Process Improvement

Make 2018 Nimble and Lean

It’s hard to believe it is once again close to the new year, but here we are. Get a great start on making your business nimble and lean in 2018 by signing up for our first quarter webinars! We’ll start off the year with Get Audit Trail Compliance through a Simplified Product Change Process on […]

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Why Real-Time Book To Ship Data is Crucial

The Book To Ship ratio can be used to help measure a company’s efficiency, to identify problems in the supply chain and is an indicator of the overall health of the company. The ratio is, quite simply, the amount that is recorded in the company’s books compared to the amount of inventory it has shipped […]

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Data Loaders vs Excelerator Worksheet

If you are in the process of evaluating and comparing Excelerator to Data Loaders, we have a handy worksheet that will get you started on comparing costs. This worksheet will help you to think through some of the hidden costs such as training, maintenance, and future deployment of applications. Request Your Worksheet here. You’ll find more […]

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Planning and Scheduling Production in QAD

How to Manage Complex Production Schedule in QAD Quickly and Accurately? How to come up to the best scenario without component shortage and in optimal load capacity? Whether you are in a discrete or scheduled order environment or use MSW/PSW –- or utilize a mix of all three — effective production planning and scheduling is […]

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Measure Your On-Time Delivery

Do you think about how your company looks to your customer? Do you have a way to measure your performance and analyze it from your customers’ perspective? At 32 Soft, we’re working with one of our clients to develop a tool that uses real-time QAD data to measure on-time delivery — one of the key […]

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The Changing Role of IT

One of the major trends in manufacturing today is the changing role of IT professionals. Once focused merely on supporting and maintaining systems, IT leaders are now involved in high-level business strategies. But this is just the beginning. A report published by Deloitte Technology Consulting, Tech Trends 2017, forecasts even more of a shift in […]

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New to QAD? Get Installation Bundle

Here are some Time-Saving Tools for Easy Implementation If you have ever been on the business end of implementing new ERP software, you know you are in for some time-consuming work. First, you have a lot of strategic planning, along with a complete review of processes. Then, there’s data conversion, collection, review and clean up. […]

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The Hidden Cost of Installed Base Data

If you track the installation of equipment for after-market sales or servicing, you know the importance of shaping and maintaining accurate installed base data. It is critical to have correct and current customer insights and information about the state of installed equipment. Whether you look at equipment service as a cost of doing business or […]

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Make Managing Rebates Super Easy!

  NEW AND IMPROVED Debit/Credit Data Loader – Now SE and EE compatible! Our AR Debit/Credit Memo has been updated with new functionality! This Data Loader is now both QAD SE and EE compatible and it offers a more flexible way to add credit and debit memos that make processing rebates a snap. Plus, it […]

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Data Loaders Do Double (and Triple) Duty

Isn’t it a welcome surprise when you find that a tool you use every day can also make quick work of rarely-done, time-intensive tasks? That’s exactly what yet another of our Data Loader clients has found! A company that uses our Data Loaders on a day-to-day basis to manage BOMs and product structures recently discovered […]

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