Process Improvement

Speed Up your Item Attribute Management

by Andras Farkas Using item attributes in your ERP system helps manufacturers manage products, streamline processes, and improve decision-making. By leveraging item attributes effectively, manufacturers can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and gain a competitive advantage in their industry. Improved Product Data Management. Item attributes (e.g., size, color, material, weight) enable manufacturers to categorize products more […]

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One Powerfully Efficient Tool for Cost Rollups!

“Accurate cost rollups are the foundation of profitability. Every detail counts when understanding the true cost of production.” Cost rollup is an essential part of manufacturing cost accounting that calculates the total cost of producing an item by aggregating raw materials, purchased components, labor costs, manufacturing overhead, and subcontract costs. Several components affect the accuracy […]

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Improve AR processing and boost your productivity

with AR Cash Application Data Loader Are you ready to simplify your customer payment processing and boost your productivity to the max? AR Cash Application Data Loader (available for QAD EE and SE) makes it possible. This MS Excel® based Data Loader AR Cash Application Data Loader helps you… Process large volumes of payments with […]

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Taming the Safety Stock Beast

Auto-calculate functionality for your Safety Stock levels in QAD Determining appropriate inventory levels is one of the most important parts of operations in any company. If you have too much inventory, you’ll tie up your working capital and wreak havoc on your cash flow. If your inventory is too low, you’ll have shortfalls in raw […]

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From QAD to Print, Email, PDF, or XLS with 32printer

Did you know that 32printer enables you to continue to use QAD reports from older QAD versions? So, when you upgrade to any of the latest versions of QAD, you can still use those reports you don’t want to change with QRF. Not only that, 32printer allows you to generate professional-looking pdf documents right from […]

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Production Planner Revolutionizes Operations at Wells Vehicle Electronics

Join our upcoming webinar, Planning: Precision in Practice, to find out how! Wells Vehicle Electronics is a leading manufacturer of electronic modules and sensors vehicles. They operate on cloud-hosted QAD 2019 EE with over 1,100 users, managing a vast inventory of more than 1 million product structures across 10 sites. Challenges in Production Planning Wells […]

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Upgrade Your Static BOM Process to Dynamic Bill Creation

The Bill of Materials (BOM) is a cornerstone of the manufacturing process. It is crucial in production planning and scheduling, inventory management, cost estimation, quality assurance, and supply chain management. The Bill of Materials contains a list of components and quantities required to manufacture a finished product. In QAD, you create new or modify existing […]

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Improve your shipping without increasing complexity

by Olena Stepovyk In the world of business logistics, optimizing and automating shipment processes are crucial goals. While these objectives may seem straightforward, they present unique challenges and opportunities, depending on which ship functions you use in QAD. Simple shipping: Uses packing lists and Sales Order Shipments (7.9.15 SO Shipment). Complex shipping: Employs Pre-Shippers/Shippers (7.9.2 […]

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Production Orders Webinar Series in 2025

Work Orders are one of the essential functions of QAD. In 2016, QAD revised and enhanced the functionality of Work Orders, Advanced Repetitive, Kanban, and some scheduling functions, such as Flow, and combined them into what is now known as Production Orders. Effective with QAD O3, Production Orders will be the way of manufacturing for […]

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Any ERP, No ERP: 32 Soft Solutions That Work For Every Manufacturer

Did you know that 32 Soft offers two of its most popular solutions that work independently of an ERP system? That’s right, both our Production Planner and Requisition Plus solutions have ERP-Independent versions. This means that if you have, for example, a location that does not have an ERP system, they can still enjoy the […]

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