\"wistia_embed\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;\">\n<div itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"QAD Customer - CK Technologies\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M37S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/embed-ssl.wistia.com\/deliveries\/d41d9fb667f39c425ed4cb577447fa73a129441f.bin\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentURL\" content=\"http:\/\/embed.wistia.com\/deliveries\/aafb4f3716ffa0972c92ce395df8cfcf761f1a06.bin\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;banner=false&#038;controlsVisibleOnLoad=false&#038;customColor=0b2038&#038;endVideoBehavior=default&#038;fullscreenDisabled=true&#038;mediaDuration=157.76&#038;playButtonVisible=true&#038;showPlayButton=true&#038;showPlaybar=true&#038;showVolume=true&#038;stillUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fd41d9fb667f39c425ed4cb577447fa73a129441f.bin%3Fimage_crop_resized%3D640x360&#038;unbufferedSeek=false&#038;videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fembed.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Faafb4f3716ffa0972c92ce395df8cfcf761f1a06.bin\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-09-01T23:23:33Z\" \/><object id=\"wistia_6yv3fy3yu5_seo\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" style=\"display:block;height:360px;position:relative;width:640px;\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false&#038;banner=false&#038;controlsVisibleOnLoad=false&#038;customColor=0b2038&#038;endVideoBehavior=default&#038;fullscreenDisabled=true&#038;mediaDuration=157.76&#038;playButtonVisible=true&#038;showPlayButton=true&#038;showPlaybar=true&#038;showVolume=true&#038;stillUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fd41d9fb667f39c425ed4cb577447fa73a129441f.bin%3Fimage_crop_resized%3D640x360&#038;unbufferedSeek=false&#038;videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fembed.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Faafb4f3716ffa0972c92ce395df8cfcf761f1a06.bin\"><\/param><embed src=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=#000000 flashvars=\"autoPlay=false&#038;banner=false&#038;controlsVisibleOnLoad=false&#038;customColor=0b2038&#038;endVideoBehavior=default&#038;fullscreenDisabled=true&#038;mediaDuration=157.76&#038;playButtonVisible=true&#038;showPlayButton=true&#038;showPlaybar=true&#038;showVolume=true&#038;stillUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fembed-ssl.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Fd41d9fb667f39c425ed4cb577447fa73a129441f.bin%3Fimage_crop_resized%3D640x360&#038;unbufferedSeek=false&#038;videoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fembed.wistia.com%2Fdeliveries%2Faafb4f3716ffa0972c92ce395df8cfcf761f1a06.bin\" name=\"wistia_6yv3fy3yu5_html\" style=\"display:block;height:100%;position:relative;width:100%;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"opaque\"><\/embed><\/object><noscript itemprop=\"description\">QAD Customer &#8211; CK Technologies<\/noscript><noscript itemprop=\"transcript\" id=\"wistia_6yv3fy3yu5_noscript_transcript\">[ Background music ]>>We have been founded on innovation and growth, as well as continuous improvement and what our future will be is building upon that continuous improvement. You can see our products going down the road everyday-truck grills, truck bumpers, truck chassis skirts; you will see the face of CK technologies on the face of every truck that drives by.>>It is cool to drive down the road with your friends and point out hey that&#8217;s our part, hey that&#8217;s our part.>>So what makes CK technology unique in our industry is our innovation. How we can constantly improve and build upon what we do here to do it better, do it more efficiently, more effectively, both in the terms of our processes and our core of what we do.>>One of the challenges we face here is that the heavy truck market is a low volume, high variability market. A molded part could end up being 300 different end items for a customer.>>Being able to identify parts, making sure we have what we need, where we need it, when we need it.>>To be able to react quicker we need to have the systems in place that allow us to do that.>>So we can put together a plan.>>One of the things that we use QAD for is actually to access all of the data about our business.>>I&#8217;m constantly looking at reports, financial statements, trying to develop new measurables, and finding better ways to help support our operations.>>QAD is not just a piece of software; it&#8217;s a piece of equipment just like the molding presses that we use to make parts.>>It&#8217;s all in there; it&#8217;s all the way that we run our business.>>We see how our organization is doing, how it&#8217;s breathing, how it&#8217;s functioning.>>Understand where you started and where you&#8217;re headed. CK Technologies is a triple bottom line focused organization. Triple bottom line being people plan it and profit.>>We feel that&#8217;s really where our true success is at you know and when you have all three of those it&#8217;s kind of like this stool you know you can&#8217;t you have a three legged stool you can&#8217;t set up on just two of those legs you need all three of them.>>We want to be an organization that continues to innovate and grow for the long term.>>Have input and feel like they have value and can contribute to the organization as a whole and with that good foundation comes success so we can create innovation, we can stimulate outside the box thinking, which helps keep us competitive.>>We&#8217;re CK Technologies.>>And with QAD>>We&#8217;re building>>The Effective>>Enterprise.<\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script charset=\"ISO-8859-1\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\"><\/script><script>wistiaEmbed = Wistia.embed(\"6yv3fy3yu5\", {  videoFoam: \"true\",  dnt: \"1\"});<\/script><script charset=\"ISO-8859-1\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/6yv3fy3yu5\/metadata.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Who is CK Technologies?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cktech.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CK Technologies<\/a> produces plastic injection parts for the commercial truck and bus industry. These parts are used on exteriors, interiors, and under the hood and provide many part assemblies and specializes in base\/clear coat painting capable of custom body color matching. There\u2019s no doubt that you have seen their products drive by on the highway in the form of big rig grills, bumpers, and chassis skirts. To CK Technologies, it\u2019s not just what they are producing that they attribute their success to, but how they do it.<\/p>\n<h2>CK Technologies &#8211; Founded on Innovation, Growth, and Continuous Improvement<\/h2>\n<p>The folks at CK Technologies pride themselves on innovation; they believe it\u2019s what makes them unique among their competition. They\u2019re always looking for ways to improve and build upon what they do. Their goal: do it better, more efficiently, and effectively. Their value of continuous improvement is what keeps them so successful, and they see it as their future in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<h2>Building Their Effective Enterprise<\/h2>\n<p>In CK Technologies&#8217; low-volume, high variability heavy truck market, they rely on their software to know what they need, and when they need it. QAD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/cloud-erp\">Cloud ERP solutions<\/a> make quick response times and the ability to continuously innovate possible. When talking to them about how they use QAD software, they refer to it not as software, but as \u201ca piece of equipment,\u201d that they depend on to build their products. They use QAD to access all of the data about their business, from reports and financial statements, to find better ways to optimize their current operations. We\u2019re honored to supply some of the \u201cequipment\u201d that goes into their impressive products.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you see a big rig or bus on the road, you\u2019re going to think of CK Technologies!<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about QAD solutions built for industrial manufacturing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/industries\/industrial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.qad.com\/industries\/industrial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAD Customer &#8211; CK Technologies[ Background music ]>>We have been founded on innovation and growth, as well as continuous improvement and what our future will be is building upon that continuous improvement. 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