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Tools to Power Up Your QAD Data Management

At the Fall West Coast Users Group in Santa Barbara, Amber Gratin from Penumbra Inc. gave a presentation case study explaining how they save hundreds of man-hours and increase their profitability by using Data Loaders from 32 Soft. Amber showed how the Price List Maintenance and Inventory Account Maintenance Data Loaders empower their staff to […]

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Proof of Concept when Purchasing Software

I hope it hasn’t happened to you or your company. You are searching for software that solves a particular problem in your organization. You’ve seen a demo of the software, you’ve asked all the right questions, you’ve vetted your supplier, you’ve been promised the solution will work for you. You’ve purchased only to find out […]

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MRP or DDMRP?

MRP has been the default planning tool for the last 50 years. Now, Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) is on the scene. What is it? How does it differ from MRP? And how can it help you get better control of your processes? Don Lindsey compares MRP & DDMRP in this presentation given at the […]

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Automatically Upload Your QAD Data with Auto Load

Is your company one of the many who needs to load data from another system into QAD? It isn’t always easy or affordable to do automatically—but it is time-consuming if you don’t make it an automatic process. At 32 Soft, we have a solution that will allow you to automatically load error-free data from another system […]

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9 Technology Forces that will Shape the Future

Tech Trends 2019 Beyond the digital frontier The Tech Trends 2019 report was released from Deloitte earlier this year, identifying nine technology trends that offer the most promising innovation and growth. Three of these trends aren’t new. In fact, they have evolved to become fundamental corporate strategies that form the backbone of future innovation: Digital […]

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Manufacturing Day is October 4, 2019

Over the next ten years, the U. S. manufacturing industry will need to add 4.6 million manufacturing jobs, according to a study by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte. The study also predicts that 2.4 million of those jobs may go unfilled. Today, manufacturers are struggling to fill 500,000 jobs that remain vacant in the U.S. […]

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Flexible Management of Customer Schedules

Flexible Customer Scheduling = Flawless Execution = Favorable Customers Customer scheduled orders can be challenging to manage and maintain, particularly when they are sent via EDI directly from your customer to your QAD system. Viewing and making changes to orders in the QAD system can be time-consuming. Customers can send both long- and short-term schedules […]

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#MWUG Fall 2019

    It’s that time of the year again! Time for the Fall 2019 Midwest User Group meeting. This year the meeting is held September 22-24 at the brand new Renaissance Westerville-Polaris Hotel in Columbus, OH! We’ll be there at our booth for the two days and our own Don Lindsey will present a session DDMRP: Controlling Your Supply […]

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A Look at the 2nd Qtr Manufacturers’ Survey

Though optimism for the future dipped nearly 10% from the first quarter in 2019, still nearly 80% of manufacturers have a positive outlook for their business according to the 2019 Second Quarter Manufacturer’s Outlook Survey. Manufacturers cite trade uncertainties (56%) and the inability to find skilled workers (69%) as their top challenges, they remain mostly […]

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EDU 32: Learn More to Achieve More!

If you haven’t checked out our education portal, EDU 32, you’re in for a treat. Our portal contains learning videos and articles about various aspects of using QAD in everyday applications and will help you integrate and implement significant process improvements into your data management and your supply chain process. 32 Soft’s team of highly […]

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