Registration / Vendor Fair Opens / Buffet Breakfast              

  
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

SPONSOR
TRACK

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Prototype Processing

DAVE DOYLE - QAD

This session will cover organizing and using applications to support Prototype Processing in QAD. Functions include: Discrete Sales Orders, Work Orders, Bills of Material and Routings, MRP, Costs and Scheduling.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Automated Purchasing/
Requisition Solutions

FRANK SALESI
ISS Group

JOSEPH ENGLER
A123 Systems

This session will be a case study on ‘How to’ control Maverick Spend and the integration that ISS Group and QAD User A123 Systems developed between iPurchase and the QAD EAM module for the primary purpose of creating and tracking the spend against project budgets. We will provide a detailed overview of the integration developed, the purpose of performing the integration and benefits generated, and a brief demonstration of the iPurchase Solution as part of the overall Purchase to Pay process.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Promon For Idiots & Savants

DAN FOREMAN
White Star Software

Understanding the promon utility is critical for troubleshooting database performance and other issues. However, promon has several menu levels and each level is more mysterious and has less documentation than the previous one. This presentation will take you on a detailed tour of promon from top to bottom and will identify what screens and metrics are valuable and those that are not.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Robotic Process Automation and QAD

DHARM SADASIVAN
Thirdware Solution

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the most promising arrow in the enterprise's quiver to hit the bulls-eye of the target for productivity improvement and digitization. Thirdware brings RPA to QAD Application. In this session, we will talk about possibilities and practical applications of RPA in QAD-based Business Processes and IT Operations.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

  
         
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

SPONSOR
TRACK

2:30 - 3:30 pm

EAM - Get On The Smart Plant Train!

JON EDWARDS
QAD, Inc.

Come join us to explore the ways in which you can leverage your connected sensors and devices to take your Plant Maintenance to the next level. We will provide a super cool demonstration of using standard EAM functionality available today to get your organization headed toward the exciting future of Industry 4.0. Plus, just for kicks, we will throw in some new tips and tricks!

For QAD Version: Any
(Applicable to EAM v2016.1 and higher )
Level: Intermediatel/General

Cost Budgeting & Simulation

MICHELLE ERICKSON
Jel Sert

Hear one QAD customer's experiences on cost budgeting. Michlle Erickson, Director of Operational Finance at Jel Sert, will offer a cost budgeting simulation and overview some of the report and automations to the process they have developed in QAD.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

EE Financial Customizations:
A Brief 'How To'

JAMES BLANKENSHIP
Logan Consulting

This session will focus on how to use the financial API’s in EE. We will cover the following topics:

· How to add a custom
    field
· How to add validation
    to this field
· How to extract/query
    data from the financial
    tables

For QAD Version: EE
Level: Intermediatel/General

CyberQuery
Case Study

BRENT BECKER
Cyberscience Corp.

This session will show how Cyberquery has been successfully deployed at QAD customer sites. The presenter will show how Cyberquery is used to generate QAD reports, integrated with some additional data sources, and automatically scheduled and sent to various users.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

  
MANUFACTURING

FINANCIAL

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
 PROCESS

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Meeting Customer Requirements Through a Smarter Factory

GARY SCHAUM
Factivity

Amazon didn’t become the powerhouse company by missing delivery dates to customers.  Amazon has set the standard for promising ship dates and the public expects no less. The bar has now been set and manufacturing must be able to forecast accurate production and delivery dates and communicate to customers before the fact if the promised delivery date is going to slip. Hear about a QAD customer that uses the Factivity APS module to give accurate production ship dates with their Available to Promise functionality and able to identify potential problems by utilizing their rules based scheduling module and their manufacturing and execution system.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Deploying Segregation of Duties (SOD) Along With Role-Based Security to Ensure SOX Compliance

ANDY VITULLO
Logan Consulting

This session will discuss business and key configuration requirements as well as deployment recommendations for SOD functionality within QAD. Additionally, this session will discuss the SOD conflict matrix, SOD conflict exceptions and SOD mitigating controls that will be required based on your organizational resource mix.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: Intermediatel/General

I Love My QAD Wiki!

BILL LINDER
Rightway Fasteners

  
A Wiki can provide organized, up to date and easy to search information and instructions. You have probably heard of Wikipedia and Wikihow, and maybe Familysearch among others. Rightway Fasteners' IT department decided to use the same types of tools that drive these sites to help their QAD users and other employees be more informed at their job. Come hear what they have learned!

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Paying Lip Service to Business Continuity

PAUL KOUFALIS
White Star Software

The title says it all: most of you pay lip service (if that) to business continuity planning. Not Hurricane-Katrina-Disaster-Planning, but it’s more mundane and frequent cousin, tripping-on-a-wire business continuity. If you’re a technical person reading this, please invite to your boss, your boss’ boss and your boss’ boss’ boss to this session. Forward the invitation all the way up the org chart. Print it out and tack it to the bulletin board in the cafeteria. Make sure no one in I.T. management or at the C-level can pretend they didn’t know.
   

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

  
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

BUSINESS
PROCESS

8:30 - 9:30 am

Unified Production Planning & Execution

  
BRENT SHOOLTZ
QAD, Inc.

Learn how QAD's new manufacturing capabilities, QAD Production Orders with Shop Floor Mobile, can help you simplify and synchronize your back office production planning with your shop floor material replenishment and production execution.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: Intermediatel/General

Shatter the Pain Chain: Create a Lean and Nimble Enterprise

DON LINDSEY
CESI
   

JUDY GARDNER
Walbro Engine Management

NANCY McCRIMMON
32 Soft Inc.
   
Today’s best enterprises respond quickly, operate efficiently and depend on their ERP data for effective decision-making. All that data needs to be managed which can often mean tedious and repetitive tasks that are a source of pain to your staff. It keeps them from reacting adequately to customer needs, gives them spotty or inaccurate data, and adds to their everyday stress. Find out how CESI and Walbro have eliminated bottle-necks, saved hundreds of man-hours, and increased profitability across their enterprise. They shattered the pain chain in the areas of master data maintenance, inventory control, production and planning, supply chain management, compliance.

For QAD Version: SE / EE
Level: Intermediatel/General

Making Good Decisions the First Time: A Lifetime of Lessons Learned:

CARLOS COLMENARES
Sungate Solutions

QAD doesn’t fit every company right out of the box.You need to adapt your processes to it while adapting it to your processes. As a QAD customer and a consultant, Carlos Colmenares has learned this the hard way.Come spend an hour with Carlos as he shares tools and practices for enhancing QAD that have helped him generate maximum value with minimum headache.

For QAD Version: SE
Level: New & Intermediate QAD Developers

EE Upgrade Panel

JJ FRISTER - IAC Group
MICHAEL SILLETI - YFAI

A panel of implementation specialists and QAD customers will share their experiences and success stories involving recent upgrades to QAD Enterprise Edition.

For QAD Version: EE
Level: Intermediatel/General

  
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

SPONSOR
TRACK

10:00 - 11:00 am

Adding E-Commerce to Your Manufacturing Business

JOEL SCHNEIDER
Liberty Technical Advisors

Your customers and business partners are using the internet for all of their personal and professional buying needs. Now they want your manufacturing or distribution company to give them the same great online experience that they have with Amazon and others. These projects often sound daunting and expensive but this session will describe how a simple, methodical approach can allow your company to jumpstart its Ecommerce initiative in months and at a budget that suits your business. You will learn strategies for creating a great B2B and/or B2C Ecommerce initiative without breaking the bank on custom integrations and while allowing your QAD system to continue to do what it does best.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Customer Case Study: SE to EE Upgrade

BILL FOARD
Inventus Power

BRIAN CLARK
Logan Consulting

Inventus Power recently completed a project to replace all existing QAD 2011SE functionality with the comparable functions in QAD 2016EE. The scope involved a re-design and re-implementation of financial functionality and supporting master data. Non-financial processes were implemented as close to ‘as is’ as possible. The project was completed on time and on budget and the company now has a core model it can leverage for other sites/locations. This session summarizing the upgrade project, including key activities and lesssons learned.

For QAD Version: SE / EE
Level: Intermediatel/General

Indexes & Performance

PAUL GUGGENHEIM
Guggenheim & Associates

Indexes play a crucial role in the performance of mission-critical applications. This session explains the "how and why" of Progress' index selection algorithm as well as valuable information on bracketing and sort matches, the keys to indexing performance. Examples and a demonstration will be given showing how using indexes the wrong way can cause performance problems. The presentation is targeted at developers and for power end-users and administrators.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

QAD Reporting Framework

STACY GREEN
Progress

During this session, we will walk through updating existing reports, then starting from scratch to write a new report using the QAD Reporting Framework.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

  
MANUFACTURING

CASE STUDY

TECHNICAL

SPONSOR
TRACK

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

QAD Operational Metrics

PATRICK GRACE
QAD, Inc.

This sessions will offer an introduction to what QAD operational metrics are and how to leverage them forviewing various measurements of operational performance - including data integrity and to analyze real time trends in the system.

For QAD Version: SE / EE
Level: Novice/Intermediate

Introducing & Implementing RPA in the Enterprise

SRI SRINIVASAN
Thirdware
   
JOHN PEARSON
Visteon Corp.

Utilize Robotic Process Automation to bring efficiency and productivity improvement to business processes. Realizing the vision of digital business requires the hard work of design and implementation. Visteon implemented RPA for Period-End Closes and Year-End Cost Updates. This case study will review the steps followed and lessons learned. What did Thirdware and Visteon "learn" and what were the "course corrections" before the first BOT ran in production? This is a candid walk-through of their RPA experience.
   

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

Obsoloete DBA Best Practices

NECTAR DALOGLOU
White Star Software

Learn or "un-learn" DBA tactics that have been considered best practices for years. In this presentation, we will take a look at various out-of-date DBA strategies along with their up-to-date recommended alternatives.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General

What is Application Managed Services and How Can It Benefit You?

JOHN SCHMIDT
Strategic Information Group

Learn about the advantages utilizing Managed Services and how to get the most out of it! Managed Services topics will include database administration, infrastructure, EDI, and QAD helpdesk.

For QAD Version: Any
Level: Intermediatel/General