Our popular Web Backlog system is available for use with any ERP system (not just QAD) or as a stand-alone system. Maintaining and monitoring your production order backlog can be a daunting task. You finally finish updating order status from meeting notes and distributing reports, only to discover status changes! Or, after taking notes in […]
Many of you are familiar with—and use—our LBox product that converts ERP reports into PDF or Excel documents and emails them to your customers, partners, and staff. Now with LBoxPlus you can send professional documents right to your printers! LBoxPlus gives you the added ability to send your documents to your physical printer. What this […]
We’ve got a busy Fall 2021 season of events. We hope you can join us at our upcoming webinars and conferences. WEBINARS First up in September, Andra Farkas will present our webinar Get Rid of Show-Stopping Record Locks. Andras will explain the different kinds of record locks, what causes them and ways to monitor and […]
Production planners rely heavily on their previous experience when planning out how to move orders through the system without missing a beat: no bottlenecks, no inefficiencies, no stops, and starts. However, today’s supply chain disruptions, labor force issues, wild market demand fluctuations, inflation, and other new challenges brought on by Covid-19 have changed the game. […]
It was great to attend the Spring Midwest User Group and West Coast User Group conferences. Thanks to all who visited with us and attended our presentations. And, thanks to those who worked hard to organize the events. If you didn’t get the opportunity to attend the Spring user group conferences, you can watch our […]
Many organizations find that their customers want more than just off-the-shelf products. Customers are asking for the ability to order products that are customized for their needs. This customer demand coupled with supply chain disruptions and a need to drive down costs has prompted many manufacturers to consider a make-to-order (MTO) production strategy. The MTO […]
Thousands of products are recalled every year, and they impact every industry. They are a fact of life that manufacturing companies continually face. The chance that a recall will hit your company is high. How do you reduce your risk? Continual process improvement is a significant way a company can reduce its recall risk. […]
A flaw in the Apache Log4j, a Java library for error messages logging in many applications, has a severity score of 10 out of 10. It is the highest-profile vulnerability on the internet right now. Any device running Apache Log4J, versions 2.0 to 2.14.1., is at risk if exposed to the internet. NCSC notes […]
Expected Release Date: February 2022 If your company has multiple distribution centers and is using or planning to use QAD Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), you’ll be happy to know we’re currently developing the Distribution Order (DO) Workbench Data Loader (12.17.21). Our DO Workbench helps you manage distribution orders to multiple manufacturing facilities more efficiently, enabling […]
Due to a number of circumstances, the weaknesses and fragility of our supply chain have been exposed in 2020, and American automakers have certainly borne the impact. Notably, the semiconductor chip shortage has the auto industry spinning. Vanessa Miller, a partner with Foley & Lardner in Detroit, explains the shortage to MH&L’s chief editor […]
